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The Sims Mobile will bring the life simulation to mobile devices soon

Posted on May 11, 2017 by John Scalzo

EA has attempted to bring a Sims-like experience to mobile devices before (most recently with The Sims Freeplay), but it looks like smartphone and tablet users will soon get to experience something much closer to the real thing. That’s because the publisher recently unveiled the debut trailer for The Sims Mobile.

In addition to shrinking down the lifestyle simulation the franchise is best known for, The Sims Mobile wants to tell stories over multiple generations, and players will be able to collect Heirlooms that commemorate a growing family tree:

The Sims Mobile Features

  • Shape Your Sims Legacy: Shape your Sims’ families over multiple generations. When your Sims accomplish their career goals and retire, you’ll be rewarded with Heirlooms that unlock hobbies and careers for future generations, allowing new Sims to tell deeper stories.
  • Create Unique Sims: Customize your Sims with distinct appearances, hairstyles, outfits, and accessories. Choose different personality traits and life goals!
  • Build A Home: Personalize your Sims home layouts and designs, and decorate with a variety of furniture, appliances, decorations, and more.
  • Play Together: Host and attend parties with other Sims to socialize, show off your amazing house, earn rewards, and develop new relationships.

The Sims Mobile will be available “soon,” and fans can sign up at the official website to be notified when it’s ready to launch.

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Nintendo Download: Minecraft Switch Edition, Garou Mark of the Wolves, Elliot Quest

Posted on May 11, 2017 by John Scalzo

Three new games are now available to download through the Nintendo eShop, but we start with the biggest game on the planet right now… Minecraft.

Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition brings the popular open world game to Nintendo’s newest console, and players will be able to join up with three other friends for local multiplayer, while up to eight can venture forth together online. The Nintendo Switch Edition of Minecraft also includes the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack, so everyone can transform the game’s blocky terrain into a mirror of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Beginning today, Switch owners will also get the chance to download SNK’s Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Originally released for the NeoGeo in 1999, Garou: Mark of the Wolves is a one-on-one fighting game, and the last game to date in the Fatal Fury series.

Finally this week, Elliot Quest was added to the 3DS side of the eShop. Developer PlayEveryWare created an 8-bit adventure that was inspired by Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and Mega Man II, and players will battle through five dungeons to cure Elliot of his curse.

You can learn more about all of these games after the break. (more…)

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Kickstart This! Zombie Teacher

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Andrew Rainnie

There must be something in the air in France (apart from all the political stuff), as there has been an unusually high number of game projects from the country launched on Kickstarter in the last few weeks. There’s LabyX from Yazorius in Bordeaux, a pair of games from Clermont-Ferrand (the awesome-looking NES game Twin Dragons by Antoine Gohin and building sim Sandbox by TarteUp), as well as Robi, which is in development at Xzezal in, um, “France, France.”

So, naturally, I chose a project from East London, because I used to live there. Just kidding. I chose Zombie Teacher because it looks awesome. So reach for those tasty brains and see what makes this game a delicious delight. Mmm… brains… (more…)

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Daily Scoop: May 11, 2017 – Humble Store’s Spring Sale and Pokemon shirts

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Holly Scalzo

Good Thursday, y’all! Not a lot of sales at different places today, but lots of games at Humble and several Pokemon shirts! You know you’ve been using Twitter too much when you accidentally hashtag words in regular writing. Not that I tried to do that with the word “Pokemon” at all. Nope. I know what I’m doing. Okay, no I don’t. I never do. But I’m so good at faking it! Wait, no I’m not. Never mind. No Nicole news today, so let’s get to why we’re all here!

The Humble Store is my saving grace today, because otherwise I’d have nothing to share. Thankfully, they have tons of good deals! Let’s start with Dungeons 2 because it is free for the next day and a half! Yes, totally free. Crazy!

The rest of these are all part of their Spring Sale, which stretches on until May 25th! News to me is that there is a game called Prison Architect, and while that may not be news to you, its 75%-off-ness at Humble might be! Other seventy-five-per-centers include Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Rogue Legacy, and Tales of Zestiria.

Next up are the 50% off games, which are Doom, Dark Souls III, Dishonored 2, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor – Game of the Year Edition, Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 4, The Witness, Grim Dawn, and something called Hacky Zack… which looks adorable.

And here’s the rest (kind of like in Gilligan’s Island before people realized the Professor and Mary Ann were the best ones): Stardew Valley is 20% off, Rocket League is 30% off, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is 33% off as is Elite: Dangerous, Starbound is 34% off, and Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair is for some reason specifically 37% off. Other games with varying discounts include Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens at 40% off and Dying Light: The Following at 60% off, as is 7 Days to Die. God Eater 2: Rage Burst is 66% off and, finally, a Darkiders Franchise Pack is 80% off.

Lots and lots today! And the Humble Store main page has even more deals for their Spring Sale! (more…)

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Here’s the first gameplay trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles

Posted on May 11, 2017 by John Scalzo

Activision and Treyarch unveiled the Zombies Chronicles expansion for Call of Duty: Black Ops III earlier this week, and now they’re back with a brand new gameplay trailer.

