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Doccy Darko: Hey, welcome back to Multiplay for another week. I've got plenty to talk about this week, including a big drop from Sony this week, and the Australian Game Awards happened. So we'll find out who the winner of that was. The winners, I should say. first, let's talk about the Ghost of Yotai expansion that just dropped. I'm not Japanese. There's no way I'm gonna be able to say these these these words properly. Echoes of Sekagara is the news story expansion. you basically face off against a ruthless faction known as the Vipers, and it flashes back to the Battle of Sekagara, explores Atsu's mysterious past and gives us some brutal new heavy weapons to swing around. It's super impressive. I love this series and I'm always happy to see more. I was especially stoked when they dropped Ghost of Yotai in the beginning anyway, because Shoshima was such a quality game and it was great to return to that that that universe. There's also the most wanted survival mode in the game as well. It's a roguelike challenge where you battle waves of enemies to claim bounties. And in this, you get to play as four different characters, including the return of the ghost of Yotai, ghost of Shoshima Man himself, Jin Sakai. so building your character up with different perks between rounds, it's incredibly addictive and a great way to play the game. There's also some new AI PS5 graphical updates. grades, which is you know, they look great, there's no doubt about it. It's probably a good use of of this new found system that they're using. so well worth it. But if you want that full breakdown, you can check it out at Dockydarko.com. I did say it is highly recommended though. I if you if you're a fan of these games, you definitely want to go and get this expansion. Okay, onto the official awards. And of course, this week we saw the 2026 Australian Game Developer Awards, Agda. It just wrapped up. And local creators are proving they're an absolute force on the global stage. Melbourne Studio Beethoven and Dinosaur took home the coveted Game of the Year trophy. For their latest release, Mixtape, which we've all played by now, surely. It was even on Game Pass available for you there. So everyone's buzzing about it. It's an absolute gorgeous game. 3D stop motion style, coming of age story. It's really got that Breakfast Club vibes and a brilliant soundtrack as well, featuring the Cure, Joy Division, and Devo. The music makes it and and no surprise there with a game called Mixtape. I was a huge night too for other Aussie talent across the board. Canberra's uppercut game scored Studio of the Year. That was for their incredible ongoing work and diverse team culture. And everyone's favorite animated blue healer had to get a mention, didn't they? Game Loft Brisbane took home the Excellence in Impact Award for the brilliant, I would say. Bluey's Happy Snaps. It's just one of those games. You can slap Bluey on it, it will sell, but if you make it a good game, that's just a bonus. Congratulations also to all the other winners on the night as well. And you can check out the full list of winners at Dockydarko.com if you want to go check that out. Let's keep an eye out for all these big games coming in October. Some have already dropped. Ace Combat 8, Wings of Thieves, dropped on October 2nd for PS5, Xbox, and PC. Keep an eye out for that if you haven't played it yet. Gears of War E Day is out now. I just downloaded it on the Game Pass and I'm keen to get into it this weekend. Star Wars Galactic Racer is getting rave reviews. Now, this is a a Star Wars Galactic Racing game from the creators of Burnout series and and Need for Speed. So well worth checking out on PS5, Xbox, and PC. Clive Barker's Hellraiser Revival. This is one I'm excited for from Sabre Games. That dropped on October eighth. PS5 switched to an Xbox. And I have played the demo to death. Pun intended. And I I can't wait to dive into the full version and start to review this title. Kingdom Hearts Collection Wonder Three has dropped, also Order of the Sinking Star and upcoming stuff, things like Planet Zoo 2, Vellamortis, which is a game that everyone's been excited for October 13 on PS5, Xbox, and PC. And we're gonna see Resident Evil 2 Deluxe, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 4 Gold all dropping on October 16 as well on the Switch 2. So that's exciting. Star Trek fans get excited cause Star Trek Outposts Unknown is hitting us on October twenty. That's a PC title. And we're gonna see Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 on October 22nd as well. The same dr day that we're also gonna say Nintendo Switch Sports Resort. So it's gonna be a toss up. Which one do you wanna play? Call of Duty or Switch Sports? Why am I leaning towards Switch Sport? And probably the biggest game this month that that that I've seen in forums and just general chatter with other gaming friends. Phantom Played Zero is a game that's dropping on October twenty ninth for PS5 and PC, and that's one to definitely keep an eye out for. Okay, another game I've been playing this week is one that's been out for a couple of weeks, but I got onto it late. This is a game that really takes me back because you can remember the days of launching your die-cast cars over the bath. Building plastic jumps in the yard and hoping they wouldn't smash into a million pieces. I've got photos. They're I'm not gonna lie, they're they're pretty old photos. They wouldn't photos were squares, those intimatic ones. And it's me and my friend laying on the bottom of the car and we're both holding our matchbox and Hot Wheels cars as as we Yeah. Just in the sun, just having the best day of our lives. Well We don't do that anymore, but what we can do is we can play Hot Wheels Infinite Rush. It's finally arrived. And it's another game in the the very popular Hot Wheels series. Like this time around, there's no kitchen table. You're exploring four massive islands and you're hunting down bosses known as Rushmasters and you beat them in
