New Retail Releases
The Video Game Librarian Pick of the Week is Splatoon (Wii U), Nintendo’s entry into the team-based shooter category. But instead of gruff military guys, Splatoon is populated by kids who have the ability to transform into squids. They use this power to literally paint the map and the object isn’t to get the most kills (though you can still do that), but to cover more of the floor with your team’s color.

Other New Retail Releases
ArcaniA: The Complete Tale (PS4)

New Release Round-Up For Downloadable Games

• Nintendo Download: Splatoon, Don’t Starve: Giant Edition, Mega Man Zero 3, more
• PlayStation Store: Ultra Street Fighter IV, Game of Thrones: Sons of Winter, Mega Man 8, more
• Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Game of Thrones: Sons of Winter, Rogue Legacy
• Xbox Games Store (Friday): Badland: Game of the Year Edition, Beach Buggy Racing

New Game Announcements

• Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is now available on iOS devices.
• Smash Derby will mix Smash TV with a destruction derby sometime this year.
• Super Mega Baseball will be released for the PC and Xbox One this Summer.
• Extreme Exorcism will also come to the PS3 and Wii U this year.
• Capcom will release a Resident Evil 0 remake in early 2016.
• Lords of the Fallen: Game of the Year Edition will be released on June 26.

More News

• Lords of the Fallen 2 will be released in 2017.
• FIFA 16 will include women’s national teams for the first time.
• Sony’s Andrew House says 2015 lineup is “a little sparse” and calls Vita a “legacy platform.”
• Darksiders II’s Definitive Edition will actually be known as the “Deathinitive Edition.”
• Another week, another set of Guitar Hero Live tracks have been revealed by Activision.
• The Humble Nindie Bundle brings the “pay-what-you-want” model to the 3DS and Wii U through the Nintendo eShop.
• Sony will release Until Dawn on August 25.
• The Retro VGS is a new console that’s going to be released in 2016… and its games are going to come on cartridges!

New Videos

• Splatoon – “Launch Trailer”
• Lego Jurassic World – “VIP Tour”
• Batman: Arkham Knight – “Time to Go to War”
• N++ – “Toggle Mine and Laser Turret”
• Mad Max – “Savage Road”

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