The Legend Of Zelda And Famicom Disk System Are 33 Years Old Today
As time marches on inexorably – week after week, year after year – it should come as no surprise that The Legend of Zelda is 33 years old today. No, not the cartridge version – that wouldn’t make an appearance until July ’87 in North America – we’re talking about the Famicom Disk System original.
The game also shares a birthday with the Famicom Disk System itself, the Japan-only console that plugged into the original cartridge-based Famicom and offered an improved experience over the base console. That console launched with The Legend of Zelda and a disk version of Super Mario Bros. – quite the one-two punch, wouldn’t you agree?
There are lots of things you can do to celebrate this fine day. If you’re stuck in front of a computer screen or sitting on the bus with your phone, why not head over to The Cutting Room Floor for a comprehensive examination of the differences between the disc and cartridge versions of the game.
Or perhaps Legends of Localization’s analysis on how Nintendo has continually modified the game over its 33-year life would be more to your liking.
Alternatively, you could settle down with a nice Zelda tome like the Hyrule Historia or something of that ilk, or enjoy some of Nintendo’s original design documents for the game in this very short video.
We’d argue, though, that the best option would be to fire up your nearest Nintendo console and dive into the classic game for an hour or two. The Switch version is convenient if you’re a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber, and save states make the game vastly more user-friendly than it used to be.
Don’t be afraid to seek out help if you need it, either – there’s no shame in a little helping hand, especially if you’d otherwise chuck in the towel and miss out on a true gaming classic.
Have you gone back to this classic recently? Making you feel old, is it? Us to – feel free to commiserate in the comments.
We’re slowly entering the “bug fixing and polishing” phase of the 1.14 Village & Pillage update, but that didn’t stop us from sneaking in a few cool features like Leather Horse Armor (it’s dyeable!), making Invisiblity Potions actually useful in survival, and best of all… wait, oh dear, I’ve forgotten what that last thing was. Oh well, it’ll come to me later.
One Iron Golem now spawns in all villages upon generation
Improvements to invisibility to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it didn’t but you’d expect it to
Added Leather Horse Armor
Textures for potion effects are now split into individual files
Command parser now accepts ' as string quotes. Inside '-quoted string " is handled as normal character and requires no escaping (and vice-versa) – so now it’s easier to input text components in NBT.
Stopped foxes, dolphins, and pandas from having armor equipped onto them via dispenser
Changed bounding box and eye height of foxes (prevents them from drowning when swimming)
Foxes that trusted you in the previous snapshot will unfortunately no longer be trusting
LEATHER HORSE ARMOR
Added a new armor type for horses
Dye it in lots, yes LOTS, of different colors
To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).
Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.
Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
Share your thoughts on how 1.14 is shaping up in the comments below!
Food retail is a complex, competitive business that belies the simple consumer act of buying bananas or avocados. Supply chains must deliver thousands of products with a limited shelf life, and retailers must serve in-store and online customers, all of whom want fresh food and convenient shopping.
Albertsons Companies, the second largest food and drug retailer in the United States, is meeting those challenges with a comprehensive digital strategy. With Microsoft as a partner, the Boise, Idaho-based company is launching cloud-based innovations that optimize operations, personalize promotions, differentiate the business and ultimately make shopping faster and easier for its 35 million weekly customers.
Anuj Dhanda
“We are reimagining the future to serve customers in a way they want to interact with us across all channels,” says Anuj Dhanda, Albertsons Cos. executive vice president and CIO. “Microsoft’s strengths in technology applied at scale at Albertsons Cos. is a winning combination for a great step up in customer experience and how we run the end-to-end company.”
The retailer operates 20 supermarket banners, including Albertsons, Safeway and Vons, in 35 states and Washington, D.C.
The businesses are exploring how to use computer vision, connected sensors and other artificial intelligence technology to reduce friction in the shopping experience.
The work is part of the company’s growing digital investments, including a redesigned e-commerce platform now on Microsoft Azure for scalability. The retailer has also installed customer Wi-Fi in stores, improved its mobile apps, and expanded services for home and rush deliveries of groceries and Plated meal kits. It expanded options for customers to buy online and pick up in-store. And it launched a pilot last year to deliver deli meals with Grubhub.
