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And if the environment were invisible Today is a good day to celebrate rainbows, eh? I mean, every day is a good day to celebrate rainbows, and even if that weren’t the case, I’d still highlight Super 91 Studios’Ink. It started as an entry toLudum Dare 32, whose theme was “An Unconventional Weapon.” The weapon in question is paint, or ink, or multicolored blood. Players control a white quadrilateral that leaves behind a trail of colorful goo that highlights edges, platforms, and spikes....

The first one barely just came out We’re barely a year removed from the firstTotal War: Warhammer, which is said to be part of a “trilogy” of strategy games, and the second entry,Total War: Warhammer IIhas a release date. Just today during the PC Gaming Show developer Creative Assembly showed off a new battle with the Lizard Men, which will be playable at E3. For new races are in for the sequel — the High Elves, Lizard Men, Dark Elves, and a fourth mystery race....

Make Robotnik Great Again Things are looking bad for Dr. RobotnikneeEggman. After years of having his schemes foiled by a bunch of glove-loving, wisecracking animals, his public image has taken something of a kicking. How things might have been different if Sega had pickedhimas their mascot, as they very nearly did. The road less traveled… So, to get his people back in line, and for a bit of public PR, the rotund rascal has put out a short propaganda video, a call to arms as it were, to show how pleasant life can be under his rule, living among the chimneys and factories of his grim-skied metropolis....

And improving the upscaler At the request ofTitanfalldeveloper Respawn Entertainment, Microsoft will tweak the Xbox One controller and the console’s upscaler, reportsThe Verge. “It’s just fixing the controller input, really,” said design lead Justin Hendry. “It wasn’t really where we felt it should be; it was a little overly twitchy with the current controls. Now it’s fixed. We’re happy with it.” This preparation comes in addition to what’s been announced for theMarch update....

And that’s not all Thanks to a new mod released by YellowAfterLife, it’s possible to play the originalSpelunkycooperatively with another player online. Heck yeah!Download it here for free. The mod, Spelunky SD, also offers some bug fixes, tweaks like “being slightly more forgiving on input precision” and “enemies ‘blinking’ when about to get up,” plus “endless chat commands for changing the way levels are played or even just messing around.”...

If you’re a Sniper or Marksman Rifle enthusiast,MW3andWarzoneSeason 4 Week 6 challenges are the perfect place to test your skills. Not only does it focus on long-range attacks, but it also presents a new Aftermarket Part for these rifles. We’re here to show you how to complete these challenges, getting you a step closer to Week 8’s Helical Reverb unlock. All MW3 Season 4 Week 6 challenges Since this week’sMW3challenges are all about long-range, Operators must equip Recommended Sniper and Marksman Rifles....

It’s already confirmed to be a mobile thing Square Enix bankrolls a ton of projects, so it’s really hard to keep up. I meanFinal Fantasy XVis practically its own studio at this point, augmented by a heap of mobile spinoff games, one of which just launched this week. But they also pump out a ton of other mobile games, one of which will be this mystery project that they’ve already confirmed for iOS and Android....

DugDeus Ex: Human Revolutionand want more?The Missing Linkdownloadable content is now available in North America for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It’s available for 1200 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360, and $14.99 on the PlayStation Network and PC. What do you get for that kind of cash? Try up to six hours of new gameplay, ten new achievements/trophies and 250 Xbox Gamerscore points. The game’s producer, David Anfossi, says that this DLC provides an enhanced game with deeper insight into the conspiracy, visual improvements, new characters and enemies, and a twist on gameplay elements....

New York, the state that seems to be in love with videogame legislation, is at it again, this time thanks to Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright. Wright is the man who wants to combat games thatenforce racist stereotypes, but he also wishes to do something quite astounding — he longs for those evil, nasty, violent videogames to besealed away in locked containerslike plutonium. This defender of children’s sanity wishes to protect all the kiddies from any game that “glamorizes … the commission of a violent crime, suicide, sodomy, rape, incest, bestiality, or sado-masochism …” Games would be expected to carry warning labels — since so many of them feature sado-masochistic bestial sodomy — with a potential fine of $1,000 for those publishers that don’t comply....

Hell is other people On its surface,Michigandoesn’t appear to stand out from the crowd of survival horror games that infested the PlayStation 2. A mysterious virus is turning everybody into monsters and you have to fight to stay alive. However, this is a Grasshopper Manufacture title, a studio that likes to do things a bit differently. Let’s start with the name.Michigandoesn’t take place in Michigan; all the action here is in Chicago....

All that and the kitchen sink Really, why even play clearly deficient retro games? I mean, where are the shmup segments inMetroid? Where are the open world segments inContra? Where are the line segments in a bisected triangle? A.N.N.E.is one part platformer, one part shmup, one part RPG. And this year at PAXA.N.N.E.has all its systems in play. Maybe we’ll all get to play it this year.

Come algebra, anatomy, astronomy… Panzer Dragoonfans got a very welcome surprise yesterday, as the remake of the classic 1995 Sega Saturn release took flight on Nintendo Switch at very little notice.Panzer Dragoon: Remakeis available to download from the eShop right now, but if you’re looking to get physical, then Limited Run Games has you covered. Over on the publisher’s official store, you can now pre-order a physical edition of the mystical shooter, ahead of its unspecified release date....

Stretch goal could mean Wii U version 2010’s homebrew Sega Genesis RPGPier Solarwas one of those projects that was fun to watch from the sidelines, but I never got to actually play it myself. That’s what was great about development team WaterMelon turning to Kickstarter for a revamped take on the game due out on more easily accessible platforms (Xbox 360, PC, Mac, Linux, and … Sega Dreamcast). With six days left to go,Pier Solar HDhassurpassed its funding goalof $139,000 and its first stretch goal of $145,000, which will result in a Japanese translation for all versions....