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We have a long weekend coming up for Easter, so we’ll mostly be off Friday and Monday then return on Tuesday with chocolate and fondant still oozing from the corners of our mouths. So tell me, reader dear, what are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!
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Hello PlayStation nation! I’m Edvin Edsö, the Promotion Producer of Resident Evil 4. I hope that you have been enjoying the game these past two weeks! Today, we are pleased to announce the release of a fan favorite mode: The Mercenaries, available as a free DLC. Check out the trailer here first.
The trailer offers a glimpse into the fast-paced gameplay of The Mercenaries, where the goal is to defeat as many enemies as possible in a limited amount of time for the highest score you can.
Leon starts each round with all of his weapons, and in order to defeat as many enemies as you can, you must make quick decisions about which weapon to use against which opponent.
Don’t forget to keep track of how much time you have left. Killing enemies with melee attacks, headshots, and other methods, as well as defeating tougher enemies like the Chainsaw Man, will give you extra time.
It is also important to know when to grab the green Time Orbs, which will give you even more time to defeat additional enemies.
Did you notice the yellow diamond-shaped icon? This is the Mayhem Mode meter. When Leon activates Mayhem Mode, his basic abilities such as attack power and movement speed are greatly increased for a period of time! You will also receive additional points, and each enemy you defeat in Mayhem Mode will add extra seconds to the clock. The Mayhem Mode meter accumulates over time, by defeating enemies, and by successfully parrying an attack. The gauge also increases by one when you acquire a Mayhem Mode Orb.
The first stage of The Mercenaries is the Village from the beginning of the game. New stages and more content will be unlocked as you progress.
Like the main game, The Mercenaries supports the DualSense controller features. In this mode’s fast-paced gameplay, players can instantly switch weapons and take on multiple enemies, with haptic feedback and adaptive triggers providing an even greater sense of immersion.
How you take on The Mercenaries depends on your own strategy, including weapon selection, positioning, and how you use Mayhem Mode. Whether you have already completed Resident Evil 4, or are just getting started, be sure to check out this intense free DLC.
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Nintendo and Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie brings Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and dozens of Toads and Kongs to the big screen in a highly referential, kid-friendly action movie where the breakout star is Jack Black’s Bowser. Mario and Luigi’s colorful cinematic adventure runs the approximate length of a child’s attention span — roughly 92 minutes — and after the climactic battle, viewers may be wondering, “Do I need to sit through The Super Mario Bros. Movie credits with my kid to find out what happens next?”
Regardless of who you’re seeing the movie with, the short answer is yes, The Super Mario Bros. Movie does have a post-credits scene. It also has a mid-credits scene. The good news is that since this is an animated movie and not a CGI/live-action hybrid blockbuster from Marvel Studios, pieced together by dozens of FX studios, the credits are pretty short compared to what modern moviegoers are used to.
Here’s what happens.
[Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for the ending of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and describes the after-credits scenes.]
After Mario and Luigi handily defeat Bowser in Brooklyn, the King of the Koopas is safely sequestered in a glass prison. Following a short credits sequence, the film cuts back to Bowser, well after the battle in New York. He is once again singing his ode to the princess, “Peaches.” It’s revealed that this reprise performance is played by a shrunken Bowser on a shrunken grand piano. It’s a funny sight gag, and a chance to get another shot of Jack Black for the road, but it’s also an inconsequential mid-credits stinger.
What happens after the credits is a clear setup for a Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel or spinoff. Once the credits have rolled, the film heads back into the Brooklyn underground, where Mario and Luigi first discovered the pipeworks that lead to the Mushroom Kingdom. There, we see a familiar object: a Yoshi egg, which is shaking and about to hatch. The film cuts to black, and we hear the familiar cry of a Yoshi. (Which is “Yoshi!”)
The reveal of Yoshi as a character in The Super Mario Bros. Movie is not a surprise; we see dozens of them moving in herds earlier in the film, as Mario, Peach, and Toad journey to the Kong Kingdom. The surprise might come when a Yoshi is loose in Brooklyn, sending Mario and Luigi on an adventure across New York to track down this runaway dinosaur. Whether that’s actually part of the plot of the next Super Mario movie remains to be seen. But after a full-on Koopa Troopa invasion of Brooklyn at the end of the film, a cute dinosaur running amok through the Big Apple won’t make its residents blink. Surely, Nintendo and Illumination have bigger plans for Mario and Luigi’s next adventure, but it seems all but guaranteed to include Yoshi.
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Valorant’s player base loves creating things, whether it’s fan-created trailers, crosshairs, and even stop-motion animation. Recently, the Valorant subreddit saw a short video featuring Reyna and Skye that hit a little too close to home for many players.
The stop-motion animation from user u/TheRealBirblady shows Skye and Reyna going to defuse a Spike on Ascent. Reyna goes to defuse while Skye’s voice lines start playing. However, something makes Reyna stop defusing and begin trolling.
Reyna ends up starting and stopping the Spike repeatedly. In the end, the two end up losing their team the game, and “defeat” comes across the screen.
While the stop-motion animation was brilliantly done and hilarious, the scene that plays out is all too familiar for players who solo queue. It’s not that uncommon for someone to not make the defuse for silly reasons, purposefully or not.
It’s even pretty realistic that someone spams the defuse so that their teammate can’t pull the defuse off. This is another way to throw a game or round. It’s not as funny when it actually happens in a game.
Regardless, the quality of the video itself is amazing. It’s clear that the creator spent a lot of time and effort crafting the map and figures, pulling clips of voice lines, and creating the stop-motion part. There’s no lack of creativity in the Valorant community, and this just solidified that.
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I’m greeted with a nice little surprise while placing a cluster of cottages in early access strategy city builder TerraScape (opens in new tab)—one of the several new city builders that arrived on Steam this week (opens in new tab). As I plop my fourth cottage down, the handful of tiny buildings suddenly transform into a massive wooden longhouse that dwarfs the other homes around it. I’ve just merged my first buildings, and now that I’ve learned how to do it, I want to do it again.
In TerraScape, these merged buildings appear when placing specific structures in a certain arrangement. In addition to cottages becoming a longhouse, chapels and churches can be merged into a mighty cathedral, and several large homes can be combined into a stately villa. Careful placement of buildings is already key in TerraScape, but this merged building feature not only makes my already beautiful city even more pleasing to look at, it also gains me extra points. And it rewards me with something even more important: a bomb I can use to blow up a structure I’m not happy with so I can build something else.
TerraScape has a strong Dorfromantik (opens in new tab) feel to it, except instead of building a map with hexagonal tiles, a hex map is generated for you and then you play decks of cards to fill it with buildings. Each building card can be placed to earn points based on the spot you choose to play it, and the logic of that placement will make immediate sense to anyone who’s played a city builder before.
Your lumberjack building will earn more points the more forest hexes it’s adjacent to, your cottages will benefit from being close to the city center, market, or church, and your iron and stone mines will naturally score more points on the craggy mountaintops than in the fields below. There are also negative placements to avoid: put two fishing boats too close to each other and they’ll catch fewer fish, and if your windmill is surrounded by forest tiles instead of wheat farms they’re not going to grind much grain. It’s all about picking the best spot to play your buildings to maximize the points you get from each card, and using cards smartly in combination with the other cards you’ve already placed.
As you play cards in a category like forestry or farming, you acquire points to unlock new buildings in that category: lumberjacks will be joined by sawmills and hunting cabins, for instance. Then new decks will begin to appear, like the city deck that will let you start adding bigger houses and taverns to the map. You can also periodically upgrade your city center as you play, growing it from a small cluster of wooden buildings into towering stone keep. As your city begins to sprawl you’ll unlock gardens, monasteries, blacksmiths, and just about anything else you might find in a traditional city builder. And it’s really satisfying to sit back and see your village has grown from a dusty little settlement into a proper city.
