Now let’s just hope it’s good! I had planned on gettingFuri, that twin-stick action/shooter boss-fighting game, when it launched next month, so its inclusion in thePlayStation Plus lineup for Julyis quite the pleasant surprise. Here’s the full batch of games you can download with your subscription beginning next week: PlayStation 4 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Vita Assuming you have a Vita but don’t currently ownOreshika(love that art!), yeah, decent month here....

When Nintendo announced thatGame Boy Advance gameswould appear on the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack service, I felt a tinge of excitement in my soul. Not because I love Game Boy Advance games, though that is certainly true. Rather, because I couldneverwrangle together the peripherals and people needed to make many of the system’s unique multiplayer experiences work. So when I saw this morning thatKirby & The Amazing Mirrorwould be coming to Nintendo’s subscription service next week, I couldn’t help but smile....

Not quite fully assembled From the momentMarvel’s Avengerswas first showcased at E3 (in what feels like forever ago), a lot of people had their doubts about the game based on what we saw at the time. Well, now that it’s finally here, it’s a clear-cut example of a game that should have been left to cook for a lot longer. Whether it was Marvel and Square Enix attempting to get it out of the oven before the new consoles arrived or just too much feature creep (or both), it’s all conjecture for now....

Yoko Taro should be the spokesperson for every game ::record scratch:: I know what you’re thinking, “how did we get in this situation?”NieR: Automata, a game destined to fade into obscurity, was noticed by the mainstream, sold millions of copies, and was considered a huge success by any measure by Square Enix? Well here we are, asNieR: Automata, following a number of free updates and paid DLC offerings, is getting its own Game of the Year (Game of the YorHa) edition....

Featuring Nick Franco from the Pokemon: Hard Mode series [Header Herabuff by@WaddleDurrr] Nick Franco’sPokémon: Hard Modecomics popularized the concept of the Nuzlocke, one of the most well-known self-imposed challenges among electric mouse enthusiasts. Its two simple rules — you can only attempt to catch the first Pokémon you see in each area, and all KO’d party members are considered dead and cannot be used for the rest of your playthrough — have created countless personal stories of triumph, defeat, friendship, and tragedy....

1, 2, 3, kick it! In 1986 Nintendo released the Famicom Disk System add-on for the Famicom in Japan. For some reason the company decided it wasn’t worth the time to sell it anywhere else in the world, but that didn’t stop game makers from releasingover 200 games for it. A few titles (likeZeldaandZelda II) got slightly altered cartridge localizations on the NES, but due to the format, most of these games never made it over here....

Come on and slam Well I was just talking in myMadden 18review about the lackluster story ofNBA 2K18, and now 2K shows an ambitious new mode called The Neighborhood. In an open world spanning several urban residential blocks, players can team up for pick-up games, hit the arcade, workout at the gym, change your hairstyle, and even ride bikes to earn prizes, customization options, and stat points. Mixing elements from previous modes like MyPARK and Pro-Am, the Neighborhood expands on them with many ways to progress and customize your player....

Silent Hills Hideo Kojima took the stage at Sony’s pre-Tokyo Game Show conference to announce the success ofP.T., the spooky demo teaser for thenewSilent Hillhe is making with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. P.T.has been downloaded over 1 million times. It’s a confusing, inscrutable spook fest, which has prompted a lot of PS4 Sharing.P.T.footage has been viewed over 30 million times. Not sure if that counts everything, like Twitch streams.

Sun, Sex, and Skeletons During the weekend’s PC Gaming Show live stream, we got a global hypercolour taste of the cool but weird-lookingParadise Killer,a new murder mystery from developer Kaizen Game Works. As described by the studio itself,Paradise Killersees players pick up the magnifying glass of “investigation freak” Lady Love Dies, who is tasked with solving… a murder? Several murders? It’s all a little unclear, but that is to be expected from what looks to be a very hedonistic title, which promises a cast of wild characters, psychic-powers, and a tropical locale, powered by alien forces, that has the ability to regenerate every few millennia… riiiight....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Dtoid community blogger kona shares his memories of the once-great Blockbuster. Want to see your own words appear on our front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] Fridays were always a sacred day for me as a kid. But not because of the obvious reprieve from school. No, Friday was a special day because it was almost a day of worship in my eyes, my very own gaming Sabbath:Blockbuster Day....

Rivet-ing Insomniac Games’Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartdebuted at the top of the UK Charts this week. While not the biggestRatchet & Clanklaunch to date (that honor goes to 2016’s budget-priced, PS4 remake), the fantastic, high-tech sequel is now the second-biggest PS5 physical launch since the console’s release, sitting just behind Insomniac’s ownSpider-Man: Miles Morales. Elsewhere in the charts, Torn Banner’s riotousChivalry IIalso had a successful physical launch, with the medieval melee fighter landing at number nine....

Nintendo of America president and all around badass, Reggie Fils-Aime, is anticipating one million Wii sales within the next two to three weeks. But Reggie doesn’t stop spewing out numbers there, he goes on to say that he expects an additional million sales by the second week of January. In his recent interview with Reuters, Reggie expressed his feelings about the Wii’s cost and DVD functionality: “We designed [Wii] from the get-go to be profitable, so it will be past this weekend and throughout its entire life....

In this latest developer diary forAlan Wake’s American Nightmare, the gang at Remedy describe the origins of Alan Wake’s evil alter-ego, Mr. Scratch. Born out of the legend of Alan Wake’s arrival and subsequent disappearance in Bright Falls, he’s a straight-up boogeyman with a sense of humor I can appreciate. Remedy also talks up the game’sarcade mode, which I had a chance to check out at CES. With only one more week left until release, my excitement level has pretty much peaked now....