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I made a new version of “Bob-Omb Is You,” the Super Mario Maker 2 level I mentioned in my review. Check it out if you’ve got the game! Course ID: 6SC-KMX-T0H. (That’s a zero.)

In its latest ID@Xbox showcase Microsoft announced a bunch of indie games that will soon be coming to Game Pass including Bad North, Gonner, The Banner Saga 3, and Yoku’s Island Express. It also announced that others, like Undertale, Timespinner, and For the King, are headed to Game Pass on PC. 

David Kushner’s fantastic book Masters of Doom, about John Romero and John Carmack founding id Software, is getting a pilot on USA, to be produced by the Franco brothers and executive produced by prolific writer Tom Bissell (who, full disclosure, is a good friend of mine). Here’s to video game books turning into TV… Read more

Rage 2 is getting an expansion called “Rise of the Ghosts” and a bunch of weekly content updates. In a Bethesda press conference trailer that once again had far more personality than the game’s actual world, developers Avalanche and id showed off a pilotable mech, a giant sandworm, new game modes, a new faction, new…

Bethesda is bringing back Commander Keen. Zenimax Online is creating a free-to-play mobile game based around the classic id Software hero. It stars twins who happen to be Commander Keen’s kids. It, uh, really looks like a mobile game. It’s set to “soft launch” this summer on iOS and Android.