“We know our consumers are changing how they interact with us, so we want to move with them and be where they want us to be,” says Ramiya Iyer, Albertsons Cos. general vice president of digital stores and pharmacy. “It’s about advancing choices and making those choices even better.”
The choices include easier gas payments through the pilot program One Touch Fuel. Customers can download an app, store credit card info and then simply tap their phone to pay at a gas station. There’s no need to dip a credit card, enter a ZIP code or go through other pump prompts.
One Touch Fuel will help customers save time at the gas pump.
Hosted on Azure, the digital innovation saves receipts and can automatically apply discounts from just for U®, the company’s loyalty and digital rewards program. One Touch Fuel is available at 27 of Albertsons Cos.’ nearly 400 gas stations.
“Everybody who uses the app finds it very convenient and likes how it saves time,” says Mark Schumacher, Albertsons Cos. senior director of fuel and convenience.
For workplace efficiency, the retailer uses Microsoft 365 to enable a secure, collaborative environment for store and corporate employees. The intelligent solution provides access to important information like promotions and recalls, leading to better customer service.
The retailer is also leveraging Microsoft’s expertise in data science to streamline its massive supply chain, which involves thousands of manufacturers and growers, 2,000 trucks, 2,280 stores and an average of 50,000 products per store. Data helps the company match supply and demand, keep food fresh, serve customers, and anticipate weather- and event-related impacts.
“Clearly, data is the lifeblood for optimization of the flow, and carrying the widest, smartest variety of products,” says executive vice president and CIO Dhanda.
As data science advances in speed and precision, the company wants to use it for real-time, personalized promotions. So, if you just bought avocados and entered your loyalty number, the retailer might send you a coupon for chips that taste good with avocados – while you’re still in the store.
“The whole idea is that we’re able to create personalized deals for millions of customers based on what they shop for, how they shop and what we believe they would want to consider,” says Dhanda. “We’re using data to get effective and efficient to really meet our customers’ needs.”
If you weren’t aware, Visual Studio subscribers have free monthly Azure credits, that are ideal for experimenting with and learning about Azure services. When you activate this benefit, it creates a separate Azure subscription with a monthly credit balance that renews each month while you remain an active Visual Studio subscriber. If the credits run out before the end of the month the subscription is suspended until more credits are available. No surprises, no cost, and no credit card required for any of it!
The table below shows you how many Azure credits you get based on your type of Visual Studio subscription:
Visual Studio subscription type
Monthly Azure Credits
Activate Credits
Visual Studio Professional (standard subscription)
Now that you know how many Azure Credits you get every month for free, you are probably wondering what you can spend it on! We have put together the following simple table to help you get going:
Azure Service
Tier
Estimated Monthly Cost
App Service
Shared
$9.49
Storage
General Purpose V2 (1GB)
$1.06
SQL
Single DB (5DTUs, 2GB)
$4.90
CosmosDB
1GB
$23.61
Functions
Dynamic
First 1M executions free (up to 400K GB-s)
Monitor
Application Insights
First 1GB free
Key Vault
Standard
$0.03 (per 10k operations)
Service Bus
Basic
$0.05 (per 1M operations)
Redis
Basic (C0: 250MB Cache)
$16.06
Hopefully, you found this information helpful and you are on your way to make use of your Azure credits. If you are interested in the cost of an Azure service you didn’t see in the table above, try the Azure price calculator. If you have any questions or problems just leave us a comment below.
HAL Laboratory Celebrates Its 39th Anniversary With A Cute BOXBOY Comic
As noticed on Twitter by @teamkirby92, the developer that brought us Kirby, BOXBOY, Earthbound, Smash Bros. and much more is celebrating 39 years in the video game business with a little comic featuring Qbby and his companion, Qucy.
Below is the entire comic, plus a translation courtesy of the wonderful NintendoSoup:
Qbby: Hey! Today’s BoxBoy’s 39th Anniversary! Qucy: That’s wrong! HAL Laboratory has turned 39 today! Qbby: 39th Qbby Anniversary… Qucy: This is too absurd… Qbby and Qucy: Thank you 39th Anniversary! HAL: Please treat us well from here on!
Ahh, cute.
