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Considering it’s generally free to game on a PC and it costs money to play on Xbox Live, it only stands to reason that a free PC game should also appear on Xbo LIVE Arcade for a fee. Yes, Tik Games has finally officially announced a “sequel” toMinesweeper, known asMinesweeper Flags. Now the staple of my Windows 32 childhood can return for cold, hard cash. Team Xboxhas gone hands-on with the game and returned with the following information:...

It runs on Tuesday Back in May, Monolith Productions executive producer Michael Forgey was diagnosed with a “highly aggressive” form of glioblastoma (brain cancer). His friends at Monolith are doing the best they can to ease the burden of this terrible news with afundraiser, in the hopes of lessening Forgey’s medical bills and providing security for his family. Andy Salisbury, community manager for Monolith, detailed the aims of the fundraiser yesterday in aReddit post....

Slow and steady It’s cathartic to see an upcoming release you’ve followed for years finally come out (or at least hit a major milestone). It’s not quite time forMount & Blade II: Bannerlord, but my goodness, we’re getting there. The medieval sandbox RPG has committed to a March 2020 releaseon Steam Early Access. Yep, it’s still tantalizingly out of reach. But hey, look, a new trailer for gamescom! Why Early Access?...

This trailer is weird on so many levels. For starters, it completely lacks actual gameplay footage, which some would say defeats the purpose of being a “game trailer.” Then there’s the music: is mid-nineties-era hardcore cool in Japan right now, or is Capcom trying to be ironic by using “hardcore” music to advertise a game that hardcoreDead Risingfans are generally outraged about? There’s also the fact that Keiji Inafune, Capcom’s answer to Shigeru Miyamoto, just said inan interviewthatDead Risingon the 360 was an attempt to make an American-tasting burger, but that the finished product still tasted Japanese....

Boosting in more ways than one Activision’s PS1 remakeCrash Team Racing Nitro-Fueledis already running victory laps on multiple platforms, having been received positively by critics and fans. However, the classic kart racer is still suffering from some niggling issues, with a new patch hoping to iron out these creases. First and foremost, the Nintendo Switch 1.05 update will be confronting the ongoing woes withNitro-Fueled’ssluggish load times. Utilising the Switch hardware’s boost mode (which temporarily overclocks the console’s CPU) the new update should hopefully allow budding racers to get on the starting grid a whole lot faster....

A few years back, someone spread the word that FromSoftware was making a Kart game set in the world ofBloodborne. It was but an April Fools’ joke, but it soon blossomed into much more. Over two years of development and afew months of legal tinkeringlater, developer Lilith Walther has finally releasedNightmare Kart. You might know Lilith fromBloodborne PSX, a remake of the first sections of the PS4 classic that played and looked just like a PS1 game....

The Splattershot Nova and Brinewater Springs are coming in the new season Splatoon 3is about to get a whole lot busierwith its new “Chill Season,” unveiled this week. Butthanks to some new tweets, we now have a better idea of what the patch will usher in. Coming on December 1, we’re getting more stages (I stressmore, because some are old), including the Brinewater Springs arena; as well as more weapons, like the Splattershot Nova....

Hey girl, let me get a Pikachu If you’ve ever wanted a Pikachu on your nipples or other ‘no-no zones’ then you’re in luck as (and I can’t believe I’m actually about to type this) the Pokémon Company have officially licensed the brand out toYummy Martfor lingerie. It looks like the undies come in multiple flavors of Pikachu and the classic Poké Ball with no sign of Ekans or Jigglypuff to be found....

No word exactly when a fix is coming If you’re a PS4 owningRock Band 4player in Europe, there’s a good change you’ve noticed that a chunk of your old library of PS3Rock Bandtracks don’t seem to be playable onRock Band 4yet. You’re probably not alone in this, as Harmoix has acknowledged that 431 tracks, all playable in North America, just don’t work properly in Europe. According to Eric Popefrom the studio, they knew this was a problem when the game launched but expected to have it fixed much closer to launch....

Burn my Hype Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest and most exciting announcements of Summer Game Fest has been Atlus’ reveal ofPersona 3 Reload, a full remake of the classic 2006 PS2 RPG and a title for which fans have been pleading for the longest time — Unfortunately, however, the reveal came with some caveats that have left some in the community a tad disappointed. First and foremost,Persona 3 Reloadis a remake of the vanillaPersona 3release....

I wasn’t worried about howPlanet Coaster: Console Editionwould fare on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but if I had been, a recent live hands-off showing from Frontier would’ve helped convince me. The visual fidelity was there, and while I only saw a theme park in its early, not-too-crowded stage of life,Planet Coasterdidn’t show any worrisome performance blemishes in a build running on Xbox One. I also saw some new character-driven tutorials (which reminded me ofPlanet Zoo) and the reworked-for-gamepads control scheme (which looks like it’ll click within the first hour once you get the contextual buttons down)....

New Boss Mode using SmartGlass You can play as zombies inPlants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. There are four zombie classes, including, adding a scientist and engineer to expected ones, like a ranger and an all-star. I love that the Engineer rocks a plumber’s crack. Think of the zombie classes as more and different ways to get brains. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfaregets a exclusive mode called Boss Mode. A trailer revealed at EA’s gamescom press conference showed off this SmartGlass feature that has you sitting back and pointing, making gestures to control zombies, doing so from the comfort ofCrazy Dave’s RV or Zomboss’ Blimp....

It’s already down to $30 I’m not sure how many of you were out there waiting for aPreytrial on PC, but that’s a thing now! As of today, players can get a feel for the first hour onPC,PlayStation 4, andXbox One. In the latter two cases,there already was a demo, but now it’s atrial, meaning your progress and Trophies/Achievements are stored should you like what you play and decide to spring for the full version....