There’s no ticking clock or any real pressure in singleplayer (TerraScape does have PvP multiplayer where you try to outscore your opponent, though I haven’t had the chance to try it yet), so there’s plenty of time to choose where to build and enjoy zooming in close to admire the city as it grows. There are lots of lovely details in the animation: fishing boats casting nets in the lake, smoke rising from chimneys of cottages and longhouses, eagles soaring overhead and deer in the meadows. Even the little fishery building has a barrel beside it, filled with water, and you can spot a wee little fish leaping out and splashing back into it. Adorable.
The only thing missing from the city are, well, people. It would be nice to see some of your tiny little citizens walking around, working the fields, enjoying the gardens, or visiting the market, but even without them the game is lovely to look at.
There are a couple of different ways to play, either in puzzle mode where you try to score enough points to advance to new maps using new decks, or in freeplay, which for my money is much more enjoyable. I just hate leaving maps behind to start new ones in puzzle mode, and I’d much rather spend my time filling up on a big map as much as I can before I eventually run out of new cards to play. The largest procedurally generated map took me about 45 minutes to play, and I enjoyed every second of it.
The developer of TerraScape, Bitfall Studios, plans to add a lot to the game while it’s in early access over the next 12 months, including new merged buildings, new card decks, additional map biomes, and a cooperative multiplayer mode (opens in new tab). But it already feels like a pretty enjoyable game to me, relaxing to play and super satisfying to look at. You’ll find it on Steam (opens in new tab), and until April 12 you can get it for 25% off the $13 price.
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On April 6, 5-Time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen lost in a dramatic and surprising way: His mouse slipped and he moved his queen to the wrong spot, instantly costing him the match. Not only did this knock him out of the tournament and cost him a chance at the sizable $30,000 top prize, but this was also the last event he’d participate in as the reigning World Champion.
Last year, you might remember that one of the biggest stories in the world of professional chess was the surprising defeat of Carlsen at the hands of the young Grandmaster Hans Niemann. The stunning upset quickly sparked online accusations of cheating, with one particular Reddit (joke) theory about vibrating anal beads spreading like wildfire. Carlsen believes Niemann is a cheater and Chess.com accused him of cheating, too. Niemann denied the charges and in October 2022 sued Carlsen, his chess app Play Magnus, the website Chess.com, Chess.com’s Daniel Rensch, and streamer Hikaru Nakamura for $100 million.
But before all of this, Carlsen had already announced his plans to vacate his Chess World Champion seat. And Thursday’s match against Hikaru Nakamura was part of his last event as champ. I doubt anyone expected it would all end with a simple error caused by a mouse slip.
As reported by Chess.com, Carlsen was competing against his old rival, Nakamura; the two are considered to be two of the best online chess players in the world. They were competing in an armageddon-rules play-off in the Losers Bracket. But in the final seconds of the tense match, Carlsen accidentally dropped his queen on the wrong spot. According to chess grandmaster David Howell it was “the worst possible mouse slip.” Right after the mistake, Nakamura took down Carlsen’s misplaced queen and the game ended instantly.
The tournament is still ongoing, and Nakamura has advanced out of the Losers Bracket and toward the prize money.
As for Carlsen, this likely won’t be the end of the world. While he will vacate his World Champion title soon, he won’t be retiring. In July 2022, he explained in a podcast that he will remain an active chess player and has events and matches to come in the future. He just no longer wanted to defend his title, as he found it was starting to be a more negative than positive experience, even when winning.
Still, I bet he didn’t have “mouse slips and I lose my final match as World Champ in a million-dollar tournament” on the bingo card for how this chapter of his career would wrap up.
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Planned for release tomorrow, April 7, some players in Korea are reporting that they’re able to access the remake of Resident Evil 4’s Mercenary Mode early. Unfortunately, some are also saying that the mode is missing key content at the moment.
A staple of the Resident Evil games, Mercenary Mode is an arcade-style horde mode where players fight against waves of infected to compete for high scores. The original Resident Evil 4 allowed players to unlock Mercenary Mode upon completion of its campaign, but the remake has taken a different strategy, as Capcom announced the mode would be making its debut tomorrow, April 7, instead.
Hehehe, thank you, strangers, for all your support on Resident Evil 4.
Check out what the experts have to say about this reimagined action-horror classic!Don’t miss out on The Mercenaries, arriving as free #RE4 DLC tomorrow on April 7th! pic.twitter.com/SveEG0lsfd
— Resident Evil (@RE_Games) April 6, 2023
Players have noted that the version available to those in the previously mentioned regions is missing Ada Wong and Albert Wesker as playable characters, both of whom were in previous versions of the mode and were datamined as being in the remake as well. This has led some to speculate that perhaps Capcom intends to offer the characters as paid downloadable content in the future.
This would seem to confirm reports of microtransactions entering the mode, which players have begun spotting on online stores in the form of “upgrade tickets” that would grant players faster progress with their Mercenary Mode runs.
A screenshot from the New Zealand PlayStation store shows players will be able to pay for faster progress.
The item description for these Upgrade Tickets reads: “here’s your ticket to the gun show! Specifically a ticket to be redeemed at the Merchant’s shop. With this, you’ll have access to a weapon’s exclusive upgrade at any time, regardless of the weapon’s level. Not only that, but once unlocked, the upgrade itself is free of charge!”
As a single-player game mode, this “pay-to-win” model might prove less controversial than those deployed in competitive multiplayer games, but the omission of two key characters is likely to be a disappointment to some.
While you wait for Mercenaries to arrive in your region, be sure to check out our review of the Resident Evil 4 Remake and six big scenes that got cut from the original game.
Travis Northup is a freelance writer at IGN.
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Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 6th, 2023. In today’s article, we’ve actually got a bit of news to deal with. After that, it’s the list of new releases. There are a ton of new games on the shop today, though nothing extremely high-profile. Surprisingly, we have a gigantic list of new sales to sort through today. Normally those hit tomorrow, but here we are. And that means I am barely finishing this in time for dinner, so let’s get going!
‘Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster’ Series Switch Release Date Announced
It was inevitable from the minute the games were announced for mobile and PC, but it was still nice to see the announcement that the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series would be making it to consoles as well. We had a vague idea of the release date, and now we have an exact one: April 19th. These versions have new additions including the option to switch to the original soundtracks of each game, a considerably better font, and some new cheats. It appears the bundle of six games will be selling for $74.99, with the games also available a la carte for prices between $11.99 and $17.99 depending on the installment. You can even pre-order them now! Wow! But you don’t have to, because they are digital items. The eShop won’t sell out.
Mm, bittersweet indeed. This is a narrative adventure game with a unique aesthetic. It might seem light and fluffy at first, but as you progress through the story things do get a bit more serious. It’s really light in terms of puzzles and things like that, so you’re really just moving through the story. That’s all well and good, but right now this game is really crash-prone for some reason. Very frustrating. I’ll be reviewing this soon, but I’d recommend waiting for a patch before jumping in on it in any case.
Set in the same universe as Rivals of Aether, this is a turn-based roguelite that uses dice mechanics. Choose from four different characters and make your way into the dungeons for some sort of reason that I’m sure is written in the game description. Does it matter? Just head in there and get some loot. It’s no Dicey Dungeons, but I’m sure some folks will get their kicks from it.
This is an ambitious game that is trying to do a lot of things, such that it’s kind of hard to put it in any particular genre box. A hack-and-slash game? It has RPG elements, a choice-based narrative, and some puzzles to solve too. Well, whatever it is, it’s not bad. You can tell a lot of work went into building the setting, so if you like games that go deep on their lore, this might be right up your alley. I don’t think it’s an excellent game by any means but it takes some big swings and I genuinely appreciate that.