HAL has a long and illustrious history with Nintendo. Satoru Iwata worked for the company before becoming President of Nintendo until his untimely death in 2015. Masahiro Sakurai, overseer of the Smash Bros. franchise, began his long relationship with the series while working at HAL. Check out this story if you don’t know how the company got its name.
Also be sure to click in the direction of HAL’s fantastic website for more history on the company that created Kirby and so much more.
Think HAL have got big plans for next year’s 40th anniversary? Let us know your thoughts below…
Trials Rising On Switch Doesn’t Rise Up To The Challenge Of Its Rivals
Anybody who’s been playing video games for a few decades will probably recall draw distance ‘fog’ with a little nostalgia nowadays. The trick of disguising just how close to the player the game was drawing in objects by dousing the level in a thick mist was prevalent in the Nintendo 64 era, with a classic like Turok: Dinosaur Hunter being a typical example. Only this morning we were talking about the ‘mist’ used in Final Fantasy IX for the same reason.
With the power of modern consoles we thought these practices were in the past, but it seems the ‘fog’ has returned in a shocking fashion in the Switch version of Trials Rising. Below is a video by Chris Becker on Twitter from the beta version currently available to download for free. First the Switch version, followed by the same level in the Xbox One version:
Obviously, there’s a framerate difference there, with the Xbox version running at what appears to be a silky 60fps, but it seems like a sandstorm has been employed to hide the removal of most of the background elements in the 30fps Switch version. Let’s take a look at the still images side-by-side:
Is this a big problem that will affect the enjoyment of Switch owners who’ll play Trials without having the Xbox version for direct comparison? Possibly not, although reports on Twitter aren’t good on Day One, mentioning control delays and sub-30fps gameplay:
We’re diving into our review code at this very moment, so keep an eye out for our verdict in the near future. Ubisoft have outlined a long post-release support plan for the game, including expansions and download packs galore – let’s just hope they keep plugging away at the core game, too. It’d be nice to actually see what we’re doing on Switch.
Think there’s a Day One patch waiting in the wings to solve some of these issues? Would it not be so bad without the side-by-side comparison with the superior version? Let us know in the comments.
Welcome to ChromaTec?s test lab! You?re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Congratulations, you qualify!
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Red Dead Online Beta Update Adds New Modes; Coming Next Week
Rockstar has announced an update to Red Dead Online, the online multiplayer mode in Red Dead Redemption 2. The update is scheduled for next week on February 26, with some of the content--such as clothing and a new melee weapon--exclusive via PS4 early access. This content will come to Xbox One in time, though. For now, Red Dead Online still remains in beta.
The update introduces a new in-game event called Fool's Gold in Free Roam. The event spawns a suit of golden armor, which can be worn. Doing so and killing players nets you points towards winning Fool's Gold. If you're not wearing the armor, you must track down and kill the person who is in order to claim it for yourself.
New competitive fishing challenges will be added in the new update as well, as will three new Showdown modes: Up in Smoke, Spoils of War, and Plunder. A new race variation, called Target Races, is also included. In terms of weapons, the update adds the Evans Repeater rifle and the Rare Shotgun, both of which will be available via the Wheeler & Rawson Catalogue and local Gunsmiths. A variety of new clothes and emotes are also being added, allowing you customize your Red Dead Online character in new ways.
In our Red Dead Redemption 2 review, Kallie Plagge gave the game a 9/10, writing, "While Red Dead Redemption was mostly focused on John Marston's story, Red Dead 2 is about the entire Van der Linde gang--as a community, as an idea, and as the death rattle of the Wild West. It is about Arthur, too, but as the lens through which you view the gang, his very personal, very messy story supports a larger tale. Some frustrating systems and a predictable mission structure end up serving that story well, though it does take patience to get through them and understand why. Red Dead Redemption 2 is an excellent prequel, but it's also an emotional, thought-provoking story in its own right, and it's a world that is hard to leave when it's done." Her impressions of the Red Dead Online beta, however, were not as positive.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available for Xbox One and PS4.
