The new game, titled Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, sticks to the series' weird premise of original Super Mario characters joining forces with Rabbids, giving them all guns, and making them fight bad guys using turn-based, XCOM-like tactics.
This time, the crossover universe borrows from Super Mario Galaxy's canon by sending the combined battling forces across multiple planets, and introducing Rabbid-ized versions of Rosalina and Luna.Another Saturday morning leak revolved around today's announcement of Rocksmith+, a new "live" version of Ubisoft's "Guitar Hero, but with real guitars" series.This follows Ubisoft's decision last year to sunset the existing Rocksmith service, which had revolved around individual DLC purchases of add-on songs.
If you've never bothered with Rocksmith before, a subscription service may ultimately make more sense than lump-sum purchases of individual songs to strum to. But it's unclear whether Ubisoft will maintain enough content and variety to make the new game's version worth investing in for the longterm, especially for those who already dumped plenty of cash into Rocksmith's seven-year-old last-gen structure (or prefer the older PC version's support for user-made add-ons).Today's announcement of a free beta will at least let those with compatible guitars try before they might one day subscribe—and see whether the new game's mobile app version holds up in terms of using your phone's mic to track your guitar strumming accurately.