I’ve banged this drum before, but we have a lot of Metroidvania-style games on the Nintendo Switch. Like, more than anyone could have ever asked for. And in that kind of atmosphere, even a good example of the genre risks falling into the background. Curse of the Sea Rats is a decent Metroidvania-style game, and I love that it supports local multiplayer for up to four people. But is it good enough to stand out in the crowded eShop? I’m not so sure, but I’ll have a full review for you soon to let you know my final decision on the matter.
A wordless adventure about two stars. You have to play through the game once on your own to unlock the local two-player mode, which strikes me as an odd choice as the multiplayer element seems like a draw and people generally aren’t going to play a narrative-focused game more than once. But it’s not my game, is it? For a fiver, those who enjoy narrative experiences may want to give this a closer look.
This is a very simple game in many ways, but there is a certain pleasure to it. You have to guard a gate from waves of enemies, and while that makes it sound like it’s going to be a base defense game, it’s actually more of a shooter. Each day you’ll earn money based on your performance and can choose a card to upgrade your character. Keep going until you can’t anymore. The main mode is okay and worth the playthrough, but the challenge mode will be what keeps you coming back. Not bad for something to just zone out with.
I have a tower defense game, I have a shooter, uhn, Witch Explorer. Ha ha, remember Pikotaro? I saw an advertisement in my local snack shop with him promoting some new whole grain Kit Kats or something. Right, this game. Like many games that try to do more than one thing at a time, Witch Explorer isn’t exactly an exceptional example of either of its genres. But it’s decent enough. Mainly a tower defense game, but one where you can directly go around and shoot things yourself. And occasionally it descends into full-on bullet hell, so that’s something. The charming art style does a lot of heavy lifting here.
A sixty-five stage puzzle-platformer than can be enjoyed solo or with up to four players via local multiplayer. You have to use four monsters to make your way through each of the stages, and there are leaderboards to compete on to add a little replay value. Twice a month, new special challenges will rotate in to keep the good times rolling. Is this worth a tenner? Hm. I’m not so sure, to be honest. But you might feel differently.
This is a puzzle game from the same developer as Goroons. The idea is that you take over marked cubes and move them to reach their associated goals. You get eighty stages in total and can play alone or with a friend in local co-op. Each level has a global leaderboard associated with it so you can compare your performance with others, and there are also some rotating Special Challenges you can compete on.
If the game you need right now is one about taking pictures of dogs, then here you go. Meet various dogs, pet the dogs, dress the dogs, snap their photos. It’s not the deepest of games and it certainly has its rough edges, but I feel like the concept is strong enough and the execution is decent enough that those who are drawn to its basic pitch are likely to enjoy it. Mystifyingly, this isn’t even the only photography game releasing today.
Wow, this takes me back. In the old days, when CD-ROM technology was new, this was one of the first big games that was meant to push the medium. It’s a puzzle-heavy adventure game set in a spooky mansion. It shows its age, and that’s either going to be a good thing or a bad thing for you depending on your tastes. Nice to see it on the Switch in either case, though.
Here’s the other photography game hitting the eShop today. You won’t be snapping shots of pups in this one, though. It’s all about taking pictures of magical creatures. There’s no dancing around it, this game is heavily inspired by Pokemon Snap. You’re on rails, you’re trying to get unique poses, and so on. But after a while you’re allowed to free roam in each of the areas, and that’s where it starts flying on its own wings. If you enjoyed Pokemon Snap, give this one a go. It’s quite well done.
An arcade-style take on volleyball for up to four players via local multiplayer. It features cartoony graphics, relatively simple gameplay mechanics, and some wacky stages to play in. You can break all kinds of rules, and there are stage-specific mechanics to deal with. It might be worth looking into if you have people over to play games or just want something to play with the family. Not much here for someone playing alone apart from playing matches against the AI, though.
Here’s the next release springing from Hamster’s acquisition of the Allumer catalog. Rezon is a fairly naked homage to Irem’s R-Type, though you should obviously not expect it to quite live up to that game. It’s certainly as difficult as that game if not more so, and not always in the best ways. Nevertheless, it’s not too shabby and it’s extremely unlikely you’ll have played this before, so that’s something going for it. Intrepid shooter fans might want to give it a go.
This is an action platformer game of sorts where you play as an alien that can propel herself by shooting eggs. There are forty levels in total to play, and it seems to be fairly inventive. Nice five dollar Switch platformer energy, inflation-adjusted to reflect our modern times.
It’s another Pretty Girls game, and all the surrounding elements are the same as usual. Unlock outfits for the girls and fill out your gallery. The game aspect this time is a match-3 game involving mahjong tiles. It’s like mahjong solitaire but you’re removing three tiles at a time instead of two. Seems fine for what it is.
Oh, if it isn’t a new Artifex Mundi release. That should make some people happy. This adventure game draws heavily on Slavic mythology and involves some sort of magical heritage park and some guy who kidnaps the heroine’s grandmother to try to gain control of its power. You have to rescue her and save the world. You know, the usual business. Some nice art in this one, as is the norm with Artifex Mundi games.
A puzzle game where, as advertised, the answer is always 42. There are one hundred levels to play, and the idea is that you have to draw lines between the numbered tiles to reach the number 42. You have to use all of the tiles on the board to clear the level, so you’ll need to think carefully about your moves. It might seem simple but it gets very complicated in a hurry. Nothing fancy presentation-wise, but number puzzle fans will definitely get their money’s worth.
A slots game from Funbox Media. Yes, that’s certainly a slots game.
A slots game from Funbox Media. Yes, that’s certainly a slots game.
A slots game from Funbox Media. Yes, that’s certainly a slots game. What? If they can copy and paste their eShop descriptions, I can copy and paste my summaries.
Our old pals INSTAMARKETINGANDGAMES again. This is a runner. It’s not very expensive. It’s not very good. Buy a couple of tasty Snickers bars instead and you’ll probably be happier.
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Wow, there are a lot of neat games on sale right now. So many that I can’t even begin to pick out the best. This list is heavily curated, so make sure you swing by the eShop to see if anything on your wishlist is on sale. Over in the outbox, the only thing I will note is the Cloud Versions of the fancy Resident Evil games. I’m not sure how often Capcom is going to be doing sales on those, so if for some reason you want them, you might want to bite now.
