The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region.As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Switch Retail – New Releases
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes(Grasshopper Manufacture, €29.99 / £24.99) – Travis Touchdown wanders into the game world and embarks on a rampage of epic proportions in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for Nintendo Switch! Beam Katana in hand, slice and dice through a variety of game worlds, then square up to the boss at the end of each game! – Read our Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes review
Switch eShop – New Releases
Onimusha: Warlords(CAPCOM, €19.99 / £15.99) – This version features higher resolution graphics, 16:9 widescreen support and modernised control options which make it easier than ever to enjoy the sword-based combat that stunned players worldwide on its original release. – Read our Onimusha: Warlords review
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes (Bundle)(Grasshopper Manufacture, €39.98 / £33.98) – Travis Touchdown wanders into the game world and embarks on a rampage of epic proportions in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for Nintendo Switch! Beam Katana in hand, slice and dice through a variety of game worlds, then square up to the boss at the end of each game! Includes the season pass. – Read our Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes review
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy(Digital Leisure, €19.99 / £17.99) – In Dragon’s Lair, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon! Space Ace will have you take control of Ace – Defender of justice, truth, and the planet Earth! Ace is being attacked by the evil Commander Borf. Struggle with Dexter to regain his manhood. Destroy the Infanto-Ray. Defeat the evil Borf! Be valiant space warrior, the fate of Earth is in your hands!
Bash The Bear(FuryLion Group, €4.99 / £4.49) – Lead the squad of hedgehog commandos in reclaiming the mushrooms stolen by the lazy bear from the forest animals. Work out a plan, put your prickly friends in place, and light the fuze! Teach the old rascal a lesson – show him who is the boss here! Get ready to have real fun! Work out an elaborate attack plan, put your prickly friends in place, light the fuze – and let the explosive fun begin! Use powerful cannons, baseball bats, and everything else you have at hand to right the wrong in your own home.
Forever Forest(Fictive Studio, €14.99 / £13.49) – Forever Forest is a unique blend of exploration, survival, action and role-playing, condensed into simple and intuitive gameplay. Immerse yourself in beautiful colours and meditative melodies, while you explore a luscious, uncharted wilderness. Set forth on a journey to carry the last ray of light across stony deserts, treacherous swamps and poisonous lakes to illuminate a hidden world covered in darkness. Use your wits and skill to sustain yourself on colourful fruits and critters, hunt and be hunted by powerful beasts and permanently evolve by absorbing the abilities of your enemies into your mask.
Mars or Die!(34BigThings, €19.99 / £19.99) – The Interplanetary Spacecraft FORTITVDO VIII carries our Intrepid Explorers who are tasked with Scouting the Martian soil, Fighting the disgusting Martian natives, and Building Defensible Outposts spearheading our inevitable conquest. Our Supremely Illuminated Leader has bestowed upon YOU the honour of commanding them: survive, gather, and build our way to victory!
Planet RIX-13(Sometimes You, €4.99 / £4.49) – You are the pilot of a spacecraft that is looking for and exploring worlds that are potentially suitable for life. While scanning the next target, you lost control of your ship and had to make an emergency landing. It quickly becomes clear that you are not the first person on this planet…
Paladins Season Pass 2019(Hi-Rez Studios, €39.99 / £35.99) – Get exclusive content for every new Champion, all-year long, with the Paladins Season Pass 2019! You’ll instantly unlock three cosmetics you can only get in the Season Pass: The Limited Legionnaire Viktor skin, Legionnaire Warhorse Mount, and an Avatar. Plus, you’ll get 1500 Crystals to unlock the newest Battle Pass, a favourite Skin, or an Event bundle — the choice is yours!
Paladins Digital Deluxe Edition 2019(Hi-Rez Studios, €59.99 / £53.99) – The Paladins Digital Deluxe Edition 2019 includes the Champions Pack and the Season Pass 2019 at a saving over buying them separately.
ACA NEOGEO NINJA MASTER’S(HAMSTER, €6.99 / £6.29) – “NINJA MASTER’S” is a fighting game released by SNK in 1996. Set in the world of Zipangu, where twelve fierce warriors known for being demons on the battlefield, both with and without weapons, clash spectacularly in a flurry of amazing combos and special attacks. Don’t miss any of the action, from the Strength Gauge to increase damage to the Super Fired-up Mode that leads to flashy action-packed moves! – Read our ACA NEOGEO NINJA MASTER’S review
Bedtime Blues(Forever Entertainment, €9.99 / £8.99) – Play as a youngling surviving through the night in the pixelated horror. Your once beloved teddy bear had come to life and became conscious. Wander around your bedroom, searching for clues to unravel the story – but keep a close eye on the room, as each hour it slowly changes.
Build a Bridge!(BoomBit Games, €14.99 / £13.49) – Test your engineering and improvisation skills in a puzzle game where the stakes are as high as they get. It is you who will construct bridges for cars, trucks, busses… And sometimes even monster trucks. Gather your wits and get on with the construction! During the planning phase, the game presents itself with a simple, 2D interface. It is there that you select the best materials for your bridge to make the most resilient structure you can. You can approach each level as a complex puzzle, trying to be as efficient as possible and get the best solution. But don’t be afraid to experiment too.
