On March 10, retailers will be offering up some discounts for select Mario games with the purchase of a Nintendo Switch in celebration of Mario Day. You can purchase a Nintendo Switch and one of its Mario games for a total of $330. GameStop will be offering the Switch deal only on March 10, while other retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target will have the deal from March 10-16. If you already own a Switch, you can purchase a digital download code for any of the five Mario games being offered for $40.
Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced that Crackdown 2 is now Xbox One backwards compatible. The game is also now free on the Xbox Live store.
With this announcement, you can now own the entire Crackdown trilogy without spending a dime, provided you already have a subscription to Xbox Game Pass. Prior to the release of the third game, the original Crackdown was made free on the Xbox Live marketplace, and Crackdown 3 is included in the list of games offered through Game Pass. Both Crackdown and Crackdown 2 can be played on Xbox One via backwards compatibility–along with a long list of other games.
In our Crackdown review, Jeff Gerstmann gave the game a 7.8/10, writing, “Crackdown feels unfinished. It feels like the developers sat down and crafted a wonderful-looking city and carefully considered how the gameplay and abilities should work, and then they didn’t have enough time to plug in enough activities to take advantage of it all.”
In our Crackdown 2 review, Chris Watters gave the game a 7/10, writing, “What Crackdown 2 does offer is a whole bunch of room to have fun. Exploring the vast city, grabbing orbs, pulling off stunts, and flexing your abilities can keep you entertained for hours, and it’s even more enjoyable when you have some friends along to add their own sparks of diversion.”
Finally, in our Crackdown 3 review, Chris Pereira gave the game a 5/10, writing, “…it soon becomes apparent that the game has little new to offer beyond cool destruction tech that never gets put to good use. It certainly delivers on letting you blow things up and jump around the city. However, a dozen years after the first Crackdown offered that same experience but failed to provide you with enough interesting content surrounding that, it’s truly disappointing to see this latest iteration suffer from the very same problems.”
With March having finally arrived, we’re slowly, but steadily moving through 2019. Capcom and Square Enix capped off January with two tremendous games, the Resident Evil 2 remake and Kingdom Hearts 3. On the other hand, we saw the release of three big-name games in February, which included Anthem, Metro Exodus, and Far Cry: New Dawn. Suffice to say, we’ve got a pretty steady lineup of new games so far. However, March is looking to shake things up further with even more exciting new games.
Starting off March’s big releases are Dead or Alive 6 and Devil May Cry 5, which will be closely followed by Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 in the middle of the month. The latter end of March will see the launch of From Software’s new epic, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, as well as Nintendo’s adorable platformer, Yoshi’s Crafted World.
There are plenty of other more smaller experiences and remasters on the way this month as well. You can see all of the biggest game releases for March 2019 below. For a wider look at what’s ahead this year, be sure to check out our complete list of game release dates in 2019.
Devil May Cry 5 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) — March 8
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After a six-year hiatus, the Devil May Cry franchise makes its long-awaited return with this month’s release of Devil May Cry 5. The highly anticipated installment features the series’ trademark stylish, over-the-top action, but this time around, it stars three playable characters: Dante, Nero, and newcomer V, who battles by summoning demonic familiars. That isn’t the only way it diverges from previous games; it also introduces a new mechanic called the Cameo System, which allows players to team up online.
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Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (PS4, Xbox Once, PC) — March 15
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The Division 2 is Ubisoft Massive’s follow-up to its 2016 open-world shooter. This time around it’s set in Washington DC and deals with the exploits of the Division attempting to reclaim the capital. Likes its predecessor, you work alongside other players to complete objectives while collecting all sorts of loot in the process.
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PS4, Xbox One, PC) — March 22
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the long-awaited new game from acclaimed studio From Software. You play as a mysterious shinobi, known as the one-armed wolf, with a weaponized prosthetic arm seeking to save his kidnapped lord and exact revenge on the one who cut off his arm. It appears to be expanding upon the classic Dark Souls formula by introducing stealth-action elements and more acrobatic maneuvers.
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Yoshi’s Crafted World (Switch) — March 29
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While Yoshi’s Crafted World appears to be a rather straightforward 2D side-scroller, it offers a subtle twist to the formula in which levels appear as dioramas, and you switch from the front view to a behind-the-scenes look to reveal the stages’ secrets. Revealed during Nintendo’s E3 2017 presentation, Yoshi’s Crafted World looks like one of Nintendo’s most adorable games yet.
Captain Marvel tells Carol Danvers’ origin story, but in a way it also sets the groundwork for the iconic X-Men character Rogue. The completion of the Fox/Disney deal is still pending, but if Marvel does get the rights to use X-Men characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then it could result in the most comics-accurate portrayal of Rogue on the big screen to date, all thanks to Captain Marvel.
In the comics, Rogue debuted in 1981’s Avengers Annual #10. Introduced as a new member of Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, she was a brutally efficient fighter, able to fly with great speed and hit like a truck. She even took down Captain America and Thor, adding their strength to her own to become momentarily unstoppable against the assembled Avengers. This was because her mutant gift was to temporarily drain others of their powers and memories. But during an encounter with Carol Danvers, then known as Ms. Marvel, Rogue held on for too long and wound up stealing Carol’s powers permanently. Making matters worse, Rogue also absorbed Carol’s consciousness, leaving Carol powerless and without memory.
