Key Highlights:
- Skulls of the Shogun, Antichamber, Proteus and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed headline the week’s PC releases.
- Hitman: HD Trilogy launches for PS3 and Xbox 360 in North America on 29 January and Europe on 1 February.
- Several releases differ by region, including Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, 99Moves and Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear.
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The week of 28 January to 3 February 2013 brings a mixture of new PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PS Vita and Nintendo DSi releases across North America and Europe.
Release dates vary by region, so the schedule below distinguishes launches that were limited to North America or Europe rather than treating every title as a simultaneous worldwide release.
PC Game Releases
29 January
- Dungeonland
- Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear – North America
30 January
- Skulls of the Shogun
- Wizardry Online – free-to-play
- Proteus
31 January
- Antichamber
- Retrovirus
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
1 February
- Omerta: City of Gangsters – European Steam release
PS3 Releases
29 January
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – North America, PS2 Classics
- Hitman: HD Trilogy – North America
- Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear – North America
- Everyone Sing – North American PlayStation Network release
30 January
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Europe, PS2 Classics
1 February
- Hitman: HD Trilogy – Europe
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the original PlayStation 2 version running through Sony’s PS2 Classics programme rather than an HD remaster. Rockstar priced the European download at £7.99.
Hitman: HD Trilogy contains Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money, with all three games presented in HD for PS3 and Xbox 360.
Xbox 360 Releases
29 January
- Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear – North America
- Hitman: HD Trilogy – North America
30 January
- Skulls of the Shogun – Xbox Live Arcade
1 February
- Hitman: HD Trilogy – Europe
Skulls of the Shogun launched for 1,200 Microsoft Points and supported multiplayer for up to four players. The turn-based strategy game also launched across Windows 8, Windows Phone and Microsoft Surface.
PS Vita and Nintendo DS Releases
30 January
- Let’s Fish! Hooked On – Europe, PS Vita
31 January
- 99Moves – North America, Nintendo DSiWare
Let’s Fish! Hooked On launched through the European PlayStation Store for £14.99. North American Vita players received the game later.
99Moves was initially a North American DSiWare release. Contrary to our original list, it did not launch in Europe during this week and eventually reached the European DSi Shop on 4 July 2013.
GLN continued the weekly schedule with the following week’s PS3 releases, which included Dead Space 3 and Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2.
