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If you had instructed me in the beginning of the week that I used to be going to be following alongside as Xbox confronted down the Federal Trade Commission and see Mario rework into a bipedal elephant, I’d have taken the day so I may go lay down. Don’t even get me began on the half the place somebody was apparently controlling a subpar submersible with a dinky Bluetooth Logitech controller — I’m nonetheless making an attempt to course of that. Basically what I’m saying is it’s been a whirlwind of per week.
Let’s begin with the Nintendo Direct from the center of the week. Nintendo held the Direct to indicate off the video games which can be popping out for the Switch within the again half of 2023, and it didn’t disappoint. It confirmed off Detective Pikachu 2, the Super Mario RPG remake, Pikmin 4 and Super Mario Bros Wonder (with its aforementioned Elephant Mario). The present featured a number of smaller however equally attention-grabbing bulletins, similar to cozy titles Palia and Fae Farm coming to Switch, WarioWare: Move It and a Princess Peach title due someday in 2024. At least it made that big cup of espresso I drank earlier than watching value it.
The Xbox FTC classes started this week, with the console maker defending its acquisition of Activision Blizzard earlier than the skeptical fee. Among the opposite popcorn-worthy moments of the present thus far, Microsoft has now stated to the figurative face of a federal physique that it misplaced the console wars. It additionally implied that a part of the motivation for the acquisition was the concern that Sony would make Starfield PS-exclusive, after the Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo contracts. Sarah Bond admitted that almost all gamers don’t use XCloud and the upcoming Indiana Jones recreation was initially going to be multiplatform. And these are simply the fundamentals — I may do a deep dive on all the particulars of this loopy present.
In private information, it’s Final Fantasy XVI time! I’ve heard combined opinions concerning the full recreation, however I’m seeing the fast-paced gameplay, and it seems prefer it’s exactly my jam. I watched my husband play the demo (he’s by far the larger FF fan) and let’s simply say that Logan Hannah — a.ok.a. Hugo from A Plague Tale and Joshua Rosfield on this recreation — nonetheless has the ability to show me right into a distressed massive sister … and darn it, it simply now happens to me that Square Enix most likely knew and had been relying on that. If time, I’d additionally prefer to play Dordogne, which I’ve had my eye on for fairly a while.
What to play this week
What’s new:
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Aliens: Dark Descent
- Crash Team Rumble
- Dr. Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine
- The Bookwalker
- Trepang2
- Forever Skies
New on subscription providers:
- Need for Speed Unbound (Xbox Game Pass)
- Far Cry 6 (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Rogue Legacy 2 (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Inscryption (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Soulstice (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Tacoma (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Killing Floor 2 (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Lonely Mountain: Downhill (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Hundred Days: Winemaking Simulator (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- A Hat in Time (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Carto (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Forager (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Dodgeball Academia (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- The Wild at Heart (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Redout 2 (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Thief (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- MX vs ATV Legends (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- PAW Patrol Mighty Pups: Save Adventure Bay! (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- My Friend Peppa Pig (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- DC League of Super-Pets: The Adventures of Krypto and Ace (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Elex 2 (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Conan Exiles (PlayStation Plus Extra+Premium)
- Killzone: Liberation (PlayStation Premium)
- Worms (PlayStation Premium)
- Herc’s Adventures (PlayStation Premium)
- Coded Soul (PlayStation Premium)
- Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (Prime Gaming)
- Autonauts (Prime Gaming)
- Revita (Prime Gaming)
- Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (GeForce Now)
- A.V.A Global (GeForce Now)
- Bloons TD 6 (GeForce Now)
- Conqueror’s Blade (GeForce Now)
- Layers of Fear (GeForce Now)
- Park Beyond (GeForce Now)
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction (GeForce Now)
- Fire Emblem Blazing Sword (Nintendo Switch Online)
- Retro Bowl+ (Apple Arcade)
- Retro Goal+ (Apple Arcade)
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