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Lawbreakers has been on the radar for a while. A game that has been picked up by Nexon and being made here in North America is a switch to normal publishing from Asian companies. However, it is great to see Nexon fully investing in North American games, even publishing them both here and across the pond. Lawbreaker’s is Boss Key Productions arena shooter which moves at an extremely fast pace.

We’ve all seen the glut of games that are begging for your money in the guise of early access but where did they come from? Rob tries to tackle that topic this week.

Last weekend at PAX East I got the chance to demo Expedition: Vikings, the follow-up to Logic Artists Expedition: Conquistadors. Set in approximately 700 AD, you play the Chieftain of a small Viking village, in search of glory and wealth to improve and expand your village and your standing in the Viking world. You recruit raiding party members from within the population of your village, and then you lead them out into the world in search of adventure.

Pyre is an intriguing, beautiful, and weird mix of a RPG with a mini-game filling in for what normally would be fighting in most other games. The PAX East demo was only about 20 minutes long, but it packed a ton of different aspects of the game into those few minutes.

UploadVR.com has an interesting preview for a new program on the way to virtual reality fans everywhere. Called VReal, the platform seeks to bring a ‘Twitch-like’ experience to virtual reality games. In essence, it brings players into the experience of the player they’re watching.

Survival games remain very popular among MMO players these days. Especially if you were into hardcore PvP back in the old days. Each one coming up offers some twists and turns on an already solid premise. Of all these The Culling really caught our eye at PAX East. The battles play out like Battle Royale or Hunger Games in most respects, which makes this game a lot of fun to play and even fun to watch.

Counterplay Games has announced that its collectible card game, Duelyst, has officially launched. Players can take part in several game modes including competitive modes that include ranked season play across five divisions; practice mode pitting players against AI; and draft mode called The Gauntlet.

Nintendo has confirmed that both Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing IPs will be arriving on mobile devices in late 2016. According to Nintendo, Fire Emblem will be ‘more accessible’ on mobile devices than on other other systems and will feature both RPG and strategy elements.

Cryptic Studios may be looking to its stable of MMOs with yesterday’s Gamasutra posting looking for producers for an as-yet unnamed project. Given Cryptic’s rich MMO development of games including Neverwinter, Champions Online and Star Trek Online, it seems to be a promising development.

Nintendo has finally confirmed the rumors about a new console through a Tweet earlier today. Nintendo of America said that the NX will launch a new Legend of Zelda game simultaneously with the Wii U version.