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- How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game – The New York Times (2026)
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8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1, Spintires: MudRunner, Disneyland Adventures, more added to Xbox Store
Today’s Xbox Games Store update is hitting the nostalgia button hard.
First up, Abstraction Games will launch 8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1, a point and click compilation that includes Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu.
Microsoft will also re-release Disneyland Adventures and Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure, two games that originally made their way to the Xbox 360 a few years ago. These Xbox One updates will add full controller support and an Xbox Play Anywhere option for all purchasers.
Finally, Xbox One owners will be able to play in the mud today with Spintires: MudRunner. It’s not a re-release, but younger folks should ask their parents about “mud pies” someday.
You can learn more about all of today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)
Electronic Arts reiterates that Battlefield V and Anthem are coming in 2018
UPDATE: EA has announced that “Battlefield 6” will officially be known as Battlefield V.
ORIGINAL STORY: Electronic Arts delivered their quarterly financial report to investors last night, and Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen delivered some (not unexpected) news about the publisher’s 2018 slate of games.
Jorgensen reiterated that the currently untitled Battlefield 6 will be released in 2018, alongside a “full slate” of EA Sports titles (presumably FIFA 19, Madden NFL 19, NHL 19, and NBA Live 19), and BioWare’s Anthem. It looks like multiple in-game events for Star Wars: Battlefront II are also on tap for next year:
The core of our fiscal 2019 is in a full slate of sports titles and their associated live services, plus new live services from Star Wars: Battlefront II. We will add the next Battlefield game and moved into the action genre with Anthem. We expect our subscriber base to continue to grow and our new mobile titles to benefit from players looking for deeper experiences with higher production values.
Later in the presentation, CEO Andrew Wilson added that EA Sports is planning something connected to next year’s World Cup:
On World Cup, we don’t have any news to announce right now, but at EA Sports we have a long tradition of celebrating the World Cup and bringing it to life for fans, stretching back to the World Cup 1998. So as it gets closer, the world’s largest sporting event, we’ll announce more details on how we’ll continue this tradition.
Electronic Arts’s stock is down more than 4% in trading on the stock market so far today.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Tagged Anthem, Battlefield V, Star Wars: Battlefront II
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will launch on the Xbox One on December 12… Stranger Things Skin Pack now available in Minecraft
A hundred players parachute onto the island, but the game is almost ready to parachute onto the Xbox One. That’s right, PUBG Corp has announced a release date for the Xbox One launch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds at Paris Games Week.
Also today, Mojang is adding the potent fanbase of Stranger Things to Minecraft with a new Skin Pack.
You can read more about both stories after the break. (more…)
Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 Episode 4 will be released on November 7… World of Final Fantasy coming to PC on November 21
Telltale Games will turn the page on a new episode from Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 next week, and Square Enxi will give Final Fantasy fans a chance to play World of Final Fantasy on a new platform in a few weeks.
You can read more about both news stories (and spy a pair of brand new trailers) after the break. (more…)
Posted in Mobile, News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2, World of Final Fantasy
New Retail Releases: Call of Duty WWII, Spintires Mud Runner, Dot Hack G.U. Last Recode, More
Only a handful of new games will be available on store shelves this week, as most publishers are running scared from the pending launch of the latest game in the Call of Duty franchise. The PC, PS4, and Xbox One release of Call of Duty: WWII has built up quite a bit of hype this year, especially for its return to the European Theater of World War II
And if you’re thinking of upgrading to a PS4 Slim, Sony and Activision have teamed up to produce a special PS4 Slim 1TB + Call of Duty: WWII Limited Edition Bundle that’s decked out in a Green Camouflage color scheme.
But several other games will be available this week, including Bandai Namco’s Dot Hack G.U.: Last Recode (a PS4 remake of the entire Dot Hack G.U. trilogy) and Spintires: Mud Runner (a bizarro driving game for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One).
A complete rundown of this week’s new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Deathstate is coming to the Switch… Fantasy FPS Amid Evil will make its debut at this year’s PAX Aus
Tis the season for horror! But don’t expect the standard scares from Deathstate and Amid Evil… the developers of both games are promising that players will be able to experience a unique brand of “retro horror” when they’re released later this year.
You can learn more about both games after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, Switch
Tagged Amid Evil, Deathstate
Injustice 2 will launch on PC this Fall… Street Fighter V’s Zeku is now available to download
Injustice 2 is heading to the PC later this Fall and Street Fighter V’s “Season 2” comes to a close today with the release of Zeku.
You can learn more about the latest news for both fighting games after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4
Tagged Injustice 2, Street Fighter V
Destiny 2 tops September 2017’s list of best-selling games
Activision has been rather quiet on the Destiny 2 front since the game’s launch, but The NPD Group confirmed this morning that it was the best-selling game during the month of September. It’s doing so well at retail that the tracking firm has also declared Destiny 2 the best-selling game in all of 2017… so far.
Aside from Destiny 2, sports games dominated the sales chart in September, including the debuts of NBA 2K18 (#2), FIFA 18 (#4), and NHL 18 (#8). It was also a good month for games with long tails as Grand Theft Auto V (#7), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#9), and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (#10) continue to hold onto their slots in the top ten.
You can read more about last month’s best-sellers and view the monthly Top Ten after the break. (more…)