Digital sales and physical shipments of action-RPG sequel from Square Enix and Platinum Games hits milestone in just over a month

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Lego City Undercover was certainly a bright spot in the Wii U’s library, bringing fun, open world gameplay to the classic Lego template. Still, it wasn’t a perfect game by any means, and one aspect that received universal negativity was the positively heinous load times that continuously plagued it. Essentially, if you re-entered the overworld map from an interior area, you’d be faced with over a minute of staring at a loading screen, and this obviously got old pretty quick.

Many were hoping that the Switch port, then, would cut these load times down, seeing as how the hardware is more powerful this time around and the developers have hopefully had more time to optimize it. Unfortunately, the reality is rather disappointing. While the load times have been cut somewhat, it’s really more of a change from “terrible” to “bad”. Here’s a video comparison:

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What do you think? Does this change your mind on the Switch port? Why do you think the load times are still this bad? Drop us a comment in the section below.

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It’s common to see big game studios offer free multiplayer weekends in a bid to reel you in, but you don’t see that quite so often for single-player titles. You either have to trust reviews or go in blind. Bethesda is offering an olive branch in the case of Dishonored 2, at least: the publisher is offering a free three-mission trial of the stealth action title on April 6th. PC, PS4 and Xbox One owners can all participate, and any progress you make as part of the trial will carry over to the full game if you decide to buy.

Video game licenses for athletes have been a thorny subject for years, and it’s seldom just a matter of signing an agreement and calling it a day. You frequently have to worry about faces, names and jersey numbers as separate concerns, and a misstep can cost you dearly. Even using tattoos without permission can get you into trouble. It’s possible that Konami thought it was abiding by the rules and still didn’t get Maradona’s full permission, assuming this is anything more than a simple misunderstanding.

There’s still a lot up in the air. The team doesn’t even have writers, let alone a cast. Compulsion believes the producers have good ideas for maintaining the “menace, dark humor and central themes” of the survival horror title, however, and dj2 says it’ll stay “true to the source material” while including a few surprises.

There’s good reason to be skeptical, since game-based movies only rarely get top-flight screenwriting and acting talent. However, We Happy Few at least has a concept that’s well-suited to the big screen. Its alternate history plot, where people are forced to take a mind-altering drug to hide a sinister truth, shares something common with popular movies that revolve around the “town with a dark secret” premise — think The Wicker Man or even Hot Fuzz. That’s a good platform to build on, then. The big challenge is evoking the spirit of those classics without either being overly derivative or diluting what makes the game special.

By their very nature, most augmented reality games are at least a little bit futuristic. The creators of Archer, however, are embracing the past… in more ways than one. FXX’s Archer, P.I. mobile game will have you pointing your Android or iOS device at your TV, Facebook and even billboards to scan for clues to a hidden story inside Archer: Dreamland, the film noir-inspired eighth season for the animated series. If you want to claim your rewards and unlock every mystery, though, you’ll also have to print and assemble physical objects based on what you see in the show. That’s right — if you’ve welcomed the paperless future with open arms, you won’t get everything the story has to offer.

Puzzle based adventure game, Thimbleweed Park is now available on Xbox One.

Thimbleweed Park welcomes you to a haunted hotel, an abandoned circus, a burnt-out pillow factory, a dead body pixelating under the bridge, toilets that run on vacuum tubes… you’ve never visited a place like this before.

You as a player among 4 other people with nothing in common have been drawn to the rundown, forgotten town. You don’t know it but you are all deeply connected and are being watched, too.

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• Who is Agent Ray really working for and will she get what they want?


• What does Junior Agent Reyes know about a 20 year old factory fire that he’s not saying?


• Will the ghost, Franklin, get to speak to his daughter again?


• Will Ransome the *Beeping* Clown ever become a decent human being?


• Will aspiring game developer Delores abandon her dreams and stick by her family?


• And most importantly: how come no one cares about that dead body?

By the end of a long, strange night in Thimbleweed Park, all of this will be answered — and you’ll question everything you thought you knew.

In a town like Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems.

The game is soon coming to Windows 10 PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, which means if you decide to purchase on Xbox One today, you can play the game on your PC later on release, at no additional cost.

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