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It’s March already? The place did the time go? (Oh proper, it went into Forspoken and Octopath Traveler II and Hearth Emblem Have interaction and Useless Area, and so on and so on.) It’s been an odd week right here — I’m attempting to maintain up with the percolating Microsoft/Sony/Activision Blizzard drama. However now the FTC’s making Sony pony up its information of exclusivity, and the European regulators seem like backing off. At this level, all of it offers me a headache.
I’m unsure what’s occurring at Sq. Enix. First it reabsorbs Luminous following the tepid response to Forspoken, and now CEO Yosuke Matsuda is stepping down. Sq. Enix has an fascinating few years, from its sale of the Eidos scraps to Embracer and its concentrate on NFTs and blockchain expertise. Additionally, this isn’t precisely associated, however Yuji Naka this week admitted to insider buying and selling whereas working for Sq. Enix years in the past. It’s nothing however sad information for the corporate this week.
In one other weird information story, it appears the Olympics has lastly deigned to acknowledge esports and can maintain an official sequence beginning this month. Nicely, type of — as a substitute of including in style esports titles to its lineup, resembling League of Legends or Dota 2, the Worldwide Olympic Committee added some extra area of interest titles. Gran Turismo, Simply Dance and even digital chess are comprehensible additions, however I’m left scratching my head at Tennis Conflict, Digital Taekwondo and Tic Tac Bow. Firstly, in what universe is a cellular title higher for digital tennis than Wii Sports activities? Second, why achieve this many of those esports need to be digital (and doubtless worse) variations of Olympic sports activities that exist already?
On the private facet of issues, I can lastly shift focus to Like a Dragon: Ishin! now that I’ve completed my assessment of Octopath Traveler II. I’ll in all probability even be enjoying Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty, however I can say with some confidence that that sport will take me longer to complete. That mentioned, I hope to play my fill earlier than the subsequent few weeks, as a result of considered one of my most anticipated video games — Resident Evil 4 Remake — is popping out quickly and I must clear my schedule.
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What to play this week
What’s new:
- Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty
- Flexible and the Darkish Revival
- Future 2: Lightfall
- Scars Above
- Leap
- Dungeons of Aether
- Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire
New on subscription companies:
- F1 22 (Xbox Recreation Cross)
- Trüberbrook (Xbox Video games with Gold)
- Sudden Strike 4 – Full Assortment (Xbox Video games with Gold)
- Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Version (Prime Gaming)
- Citizen Sleeper (Amazon Luna)
- Guacamelee! 2 (Amazon Luna)
- Mega Man 11 (Amazon Luna)
- Sail Forth (Amazon Luna)
- Get Packed: Sofa Chaos (Amazon Luna)
- Monster Hunter Rise (GeForce Now)
- Rise of Trade (GeForce Now)
- Kimono Cats (Apple Arcade)
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