Select New Games on Sale
Garden Story ($9.99 from $19.99 until 4/11)
White Day A Labyrinth Named School ($22.49 from $29.99 until 4/18)
Metal Max Xeno Reborn ($26.79 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Metal Max Xeno Reborn Deluxe ($33.49 from $49.99 until 4/18)
Evergate ($2.49 from $9.99 until 4/18)
Starlink Battle For Atlas ($10.79 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Bustafellows ($17.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope ($29.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Shining Resonance Refrain ($5.99 from $29.99 until 4/18)
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled ($13.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy ($15.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Crash Bandicoot 4 ($19.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy ($15.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Rayman Legends Definitive Edition ($9.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Sonic Forces ($9.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Sonic Colors Ultimate ($19.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Sonic Frontiers ($40.19 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Sonic Frontiers Deluxe ($46.89 from $69.99 until 4/18)
Sonic Mania ($9.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Team Sonic Racing ($14.99 from $29.99 until 4/18)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania ($17.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania Deluxe ($19.99 from $49.99 until 4/18)
Cook Serve Delicious 2 ($1.99 from $12.99 until 4/18)
Cook Serve Delicious 3 ($1.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Cook Serve Delicious Bundle ($2.99 from $24.99 until 4/18)
Shin Megami Tensei III HD ($19.99 from $49.99 until 4/18)
Shin Megami Tensei III Deluxe ($27.99 from $69.99 until 4/18)
Shin Megami Tensei V ($29.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Shin Megami Tensei V Deluxe ($42.49 from $84.99 until 4/18)
Persona 3 Portable ($15.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Persona 4 Golden ($15.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Persona 3 & 4 Bundle ($29.61 from $39.49 until 4/18)
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax ($14.99 from $29.99 until 4/18)
Persona 5 Royal ($41.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Persona 5 Strikers ($23.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Persona 5 Strikers Deluxe ($27.99 from $69.99 until 4/18)
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games ($27.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Alien: Isolation ($14.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, Assorted DLC ($0.99 from $1.99 until 4/18)
Horizon Chase Turbo ($3.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Death’s Door ($9.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Graze Counter GM ($11.24 from $14.99 until 4/18)
Raptor Boyfriend: High School Romance ($10.49 from $13.99 until 4/18)
McPixel 3 ($6.49 from $9.99 until 4/18)
Made in Abyss Binary Star ($29.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Blanc ($11.99 from $14.99 until 4/18)
Sea Horizon ($11.19 from $14.99 until 4/18)
AI The Somnium Files ($7.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
AI The Somnium Files nirvanA Initiative ($41.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
MotoGP 22 ($7.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Monster Energy Supercross 3 ($2.49 from $24.99 until 4/18)
Owlboy ($11.24 from $24.99 until 4/18)
Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark ($8.99 from $29.99 until 4/18)
Monark: Deluxe Edition ($34.99 from $64.99 until 4/18)
Seven Pirates H ($29.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Thea 2: The Shattering ($8.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Return to Monkey Island ($18.74 from $24.99 until 4/18)
Divinity Original Sin 2 DE ($24.99 from $49.99 until 4/18)
Hot Wheels Unleashed ($12.49 from $49.99 until 4/18)
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot ($19.79 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Trek to Yomi ($14.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Pipeline Panic ($4.49 from $14.99 until 4/18)
Wonder Boy Asha in Monster World ($13.99 from $34.99 until 4/18)
Disgaea 6 Defiance of Destiny ($29.99 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Skelattack ($3.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Contra Anniversary Collection ($3.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Castlevania Anniversary Collection ($3.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Arcade Classics Anniversary ($3.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Castlevania Advance Collection ($11.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection ($27.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
No Man’s Sky ($40.19 from $59.99 until 4/18)
Grandia HD Collection ($19.99 from $39.99 until 4/18)
Suhoshin ($15.19 from $18.99 until 4/18)
Inscryption ($14.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
Loop Hero ($5.99 from $14.99 until 4/18)
Shiren the Wanderer TToF&tDoF ($9.99 from $19.99 until 4/18)
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Beat Souls ($4.99 from $9.99 until 4/18)
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Batman: The Telltale Series ($7.49 from $14.99 until 4/18)
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Infernax ($14.99 from $19.99 until 4/19)
Forklift Extreme ($2.99 from $9.99 until 4/26)
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Car Factory Driver ($7.79 from $12.99 until 4/7)
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Teratopia ($5.99 from $9.99 until 4/7)
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Truck Simulator 3 ($6.49 from $12.99 until 4/7)
Wind of Shuriken ($4.79 from $7.99 until 4/7)
That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with another dozen or so new releases to wrap up the week, plus a bunch more sales. Probably not as many as today, though. Well, I’d better get to my dinner. I have it cold a little too often these days, and that doesn’t make Mrs. Musgrave very happy. I hope you all have a great Thursday, and as always, thanks for reading!
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Spiritfall is a captivating indie game that combines stunning visuals, engaging storytelling, and fast-paced combat mechanics to deliver an immersive gaming experience. Set in a fantasy world, the game follows the journey of a young hero who must navigate through treacherous terrains, battle deadly creatures, and unravel the mysteries of a world ravaged by war. From the moment you launch Spiritfall, you are immediately struck by the game’s breathtaking visuals. The hand-drawn art style is simply stunning, with vibrant colors and intricate details that bring the game’s world to life.
The game’s soundtrack is equally impressive, with haunting melodies and epic orchestral scores that perfectly complement the game’s immersive world. The game’s story is equally compelling. As you progress through the game, you will uncover a rich and complex world, filled with intricate lore and fascinating characters. The story is presented in a non-linear format, with branching paths and multiple endings that keep you engaged and invested in the game’s narrative. At its core, Spiritfall is a game about combat.
Each weapon has its unique moveset, which allows you to experiment with different playstyles and strategies. The game also features a robust upgrade system, allowing you to customize your character’s abilities and equipment to suit your playstyle. The game’s combat system is also built around the concept of elemental magic. Each weapon and ability is associated with a specific element, such as fire, water, or lightning. Understanding and exploiting the elemental weaknesses of your enemies is critical to success in Spiritfall’s combat.
1 :: Operating System :: Windows XP/7/8/8./10.
2 :: Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
3 :: Ram :: 8 GB RAM
4 :: DirectX: Version 11
5 :: Graphics:: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 360
6 :: Space Storage:: 2 GB space
Turn Off Your Antivirus Before Installing Any Game
1 :: Download Game
2 :: Extract Game
3 :: Launch The Game
4 :: Have Fun 🙂
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Resident Evil 4’s 16th and final chapter finally gets Leon and Ashley off the island after she saves Leon at the end of Chapter 15.
Our Resident Evil 4 remake Chapter 16 walkthrough will ensure you don’t miss any items from the beginning of the chapter through Luis’s Laboratory, the (ruined) Sanctuary, Loading Docks, the Osmund Saddler boss fight, and Underground Passage.
After Ashley saves Leon’s life, you’ll start off in Luis’s Laboratory.
When you’re back in control, turn right. Grab the first aid spray, and smash the crate for some rifle ammo. Grab the Methods for Eradicating Las Plagas and Group Photo files from the table to the right. Continue right for another crate with resources (S) and pesetas and pick up the Saddler’s Animus file from the table.
Continue around clockwise to the computer for the The Amber file, and the computer opposite it for the Emails file.
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Push through the doors. As soon as you exit, look up at the ceiling for a treasure lantern.
The treasure inside will fall on the catwalk, so we’ll have to grab it in a minute. There’s nothing else to pick up, so boost Ashley onto the crates along the left side so she can kick down a ladder to you.
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Graphic: Jeffrey Parkin | Sources: Capcom via Polygon
Climb up, and go grab the velvet blue you just shot down. Follow the hallway to the left for a crate with gunpowder. Head toward the door to the right and grab the rifle ammo and resources (S). Smash the barrels by the door for pesetas and gunpowder.
Head through the door.
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That door leads you back to a balcony overlooking the Sanctuary. Stand at the railing ahead of you and use the Biosensor Scope to check for camouflaged novistadors. Take a right and drop down the ledges at the end. Keep following the path.
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At the first intersection, take a left and duck under the fallen pillar. Keep going until you reach the altar. To the right, pick up the Iluminados Final Chapter file, and then go to the monolith behind the altar to find the Iluminados Pendant. Loop around to the back and read the inscription for the Provenance Monolith file.
Backtrack to the intersection and cross to the other side. Climb up the ledges at the end of the path. Just before the doors, look for some gunpowder on the railing to your left.
Through the doors, follow the tunnel some more. When you vault the low wall, there are two novistadors waiting for you.
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At the end of the hall, across from the Merchant’s room, open the treasure chest for a Gold Ingot.
In the Merchant’s room, grab the gunpowder from the shelves on the right and smash the two crates for pesetas and resources (S).
