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Some forgotten favorites are coming back this Fall courtesy of Square Enix and Abstraction Games. Square Enix will remaster Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the PC and PS4, while Abstraction Games is resurrecting Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu in a new compilation.
You can learn more about both re-releases after the break.
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It was a bad day for game developers today as EA announced the closure of Visceral Games (and an indefinite delay for their Star Wars game). But the publishing powerhouse also teamed up with Sony to produce two Star Wars: Battlefront II bundles for the PS4.
You can read more about both stories after the break.
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Captain America rather famously socked Adolf Hitler in the jaw back in the 1940s, but Wolfenstein’s BJ Blazkowicz has a more extreme reaction to finding Nazis on American soil in an alternate 1960s. And Blazkowicz’s love of heavy artillery is actually rather similar to Doomguy’s reaction to the forces of Hell on Mars, which will be available for Switch owners very soon.
You can find Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus‘s Launch Trailer and Doom‘s launch date on the Switch after the break.
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It’s impossible to say that a single genre is representative of “video games” in 2017, and this grab bag approach is n full display in this week’s new retail releases report.
2K Games will launch their latest wrestling sim, WWE 2K18, for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Sony will follow that up with their simulation, Gran Turismo Sport, an online-focused racer for the PS4.
However, Nintendo is taking the opposite tack and launching Fire Emblem Warriors, a swords-and-sorcery mashup of the franchise’s entire history for the Switch and New 3DS. The crazy kids from South Park will also march into stores this week in South Park: The Fractured But Whole for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. And speaking of RPGs, Atlus will release Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond The Myth for the 3DS.
You can read all about the rest of this week’s new retail releases after the break.
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There are scares-a-plenty in today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store.
Bethesda is back with The Evil Within 2 for the Xbox One, and indie developer Shining Gate Software launched horror puzzler Decay: The Mare for the console. Elsewhere on the Xbox Games Store, Hamster Corporation is bringing back Real Bout Fatal Fury, and United Independent Entertainment is likewise re-releasing the RPG Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny.
You can learn more about all of today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break.
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Dig deeper into the Video Game Canon with a look at the the blockbuster success born out of the simple ambitions of Mega Man 2. Here’s a teaser…
The first Mega Man game is a bit of an odd duck, which has become even more pronounced as the years go by. The graphics are simplistic, the sound is tinny, there’s only six Robot Masters instead of the traditional eight, and there’s even a score counter (a feature that was jettisoned from the dozens of sequels that followed). There’s just a smoothness to subsequent games in the franchise that Capcom had yet to master with the first entry.
But like most Mega Man fans, I only learned all this after the fact. At the time, whatever memories I have of the first game were formed by guide writers who described it as an unfairly difficult game, old episodes of Captain N, and the fact that none of the local rental outlets owned a copy (unsurprisingly, Lee Trevino’s Fighting Golf was always available).
I finally got the chance to see what all the fuss was about with Mega Man 2, which was also the first game in the Mega Man franchise to be spearheaded by Capcom’s Keiji Inafune. With an expanded role in the sequel’s development, Inafune became known as the “Father” of Mega Man to plenty of fans, and codified many of the traditions and patterns the series is known for.
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The Nintendo Switch continues to roll through the Fall with another massive collection of new releases on the Nintendo eShop today.
Wulverblade is a side-scrolling beat ’em up about an early war between the Britons and the Roman army. Yono and the Celestial Elephants is an adventure game about a young elephant tasked with saving the world. And The Flame in The Flood: Complete Edition is a survival story about a young girl, her dog, and a raging river.
Over on the 3DS, RPG fans will be able to download Atlus’s Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth on Tuesday, October 17.
You can learn more about all of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop after the break.
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Distrust is a game about survival in the harshest of climates. The game opens with a mysterious bright light and a helicopter crash. From there, you are stranded in an unforgiving Arctic environment with limited supplies and an ever-growing sense of dread. You take control of two survivors trying to make their way to the safety of an abandoned scientific research facility, and along the way you have to make harsh decisions that will lead to your success… or doom.
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