The Zombies Chronicles expansion goes back to the beginning of the popular co-op mode with eight rebuilt and remastered maps including “Nacht der Untoten,” “Verruckt,” “Shi No Numa,” “Kino Der Toten,” “Ascension,” “Shangri-La,” “Moon,” and “Origins.” It’ll be available to download for the PS4 on May 16, before coming to the PC and Xbox One later this Spring.

And in case you were wondering… yes, the trailer is soundtracked by a cover of Flock of Seagulls’s “I Ran (So Far Away).”

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Nintendo’s E3 2017 presentation will focus on Super Mario Odyssey and other Switch games coming this year

Posted on May 11, 2017 by John Scalzo

Nintendo has announced that they’re kicking off their E3 2017 activities with a special “Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017” presentation on Tuesday, June 13. “Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017” will deliver new information about Super Mario Odyssey, as well as other Switch games scheduled to launch this year. The presentation begins at 12:00 noon (Eastern Time), and fans can watch it via e3.Nintendo.com. As in years past, Nintendo will follow their consumer-focused Press Conference with a series of “Nintendo Treehouse: Live at E3” segments all throughout the week.

Nintendo’s E3 portal will also feature livestreamed coverage of the first tournaments for Arms and Splatoon 2 at this year’s Expo:

Nintendo will also host game tournaments that will be livestreamed from the E3 show floor. The 2017 Splatoon 2 World Inkling Invitational splats onto the scene on June 13 and features Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch. Composed of four pre-qualified squid squads from the U.S., Japan, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand, the tournament will find teams participating in the first-ever international Splatoon 2 competition. The second tournament, the 2017 Arms Open Invitational, takes place on June 14 and will feature Nintendo’s upcoming Arms fighting game for Nintendo Switch.

Finally, E3 attendees will get the chance to try out Super Mario Odyssey for the first time, along with other games coming to the Switch and 3DS this year.

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Xbox Store Today: Butcher, NBA Playgrounds, Lethal League

Posted on May 10, 2017 by John Scalzo

Three new games are now available to download through the Xbox Games Store…

First up is Butcher, a side-scrolling shooter from Crunching Koalas that resembles a 2D homage to Doom. Players who download the game now for the Xbox One will get to become “a cyborg programmed to eradicate the last remnants of humanity.”

Also available for the Xbox One today is NBA Playgrounds, a new arcade-style basketball game from Saber Interactive. Players will unlock hundreds of NBA superstars, and fly high through the air in two-on-two pickup games.

Finally today, the baseball-themed fighting game Lethal League is now available to download for the Xbox One. In Lethal League, players “have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of [their] opponent to win.” Sure, why not?

More information about all of these games is available after the break. (more…)

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Daily Scoop: May 10, 2017 – Alien and Assassin’s Creed in today’s sales

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Holly Scalzo

It’s time for madness! Er, midweek madness not general madness. I can’t condone that, though I understand it. Is there such a thing as Cold Madness, readers? Because I probably have that. It reached 50 degrees today, but I know it will go back down into the low 40s or even 30s tonight. And it is indeed maddening. At this rate, it won’t be warm until it’s time to get cold again in the Fall.

I envy Nicole’s mysterious trip to the tropics, because though a tad bizarre at least it’s warm (even though ironically they’re in their Autumn now, I think, and yet it’s still much warmer than here). Anyway, what was I supposed to be doing? Oh yes! Shirts ‘n sales. Let’s do it.

The Midweek Madness at Steam has some good discounts like Offworld Trading Company for 75% off and Worms WMD for 50% off. Also at Steam, fans of Alien: Isolation can get it, the Season Pass, and the DLCs (The Trigger, Lost Contact, Safe Haven) each for 75% off! And ending on Friday, Axiom Verge is on sale for $9.99. Meanwhile, Stellaris, Stellaris: Nova Edition, and Stellaris: Galaxy Edition are on sale until May 14th for 40% off, and for today only, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI and Civilization VI: Digital Deluxe are 33% off.

This week at the Xbox Games Store, Xbox Gold members can get Mass Effect: Andromeda for 35% and the Deluxe Edition for 40% off. Tom Clancy’s The Division and The Division – Gold Edition are each 60% off. And a few Saints Row titles are on sale including Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, and a Saints Row/Metro Double Pack for 75-80% off. And finally, available to everyone, get a “Resident Evil Game and Movie Bundle” including Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and a code for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter for 33% off. There’s also a Deluxe Edition Bundle with extra content for 33% off, too.

There’s something for Tom Clancy fans over in the PlayStation Store, with several PS4 titles from 25-60% off. Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate are all 60% off, but be sure to check out the other Assassin’s Creed titles on sale as well. Also save 60% on Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal, or purchase them bundled together for 50% off. And get 60% off Watch Dogs and its Season Pass, and 65% off Rayman Legends.

Phew, that was a lot. I need to rest now. See shirts after the break! (more…)

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