The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region.As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Switch Retail – New Releases
Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition(Digital Dreams, €26.49 / £21.99) – Dynasty Edition includes Dynasty Mode, a single player experience where you become the coach and GM of your favourite Mutant Football League team and take a group of unproven rookies and turn them into monstrous all-stars by winning multiple Mayhem Bowls over several seasons to become the league’s next Dynasty. The Dynasty Edition also introduces two brand new species, four new teams, several new Dirty Tricks and of course, more fantastical arenas full of ruthless fans and deadly traps. – Read our Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition review
STEINS;GATE ELITE(Koch Media, €59.99 / £53.99) – Ready to Play the Anime? Experience a fully animated adventure with brand-new scenes in STEINS;GATE ELITE! Follow a group of young, tech-savvy “lab members” who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave. Their experiments in pushing the boundaries of time begin to spiral out of control as they become entangled in a conspiracy surrounding SERN, the organization behind the Large Hadron Collider, and John Titor, who claims to be from a dystopian future.
Aragami – Shadow Edition(Merge Games, €26.99 / £22.49) – Aragami is a third person stealth game that casts you as an undead assassin with the power to control the shadows. Teleport to any shadow, become invisible, materialize weapons or even summon a shadow dragon to infiltrate the enemy ranks and dispose of your targets. Aragami: Shadow Edition includes Aragami: Nightfall, a story campaign which takes place before the events of Aragami, and all content released so far for Aragami.
Q.U.B.E. 2(TrappedNerveGames, €22.09 / £19.54) – Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home. – Read our Q.U.B.E. 2 review
Switch eShop – New Releases
SMITE(Hi-Rez Studios, Free) – Go Ahead, Play God – Jump into the action as one of over 90 Gods from Pantheons around the world. Play as iconic figures like Ares, Thor, Hercules, Wukong, and Medusa. There are also unique Gods and Goddesses like the volcanic Pele, the Voodoo God of Death, Baron, and the nine-tailed fox, Da Ji. – Read our SMITE review
Trials Rising – Open Beta(Ubisoft, Free) – Explore over-the-top action and physics-bending motorcycle racing in the latest opus of the Trials franchise. All new features, more competitions and more tracks means new challenges. Ride challenging tracks around the world – from the Great Wall of China and New York City to the Eiffel Tower and everywhere in between.
Trine 2: Complete Story(Frozenbyte, €16.99 / £15.29) – Play as the three Heroes – Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the Thief – and join their adventure through dangers untold in a fantastical fairytale world of tragic princesses and wicked goblins, with wondrous environments featuring physics-based puzzles using fire, water, gravity and magic.
BlazeRush(Targem Games, €11.99 / £16.80) – BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
ACA NEOGEO THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2003(HAMSTER, €6.99 / £6.29) – “THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2003” is a fighting game released by SNK in 2003. It features the same 3-on-3 battle system as the previous title in the series, but this time players are able to use the “Multi-Shift” format to freely tag in team members for speedier gameplay. A new character named ASH is also introduced, marking the beginning of a new chapter for the series!
Caterpillar Royale(STARSIGN, €4.99 / £4.49) – Caterpillar Royale is an action game where you eat food, grow your caterpillars, and fight enemies to survive. Your caterpillars die if their heads touch obstacles or enemy-caterpillars. It’s a merciless caterpillar battle royale!
I wanna fly(Ultimate Games, €1.99 / £1.79) – The life of the dreamer is hard – they said, dreams must be fulfilled – they said. Especially those seemingly impossible to meet. So there is nothing to wait for! Become a fulfilled dreamer and in your own way … start flying! Take on one of the dozens of characters who can only dream about flying and let them enjoy the moment!
Almost There: The Platformer(QuantumAstroGuild, €6.55 / £5.75) – Sprint between saw blades while dodging homing missiles. Duck under lasers while the floor crumbles beneath you. Almost There was designed specifically for fans of hardcore platforming – you’ve been warned.
Croc’s World Run(Sprakelsoft, €4.99 / £4.49) – “Croc’s World Run” is the newest part of the Croc’s World franchise! It features: + 50 incredible levels + Nice HD-Graphics + 4 different Worlds + many challenging enemies + easy one-button-control
Devil Engine(DANGEN Entertainment, €19.99 / £17.99) – Devil Engine is a high octane, classic styled side scrolling shoot-em-up heavily influenced by the best in the genre from the 32-bit era, featuring a variety of incredible locations, hand drawn pixel art, and a blood-pumping soundtrack that brings the dark future to life.
