February video games

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

This action role-playing survival horror video game features a zombie apocalyptic-themed open world. Set 20 years after ‘Dying Light’, players can perform actions such as climbing ledges, sliding, leaping off from edges, and wall running to quickly navigate the city. The game is mostly melee-based with the majority of fighting using melee weapons.

Platform: PlayStation, Xbox, PC

Edge of Eternity

This is a role-playing game where players control Daryon, a young soldier whose world has been invaded by a technologically advanced race. When Daryon learns that his mother has been infected with an alien biological agent, he deserts his post to help his sister find a cure.

Platform: PlayStation, Xbox

Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires

This is a hack and slash game played from a third-person perspective. The game revamps the gameplay of the series with the introduction of the open-world environment. The game focuses on livable environments such as cities and towns as well as places where large battles take place.

Platform: PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Switch

The King of Fighters XV

This fighting game is the first game in The ‘King of Fighters’ series to use Unreal Engine 4. The story focuses on how Verse, the creature from KOF XIV, has caused mayhem and a woman known as Chizuru Kagura gathers the fighters Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami in order to look after the seal of the snake demon Orochi.

Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, PC

Destiny 2: The Witch Queen

This is an expansion for Destiny 2, a first-person shooter game. This new installation revolves around a witch queen who was the antagonist of the original Destiny first expansion. This new installation adds new content including new missions, Player versus Environment locations, Player versus Player maps, player gear, weaponry, and a new raid. There are also four planned seasons of content to be released throughout the year.

Platform: PlayStation, Xbox, PC

Monark

This is a tactical role-playing game split between the character evolving their own desires by exploring the school campus, and fighting monsters called “daemons” in the Otherworld. The game takes place inside a high school in a mysterious Mist that drives the students mad that is sealed from the outside world by a barrier. The player is part of a group of students who gain the ability to enter an ‘otherworld’ where the demons empowering the Mist must be defeated.

Platforms: PlayStation, Switch, PC

Grid Legends

This is a racing game and the fifth installment in the ‘Grid franchise’. The game offers more than 130 tracks to race on, ranging from real-life circuits to street circuits in various cities. It also features more than 100 vehicles. For the first time, players will be able to create their own races, including custom routes, obstacles, vehicle restrictions, and rules.

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S