Games you can play this week – catastrophes and colour

May just continues to deliver on the gaming front, with the PC as well as consoles (and even the Wii U) getting a release or two this week.

Splatoon! – 29 May (Wii U)

Nintendo’s take on the multiplayer shooter sees players fight for control of maps by spraying ink and blotting out opponents. Each character can also turn into a squid and swim though ink to navigate hard-to-reach platforms.

The colourful paint-based shooter also features a single-player campaign that allows players to use the game’s mechanics to explore the underground base of the game’s army of octopi antagonists in stages that test their ability to shoot, jump and splatter ink.

Magicka 2 – 26 May (PS4, PC)

Paradox Interactive’s new spell casting 4-player co-op adventure releases this week, and the anticipated sequel allows players to mix eight elemental magic types to create hundreds of different spells.

Not only that, but every combination can be cast in a direction, as an area-of-effect, into your melee weapon, or even upon yourself for that matter.

Certain elements can even be combined to create unique effects; for example, you can combine water and fire to make scalding steam, water and cold to generate shards of ice, or even life and shield to make landmines that heal you and your teammates!

There are thousands of possibilities, and most of them will cause chaos. Fun!

Catlateral Damage – 27 May (PC, Mac, Linux)

The ultimate cat simulator comes to PC, Mac and Linux this week, and the beloved and quirky game has undergone many revisions and changes since its original demo and Kickstarter.

Now Catlateral Damage features procedurally generated levels, new content, different playable cats, cat toys, power ups and much more.