Adventures are at the heart of the Bookwalker and Another Fisherman’s Tale, while becoming the best that women’s soccer has to offer is what the latest update to FIFA 23 is all about.

Adventure through the pages of books as the Bookwalker

In The Bookwalker, you become a writer who’s been sentenced to thirty years of writers block. Exactly what you’ve been convicted of isn’t quite clear when you begin the game. As a player, all you really know is that there’s a shadowy underworld that can help you remove the shackles that bind you.

For a price.

As the bookwalker, you are sent into books to retrieve objects that are part of the stories. Because you have the ability to bring objects from the pages into the real world. And solving the puzzles that get in your way sometimes require that you take objects into the books with you.

It’s not all about point-and-click, either. You have to battle various enemies you encounter in the books with turn-based combat.

And along the way you learn more of the bookwalker’s story, and the implications of the rewriting you’re doing on the books you explore.

The Bookwalker was developed by Do My Best Games and published by Tinybuild. It’s available now for PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S and free to Xbox Game Pass subscribers.

FIFA 23 updated with Women’s World Cup with 32 national teams

The Women’s World Cup is less than a month away, and gamers with copies of FIFA 23, developed in Vancouver by EA Sports, can update their edition to include the 32 national teams competing in the tournament.

You can play through your own world cup with group and knockout stages, you can play as your favourite national team player – Christine Sinclair, anyone? Perhaps one of the younger stars like Jordyn Huitema, Janine Beckie, Jessie Fleming, Ashley Lawrence, Kadeisha Buchanan … Canada has a deep bench – or you can create your own player to lead your country to victory.

As it always does, EA Sports ran the tournament through its FIFA 23 simulator and determined that the U.S. will beat Germany in the final match to win the Women’s World Cup.

Fans can come up with their own prediction with an online selector created by the EA Sports team.

The group stage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand, begins on July 20.

Enter a world of pirate adventure with Another Fisherman’s Tale

Another Fisherman’s Tale is a charming puzzle adventure in virtual reality that has you taking on the guise of a character telling the kinds of tall tales that fishermen are known for.

Developed by Innerspace and published by Vertigo Games, the key mechanic is that you can swap out different objects for your hands. Attach a lobster appendage, for example, and you can cut a rope.

There are multiple levels of meta going on here, and the key to figuring it all out is figuring out how to use your body – and all its parts – to navigate the various environments.

Another Fisherman’s Tale is available now on PSVR2, Meta Quest 2, and Steam VR. The first game in the series, A Fisherman’s Tale (2019) is also coming to PSVR2