Among titles releasing the week of August 4, "Rare Replay" proposes a compendium of 30 games from a 25-year span of video game history; the following week "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" defies its name to represent an uptick in volume for the otherwise unhurried summer release schedule.
Rare Replay (XBO)
August 4
Thirty games sharing the same disc, all plucked from the back catalogue of fondly regarded game studio, Rare. The collection spans a 25-year period, from "Jetpac" and "Knight Lore" on the ZX Spectrum through console icons "Battletoads," "Killer Instinct Gold," and "Jet Force Gemini" to Xbox and Xbox 360 faves "Perfect Dark," "Viva Piñata" and "Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts."
Rare Replay
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4)
August 11
After tackling survival horror in "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs," award-winning studio TheChineseRoom returns to mystery adventure that takes place during an apparent apocalypse, is set in a remote English village, and mines mid-20th century British sci-fi tales for inspiration.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Toy Soldiers: War Chest (PS4 WinPC XBO)
August 11
Building on two Xbox 360 games from 2010 and 2011, "War Chest" sees tanks, cannons, teddies, ponies, dragons, drones and pixies collide in a battle for supremacy. A deluxe Hall of Fame version includes licensed characters from cartoon series "He-Man" and "G.I. Joe" as well as Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed" games.
Toy Soldiers: War Chest
Goat Simulator (PS3, PS4)
August 11
Having already been made available on Windows PCs, Mac and Linux, iOS and Android, and Xbox 360 and Xbox One, 2014 breakout / genre spoof "Goat Simulator" arrives in all its goofy glory on PlayStation, goading players into high-scoring stunts and neighborhood wrecking antics. Includes 4-player local co-op play and jokey GoatVR mode.
Goat Simulator
Fallout Shelter(Android)
August 13
An immediate hit on iOS, "Fallout Shelter" offers a thematically appropriate survivor curation experience, as players plan and build an underground bunker for their growing band of citizens, allocating them tasks and self-development opportunities in order to keep everybody happy in a peculiar retro-futuristic 1950s way. All in keeping with the iconography of the "Fallout" series and November's "Fallout 4."
Fallout Shelter
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