Releases: Ghost of Tsushima is now more beautiful

Sports, Strategy, Thriller and a PlayStation Highlight: The next seven days finally offer a varied menu for the summer.

Humankind | August 17

PC

In Humankind, as in the Civilization series, you take a civilization and leads you through different epochs for fame and honor. Over 60 historic cultures are available to choose from the antiquity to modernity, with you historical events and built the most impressive buildings of human history.

In addition to building your civilization, you have to participate in battles too and again. Fights find in Humankind on the global card round-based. In addition to open battles, you can conquer whole cities and civilizations with siege weapons.

How far your humanity and your own civilization brings in Humankind, you can only experience the release on the PC. Whether later a console version follows, remains to be seen.

Pile Up! Box by Box | August 17

PS4 / SWITCH / XBOX One

It smashes in the carton - normally in pile up! Box by Box . When the cooperative 3D platformer hops and stack as boxing either alone or together with friends from A to B. In between, it is puzzle to solve and help the residents of the curious game world.

If that's not enough, you can then measure themselves in mini-games like boxball or basketball against each other. So that there is no confusion, you can customize your own boxing character.

For the PC is Pile Up! Already available since March. Now the developers provide a release for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox ONE.

12 Minutes | August 19th

PC / XBOX ONE / XBOX Series X

Actually, it would have been a quiet, romantic evening: As a husband you just want to eat with your wife for dinner. Then it knocks on the door, a policeman storms in, accuses your wife, committed a murder and suggests you unconscious. What sounds after an exciting prelude for a good thriller, a whole corner becomes more abstract when her twelve minutes is back in time.

Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller from the bird's eye view, where you experience the above situation again and again. Your goal is to find out why this policeman penetrates into your apartment, what it has with the supposed murder and somehow to escape time loop.

The release of Twelve Minutes has delayed a bit in the past. Now, among other things, the actor James Mcavoy, Daisy Ridley and Willem Dafoe lend their voices , ready and appears for PC and Xbox consoles - even directly in the Xbox Game Pass.

RIMS RACING | August 19th

PC / PS4 / PS5 / XBOX ONE / XBOX Series X / Switch

Where other motorcycle racing games may remain a little superficial, RIMS Racing points: in the settings. With the help of the mechanics system, you can disassemble, replace and optimize the individual components of your motorcycle . From tires over brake discs to the engine oil, it is completely in your hand, how well your vehicle is on the track.

Speaking of stretch: Total ten licensed routes, including Silverstone and the Nürburgring, and five road sections are ready. On those you can measure against other players either against the Ki or multiplayer mode.

Incidentally, the release of the motorcycle simulation takes place across all platforms: both PC and old and new console generation are served. Only Google Stadia is still empty.

Madden NFL 22 | 20th of August

PC / PS4 / PS5 / Xbox One / Xbox Series X

Every year, in the summer, the prelude to the well-known digital sports simulations greets. This week's turn is Madden NFL 22 from Electronic Arts. The football simulation this year offers three new features this year **: GameDay Atmosphere, which optically improves the presentation, GameDay Momentum, which simulates unique playing conditions, and Next Gen stats, whereby Ki and statistics of players should be significantly more realistic .

With the yard, there is also a completely new single player campaign, while in multiplayer, among other things, the ultimate team mode is waiting for you.

Incidentally, the new functions of Dynamic GameDay are only available in the release for the Next-Gen consoles. On the PC, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, there is only the new game modes and squad improvements, but neither GameDay Momentum, nor Gameday Atmosphere and Next Gen stats.

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut

PS5

About a year ago, Ghost of Tsushima caused a successful Finale of the PlayStation 4, because only a few months later followed the PlayStation 5. Developer Sucker Punch has ever continued to work on the Samurai adventure and now brings the Open World Game as Director's Cut on the new Sony console.

In the new edition, Ghost of Tsushima offers 5 optical improvements on the PlayStation 5 optical improvements, adaptations to the dualSense controller and even new content. With The island of Iki there is a new chapter in the story of protagonist Jin, where he gets it again with Mongolian invaders.

Incidentally, the extension is not exclusively for the PlayStation 5. To release the owners of the PS4 version can purchase the DLC for a fee. In the Director's Cut, however, he is with you from the beginning.

Great strategy or exciting thriller or chic open-world action: This week you can let off steam on very different genres. Of course, the choice is as always with you and your taste.