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Fear Effect Sedna, Scribblenauts Showdown, more added to Xbox Store
It’s time for today’s Xbox Games Store update, and it looks like two big franchises have returned to the spotlight on the Xbox One.
The Fear Effect franchise got its start in 2000, and the third-person action game was best known for its unique cel-shaded graphics and high-tension Fear Meter… which makes Fear Effect Sedna completely different. Sedna is an isometric Strategy RPG, and players will need to think tactically to defeat enemies and solve puzzles.
Also available today is Scribblenauts Showdown, which has stepped away from the dictionary-based puzzle-solving of the earlier games in the franchise. Instead, Showdown is a multiplayer-focused minigame collection for up to four players.
You can learn more about the rest of today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)
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Fear Effect Sedna, Scribblenauts Showdown, Bravo Team, more coming to PS Store this week
Welcome to this week’s PlayStation Store update, which sees the return of two classic franchises in radical new guises.
Square Enix will resurrect the Fear Effect franchise this week with the PS4 launch of Fear Effect Sedna, an independently-produced sequel that ditches the run-and-gun gameplay of the original games from 2000-2001 and replaces it with a slower-paced strategic style. Meanwhile, WB Games is bringing back the Scribblenauts franchise after a slightly shorter absence in Scribblenauts Showdown, a multiplayer-focused minigame collection for the PS4.
Also this week, Supermassive will release Bravo Team for the PS4. The PlayStation VR headset is required for The co-op shooter, which tries to immerse players deeper into a war-torn Eastern European city.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
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New Retail Releases: Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition, Scribblenauts Showdown, Bravo Team, More
Big sales and critical acclaim greeted the launch of Final Fantasy XV back in 2016. But if you skipped Square Enix’s epic RPG, the publisher is trying again with Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition. Coming to stores this week for the PS4 and Xbox One, the Royal Edition will include a new dungeon, new features (including a First Person Mode), and all content from the game’s Season Pass.
Square Enix is also bringing Final Fantasy XV to the PC for the first time this week with the release of Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition. Like the Royal Edition, it will also come packaged with the content from the game’s Season Pass.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, WB Games will release Scribblenauts Showdown this week for the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One. Showdown takes the tried-and-true gameplay from the Scribblenauts series (including a dictionary with more than 60,000 words) and grafts it on to a multiplayer minigame competition.
Supermassive is one of the biggest names behind Sony’s VR push, and the Until Dawn developer is back with another PSVR-powered title for the PS4 this week, Bravo Team. In Bravo Team, players will need to make “constant split-second tactical decisions” as war rages all around you in a fictional Eastern European city.
And bookending this week’s batch of big new games, Square Enix and Deck Nine will release a Retail Edition of Life Is Strange: Before the Storm for the PS4 and Xbox One. The prequel includes the three-part game, as well as a bonus episode starring a younger Max Caulfield.
Finally, PQube will release Island Flight Simulator, 3D Mini Golf, and 3D Billiards: Billards and Snooker for the PS4. And Maximum Games will bring TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge, a motorcycle racing sim, to the PS4 and Xbox One.
And that’s it for this week’s New Retail Releases report, but we’ll be back in a few days with a look at all the upcoming additions to the PlayStation Store, Xbox Games Store, and Nintendo eShop.
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Outlast, Subsurface Circular, Scribblenauts Showdown, more coming to Nintendo eShop this week
The Nintendo Switch’s eShop got a little scarier this week.
With the launch of Outlast: Bundle of Terror, which contains the original game and its Whistleblower expansion, players can take Red Barrels’s demented romp through an insane asylum on the go for the first time. Also now available for the Switch is Subsurface Circular, a text-based detective game from Mike Bithell (the creator of Thomas Was Alone).
And on Tuesday, Switch owners will be able to download Scribblenauts Showdown, a multiplayer party game spinoff of the long-running franchise.
You can learn more about all of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop after the break. (more…)
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Mark it down… Scribblenauts Showdown will be released on March 6
WB Games has announced that Scribblenauts Showdown will be released for the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch on March 6. Original developer 5th Cell shut down a few years ago, but fans can get a peek at the first teaser trailer above.
The next game in the Scribblenauts saga will change things up with a new focus on minigames. Up to four players will be able to create objects using the game’s dictionary of more than 35,000 words, and they’ll compete on a board game style map to win:
In the game’s Showdown Mode, up to four players face off and imagine their way to victory through card-based strategy and creative skill. “Wordy” minigames require unleashing the best object or character from the vast Scribblenauts dictionary of over 35,000 words to outsmart an opponent. Action-oriented “Speedy” minigames reward the player who completes a given challenge first. A board game style map displays players’ progress. With multiple ways to make up ground, every player has a chance to win, which keeps the excitement going until the end!
In Versus Mode, two players can go head-to-head in more than 25 minigames that vary in every session.
Scribblenauts Showdown will also include a brand new Sandbox Mode with eight levels for one or two players.
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