Sell Luis’s Key, the Iluminados Pendant, and the Gold Ingot. This is your last visit with the Merchant, so feel free to sell off any gemstones for the extra cash if you’re not going to play through again. If you plan on coming back for more, though, keep them — your entire inventory carries over into the new game.
If you haven’t done so yet, buy the Body Armor — it’s just extra health for the coming boss fight.
Buy any tune ups and save. It’s time to finish this.
Head outside and to the left. Stop at the binocular vista to spot Ada. Continue left into the elevator. After the cutscene (which brings the life-saving tally to three for Ada and one for Leon), you’ll have to face off against the mutated Osmund Saddler.
Luckily (and ickily), he’s covered in glowing, yellow eyeball weak points.
The fight against Saddler is equal parts straightforward (shoot the various eyeballs) and annoying (he moves a lot, hits hard, and summons a swarm of novistadors).
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Graphic: Jeffrey Parkin | Sources: Capcom via Polygon
The level of the Loading Docks you start on is basically a straight hallway, so your maneuverability will be limited. You can, however, run under him (like back in the El Gigante fights).
We will be dropping down to the lower level in a second so there’s more room to move (run away), but for now, stay up here — there are several barrels and crates and items to grab. Once you’re pretty sure you got everything (while also shooting Saddler), drop off the platform heading north. The lower level is a large, upside-down U shape that gives you a lot more options for running away. However, Saddler will periodically jump high up and smash down on a section of the docks, destroying them and removing some of your options.
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Your goal for right now is just to hit his eyeballs — destroying two of them will stun him and you’ll get a chance to run up and stab him in his mouth-eyeball (gross).
During the first part of this fight, just keep shooting knee-eyeballs and stabbing him in the eye whenever you can. There are a few exploding barrels scattered around to give you some help.
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Keep an eye out for the evade prompt. This will let you dodge Saddler’s (shockingly damaging) tail attacks.
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Also watch for Saddler to rear up — he’ll charge at you right after. Do your best to run away and get to the side when he does that.
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When you deal enough damage, Saddler will leap up to a tower in the middle of the docks and then summon a lot of novistadors. If you have the ammo, use a rifle to snipe his eyeballs when he’s up there. He’ll do this a couple times during the fight.
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Do your best to keep moving and ignore as many of the novistadors as you can — when Saddler comes back down, he’ll kill a lot of them as collateral. Try to keep your focus on Saddler.
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Saddler has two acid spit moves: a horizontal sweeping attack, and a three-part vertical attack. Duck under (or try to) the horizontal one and sidestep the vertical one.
After enough eyeball-shooting, Saddler will fall off the docks and phase two will start. It’s a lot more straightforward.
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There’s just one giant, glowing weak point now, and you only have a few steps of movement in any direction. Switch to your strongest weapon (we used the Stingray with the scope removed) and start unloading into it.
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Two spiky tentacles will pop up in front of you. If the tentacle stays straight up and down, it’ll slam down along one of the sides (whichever side it’s on) — you just have to sidestep it. If the tentacle twists a little, it’s going to swipe across horizontally and you’ll have to evade it.
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Once you deal enough damage, Ada will return to drop off the rocket launcher (special). Fire it into the weak point to end the fight.
When the fight is over, you’ll get one more cutscene, and then a countdown to the island exploding will start.
When the elevator stops, you’ll have a path out ahead of you. There are no turns, so we’ll just call out the items as you pass. Just a few steps in, there’s a green herb on your left — just before the final typewriter.
After the left turn, the path will start crumbling. Just past that, the tunnel opens up a little. Ignore the guy who busts through the door ahead of you and step inside — and ignore all the rest of the writhing soldiers there too.
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Just past the truck, there’s a green forklift on the right. Turn and face it to find the final Clockwork Castellan 16 of 16 on the crates just to the left. You’ll get the Revolution Wind-Up achievement or trophy when you get all 16 — and you’ll be able to buy the Primal Knife from the main menu’s Extra Content Shop (its Exclusive upgrade makes it indestructible).
Continue through the door and around the next corner where you’ll have to push on a metal cabinet for a painfully long time.
Around the next corner, you’ll come to the Water Scooter that Ada gave you the Water Scooter Key for.
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The next section is Leon and Ashley’s water stunt spectacular with a lot of boating very fast through collapsing tunnels. There’s not a lot of subtlety here — accelerate with R2 on the straightaways and let go during the turn-y bits.
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At the end, Leon and Ashley (literally) ride off into the sunset. And then there’s a post-credits scene, as well as a post-post-credits scene.
And that’s a wrap on the Resident Evil 4 remake. Make sure to check out the rest of our Resident Evil 4 remake guides for any Requests, files, treasures, or Clockwork Castellans you missed.
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Three of the Lego Super Mario starter courses are on sale at Amazon for up to $25% off. Each set comes with a figure of Mario, Luigi, or Peach that interact with other parts of the courses you build–like making iconic sound effects and even changing facial expressions when you collect coins or place them on special “action blocks” included in each set (you’ll need these starter sets to make the most of the expansion kits that are also available). Starter sets and figures can also be paired to create “co-op” adventures.
$44.80 ($60)
The Princess Peach set shown above is the newest of the three, and it also happens to be on sale for the best price. This 354-piece pack comes with the interactive Princess Peach figure and buildable Toad and Lemmy Koopa characters to use with the included course blocks.
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It’s a holiday weekend in most of the world, and VG247 is celebrating by taking a long weekend off and playing games.
Of course, some of us will also be gorging on Easter chocolates and colored eggs and eating a large meal consisting of ham, potato salad, corn pudding, baked beans, yeast rolls, and some coconut cake for dessert.
Other than the food, there will likely be some festivities. But before Easter Sunday rolls around, the staff here are playing games because once Easter Monday rolls around, we will be too comatose from all of the food and candy to do much else than stretch out on the couch and lament how much food we had the day before. Then, we will get up, eat some leftovers, and start lamenting again later when forced to down handfuls of antacids.
Without further ado, this is what we are playing over the weekend:
Alex Donaldson, Assistant Editor – Europa Universalis: The Price of Power
What is this, then? A new expansion to the PC Game? In fact, no! I am not often on this feature as I don’t typically work the day it gets put together – but I’m here this week… and my contribution isn’t even a video game. This is a bit shameful, but this is what my weekend looks like – a board game based on a video game.
I do love that concept; the XCOM board game is brilliant. The Civilization one ain’t bad either. And I’m curious to try this, which a friend picked up and is setting up a huge play session for as part of his birthday celebrations.
The Europa Universalis games are pretty bloody complicated even on PC – so lord only knows how it can be adapted into a five or six-player board game. I imagine this isn’t going to be a short session – I’m fully braced for this to be a ten-hour stretch. Here’s hoping it’s a good’un!
Connor Makar, Staff Writer – Resident Evil 4 Remake
This weekend I will be spending a bunch of my time playing Resident Evil 4 Remake, going for some nice walks, and dropping a harrowing amount of cash on a holiday for later this year.
I’ve just recently finished a run of RE4 with only pistols and knives, so I think that next, I’m going to try and clear up a hardcore playthrough. Should be fun.
Jim Trinca, Video Producer – The Last of Us Part 1, The Last Worker
This weekend, I plan to get stuck into two games with “last” in the title, which I won’t read too much into. Firstly, I’ll be playing The Last of Us Part 1… on PS5. Not the PC version that I have free access to as part of the press. The PS5 version that I paid £52 for in the current sale. A price worth paying to clear out the bad taste left in my mouth after testing the abysmal PC release. Seriously folks, just play PlayStation games on PlayStation consoles. It’s not worth the aggro.