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sprints and you steal their exclusive rides, basically. The game gets a lot right. The the cars look exactly like real toys. Like even like Tiny paint flecks and scratches on them. And if you turn them upside down, you see all of the information, like the Hot Wheels information that you would see on the bottom of your car, your die cut is there. So it's not like you turn it upside down and it's a real car. It's you turn upside down, you see it's a Hot Wheels car. And that is really cool. I really love that mix of old school, new school. And that's what you get with the gameplay too. It's like Daytona Mixed with Mario Kart and there's modes like smashing wheels that let you turn your brain off and just crash through towers or tyres for points. It's not entirely flawless. Like you'll be dealing with a frustrating amount of loading screens. And I had it crash a few times on PC, so it wasn't great when I started to load it. Mainly because I was loading through Steam and there was an issue with my epic game store, but that wasn't it didn't take away from the gameplay when I actually got it up and going. Would I recommend it? Well, yeah, I would. I'd I'd I'd recommend it. It's for fans looking for pure high speed arcade fun. You were zooming around these tracks, you're going over orange roads, you're doing a loop-to-loop, you're doing all the things that you want to do in a Hot Wheels game. The drift mechanic, I I didn't like it at first, but the more I played it and got the hang of when and where to press it, I actually enjoyed it by the end of the game. So Yeah, I th I think this is recommended for sure. It's a fun arcade game. It works great on PC, worked brilliantly on my Steam Deck. So that's a really that's a tick in the in the recommended box when you can get a game like that to run on your Steam Deck flawlessly. So a lot of fun to play while you're laying in bed or doing whatever you do while you're playing on your portable PC. or you can get it on, you know, PS five or Xbox or any of those as well. It's such a a solid game. if you want to check out the full review, head to Dockidarko.com. Finally, I wanted to talk about my experience I've had recently playing Final Fantasy fourteen online. For years I've sort of looked at that game and thought that's way too much game for me. Like over a decade of lore, dozens of expansions, millions of hardcore fans, hard pass. But then it launched on Nintendo Switch 2, and then suddenly I had this entire realm of this game t right at the palm of my hands. So I decided to take the plunge and and dive in and have a look at it. Now the story drops you right into this massive geopolitical conflict and evil empires invading and a mysterious goddess tasks you with finding six magical crystals. It sounds pretty much like a standard fantasy game, but the depth of this world building is actually nothing short of incredible. What the game does brilliantly is the job system too, so you're not stuck just as a sword-swinging warrior. You can switch to a mage on the fly or even spend your entire afternoon as a goldsmith. Crafting gear. Plus, the controls are actually surprisingly intuitive from the switch from PC to a handheld console. I wouldn't say they're flawless. It it can get a little confusing sometimes playing on the the handheld device, but I got there eventually. I think the more you play it, the and you will play it a lot, you have to spend a lot of hours in this game to to give it its kudos. The pacing feels like a a hundred hour game or more. So the first sixty hours are basically a massive reading exercise to set you up in the world. The frame rate does occasionally chug when things get busy, but it's not too bad. It actually runs surprisingly well on the Nintendo Switch 2 console. That that was probably the biggest surprise for me. This game is huge. The payoff for this game, like putting the hours in, that's where it it where you really see the benefits. So My final verdict on that one is that I do say it's highly recommended. I don't know that I'm gonna go back in and play it for another sixty to a hundred hours, given I have so many other games to play. But my time in Final Fantasy was well worth it. And I can see why people get so involved and these characters that they create that they just they they they become so attached to them. If you want to check out the full deep dive on as well, it's a docky darko.com. That's it for this week. We'll have plenty more for next week and we might even start incorporating some tech stuff in as well. hopefully soon I'll get to catch up with Luke. I caught up with him. we built a retaining wall last weekend. I know, that's so unlike us. Normally the we get blisters playing PlayStation games, not not building retaining walls, twenty four meter retaining walls that are four sleepers deep. Yeah, well we Bunch of friends and I got together and we did that. And was fun. It was a lot of fun. Hard work and earned that that beer at the end of the day and the game of FIFA that night that really hurt those blisters even more. But so yeah, caught up with him. We're gonna get things going again real soon. We've just both been so busy it's hard to get our calendars to align. That'd be great. Thanks for tuning into the multiplay podcast. It's available for free on the iHeart app as well as many other podcasts. Podcast places. make sure you tell your friends about it. It'd be great if you could like and share and get this added to as many places as we can so that I can continue to do it. It's been a pleasure and I'll talk to you soon.