Also, more live service updates It’s another slowish week, as the main games Nintendo is highlighting this week are of the live service variety. FortniteChapter 4 Season 3 dropped recentlywith its Optimus Prime-flavored season pass, and there are more updates forDisney Dreamlight Valley(The Remembering),Rocket League(Season 11),Overwatch(Season 5), andDisney Speedstorm(Season 2). Wait,Disney Speedstormjust dropped Season2? It really is the “early summer of live service” so far, post-Zelda. One of the next big releases isFinal Fantasy XVIon June 22 on PS5, which will end the streak....

The game has a new limited edition, too I was checked out for the day when I sawthis vinyl setforFez, or so I thought. It’s so dang good! Disasterpeace is one of my favorite musicians working in games right now, and theFezsoundtrack is among his best work, easily. To have it on cool-looking vinyl? Mmm, that’s mighty tempting. Polytron also has a fancy newlimited editionof the game. Keeping in line with the note-taking spirit ofFez, it’s a hardcover notebook, and the package includes downloads for the Windows and Mac versions plus the soundtrack....

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood likes to run its mouth off about various evil things that go on in the world, although it hasn’t really targeted videogames since 2007 when it joined theManhunt 2witch hunt. That said, it hasn’t kept its Sauron-like eye turned away from games completely, and has returned to do battle with a new foe —LEGO Batman. Wait, what? “How do you turn the ultimate creative toy into a symbol of commercialized childhood?...

About bloody time Valve’s 2009 multiplayer shooterLeft 4 Dead 2has been re-certificated in Germany. Now, some 11 years after its initial release, players can finally play the zombie-smasher in all of its original gory glory. WhileLeft 4 Dead 2has been readily available in Germany since release, the violent shooter was censored to the point of satire. This particular edition ofLeft 4 Dead 2removed all blood, all dismemberment, and even lingering bodies fromthe playfield....

Get ready for some Bond minutia. I doubt most of you will care. Above you’ll find the opening credits to the upcoming Bond gameBlood Stonewith Bond girl and singer Joss Stone performing the opening song. As you most likely know these are kind of a big deal, and even biggers since opening credits are a dying breed as more and more films opt to tack them at the end of the film and the art direction falls into a bottomless pit of no return....

A nostalgic four-player romp Capcom announced today at PAX thatDungeons & Dragons: Tower of DoomandShadow over Mystara, its sequel, would be getting remastered into an HD double-pack for modern platforms. These two four-player arcade brawlers are getting a bunch of enhancements on top of their HD facelift, including a drop-in online feature, customizable rules, leaderboards, and in-game challenges that can be undetaken to gain level-ups and coins for spending in the vault, a “treasure trove” of unlockable content and extra goodies....

Good to see you again, Nemesis Capcomhas announcedthat thepreviously teaseddemo for its incomingResident Evil 3remake will launch Thursday, March 19 on PS4, PC and Xbox One. The demo will give all fans the opportunity to check out the re-imagined Raccoon City, currently laid to waste by the outbreak of the T-Virus. AsResident Evilalumni Jill Valentine, players will pick their way through the debris, while ducking, diving and destroying hordes of grim creatures, all out for Ms....

Plus there’s a massive Final Fantasy sale This week’s new PlayStation Plus addition to the instant game collection isSmart Ason the PlayStation Vita. It’s more or less the Vita’s answer to Nintendo’sBrain Ageseries as it sees players having to solve math, memory, logic, world puzzles and more. Sales wise, a bunch ofFinal Fantasygames are all discounted. The first price is the normal discount with the secondary sale price being the extra PS Plus discount....

Nintendo’s head’s in the McClouds I am legitimately unsure why Nintendo feels likeStar Foxshould get a nod over a lot of its existing, untouched properties COUGH METROID COUGH COUGH and it seems like I’m not alone. Last week we saw theStar Fox ZeroandStar Fox Guarddouble pack debut to a 5th place spot in Japanese retail sales with 17,114 units sold. Add the 8,135 soloZerounits and it’s still sitting in 4th, behind twoOne Piecegames (or, the same game on Vita and PS4) andYo-kai Sangokushi....

Wallet-wrecking event lasts through Monday In case you hadn’t been paying attention to Steam today, whether intentionally or otherwise, the platform’s Autumn Sale hasofficially started. As always, you’ll want to keep an eye on the flash sales (Star Wars: KotOR IIfor $2.49, for example) and the daily deals above everything else until the final day. The promo starts strong with its first batch of dailies: From what I’ve seen ofupcoming deals in general, this may be my most restrained Black Friday week in recent years....

So would I StreetPass UK managed to catch up withStreet Fighterproducer Yoshinori Ono, and among other things, chatted up the possibility of another crossover game. When asked about a mashup, Ono excitedly stated that he’d love to see a “Nintendo vs. Capcom” one day, even calling it his “dream project.” Where havewe seen this before? Ono specifically says that he doesn’t want to seeStreet Fightertake the forefront though, and would like to see more general Capcom characters in the mix....

Goodbye Earth, hello yawning black death Last Horizonis a space exploration game onSteam,Android, andiTuneswhere it’s up to you to find a new home for the entire human race. It has the underlying sense of loneliness and dread that you might find in films likeSunshineorFrownhunters, but with controls and problems reminiscent ofAsteroidsandLunar Lander. Managing your resources while navigating through an unpredictable, procedurally generated cosmos isn’t a totally new idea, but it’s still a heck of a lot of fun when done well....

I just have to hope that there’s some mistranslation afoot here. Jun Takeuchi, producer ofResident Evil 5andLost Planet 2just told Kotakuthat in his opinion,Resident Evil 4was “… a great game, (but) its appeal was limited somewhat to maniac players”, where “WithRE5, I wanted to bring the series to a larger audience. I think its important to do the same for the nextRE“. Now I see his point on some level, but I have to say that this way of thinking worries me....