GIGANTIC ARMY(Storybird, €8.99 / £8.09) – Mankind’s war against the Ramulons has reached the planet Ramulon itself and it is now down to YOU to pilot the ‘GMR-34 SALADIN’ – a Manned Combat Robot – and take on the Ramulon army. Customize your arsenal of explosive, projectile and plasma weapons, and combine them with melee attacks, thrusters and shield to take the fight to the enemy and end the conflict!
Hell Warders(Pqube, €14.99 / £10.99) – Hell is at our gates! Rise up as one of the mighty Hell Warders, an ancient order of heroes with unique powers and abilities, to resist the demon hordes head-on. Push back wave after wave of Hell-spawn with an arsenal of weapons, rip apart their fearsome commanders with powerful hero skills, and deploy your army of knights, archers, and mages to bring the fight back to Hell!
My Arctic Farm 2018(Plug In Digital, €4.99 / £4.49) – At the beginning of the game, all you own is an empty field, a few pennies and a single little penguin… You need to feed your penguin, take care of it and improve its lifestyle. Well-fed with fishes, your penguin will lay eggs which can then be sold to the Shopkeeper. With this money, you can buy new animals at the Farmers’ Market.
Raining Coins(Crazysoft, €5.99 / £4.99) – It’s raining gold coins! Come, Play & catch them! The skies have opened up but it’s not raining cats and dogs! It’s raining gold coins! Help poor Eve catch the gold coins and buy the toys she loves.
Rotating Brave(COSEN, €4.99 / £4.49) – “Rotating Brave” for the Nintendo Switch is an action game in which you control a pixel-art character and take on enemies while spinning. You start off holding the Nintendo Switch vertically. Then, as you progress from one stage to the next, you play while spinning the Nintendo Switch, sometimes holding the Nintendo Switch horizontally and sometimes holding it vertically.
The Journey Down Trilogy(BlitWorks, €29.99 / £26.99) – Join Bwana on a breathtaking point-and-click adventure saga, in the full The Journey Down Trilogy. Uncover secrets and reveal plots on a journey that spans from the sprawling metropolis of St. Armando to the ancient jungles and temples of the mythical Underland.
Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight(7Levels, €9.99 / £8.99) – In Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight players get the chance to take a seat at the controls of a historical airplane and feel the power of its engines and experience the rush of adrenaline flowing through their veins while facing an enemy plane up in the air.
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-(ACTIVE GAMING MEDIA, €19.99 / £17.99) – Play as a young girl as she explores the mysterious and unreal world of her dreams. Start off with no story or guide, as you experience the different worlds of her dreams, each one deeply shrouded in mystery. Run from the monsters that chase you, discover how to use the items you find, and solve the puzzles you come across to find clues to the mysteries scattered around you.
X-Morph: Defense(EXOR Studios, €19.99 / £17.99) – You are the X-Morph – an alien species that invades Earth to harvest its resources and terraform the surface. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle. Build mazes for incoming enemies in an environment that provides exceptional planning freedom. Tear down buildings and collapse bridges to support your defense or to simply indulge in a spectacle of unprecedented destruction. Possess a range of unique alien weapons and use defense strategies as you’ve never seen before in this genre.
X-Morph: Defense Complete Edition(EXOR Studios, €29.99 / £26.99) – X-Morph: Defense Complete Edition includes: X-Morph: Defense core game, European Assault DLC, Survival Of The Fittest DLC, Last Bastion DLC.
Arcade Archives ICE CLIMBER(HAMSTER, €6.99 / £6.29) – “ICE CLIMBER” is an action game released by Nintendo in 1985. Play as POPO and NANA to break apart blocks of ice with your hammer and defeat enemies that get in your way as you aim for the top of the mountain. However, only one person can catch the condor waiting at the summit. Will you work together, or try to go for it alone? It’s up to you!
Daggerhood(Ratalaika Games, €3.99 / £3.99) – Every man should have a skill and for Vincent S. Daggerhood, that skill was thieving. Quick with his hands, there was no loot he couldn’t plunder and no treasure chest he couldn’t escape with. For Daggerhood, life was good, until come that fateful day he was finally caught and in the name of justice, to pay for his crimes, he was cast into the forsaken caverns.
