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Dead By Daylight is free to play on Steam this weekend, letting newcomers check out the 4-on-1 multiplayer game. Dead by Daylight pits four people against one human-controlled bad guy, and over time it’s been updated to include many classic movie monsters in it.

You can play as–or fend off–Leatherface, Freddy Kruger, Jigsaw, and the Demogorgon across the game’s DLC. But before worrying about that, you can check out the base game for free until January 26.

If you find that you like it, both the base game and the deluxe edition, which comes with a soundtrack, digital art book, and two Payday 2 masks, are on sale for 60% off. You can also buy the Stranger Things edition, which comes with the Stranger Things DLC, at a 53% discount. Most DLC packs are discounted by 40%.

Dead by Daylight earned a 6/10 in our original 2016 review, and reviewer Joab Gilroy wrote that it “executes the concept of a competitive horror game well, but only to a point.” It has grown and expanded since then.

During our time playing the first three hours of Doom Eternal at a preview event we were able to catch up with creative director Hugo Martin from id Software. We talked about how the team changed its approach to difficulty settings, why they went in certain directions with its mechanics, and how long the overall experience is going to be. But we also talked about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the equally exciting Nintendo Switch exclusive that shares Doom Eternal’s March 20 release date.

So, we asked him how he feels about launching alongside Doom’s polar opposite–an easygoing life sim that’s about finding fun in low-key daily chores–to which Martin said, “I think it’s awesome and it speaks to the amazing diversity that we see in games today. I honestly root for other games and other studios.” He continued, “I’m so proud to work in the game industry and the fact that two games that are so completely different, getting a ton of press, come out on the same day. It’s an incredible time to be in development and I’m excited to play Animal Crossing.”

Martin shared his enthusiasm for independent games and big-name blockbusters alike, alluding to his own recent experiences. “One of my favorite games is Inside and I just thought that it was just as engaging as any other. And God of War. I mean, [between] the two of those games, which one do I like more? I like them both and they’re both completely different,” Martin told us.

If you’re looking for a more relaxing time this coming March, be sure to check out everything we know about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Or if you’re hyped to play a bloody, relentless FPS, check out our impressions of Doom Eternal. Or why not both?

Re:Mind, the newest DLC for Kingdom Hearts 3, launched today, January 23 on PlayStation 4. Fans and Square Enix enthusiasts who complete the expansion, however, may notice something eerily familiar about the DLC’s ending–it looks a lot like an old Final Fantasy XV trailer from back when it was Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

Upon finishing the Re:Mind expansion, a cutscene shows Yozora sitting in the back of a car as the chauffeur drives through a cityscape. For those who remember, back in 2011, Square Enix cut together a similar trailer for the then-named Versus XIII: Noctis sitting in the back of a car driven by a chauffeur. It was one of many early trailers the company debuted when talking about the spin-off, which was then in development exclusively for the PlayStation 3.

YouTuber Ouji uploaded a side-to-side comparison video showing the similarities between the FFVXIII and KH3 clips–and they look very identical to each other. You can check out the comparison below.

The common factor between the two games is Tetsuya Nomura, who is the director of Kingdom Hearts 3 and was originally heading up Final Fantasy Versus XIII’s development. Nomura would eventually relinquish his Versus XIII duties to Hajime Tabata so that he could focus entirely on Kingdom Hearts 3.

Alongside the new DLC, Square Enix delivered a free update for Kingdom Hearts 3 across all platforms. Tne new update, patch 1.07, adds new abilities and keyblades, new story mode content, and more.

Kingdom Hearts 3 was received warmly by critics when it launched on January 29, 2019. The game got an 8/10 rating in our Kingdom Hearts 3 review, with editor Tamoor Hussain writing, “In 2002, as Sora, I left Destiny Islands to travel across the universe and make new friends. In 2019 I brought old ones home, and I had so much fun doing it.”

Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat! First up, learn about Nintendo’s new patent for a Joy-Con stylus attachment for Nintendo Switch. Then, the NVC crew is playing lots of Tokyo Mirage Sessions on Switch, and some of the panel has fallen back in love with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Finally, the panel tackles your listener questions on a supersized edition of Question Block.

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Logan Plant is the Production Assistant for NVC. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant.

Knights and Bikes, which launched on PS4, Xbox One, and PC in August last year, is now making its way to Nintendo Switch. The action-adventure game, which sees two kids team up to explore an island, and which can be played entirely in co-op, will come to Nintendo’s portable system on February 6.

The game is available to preorder on the Eshop now, and doing so before the game’s release will net you a 10% discount. You’ll be able to play the game with just one Joy-Con, which is ideal for playing the game in co-op on the go.

The Switch is getting a lot of games lately, including forty next week, but Knights and Bikes stands out. It got an 8/10 in our review, and reviewer David Wildgoose called it a “wonderfully warm, effortlessly inviting experience that’ll make you feel young again.”

Knights and Bikes was published by Double Fine, which is unlikely to publish more games now that Microsoft owns the studio.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD for Steam has received a strange new update that lets you ditch your ball for three other shapes. The game, which first released on the Wii back in 2006 before eventually getting a HD remaster on consoles and PC in 2019, will now let you ditch the ball on PC–but you can’t just control the monkey directly.

On the character select screen, you can now alter what plastic shape AiAi is rolling around in (it’s seemingly not possible for the other monkeys). Type in “cube” and you’ll end up in a cube-shaped lump of plastic; the same is true if you type in “triangle” or “star”. This will also affect how you move, it seems, as the physics differ between shapes.

In a follow-up tweet, it’s been clarified that this update is only coming to the Steam version, and that while you can use it on every level, it’s not guaranteed that you can actually beat all of them in these other forms–you might need to turn back into a ball to finish the game.

The Super Monkey Ball series could return if Banana Blitz HD does well. The game earned a 5/10 in our review, in which I wrote that it is “not a good showcase of what made the series work.”

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