And in may or may not have changed direction Reminding me that the game even existed in the first place,IGNhas gotten word from Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre thatRainbow 6: Patriotsis “still cooking. It’s an important franchise for Ubisoft. We want to make sure, on this one, like all the other games we’re working on, that we bring it when we feel it’s perfect.” Patriots, to refresh your memory, was first pitched as a game that would “capture the reality of modern-day terrorism....

Has double-sided game board PopCap’sPlants vs. Zombiesgets mixed with living room classicRiskfor a cool hybrid board game. Imagine the tabletop battle we all know, but now with characters fromPvZ. The double-sided game board lets you play three ways: tower defense, mission, or total domination. One side has the now familiar fenced back yard while the other side shows a map of Brainsborough. In the yard, you’ll pick a side — plants or zombies — and battle it out....

Wired’s Chris Kohlerhas worked some magic, coercing from a high-level Harmonix source information that you’re not supposed to know about the future of theRock Bandseries… one day beforeGuitar Hero 5hits shelves! Oh no! Well, it’s a lot of good (allegedly true) news for fans of those music games with the plastic instruments. For one, the tracks that will be featured in the upcomingLEGO Rock Bandwill be exportable to your hard drive so you can play them in your mainRock Bandset list....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [The only thing that’s kept me decent all these years was the expectation of a divine reward. I think I just received it. –Mr Andy Dixon] Holmes is where the heart is. That’s the only attempt at humor that I can muster for you kids. There’s no room for juvenility, only the truth hidden between the lines. Mr. Jonathan Holmes asked me to bring my brand of cynicism to this here website....

Fan reaction = box office If you had asked me two months ago what the fate ofSolo: A Star Warsstory was I would have told you it had a good chance of crashing and burning. If you had asked me naught but two weeks ago about its fate, I might have been slightly more positive after I enjoyed the hell out of the full trailer for the film, but I still would have said it wasn’t going to do as well as you’d think a Star Wars film should....

Sega has been kind enough to let us know there they have a new trailer and screenshots for the game I am now surprisingly looking forward to,Sonic Unleashed. Ever since I gotmy hands on the title in Tokyo, I have had renewed faith in the hedgehog, and am now counting it among my big DO WANT releases. In this new trailer, Sonic goes to what looks like Africa and the first thing that hits me is how the musicisn’tgeneric rock....

Who doesn’t love a goodclone? As much flak as people like to give certain games for playing too much like other games, its nice to see a well-established style or formula applied to a new world with original characters from time to time. Indie studioGalaxyTrailhas just released a demo for the team’s latest PC title,Freedom Planet, a colorful mascot platformer heavily inspired by the Genesis-eraSonic the Hedgehoggames. Your characters in the demo, Lilac and Carol, run at high speeds over hills and down ramps, roll through rock walls, and generally bounce round like pinballs....

Space Giraffe(400 MS Points) andStreet Trace: NYC(800 MS Points) will indeed be this week’s Live Arcade games. If you’ve been followingJeff Minter’s blog, you know what the certification process has been like for him. Thankfully, that’s all over now thatSpace Giraffewill finally be released for the masses to enjoy. Space Giraffeis an arcade style shoot-em-up (thinkTempest) with insanely trippy visuals. For tips, tricks, and everything else, check out the game’slaunch blog....

Cue third person post! Storm was given a lead to the Perfect Dark XBLA remake, and then went bonkers. Remembering his glory days with N64 (back when he was concerned about homework, not a mortgage), he had to go further and ruin his fun by playing every iteration of Perfect Dark franchise. Inside, we have a verbose look at four games: Perfect Dark XBLA, Perfect Dark N64, Perfect Dark Zero, and Perfect Dark Game Boy Color....

This steak needs a little more time on the grill Super Meat Boy Foreverwassupposed to finally release in Aprilafter a development that seemed to take, ahem, forever. That’s not going to happen. Team Meat has announced thatSuper Meat Boy Foreveris missing its launch window. The new official release date is “After but not too far after April 2019.” Team Meat explains that it’s working at a quick-but-healthy pace, and pushing to release by the end of the month would veer into unhealthy habits for the developers....

From the Dreamfall developer — it looks great Last Halloween, Red Thread Games, the developer ofDreamfall Chapters, the sequel to beloved adventure gamesThe Longest JourneyandDreamfall: The Longest Journey, announced it was also working on a survival horror game,Draugen. And now we have some nice, atmospheric footage of the 2015 release. My excitement remains at the level it was when this was first announced, still, particularly, for its premise: “a first-person survival horror adventure amongst the mountains and fjords of the Norwegian west coast in the 1920s....

Guessing that’s referring to Automatons Hey everyone, good news. We can finally stop calling the nextNieRgame placeholder titles likeNieR 2orThe New Nier Project. According to an interview withJapanese site GamesTalk, the upcomingNieRgame we saw teased at E3 is going to be calledNeiR Automatain Japan. While the name will likely be different in English, it seems that much like the original game,NieR Automatais a reference to robots and mechanical creatures. Personally, I thinkNieR Automata, while not super easily marketed in English, is a pretty damn cool name for a game....

With all theMariogames on the Nintendo Switch, which ones are the best? If you don’t own any of these and you have a Switch, you’re doing a disservice to yourself. Nintendo Switch’s 10 best Mario games The following games have to have Mario’s name in the title. They also have to feature him to some extent widely. I apologize in advance to anyone who was expecting a Luigi, Wario, Donkey Kong, Peach, or Toad title on this list....