{"id":122962,"date":"2018-01-16T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122962"},"modified":"2018-01-16T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:55:51","slug":"games-you-can-play-this-week-fists-and-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122962-games-you-can-play-this-week-fists-and-fears","title":{"rendered":"Games you can play this week \u2014 fists and fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a little into the new year and finally getting used to writing &#8220;2018&#8221; instead of &#8220;2017&#8221; on forms (although, we still bugger up the odd one); and there are a host of new games lining up for release this week! Let&#8217;s take a look at the most notable:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition<\/h3>\n<p><em>Release date: 16 January 2018 (PS4 |PC)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we know&#8230; <em>Street Fighter V<\/em> may have come out almost two years ago, but the beloved fighting game is getting a definitive <em>Arcade Edition<\/em> this week.<\/p>\n<p>The beefed-up version of the game includes codes for all of the DLC characters from seasons 1 and 2, as well as new interface graphics, two new gameplay modes (Arcade Mode and Extra Battle Mode), and one more V-Trigger per character.<\/p>\n<p>The game is both a free downloadable update for owners of the original game, and a standalone retail game sold at a reduced price.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition \u2013 Reveal Trailer | PS4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1s4tsxWNkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Darkest Dungeon<\/h3>\n<p><em>Release date: 19 January 2018 (Switch)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Originally released last year and now making it&#8217;s way to the Switch,\u00a0<i>Darkest Dungeon<\/i> is a roguelike, dungeon crawler video game created by indie game developer Red Hook Studios.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u00a0has the player manage a roster of heroes to explore dungeons below a gothic mansion the player has inherited.<\/p>\n<p>Played out in a mix of real-time movement and turn-based combat, a core feature of <i>Darkest Dungeon<\/i> is the stress level of each hero that increases with further exploration and combat; a character sustaining a high stress level may gain afflictions that will hamper, or possibly enhance, their performance as an explorer.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2EKrpRj9HEY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>More games releasing this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Xbox One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Full Metal Furies<br \/>\nMetal Gear Survive Beta<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PS4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Metal Gear Survive Beta<br \/>\nInnerSpace<br \/>\nStreet Fighter V: Arcade Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Genital Jousting<br \/>\nStreet Fighter V: Arcade Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Switch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Darkest Dungeon<br \/>\nInnerSpace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>3DS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Kirby Battle Royale<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/top-5-playstation-classics-that-need-to-be-remade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical noopener\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to 10 games we cannot wait to play in 2018\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122327-10-games-we-cannot-wait-to-play-in-2018.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">10 games we cannot wait to play in 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you expect from the games releasing this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":122963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[16835,4552,1966,15397,1853,2894,22949,1157,10065],"class_list":["post-122962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-darkest-dungeon","tag-game-releases","tag-games","tag-pc","tag-playstation4","tag-street-fighter","tag-switch","tag-video-games","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}