Switch eShop – Pre-Orders
Trials® Rising(Ubisoft, €24.99 / £19.99, pre-order from 19/02/2019) – Explore over-the-top action and physics-bending motorcycle racing in the latest opus of the Trials franchise. All new features, more competitions and more tracks means new challenges. Ride challenging tracks around the world – from the Great Wall of China and New York City to the Eiffel Tower and everywhere in between. With the new hilarious Tandem Bike, get your friends and try to control one bike with two riders. Includes Jungle Rider Pack, Wild West Rider Pack, Samurai Item Pack and Stuntman Rider Pack as a pre-order bonus.
Trials® Rising – Digital Gold Edition(Ubisoft, €39.99 / £29.99, pre-order from 19/02/2019) – Includes the Game & 55+ tracks with the Expansion Pass! Get an additional 55+ tracks with the Expansion Pass: – Explore the American southwest and go on wild rides in Trials® Rising Sixty-Six – Go on an epic adventure below the equator in Trials® Rising Crash & Sunburn, globe-trotting in exotic locations. – Cut up the competition while you sport The Samurai Item Pack – Defy the laws of gravity with The Stuntman Rider Pack Includes Jungle Rider Pack, Wild West Rider Pack, Samurai Item Pack and Stuntman Rider Pack as a pre-order bonus.
Braveland Trilogy(Ellada Games, €13.49 / £12.14, pre-order from 19/02/2019) – Braveland Trilogy is a turn-based game inspired by old-school strategies with hexagonal battlefield. The story will take place in a hand-drawn world and cover many interesting places and characters. Various warriors will join your army – archers, scouts, healers, footmen, arbalesters and more.
Assault Android Cactus+(Witch Beam, €14.99 / £13.49, pre-order from 20/02/2019) – Experience an arcade style twin stick shooter set in a vivid sci fi universe. Junior Constable Cactus is outside her pay grade when she responds to a distress call and ends up stranded on a crippled space freighter under attack by its own robot workers. With a draining battery mechanic instead of lives, Assault Android Cactus+ challenges you to think fast and shoot faster. Charge head first into an army of refitted robots, transforming stages and massive boss showdowns.
Anodyne(Nnooo, €9.99 / £8.99, pre-order from 21/02/2019) – Immersed in a moody, dream-like soundtrack explore a world full of natural, urban and abstract environments, solving puzzles and defeating enemies…with a broom! Inspired by old-school 16-bit adventure classics, take part in a deep and wonderful journey exploring a large overworld and many quirky, challenging and fun dungeons to find out what awaits you in Young’s subconscious.
Johnny Turbo’s Arcade: Super Real Darwin(FTE Games, €7.99 / £7.03, pre-order from 21/02/2019) – The inhabitants of the planet Lakya unwittingly unleash the planet’s life force known as Evol. As the released Evol drifts from planet Lakya, it is received by the inhabitants of the nearby planet Cokyo; the people of Cokyo initiate the Shlohe project, a plan to use their captured Evol to develop advanced biologic ships and weapons to invade planet Lakya. The inhabitants of Lakya retaliate the Cokyo invasion by using their own evolving fighter ships.
Ninja Village(Kairosoft, €10.00 / £8.99, pre-order from 21/02/2019) – The shogun has fallen from power, plunging the land into chaos as feuding feudal lords scramble to take his place. But the shogun has an ace up his sleeve: you! As the head of a leading ninja clan, it’s up to you to rally your followers and help unify Japan! As their fearless leader, you’ll need to train your fellow ninjas in the ways of modern 16th-century warfare–including the use of those newfangled matchlock guns! Assign them to infantry, cavalry, and other units to form an army fit for a shogun!
The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame(WB Games, €39.99 / £34.99, pre-order from 22/02/2019) – The alien monster invaders have left Bricksburg in ruins and taken Emmet’s friends! It is now up to Emmet and a host of heroic characters to go beyond their world and save their friends from the strange inhabitants of the Systar System. Journey into outer space, discover new worlds, and test your Master Building skills.