Secondly, I’m going to get stuck into The Last Worker, partly because Jason Isaacs is in it, and I like him from Star Trek and things, but mostly because it’s a narrative adventure about taking down capitalism, and that’s a mighty fine mood these days because capitalism is really starting to suck! A lot!
Anyway, I think this will take me about 30 hours, which will cost me around £3 in electricity, which isn’t so bad. I might treat myself to boiling the kettle for a cup of tea as well, round the whole escapade up to a fiver.
Ugh. Living in the future is so grim. Have a nice Easter!
Kelsey Raynor, Guides Writer – Fire Emblem Awakening
We’ve got a long bank holiday weekend here, and rather than sitting back and doing nothing (my favourite thing to do), I actually have lots on.
I’m going for my monthly massage (one of the only nice things I ever do for myself), and visiting family, where my Nan will cook up the most delicious of dinners for us. I can’t wait!
Aside from that, I’m off to see what the Super Mario Bros. Movie is all about tonight and will be spending any downtime that I do get playing Fire Emblem Awakening on my 3DS. It’s surprisingly difficult, but a really satisfying time, and my first experience of Fire Emblem whatsoever. I’m glad to be having a lot of fun with it.
Stephany Nunneley, News Editor – Skyrim, Lord of the Rings Online (of course)
Surprised to see what I am playing this weekend? Of course, you aren’t surprised. You know how I nerd out on anything related to Lord of the Rings or Elder Scrolls.
Because my PC is still sick and I haven’t taken it to the doctor yet (I’m a terrible mum), I will instead be playing Skyrim on Xbox One. I have a save game on there already, and I am quite far into it, so I will be sitting back and giving it a go tonight while the hubby is over at his aunt and uncle’s place eating all sorts of things that are bad for him.
Friday and Saturday, I plan on jumping into LOTRO, which I can play on my aging Windows 8.1 laptop easily enough. Standing Stone Games recently released Update 35, which takes us back to Carn Dum. Apparently, the last remnants of the Iron Crown have returned to the citadel and are hoping to wield a lost artifact of the Witch-king of Angmar to win dominion over Middle-earth. Valorous luck, you conniving malefactors, friends of foul beasts, and all that is villainous! My righteous and true hunter shall aid the Hill-men of the North and their allies in the fight to cast you off and smite you as you run away like the cowards you are!
I will also be stopping by the Last Homely House in Rivendell, as Elrond’s crib has received a makeover, which it didn’t really need, but I’ll go have a look.
Other than that, I will be eating loads of goodies at my mother’s house on Sunday, unless she wants to come to my place and I’ll cook – as long as she brings her famous deviled eggs and coconut cake. We’ll probably play Cards Against Humanity too. That’s always good for a laugh.
What about you? What are you up to over the long holiday weekend? I know in the US, the majority have Good Friday off, and in the UK, you have Monday off as it’s a Bank Holiday. So, what are your plans?
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Tee it up on the golf course, get rich or die trying, adventure out into the world as the new Maega class, or explore Tamriel once more in this packed Free Play Days weekend. PGA Tour 2K23, Black Desert, and Bravery and Greed are available for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday, April 6 at 12:01 a.m. PDT until Sunday, April 9 at 11:59 p.m. PDT, and The Elder Scrolls Online will be available until April 17.
Find and install the games on each of the individual game details page on Xbox.com. Clicking through will send you to the Microsoft Store, where you must be signed in to see the option to install with your Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership. To download on console, click on the Subscriptions tab in the Xbox Store and enter the Gold member area to locate the Free Play Days collection on your Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
Purchase the game and other editions at a limited time discount and continue playing while keeping your Gamerscore and earned achievements during the event! Please note that discounts and percentages may vary by title and region.
PGA Tour 2K23 (Xbox One & Series X|S)
Challenge the greatest players on the PGA Tour and find your swagger in PGA Tour 2K23. Bolstered by a diverse cast of playable pros, featuring Tiger Woods, Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Brooke Henderson, Lydia Ko, and many more, you can swing on world-renowned, officially licensed courses. Enjoy a bevy of online competitive modes, ranging from competitive Online Societies to the always-fun Topgolf mode and adrenaline-inducing Divot Derby. More golf and more games await in the latest iteration of the PGA Tour 2K franchise.
Black Desert
Jump into Black Desert during the new season and experience Maegu – the newest class in an ever-growing cast. Enter a world created with state-of-the-art graphics, spectacular scenery, realistic environments, and sophisticated details. Experience an innovative combat system unlike any other MMORPG. Join formidable guilds as they fight head-to-head on the battlefield. Be victorious, become lords, seize control of resources, and more! Don’t like fighting? Countless other activities await! Farming, cooking, fishing, sailing, hunting, gathering… dive into diverse life skills! Experience an insane level of customization with a character creator like no other. Not feeling a specific outfit’s color? Dye it to suit your style and become your true self!
Bravery and Greed
Get rich or die trying with up to 4 friends via local or online co-op in Bravery and Greed. Get ready to battle against new fearsome bosses waiting for you in the jungle and ice caves. Grab that sweet loot to unlock new content and game changing augmentations. Discover thrilling dungeons in adventure mode or engage in robust combat with PvP and survival mode. Whether you play as the valiant Warrior, mighty Amazon, agile Rogue or spellcasting Wizard, greed is eternal.
The Elder Scrolls Online
Download and play The Elder Scrolls Online Standard Edition for free from April 6 to April 17 on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. With access to the base game, you can explore 24 story zones, including iconic Morrowind, dive into the game’s Battlegrounds, Imperial City, and Cyrodiil PvP areas, and even get an opportunity to begin your Legacy of the Bretons year-long adventure via the High Isle Prologue. Explore the new Necrom Prologue quest starting April 12 in the base game.
Don’t miss out on this exciting Free Play Days for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members! Learn more about Free Play Days here and stay tuned to Xbox Wire to find out about future Free Play Days and all the latest Xbox gaming news.
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Marfusha is a short and sweet indie game made by Japanese developer hinyari9.
You control the titular main character Marfusha, who has been conscripted into the army to defend her country’s borders in a fictional, war-ravaged dystopian world. This is a high-speed tower defense shooter, where you have to shoot down all the enemy machines before they break through the gates.
After every successful day of defense, you get paid a salary, which can then be used to purchase cards. By using these cards, you can recruit coworkers to fight by your side, buy new weapons, upgrade your weapon, or keep a dog in your room.
You get to choose one card from a random pool of three every day… if you can afford them. War is expensive, after all. Your salary goes through a series of tax deductions before reaching your hands, and the taxes only get heavier as the days go on. You’ll have to spend wisely and adapt to the ever-changing circumstances of war if you want to survive until the very end.
This is a pretty short game; one run only takes an hour or so. However, it features multiple endings that change based on who you recruit and how well you defend your objective.
You could also play Challenge Mode, which is an endless survival mode where you can unlock different characters to play as and defend the gate for as long as you can while competing against other players from around the world to get your name on the high score ranking.
Beating the story also unlocks Gallery Mode, where you can look at the stunning artwork of the game (and some bonus illustrations too!) drawn by developer and illustrator hinyari9.
The world and story of Marfusha only fully reveal themselves with multiple playthroughs, and you won’t be able to put it down until you learn everything there is to know.
By the way, the Xbox release for this game includes a brand new animated opening cinematic featuring the specially written theme song “I’ll be there” by singer-songwriter Kokia, who has written music for various video games such as Tales of Innocence.
Can you survive and defend your country until the end?
Marfusha is now available on Xbox!
PLAYISM
$11.99
Play as Marfusha, a gate guard in a dystopian world depicted in 2.5D pixel art, and protect the city gates from being destroyed by invading enemies.
