Desperados 3

THQ Nordic’s Desperados 3 is a unique game in the fact that it uses its popular Wild West themes to create a compelling stealth experience. As one of five playable characters, Desperados 3 offers a wide variety of weapons and skills to conquer the many different combat scenarios it presents players with. It plays primarily like a tactics game, and you can either take your enemies head-on or employ more creative strategies which usually involve stealth. Another important point worth mentioning is that the game is a prequel to Desperados 2 and as such fans would, of course, have to know the basic plot before jumping into the game.

Microsoft noted earlier that Xbox Game Pass, its subscription-based service for Xbox One that would offer access to over 100 Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles at a time, would add new games on the first day of each month. July is nearly here and the company has announced the six games that will be available.

On July 1st, Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get Resident Evil 6, Dead Island: Definitive Edition, Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition, The Flame in the Flood, F1 2015, Bard’s Gold and Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine.

It should be noted that some Xbox Game Pass games would be cycled out each month. Microsoft hasn’t indicated which games will be removed to make room for the above but it did say that Game Pass titles would be up for a long time. Regardless, take advantage of what interests you when July 1st rolls around.

Xbox Game Pass currently costs $10 per month and doesn’t require Xbox Live Gold (except for multiplayer titles that require it).

DOOM may be launching next month, but Xbox One players will soon be able to play a blast from the past as far as DOOM is concerned on their consoles- DOOM 3: BFG Edition is being added to the Xbox One backwards compatibility list, Microsoft’s Major Nelson announced on Twitter today.

It won’t be the only new addition to the list, either- while indisputably far less significant, Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine is also going to be added to the backwards compatibility whitelist.

Like with all backwards compatible games, digital and physical copies are both playable on the Xbox One- digital copies will show up in your download list if they are associated with your account, while physical copies will require a small download before you can play them. The two games should also go on sale on the Xbox Store soon, since backwards compatible games are now sold on Xbox One’s marketplace too.

But that’s not all. On top of adding the new Blonde Class, there will now be a small campaign, Monaco Origins, explaining the backstories for the thieves within the game. So if you’ve ever been curious as to where these colourful characters come from, now’s your chance to find out.

Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is currently available on Steam at 60 percent off. Pick it up today or check out our official review of the game here to see if it’s worth the time (spoiler: it is).

“The 360 delay unquestionably hurt our sales. There was a bug that only occurred on the retail boxes, so we couldn’t have caught it until the game was fully through the certification process (4 player games were disconnecting, pretty much every game). Even when we were submitting a patch for it, we were blind, since we couldn’t actually test to reproduce the problem on the dev kits.

“I was never depending on the Xbox being our primary revenue generator, but I was very disappointed in Xbox sales nonetheless. We put a ton of effort porting the game, and to have that effort be largely wasted was really disappointing.”

Regardless, the game made enough money to pay back its Indie Fund investment, thanks to over $120,000 obtained from pre-orders alone.

Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine developer and founder of Poketwatch Games, Andy Schatz, has said that he would rather prefer the fans to be disappointed from a delayed release on Xbox Live Arcade rather than getting a broken game in an interview with Edge.

The game was originally supposed to be released on April 24 but was delayed and they still don’t have a date. There was a bug in the game that disconnected online play and unless they find a fix for that they won’t be confirming the release date.

“I think there’s a difference between being upset and being disappointed,” he said. “That comes down to the key point where if we had released the game in a state where a bug really broke it for 4-player matches, people wouldn’t be disappointed, they’d be upset. And rightfully so, because they paid money for a game that doesn’t work. I’d rather have disappointed fans than upset fans.”

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Pocketwatch Games developer Andy Schatz stated on Twitter, “Man our direct sales have been crazy good with all this press. After Steam/Humble fees we’ve grossed $120,000 since December 10. Have to pay back $100K loan from Indie Fund first.”

Considering the game hasn’t even released yet, this is nothing but good news.

Monaco was available for pre-order on the Humble Store in December with Steam pre-orders staring on April 17. Within only three days of its Steam pre-orders, the game garnered $120,000. The official launch date was April 24th.

Monaco is essentially a cooperative heist game that takes place from a top-down view, wherein players will be able to choose specialized thief characters to complete different puzzles.