This Week's New Games
Here's what we're excited to play this week
This week’s new games include the latest update to Destiny 2, an unexpected new adventure for Pac-Man, a fighting game based on a massively popular manga and anime series, and, oh yeah, Donkey Kong. Here’s what Endless Mode will be playing this week; how about you?
Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Release Date: July 15
Almost a decade after release, Destiny 2 remains proudly, defiantly, its own entire thing, pumping out new content year after year and surviving challenges from an entire cutout bin full of would-be rivals. The Edge of Fate is the ninth expansion for the game, and will directly set up the 10th expansion, Renegades, which should be out later this year. This apparently will bring Bungie’s shooter into uncharted narrative territory, as 2024’s expansion put a bow on the epic they’d been crafting since the first game’s original launch all the way back in 2014. I’m pretty sure every single thing I’d remember from Destiny 2 was vaulted long ago—I have not played it since reviewing it at launch in 2017—but our local Destineer, Moises Taveras, tells us The Edge of Fate isn’t just a major addition to the game but perhaps the most anticipated expansion in a good while now. Does that mean tomorrow will be like Christmas morning for Destiny 2 fans? I hope so: we all could use something to get excited about right now.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Switch, PC
Release Date: July 16
You don’t have to be a Hunter x Hunter fan, or even care about anime at all, to be interested in Bushiroad and Arc System Works’ new fighting game. This six-person tag fighter (in Mexico they call it a trios match) was designed by Eighting, the same studio that gave the world Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (and it’s the same studio that made Battle Garegga, a top contender for the title of “greatest shmup of all time.”) As our resident anime and fighting game expert Elijah Gonzalez notes, “While Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact looks quite rough around the edges, the fact it’s being developed by the Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 studio Eighting means it has some real potential as a high speed, technical fighting game for genre aficionados.” Expect more from Elijah on this one soon.
Donkey Kong Bananza
Platform: Switch 2
Release Date: July 17