You are rewarded for surviving every day, but you will have to pay tax after tax until you have barely enough money to scrape by. You will have to use that meager income to buy upgrades, equipment, and hire coworkers.
The enemies only grow stronger by each passing day, and you never know when they might eventually overpower you.
Every morning, you can buy one card out of three choices. There are over 70 cards, including weapons, coworkers, upgrades, and random chance events. Choose what to spend what little money you have carefully, and strengthen Marfusha and her coworkers, while making sure you have the equipment necessary to deal with enemy attacks.
As time passes, the taxes only grow heavier, but more equipment options become available, and you will meet new allies. Fight together with your coworkers and build up your trust, and you’ll unlock stories with each of them.
Endure and survive the endless invasion, and find out what lies at the end of these girls’ gruelling battle.
Test your limits with the difficult Challenge Mode!
– Play as characters you meet in Main Mode
– Use exciting new cards exclusive to Challenge Mode!
– Watch special events by finding the right character combinations
– Compete against other players around the world to see who can survive the longest
Note: The console version comes with the artbook included.
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Dying Light 2 came out last year, but the polished zombie-parkour sequel didn’t make its predecessor obsolete. If what you’re after is a more freeform, organic open world in which to survive, then the first Dying Light is arguably the better choice. Good news: its currently free-to-keep from the Epic Games Store alongside its excellent expansion.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is in theaters now, but it’s not actually Hollywood’s first attempt at a Mario movie. In 1993, directors Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton made the live-action Super Mario Bros., starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi. It was panned by critics.
A key difference between 1993’s Super Mario Bros. and The Super Mario Bros. Movie is that Nintendo is directly involved with the new animated movie, and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto himself is an executive producer.
Morton told Variety that he had a “polite” meeting with Miyamoto before production on the first Mario film began, but the two never spoke again. Nintendo basically licensed the movie to Hollywood, and the rest is history. Despite the cold reception to the movie, Morton claims Miyamoto actually enjoyed Super Mario Bros.
Had Miyamoto been more involved with the 1993 film, it might have looked different, Morton said. “If I’d have had a relationship with Miyamoto and brought him onboard, if he had been a producer and he understood what we were doing, he wouldn’t have let certain things happen,” he said. “We would have been a team, and it would have been a different film.”
The movie was marred by production issues, including a last-minute re-write and Leguizamo and Hoskins drinking on set. Hoskins, who died in 2014, said Super Mario Bros. was the worst movie he ever made, calling the production a “f**king nightmare.” Jankel told Variety that she has “massive regrets” about the movie.
“It was such a painful experience,” Jankel said. But at the same time, the director said in 2023 she sees the movie as a “really joyful experience that has found its place in the annals of history.”
Check out Variety’s interview with Jankel and Morton to learn lots more about what went wrong with the original Mario movie.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie blasted off on Wednesday with more than $30 million in the US after just one day. It’s expected to make $225 million worldwide by Sunday and climb up the charts to become one of the highest-grossing video game movies ever.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie features Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario, along with Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, and Jack Black as Bowser. Charles Martinet, who voices Mario in the games, has multiple roles in the movie.
For more, check out GameSpot’s review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. You can also read GameSpot’s feature interview below detailing the unearthed extended cut of the ’93 film.
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On the heels of the blockbuster release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Jack Black is singing his praises for video game adaptations. So much so that he has praised The Last of Us on HBO Max.
In an interview with BBC yesterday, Black, who voices Bowser, that he’s a fan of multimedia adaptations of video games so long as they’re treated right. He praised HBO’s The Last of Us for how faithful it is to the hit PlayStation game.
“The Last of Us was fantastic,” he said. “And what’s crazy is how loyal it is to the original source material. It’s basically all from the game with just a couple of tweaks. It’s going to win all the awards. They used the video game almost like a storyboard and I was like. ‘Whoa, this looks just the same.’”
Black also commented on how, with video game adaptations of movies and TV shows gaining traction, studios will look to adapt more games for years to come. “It will be very interesting to see what happens to the entertainment industry over the next 20 to 30 years but I think we will be seeing more and more storytelling from the gaming universe,” he said.
One video game adaptation the character actor wants to see on the big screen is Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar Games, because he believes “that [has] just as good or [an] even better story than The Last of Us.”
Black’s comments speak to how video game films and TV shows have been gaining popularity in the last few years, starting with Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog. Both of these were considered to have broken the “video game movie curse,” a phenomenon in which past video game adaptations were critically panned, including the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. film, The Prince of Persia, Assassin’s Creed, and even Ratchet and Clank.
The popularity of video game adaptations now is such that Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Arcane: League of Legends were nominated for Best Adaptation at The Game Awards 2022, with the latter show taking that honor home on top of being the first streaming series to win an Emmy for Best Outstanding Animated Program. Today, more games are being adapted to screens big and small, including God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, and Borderlands.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is in theaters now. For more on Illumination’s first video game outing, read our review.
Cristina Alexander is a freelance writer at IGN.
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Blizzard has announced the global release times for Diablo 4 quite a bit ahead of time.
It’s nice to be prepared, even if it is a bit early.
Here’s the global release times for Diablo 4:
Early Access for Deluxe and Ultimate pre-orders
Regular Launch
In the game, the demon Lilith and the angel Inarius have resorted to war against each other. With Sanctuary overrun with demons, it is up to you to save it as your choice of five classes – the Druid, Rogue, Sorceress, Barbarian, or Necromancer.
Debuting in the Diablo universe is the overworld where you will drive back the demons of Hell across various zones such as Fractured Peaks, Scosglen, Hawezar, Dry Steppes, and Kehjistan. It features 140 dungeons, side quests, and plenty of loot, and World Bosses will emerge, forcing you to defeat them in groups for a chance at their spoils. There are also Strongholds to claim for the citizens of Sanctuary.
It features an end-game system where you will continue to grow in power through challenges, and there is Helltide, a regularly occurring event that brings a surge in demonic activity. It also features challenging Nightmare Dungeons, an updated Paragon Board system, Whispers of the Dead that grant Legendary rewards for world bounties, and Fields of Hatred for building PvP.
Upon its release, Diablo 4 will feature cross-platform play and progression, plus couch co-op on consoles at launch.
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In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, Brian Shea and Charles Harte join host Alex Van Aken to discuss our Star Wars Jedi: Survivor preview, watching the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean entertain his kids at The Super Mario Bros. Movie premiere, why a horror fishing game called Dredge is really good, and what MLB: The Show is doing to stand out. Oh, and they killed Sonic the Hedgehog.
Follow us on social media: Alex Van Aken (@itsVanAken), Brian Shea (@BrianPShea), Charles Harte (@ChuckDuck365)
The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host Alex Van Aken every Thursday for a chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Jump to the timestamps to get to a particular point of discussion:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:20 – The Super Mario Bros. Movie Premiere
00:14:02 – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
00:32:31 – Dredge
00:42:21 – The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
00:49:23 – MLB The Show 23
01:00:45 – Housekeeping
01:02:22 – Tekken 8
01:10:05 – Listener Email
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With five new Multiplayer maps, four new game modes, and a new Special Ops Raid, prepare for a massive content offering in Season 03 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0. Alejandro and Valeria return to settle the score, Resurgence expands to Al Mazrah, and Ranked Play for Warzone 2.0 sets the battleground for the most competitive Operators.
Season 03 launches on PlayStation on April 12. Now onto the intel.
Prepare for 2v2, multi-round cage matches as Gunfight makes its debut in Modern Warfare II. Players start each round with the same random Loadout, which changes every other round. Eliminate the enemy team or capture the Overtime flag to win the round. The first team to win six rounds takes the match.
Gunfight will support four maps at launch, including new maps Alley, based somewhere in Al Mazrah, and Blacksite, which is the new Gulag in Battle Royale.
Pelayo’s Lighthouse (Core Map, Launch): A storm rages over this island battleground as Operators take position in the Main Building, set up in one of the scattered maintenance buildings throughout, or brave it in the open.
Black Gold (Core Map, Launch): Infiltrate Al Mazrah’s Rohan Oil in Black Gold, the first iteration of night ops in Modern Warfare II. Use your night vision goggles and the available light sources to track down and eliminate the enemy team.
Rohan Oilfields (Battle Map, Launch): Expanding on Black Gold, the Rohan Oilfields Battle Map widens the arena around this Warzone 2.0 point of interest, adding vehicles for rapid transport.
Sattiq Cave Complex (Battle Map, Launch): Explore a network of caves, battle through small buildings, and set up by the downed plane in an area that should recall fond memories for longtime fans of the series.
A fifth brand-new Core Map will additionally launch in the midseason.
Two series-favorite game modes are making their way to Season 03:
Cranked (Launch): Eliminating an enemy activates a timer. Get another elimination before it hits zero or — boom! — you’re out.
GW Infected (In-Season): Experience Infected on a bigger stage as you fight to survive against the horde on GW maps. Coordinate with your teammates to set up a defense. When you’re infected, take them down.
A new season brings new Multiplayer Ranked rewards. Earn rewards for winning Ranked Play matches, plus get new Operator Skins and cosmetics for placing within the Gold Division or above. Get extra rewards for placing in the Top 250 or finishing the season as the top-ranked player in the world.
Take on the Las Almas Cartel in a new Special Ops mission and regroup with Task Force 141 as they embark on Raid Episode 03 in the midseason update.
Massive Resurgence (Launch): Massive Resurgence is coming to Al Mazrah; taking place across the entire map, this mode features a higher player count to better fit the playing field.
Plunder (In-Season): Eliminate enemy Operators, scavenge Supply Boxes, complete contracts and in-game events, and search out loose Cash. In Plunder, it’s all about who can get the richest, quickest. Respawns are enabled and Loadouts are available from the start so you can get right to the money on deployment.
New Gulag: Set to replace the current version, a new Gulag is coming to Al Mazrah. Modern Warfare II players who drop into Gunfight will get a taste of the map in Blacksite.
Al Mazrah Redeploy Drones (Launch): The Redeploy Drones currently flying over Ashika Island are making their way to Al Mazrah. Use their power to launch toward your next target objective.
UAV Towers (Launch): Sweep the surrounding area for enemy positions using the new UAV Towers, first discovered in DMZ and coming soon to Battle Royale. Note that activating the tower alerts enemy squads, so be ready.
Tempered Plate Carriers (In-Season): Tempered Plate Carriers require fewer Armor Plates to fill, so replating is speedier and more efficient.
Decontamination Station (In-Season): Gas closing in fast? Set down this Field Upgrade, which provides a safe atmosphere within the gas that lasts several seconds. This is a vital strategy in surviving the final circle collapse.
Perk Package Items (In-Season): Players who prefer looting up in the environment instead of calling in a Loadout Drop will now have a means of securing Perks with preset Perk Packages found in Supply Boxes and at Buy Stations.
Deployable Buy Station (In-Season): Even in the farthest reaches of the map, you can still buy the necessary items by activating the Deployable Buy Station. This portable version features limited stock.
Gulag Entry Kit (In-Season): Eliminated again? You’re not out of luck yet. Operators with a Gulag Entry Kit on hand can battle in the Gulag for a second time for another chance to return to the field.
High-Capacity Plate Carrier (In-Season): Carry more Armor Plates for those drawn-out fights.
Launching in the midseason, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Ranked Play takes Battle Royale to new competitive heights as Trios climb the ranks to the Top 250. Watch and learn from the best in the upcoming World Series of Warzone, featuring the tournament’s first ever in-person Global Final.
Barter System: Trade unwanted items in your inventory using the new Barter Systen feature found at Buy Stations.
Workbench: For a small fee, add and remove attachments on Contraband weapons. Equip any unlocked attachment on that weapon’s platform. Found near Buy Stations.
Active Duty Operator Slots: Select from three different Operators when deploying to the DMZ, each with their own inventory, Backpack, Plate Carrier, Killstreaks, Self-Revive, and Gas Mask. Decide whether you want to deploy your best-equipped Operator or a raw recruit.
New Faction, Missions, and Bosses: A new faction enters the fray, offering three tiers of faction missions and more to come in-season. Brace for new bosses being deployed around the exclusion zone, and seek out concrete intel on the rumors circulating about something deep underground in Al Mazrah.
With other features coming, like new Backpack and Plate Carrier types, you know you’re in for some big battle in Season 03.
Formerly fighting side by side in the Los Vaqueros unit of the Mexican Special Forces, Alejandro Vargas and Valeria Garza are now bitter rivals.
Alejandro: Born and raised in Las Almas, Alejandro spent over a decade as a high-ranking member of Los Fuerzeas Especiales, the Tier 1 Mexican Army Special Mission counterterror unit. His unit, Los Vaqueros, is the only one in the country authorized to work alongside international Special Operations Forces, including those at the CIA headed by station chief Kate Laswell.
Valeria: A former Mexican Army commando who used to work alongside Alejandro, Valeria defected to enforcing cartels in 2014 and ultimately ascended to power as the leader of the Las Almas Cartel. She now works under the name El Sin Nombre — the Nameless One.
Expect more Operators to join the ranks throughout the season.
Season 03 brings four new weapons in total. Once you earn these, you can use them across all modes. Two of them are earned for free within the Battle Pass:
Earn two more weapons launching in the midseason either by purchasing a Store Bundle or completing a weapon unlock challenge.
During the Season 03 Trophy Hunt event, enemy Operators will drop a trophy whenever they are eliminated in any mode. They can also be found by other means, such as within Supply Boxes. Exchange these trophies for event rewards like Weapon Blueprints, Vehicle Skins, and even Battle Pass Token Tier Skips.
Look for the midseason Camo Challenge event, too, giving players the opportunity to earn new seasonal camos.
Beginning April 19, PlayStation Plus members will be able to download the Season 03 Combat Pack, featuring a new Operator Skin for Oni consisting of an updated gold face mask and high-tech shoulder padding.
The Season 03 Combat Pack also includes the “Striking Distance” Assault Rifle and “Show Stopper” SMG Weapon Blueprints, the “Prepared to Fight” Sticker, “Tusk to Horn” Emblem, “Oni Ready” Weapon Charm, and the “Crumbling” Calling Card.
BlackCell: Set to replace the current Battle Pass Bundle, the BlackCell offering includes everything in the original Bundle and more, including a BlackCell Operator with Animated Camo plus a Weapon Blueprint, Vehicle Skin, and Finishing Move. Begin your Battle Pass journey in an alternate BlackCell Sector, which offers a unique entry point to the rest of the Battle Pass Map that allows you to unlock higher value items more quickly. In addition to all this exciting content, BlackCell will also include a BlackCell Bonus Topper of 12 Operator Skins as well as the Season 03 Battle Pass plus 20 Battle Token Tier Skips– 25 if you are a PlayStation player – access to the BlackCell Sector provides something for everyone.
Automatic Pathing: If you’d rather unlock Battle Pass items in a linear fashion, the new pathing feature offers an automatic path through the different Sectors. Players can switch between Automatic and Manual pathing at will.
Purchase Modern Warfare II on PlayStation today, and get access to a load of content across three modes, including the ability to unlock 14 exclusive Operators for use across both games. Modern Warfare II owners also get Premium XP while playing Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, awarded at the end of every match.
Stay frosty.
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