Heads-up: New games out this week (March 16)

Welcome to Heads-up, our weekly feature which gives you an at-a-glance run-down on the games you’ll be able to buy or rent this weekend. Every Monday we’ll pick out the best of the bunch, link to our reviews and previews and keep you in the video game loop so you have enough time to pre-order for Friday’s post. Time to smash open your piggy bank so you can spend its coin-shaped guts.

Worth a look

Twisted Metal for PS3 finally arrives after launching in the US last month. Reviews have been generally quite positive – you can check out some gameplay footage here. FIFA Street also returns after a long hiatus, with early reports suggesting this is a much better effort than we’ve had from the series in the past.

Yakuza fans will be both pleased and somewhat baffled by Yakuza: Dead Souls, which turns the franchise on its head with a zombie apocalypse setting. Aerial combat sim Birds of Steel comes from a developer with a good pedigree, while indie darlings Terraria and The Binding of Isaac both get retail PC releases.

• Twisted Metal – PS3
• FIFA Street – Xbox 360 and PS3
• Yakuza: Dead Souls – PS3
• Birds Of Steel – PS3
• Terraria: Collector’s Edition – PC
• The Binding Of Isaac: Unholy Edition – PC

And the rest…

There are plenty of other games out this week, although many of them will very quickly slip into budget bins. Blades of Time might have a slim chance of picking up a few sales, being a pseudo sequel to the so-so reviewed X-Blades. There’s also a sequel to DS football RPG Inazuma Eleven – which is probably essential if you’re in the market for another football RPG.

• Blades Of Time – Xbox 360 and PS3
• Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard – DS
• Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm – DS
• Ben 10: Galactic Racing – PS Vita and 3DS
• Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle – PS3
• Captain Morgane & The Golden Turtle – Wii and DS
• Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 – Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii