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Nintendo may have finally delivered on their promise to licence out their favorite franchise characters. Yesterday, big news came out of Japan that Free DLC was coming to Mario Kart (currently Japan only) which includes a Mercedes themed kart. In appears that in return, Mario is making an appearance in the latest Japanese Mercedes commercials.

A key part of Sony's Instant Game Collection has been the "evergreen" titles that you can download at any time. These have traditionally lasted a year and are due for a change in the coming weeks. Today, Fred Dutton has confirmed that these PlayStation Plus staples will be disappearing for good when they go, and that they won't be replaced. Instead fans will have access to one more PlayStation 4 game per month.

I wrote a previous article on GamesReviews about Nintendo diving into collectible, playable toys market. A day after the article was posted, it was announced that these toys would be usable across a variety of Nintendo games and not be tied to one specific game franchise like the toys used in Disney Infinity or Skylanders. One such rumor was that the NFC figures, scanned using the NFC reader on the Wii U gamepad, would be used in Super Smash Bros.

It was always pretty obvious that Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare would end up on PlayStation devices. I'm not sure Popcap or EA ever denied it either. The franchise has long been a multiplatformer, regardless of any temporary exclusivity deals that might have been in place. Well, a new Tweet from the official EA account hints that the family-friendly shooter will be available on PS3 and PS4 sooner than expected.

Undead Labs - the developer behind State of Decay - have announced today via a blog post on their website that their zombie resource gathering survival game will indeed be updated with a new DLC release at the end of the month, May 30th.

An entry on the Battlelog is hinting at a brand new Battlefield game, probably to be announced at E3. The code "BFH" has suddenly appeared in the static assets for the Battlelog, along with icons for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. It stands to reason that this is a new title - Battlefield Heroes already has its own different code so a port seems unlikely - but what is it?

Bayonetta 2 was announced exclusively for Wii U, and then it kind of went quiet. We’ve had a couple of updates showing how things have been progressing, but when compared to something like Watch Dogs (which seems to have had a trailer every week for months), the Witch Hairdressing Sim seems to have been completely non-existent. It seems release might be closer than you’d expect, however, as Bayonetta 2 was this weekend rated in Australia. Those worried that Nintendo would…

Tecmo Koei Europe announced today that the latest in the Warriors Orochi series is currently in development. Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate is coming to PS3, PS4, PSVita and the Xbox One and contains the full Warriors Orochi 3, as well as new stories and features. It is the first in the series to be released on the flagship PS4 and Xbox One systems.

The controversial albeit very popular game 'Weed Firm' has been taken down by Apple from the iTunes app store this week. In the game players take on the role of a drug dealer, tasked with growing and selling marijuana to people in their neighbourhood. The player must also avoid police and other rival gangs, with certain mini games including enticing a stripper to become a buyer fanning the flame of controversy even further.

For fans of the Transformers series, you will not be disappointed with the June 24th release of “Transformers Rise of the Dark Spark”. Rise of the Dark Spark is a follow up to the widely successful live action films and from other Activision titles Transformers: War for Cybertron and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. According to Information from Activision, Dark Sparks’ story takes players on the hunt for an ancient relic as powerful as the Matrix of Leadership, the Eponymous Dark Spark.