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  • Tetris Effect is an upcoming game from the developers behind Lumines, Rez, and other spectacular games that uniquely combine music and game mechanics. Tetris Effect looks to bring a similar treatment with Lumines-style stages that each have their own music and backgrounds and modes we’re familiar with from past Tetris games as well as new ones.

    The trailer above talks a bit about the real effect that playing Tetris has on people who might see the blocks in the real world after playing the game. I’ve felt the same way after playing it, and other games. When my son was born, nobody was sleeping well, and we played The Witness. Of course we started to see similar puzzles out in the real world, but it wasn’t ever the same as with Tetris and its Tetriminos .

    The same developers are still working on Lumines Remastered, which was delayed from May to June 26th.

    It isn’t clear yet if Tetris Effect is a timed exclusive to the PlayStation 4, or a permanent one, but that is the only announced platform so far. It’ll also have PlayStation VR support at launch. We’re also missing a price, that’ll have to wait until Enhance gives us more details.

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    We’re onto our third event at E3 2018, Bethesda’s E3 Showcase. Here are my notes from their press event.

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  • We’re onto the second day of E3 press events, and here’s everything that was announced at Microsoft’s Xbox E3 2018 Briefing.

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  • The Electronic Entertainment Expo media conferences for 2018 have started off. Electronic Arts is up first with their EA Play conference hosted by the internet’s Andrea Rene. Here’s everything that EA announced:

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  • Landfall, the makers of some other silly games, have put out their latest “April fools joke” called Totally Accurate Battlegrounds. As you can see from the trailer, it’s a less-than-serious take on the Battle Royale genre of games. I’ve put in a very little bit of time on the game and it definitely feels incomplete, but also like exactly what I need as someone who is a bit bored after a few hundred hours in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ oh-so-serious murder simulator.

    A FAQ on Landfall’s site explains a bit more about why they decided to make Totally Accurate Battlegrounds:

    TABG is an April Fools joke, we’ve done one every year since 2016. We’ve previously combined one of our games with another genre or game. The first year we made Supertruck, a mix between the game Superhot and Clustertruck. Last year we made TABZ which is a mix between TABS and DAY-Z. We spend an enormous amount of lunch breaks and nights playing battle royale games, this is an homage to a genre we love.

    Despite their initial promise to not update this game at all, the developers at Landfall have been working on patches for TABG. Which is good, because I couldn’t join a multiplayer server at all a few days ago. Today I checked in again and was able to join servers.

    Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is temporarily free for the next few hours on Windows on Steam, it’ll be $5 after that. The developers have stated they a macOS version is unlikely and that they have no plans for other platforms.