Left Alive is a third-person shooter from Square Enix whose development team boasts industry veterans who worked on Metal Gear and Armored Core series. Set in year 2127, it tells the story of three different characters struggling to survive the Garmoniyan invasion of Novo Slava.

The game drops the player into a city turned a burning war zone and swarming with enemy troops, armored vehicles, and towering mechs. Most of Left Alive is played on foot, but there is also giant mech combat toward the latter part of the single-player campaign.

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Total War: Three Kingdoms is a strategy game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. Like the previous titles in the franchise, it combines turn-based empire building with massive real-time battles.

Set in ancient China, Total War: Three Kingdoms puts the player into the shoes of one of eleven legendary warlords – such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian – aiming to unite the fractured land under their rule and establish the next great dynasty. The default campaign is based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a highly romanticized account of the time period, which means plenty of character drama and heroes who can turn the tide of battle using nigh-supernatural abilities. On the other hand, there is also a Classic Mode option for those who prefer a more realistic experience closer in spirit to the past historical Total War installments.

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DiRT Rally 2.0 is an off-road racing game from Codemasters. A spin-off of the main DiRT series from the save developer, it is generally considered more difficult and realistic, leaning towards simulation rather than arcade.

The upcoming installment includes challenging stages in six real-world locations (New Zealand, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Australia, and the US), as well as a roster of over 50 historic and modern-day rally cars. As the official game of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, it also features eight official WorldRX circuits and licensed supercars.

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Jump Force is a 3v3 tag team fighter developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by Bandai Namco. Celebrating 50 years of the Weekly Jump magazine, it stars the world’s most popular manga heroes including Goku from Dragonball, Luffy from One Piece, Boruto’s dad from Naruto, Killua from Hunter x Hunter, Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho, and many more.

The game is set on modern Earth, or to be more exact an alternate version of it which has merged with the Jump universe, dumping the characters from their serialized manga into reality. The heroes have to put their differences aside and team up against the big bad threatening humanity, battling it out in real-world locations such as NY’s Times Square and the Matterhorn Mountain in the Alps. The arenas are fully 3D and allow for verticality and environmental destruction.

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Crayola Scoot is a family-friendly game involving – you’ve guessed it – scooters and paint. Players customize their character, perform tricks and splash their colors across the stage, upgrade their scooters, and challenge the Scoot Legends for the Crayola Color Cup on 12 parks across 3 worlds. The game supports four-player split-screen battles.

Crayola Scoot is developed by the British Climax Studios, and published by Outright Games for current-gen consoles and PC.

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Devil May Cry 5 is the latest installment in Capcom’s hack’n’slash series Devil May Cry. Dante and Nero make a return as protagonists, and along with a new playable character, V, battle their way through hordes of demons. The franchise is renowned for fast-paced, stylish action, and DmC 5 should be no exception, aided by the fact that it’s running at a slick 60 FPS.

Story-wise, the game takes place several years after the Order of the Sword incident. Young Devil Hunter Nero and his partner Nico race into the Red Grave City, where a giant tree has pierced through the surface and is draining the citizens of their blood. On arrival, he crosses paths with the veteran demon hunter Dante and his mysterious client, V.

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GRIP: Combat Racing is an arcade combat racer developed by an indie studio Caged Element. The gameplay is inspired by the 90s title Rollcage, and it is worked on by one of its original programmers. Of course, technology has come a long way since then, and so GRIP runs on the latest-and-baddest Unreal Engine 4.

The game’s tracks are set on a variety of exotic planets, and feature destructible structures that can be used against one’s opponents. The pickups include not only power-ups, but all sorts of heavy weaponry as well. GRIP: Combat Racing offers both split-screen and online multiplayer.

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