Gaming
Crash Team Racing Remake Rumored To Be Revealed During The Game Awards

With the upcoming Game Awards slated for December 6th, 2018, various rumors and teases surrounding the industry have been making themselves present leading up to the event. Most recently, a rumor surfaced through a series of social media posts giving a slight nod to Playstation’s popular cart racer receiving the N. Sane Trilogy treatment.
The Crash Bandicoot Facebook page had a few interesting posts with one teasing the date 12-6-18 (The Game Awards date) along with a picture of the platforming marsupial, and another shows the page’s cover photo being swapped for the checkered flag banner found in the backdrop of CTR’s menu screens.

The checkered flag backdrop featured in Crash Team Racing
To go right along with the Facebook teases is the tweet from Hollie Bennet – best known for hosting Playstation Access – and her shared image of a pair of orange fuzzy dice with the intriguing attached note: “Sliding into the Game Awards 6/12 – Anonymous”
So….uh….these just arrived at my house.
Any ideas? 😂🤔 pic.twitter.com/x0MRYihWvg— Hollie Bennett (@HollieB) December 4, 2018
There’s been a massive outcry for a remake of the cult favorite cart racer, Crash Team Racing, especially after the significant success behind Vicarious Visions’ remake of the original trilogy, Crash N. Sane Trilogy.
Once The Game Awards airs on Thursday, December 6, 2018 we’ll certainly know what the Crash Bandicoot team is planning, but all fingers are beginning to point towards the iconic cart racer remake. It would also be interesting to see if there will be any other remade classics added to the package, such as the two other cart racers in the series — Crash Nitro Kart and Tag Team Racing — or even bundled up with the co-op party game, Crash Bash.
Be sure to check out The Game Awards this Thursday for more on the Crash Bandicoot teases, as well as tons of other surprising game reveals and winners of the coveted annual awards, including Game of the Year.
Source: Game Informer
Gaming
Sony Has a “Monopoly” on the High-End Japanese Gaming Market, According to a US Senator

The never-ending saga surrounding Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has a new participant. Today, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from the state of Washington, said some things about the subject that were hard to understand.
The senator, whose remarks were reported on by ResetEra, spoke at a Senate finance committee hearing on “the president’s 2023 Trade Policy Plan,” which we are sure was quite interesting.
Senator Cantwell said that she had been told that Sony “controls a monopoly of 98% of the high-end game market” despite the fact that “Japan’s government has allowed Sony to engage in blatant anti-competitive conduct through exclusive deals and payments to game publishers, establishing games that are among the most popular in Japan.”
This 98% statistic is highly deceptive because it ignores PC, Nintendo, and mobile games and instead refers to Sony’s adoption rate over Microsoft in Sony’s native country of Japan, a fact that shouldn’t surprise anyone who is even somewhat familiar with the video game business.
What can we do to rectify these problems and create a level playing field, she said of US Trade Representative Katherine Tai after charging Japan’s Federal Trade Commission with improperly failing to look into this purported “exclusionary conduct”?
It is absurd to claim that Sony has a monopoly on the Japanese video game market, as Luke Plunkett of Kotaku correctly points out, “because Sony doesn’t even have a 98% share of the market for the God of War series, a title they own, as Steam is getting 30% of every sale on PC.”
It goes without saying that we can’t expect elected officials to be experts in every field, but this is a visible step at a time when the ongoing attempt to buy the company is at a very important point.
Is it significant that Microsoft, along with Nintendo, maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington—Senator Cantwell’s district—or that Microsoft has given Cantwell more than $500,000 over the past two decades? Let us leave that up to you.
Consoles
Eating trash, Pizza Possum destroys the PS5

Pizza Possum is an arcade action game in which you, a possum, attempt to consume as much trash as you can without being discovered. It is a web-based sequel to the anarchy simulator Untitled Goose Game.It will eventually be available on the PS5.
We couldn’t help but notice that the possum in the title doesn’t look like the cute Australian possum that comes out at night to visit people.On the other hand, it looks like the horrible North American opossums are the ones that will attack trash cans and cause general chaos.Even though we think the second choice was better in terms of theme, we prefer the first one and are happy to explain why.
Your thoughts on Pizza Possum? Does it possess the necessary mass appeal to successfully skitter along the back fenceline while setting the dog off in the process?
Consoles
The Mercenaries, a free piece of DLC for Resident Evil 4 Remake, launches on April 7

Resident Evil 4 is now out, and the excellent remake can be bought right away.Even though you probably plan to play it all this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that The Mercenaries, Resident Evil’s almost-required challenge mode, will be available as free DLC on April 7.
The mode’s exact details are still unknown, but if it’s anything like previous versions, you can expect some pretty hard tasks to test your skills.
You’re stumped about something? If you are still debating whether to purchase Resident Evil 4 Remake, be sure to look at our exhaustive guide for the answer or our in-depth review. Are you spending this weekend playing Resident Evil 4? Are you anticipating The Mercenaries?
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