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Bandicoot back to conquer street sales In news that is of absolutely no shock to anybody, the U.K. has put remade racerCrash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueledat the top of the physical sales charts. As history has told us, the U.K. loves Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot and poor political decisions. Many of you will remember howCrash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogydominated the chartsfor weeks,even returning to the number one spoton multiple occasions, so seeing Crash, Tiny, Polar and pals back at the top of the premier league is an inevitably, and the gang will likely sit in pole position for some time....

You don’tneed zoo animalsto remind you E3 is nearly upon us; take a quick look at the latest headlines from your game-covering website of choice and be amazed at just how many rumors there are. Much will soon be revealed, but until then, here’s another one for the already overpopulated list. According to Joystiq’s mysterious source of mystery, Sega has an Xbox LIVE Arcade-bound Project Natal game calledSonic Free Riderson the way....

Food Feud XSEED Games has announced that its period tale of farmin’ and fightin’Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, will be receiving a physical launch on PS4 and Nintendo Switch later in 2020. Developed by indie studio Edelweiss,Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruinis a spiritual adventure that sees the titular young Goddess of Harvest attempt to cultivate crops for a meager town and its people, while simultaneously fending off demon attacks in side-scrolling platform action....

This one will have one more fighter, for 11 total Sakurai is upping hisSmash UltimateDLC game. This time the next Fighter’s Pass is confirmed (Volume 2), which will add six new fighters into the mix. That’s one more than the first pass, for 11 DLC characters in totalat this time. It’ll come with an Ancient Soldier Mii costume as a pre-order bonus. Note: Sakurai says that the fighters arealready chosen, so “Twitter requests” will be futile....

Hello Kitty usurped! While most gaming fans were getting stuck elbows-deep into all of E3’s gaming news this weekend, over in Japan theSplatooncommunity fought it out in the Grand Finals of the four-week splatfest to determine the cutest Sanrio character. It all seemed to be going the way of brand leader, Hello Kitty, when she bagged ahuge61% of the public vote. Then, out of nowhere, bandanna-sporting rabbit My Melody took both Team and Solo Play points – byone percent –to be declared the ultimate winner....

With a little fog thrown in for good measure Before Rare dips its toes intonext year’s PvP-centric expansion,Sea of Thieveswill get a free pack that improves some of the game’s current content. The new DLC,Shrouded Spoils, launches tomorrow, November 28. It’s unlikely to win over any new fans, but it does address longstanding requests. In short, there’s a new rolling fog system that should help set up ambushes and harrowing escapes out on the open seas....

How will they all come together? Anytime you sit in on an early look at a new videogame, the presentation’s sort of structured the same. Throughout the introduction to the title, the developers always —always— pepper the speech with catchy phrases about the approach that they wanted to take, their influences, and what they want to elicit from the players. BioWare’s showing of its newly announcedShadow Realmsat gamescom 2014 fell right in line with these expectations....

Emails incoming! If you have a valid PlayStation Plus subscription, keep an eye on your inbox – Sony is about to get in touch. Following the prolonged downtime in the New Year, Sony is writing out to those who had valid PlayStation Plus or PlayStation Now subscriptions and were affected by the outage. Though we’ve yet to see the detail, it’s anticipated that affected users will automatically have their compensation added to their subscription expiry dates....

The PlayStation Blog lays out some of the features we can expect to see in the upcoming version 2.00 system update that is coming this week, and the above video from Games Radar does a pretty good job of showing some of those features off. We know you’re bummed about the missing in-game XMB capability for this update, but there are other neat features to play with for now. One of the most notable new features is the Remote Play capability, which will enable users to turn on their PS3 and use its files via the internet, through their PSP....

Next best thing, I guess Since Microsoft seemingly refuses to do anything in the way of a new fully-realizedConker,fans have to settlefor whatever they can make inProject Spark. Given an asset pack to work with, a lot of these creators made fairly impressive-looking mini-games. None of them are likely to sate anyone’s desire for a properConkerrelease, but good on these fans anyway. Predictably, a decent chunk of the content in this trailer falls under the category of “tributes and homages....

The Forever Winterwas released via Steam Early Access late in September, dominating the co-op extraction shooter niche thanks to its hardcore gameplayandaridiculously grimdark take on future warfare. Now, the developer Fun Dog is pushing out a new Steam demo to help undecided players check it out. Notably, while there’s plenty of merit inThe Forever Winter‘s gameplay, lore, and aesthetic, some of the game’s more hardcore elements haven’t panned out with its fledgling community....

Another boss fight and more items The updates for theZelda: Breath of the Wildfan expansionSecond Windkeep coming, as we wait forBreath of the Wild 2proper. The below videoshowcases another addition, which includes a “Moon Slayer Lynel” boss battle, on top of new weapons like the Moon Slayer sword, shield, and bow. Note that the back part of the clip has Link fighting the final boss with said weapons, in case you’ve been holding off and don’t want it spoiled....

At least in North America Good news PlayStation 3 owners, you will finally be able to playMinecrafttomorrow. The PlayStation blog just announced thatMinecraftwill be available on the PlayStation 3 in North America on December 17. This version will have all the same features as theXbox 360 version, and downloadable texture packs and skins will be available soon. The release announcement didn’t include a price, but we can assume it will be $20 like the Xbox version....