{"id":85339,"date":"2016-01-18T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85339"},"modified":"2016-01-18T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:30:06","slug":"games-you-can-play-this-week-zombies-and-dungeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/85339-games-you-can-play-this-week-zombies-and-dungeons","title":{"rendered":"Games you can play this week &#8211; zombies and dungeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As time marches on, 2016 now in full swing, we have new video game releases to check out.<\/p>\n<p>This week features a mix of intriguing smaller games and a couple of ports worth revisiting.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Darkest Dungeon \u2013 January 19<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>(PC)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KM6ZmtE4FKE?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Darkest Dungeon<\/i> is a roguelike, dungeon crawler video game created by indie game developer Red Hook Studios. 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<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Resident Evil Origins Collection \u2013 January 22<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>(PS4, Xbox One, PC)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I51zOi8-WGo?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Origins Collection<\/em> takes all of the hot action from <em>Resident Evil 0 HD<\/em> and bundles it together with last year&#8217;s excellent remaster of the <em>Resident Evil<\/em>\u00a0remake.<\/p>\n<p>Both games now have high-resolution textures that have been created from scratch, including 1080p support on next-gen consoles, while still preserving the classic appearance of the original releases.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>More game releases<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/75670-games-you-can-play-this-week-contract-killing-and-careless-carnage.html\/attachment\/pc-platform-tag-2#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75676\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PC-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"PC-platform-tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Resident Evil Origins Collection<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Darkest Dungeon<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Deadly Tower of Monsters<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Zombi<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Life is Strange<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/60349-games-launching-this-week-2.html\/attachment\/xbox-one-platform-tag#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60361\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Xbox-One-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"Xbox One platform tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Resident Evil Origins Collection<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Zombi<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Life is Strange<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/60349-games-launching-this-week-2.html\/attachment\/ps4-platform-tag#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60358\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60358\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PS4-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"PS4 platform tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Resident Evil Origins Collection<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Deadly Tower of Monsters<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Zombi<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Life is Strange<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/60349-games-launching-this-week-2.html\/attachment\/3ds-platform-tag#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60354\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/3DS-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"3DS platform tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mario &amp; Luigi: Paper Jam<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>You might also be interested in<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/85289-good-riddance-to-video-game-pirates.html\">Good riddance to video game pirates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/85239-5-fps-games-we-cant-wait-to-play-in-2016.html\">5 FPS games we can\u2019t wait to play in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/85177-cliche-battle-mechanics-were-tired-of.html\">Cliche battle mechanics we\u2019re tired of<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what games you can expect to arrive on store shelves and digital outlets this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":85341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[16835,1966,2664,16787,14630,2139,15687,1157,15175],"class_list":["post-85339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-darkest-dungeon","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-mario-luigi-paper-jam","tag-releases","tag-resident-evil","tag-resident-evil-0","tag-video-games","tag-zombi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85339","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=85339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85345,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85339\/revisions\/85345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}