Xbox Game Pass subscribers have quite a lot to look forward to in October with Carto, Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Five Nights at Freddy’s 1 to 4 and much more out this week. But there’s even more to come. Microsoft has  announced November’s initial line-up for Game Pass, which includes Matt Makes Games’ Celeste.

The critically acclaimed platformer will be available for console and PC subscribers on November 5th (with support for Android as well). Comanche comes to PC subscribers on the same day and offers modern helicopter action in various multiplayer modes. Then there’s Deep Rock Galactic, a 1 to 4 player co-op title that features Space Dwarves, mining and battles against alien hordes. It will be available for console and PC subscribers.

Other titles releasing on November 5th include Eastshade and Knights and Bikes, both playable on console and PC. ARK: Survival Evolved – Explorer’s Edition is out on November 17th for subscribers on both platforms and also supports Android. Stay tuned for more details on other Game Pass titles coming next month especially with the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S launches on November 10th.

It’s hard to believe that the Five Nights at Freddy’s sensation has been ongoing now for several years. It seems like only yesterday when the first game was a streaming sensation. Time sure does get away from you, huh? Well, the multitude of games in the franchise have stayed in the realm of PC and mobile ecosystems, but now they’ll finally make their way to consoles.

As announced by developer Clickteam, the games will finally make their console debut later this week. Five Nights at Freddy’s 1-4 will all come on the 29th. The games follow a security guard who watches over Freddy Fazbear’s pizza and must survive for five nights as aging animatronic robots begin stalking you as you monitor cameras. Each game brings a new chapter to the strange saga of Freddy’s.

All four Five Nights at Freddy’s games will be available digitally for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch on November 29th for $7.99 USD.

No Faith – Mirror’s Edge

In a game that’s primarily about parkour, what happens when the protagonist can’t effectively rim? Such was the anti-piracy measure introduced in Mirror’s Edge. Every time Faith is close to a jump, she’ll slow down. This makes it impossible to go anywhere past the opening rooftop in the first stage. At least there’s the gorgeous view to admire.

Five Nights at Freddy’s (Series)

Giving anyone who didn’t quite click with the creepy robot mascots of Chuck E. Cheese in the past more than their fair share of nightmares, the whole 5 Nights at Freddy’s series would dominate this list if we didn’t limit it to one. Call it overplayed but the deft weaving of lore into these simple looking suspense games has made them classics for a reason

Scott Cawthon’s Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise isn’t just getting another release with the teased “Sister Location” – it’s also heading to consoles.

The creator answered fans on Steam about a console version and revealed that, “Actually, yes! It will happen. I’m talking with a few companies who are interested in doing console remakes of the original games.”

The limitations of the Clickteam engine powering the games means that he won’t be working on the console version alone. Third party studios have been approached for the task and Cawthon has affirmed that the console titles “will not be ported, they will be remade”.

Will that be enough to stem criticism that the franchise is beyond tired at this point? Maybe not but it’s something for console players to look forward if they’re never played a Five Night’s at Freddy’s game before. What are your thoughts on console remakes of the original games? Let us know in the comments below.

Look, there is a real and indisputable problem with mobile gaming- the storefronts through which these games are sold are hardly curated, meaning all sorts of crap eventually manages to make its way through to consumers. And while quality control is something we can debate all day long, the larger issue is when obvious knock offs, which are in clear violation of copyright law, and which generally mislead customers and exist to scam them out of their money, manage to make their way to the storefronts too.

Such a thing has happened right now. If you visit the App Store from an iOS device, you will find a listing for Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2 (adding insult to injury is the fact that it is currently charting high on the Paid Apps list). The title of the app would suggest that it is a sequel to the first Minecraft game’s mobile version- and indeed, the description of the game would suggest that too:

“Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. Minecraft II is taking those activities to a whole new level of excellence and uniqueness. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.

“Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles. Play in creative mode with unlimited resources or mine deep into the world in survival mode, crafting weapons and armor to fend off the dangerous mobs.

“Craft, create, and explore alone, or with friends on mobile devices or Windows 10.”

It’s a well written blurb, unlike so many other scam or knock off products, and the mention of other copyrighted properties like Windows 10 would probably allay any fears you may have had. Unfortunately, Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2 is not an official product. It’s a scam made by someone called Viktor Todorov (though on the game’s official page, the developer is listed as Scott Cawthorn, possibly in an attempt to mislead customers into associating the game with the developer of the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, Scott Cawthon).

Worse than the copyright infringement, however, is the nature of the product itself. The game advertises itself using screenshots from Minecraft, misleading players into thinking that the game will play like that. Unfortunately, the actual game is nothing like Minecraft– according to Eurogamer, who have discovered this knock off via Reddit, it is a “terrible top-down swipe game” which eventually crashes your phone.

You want to know what somehow manages to make it even worse? Worse than the fact that it infringes upon multiple copyrights, worse than the fact that it misleads customers, worse than the fact that it is a terrible product? It’s the fact that it costs £5 (or $11)- it’s a terrible product that doesn’t even have the decency to be free, or cheap.

Eurogamer has gotten in touch with Mojang, and received an official statement.

“It’s great that Minecraft has inspired people to create amazing things, but when a product attempts to dupe our community or exploit their enthusiasm for the game, it’s our responsibility to step in,” Mojang’s Owen Hill said.

“Our dedicated enforcement team are extremely busy!”

Meanwhile, of course, we are all left wondering if this is truly what mobile gaming has become- exploitative and scammy at the best of times, but at the worst, an uncurated wild west where games that are buggy, misleading, and illegal end up somehow rising to the top of the charts.

The last time something like this happened, there was a video games crash- that may be the direction that mobile gaming is headed in itself.