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# XCOM goes mobile, robots go down swinging, and Super Stanley Cup Bros.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/cheat-620/
- Published: 2013-06-20T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:00:39.000Z
- Description: Beware the Wedge, and more…
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, cheat sheet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Microsoft isn’t the first American company to have trouble selling games to Japan. Jeremy Parish [writes for the new USGamer about Atari’s post-2600 woes](http://www.usgamer.net/articles/why-did-atari-fail-in-japan?ref=killscreen.com).

Nintendo has stealthily [released four new games into their 3DS StreetPass plaza](http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/game/355813/?ref=killscreen.com), joining the built-in Puzzle Swap and Find Mii RPG. Another baby-step into DLC territory, each are a paid download and are exclusive to the UK and Japan… for now.

Richard Matheson presaged them in *Real Steel*. The Virtual Boy bathed them in red light with *Teleroboxer*. The BBC even got in the action with *Robot Wars*. So why aren’t [fighting machines the pugilists of the future?](http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/elaborate-history-how-wedges-ruined-battlebots?src=SOC&dom=tw&ref=killscreen.com) Behold, the dreaded Wedge.

*RTX 2013* is coming to Austin, Texas, where the [new anime series by *Red vs. Blue* creators Rooster Teeth will be unveiled](http://rtxevent.com/schedule/?ref=killscreen.com). Apparently, four girls come together to fight evil. And yet somehow nobody complains about overused anime tropes.

Those of you across the pond can submit your proposals to Game City 8, [a festival in Nottingham open to all creators, artists, or interesting folks that want to make meaningful play](http://open.gamecity.org/?ref=killscreen.com). Sounds like our kind of party.

To many, *XCOM: Enemy Unknown* was the Best Game of 2012\. (Or [the ninth best](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/kill-screens-top-ten-games-2012/?ref=killscreen.com), but whatever.) If you missed it, you can check it out today [on your favorite iOS device. Don’t be afraid: the $19.99 asking price](http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/17/xcom-enemy-unknown-ios-june-20/?ref=killscreen.com) assures there’ll be no in-app purchases or microtransaction shilling. Right? Please?

And as the Bruins and Blackhawks battle it out for the Stanley Cup, [the team blogger reveals a little-known secret: The players are all actually Super Smash Bros. characters](http://blackhawks.nhl.com/club/blogpost.htm?id=18566&ref=killscreen.com). I’ve been riding on Hawks goalie Corey Crawford this whole time…

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/blackhawk_yoshi_big.jpg)

*Skate on!*