Crazy Strike Bowling EX(CORECELL, €9.99 / £8.99) – Join Aiden, Mr. Jenkins and a host of other cute, fun-filled characters in Crazy Strike Bowling EX, a wacky bowling game fit for the whole family! Get a strike in new and distant bowling lands from the exotic forests of the Amazon to the pyramids of Egypt, battle your friends in exhibition or battle mode, or dodge obstacles in challenge mode! Go crazy and use your character’s special move to knock those bowling pins into oblivion while unlocking secret worlds and costumes! With level-ups, Crazy Strike Bowling EX is a strike for all ages!
DYING: Reborn – Nintendo Switch Edition(Coconut Island games, €8.39 / £7.59) – In this special edition, we will be introducing you to a whole new story; every shred of paper, every nook and cranny, are scattered with fragments of the past. Don’t miss out on a single detail and piece together a complete storyboard. Explore every corner of a storied hotel of blood and violence, solve layers of puzzles, and inch your way towards the chilling truth.
Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force(Ghostlight, €27.99 / £23.99) – Explore the magical world she lives in, feed pigeons, bond with the castle’s watchdog (a noble Pomeranian) and save the prince in this little adventure for fairytale enthusiasts of all ages! Enjoy a relatable and diverse mix of characters who prove that being beautiful is not about fulfilling common, unattainable ideals of beauty. In addition to the interactive story and its puzzles, some mini-games are also included and seamlessly incorporated into the narration.
Feudal Alloy(Attu Games, €14.99 / £13.49) – Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world. Attu is an ordinary farmer robot who lives in a small cottage in sunflower fields. He had been living a simple but pleasant life until a bunch of outlaws attacked the village, stole their oil supplies and burnt his house.
GetAmped Mobile(CyberStep, Free) – Take to the 3D stages, equip styles like Ninja, Superman, Esper and more. Combine weapons, styles and accessories in hundreds of ways to blow your opponent’s away! And with the “Skin” feature, customize your appearance however you want as you battle it out!
Holy Potatoes! We’re In Space?!(Rising Star Games, €13.99 / £11.69) – Space… the final french fried-tier! Set out on an intergalactic voyage of discovery, adventure and potato-based puns in Holy Potatoes! We’re In Space?!, combining hard-boiled battles, mashed management and scalloped simulation into a dish that’s out of this world!
Johnny Turbo’s Arcade: Nitro Ball(FTE Games, €7.99 / £7.10) – Join the game show and blast your way through 5 intense levels gathering power-ups and special weapons, including a special superpower.
Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes(Arcade Distillery, €9.99 / £8.99) – In the aftermath of a great flood, a vengeful leader threatens to conquer the world with the aid of a once lost technology, and only a small but determined army stands in their path. Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes is the definitive release of the 2009 turn-based strategy classic, Mecho Wars. Fully remastered in high definition, it features new hand painted art, new visual effects, an expanded single-player campaign and six previously unreleased multiplayer maps.
Mega Mall Story(Kairosoft, €10.00 / £8.99) – Design a towering mall of mega proportions! Attract droves of customers and elevate yourself to 5-star status in this mall management simulation game! Add anything from fast food joints to sushi restaurants, stairs and elevators–even a heliport–all with a touch of the finger! When your establishment’s popularity reaches a certain point, a “Fever” is triggered in which customers swamp your mall!
My Exotic Farm 2018(Plug In Digital, €4.99 / £4.49) – At the beginning of the game, all you own is an empty field, a few pennies and a single little ostrich… You need to feed your ostrich, take care of it and improve its lifestyle. Well-fed with seed, your ostrich will lay eggs which can then be sold to the Shopkeeper. With this money, you can buy new animals at the Farmers’ Market.
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition(Square Enix Europe LTD, €9.74 / £7.49) – Surf through a pulsating underworld on platforms YOU pull from thin air, where and when you want, in this psychedelic action platformer. Unlock devastating abilities across 50+ handcrafted levels as you defy gravity to a pumping beat. Fry enemies with laser beams, crumble walls, and solve puzzles, while obstacles & enemies move along with the beat. – Read our Octahedron: Transfixed Edition review
Rampage Knights(Rake in Grass, €8.99 / £8.09) – Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat ’em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration which you can play alone or with a friend. You play as a hero trapped by a spell in a magical forest. All paths lead you to a nearby ruined castle, infested with goblins, skeletons and other foul creatures. Gear up with awesome and ridiculous weapons and spells and descend into the deep labyrinth below the ruin to face its sinister master!
Solitaire Klondike BLACK(Sanuk Games, €3.56 / £3.21) – The classic single-player card game “Solitaire Klondike” arranged to Cool version! 300 questions in Stage Mode, and various problems are available in Random Mode !
Spot The Differences: Party!(Sanuk Games, €4.99 / £4.49) – Play solo or with up to 3 friends, and see who is the quickest spotter! Specs: – From 1 to 4 players. – 360 pictures, 3,600 differences to find! – Hints and extra times will help you when you are stuck.
The Office Quest(11Sheep, €10.19 / £9.34) – Not all heroes wear capes…. some prefer fluffy onesies. The Office Quest is a point & click adventure for all you people who just cannot stay in the office any longer! Solve challenging puzzles and riddles. Surprisingly handy objects + your beautiful sharp mind = a clear path towards freedom! Look for the red light and use everything you’ve got to make your way out of the grey abyss called the office…
The Shrouded Isle(Kitfox Games, €14.99 / £12.99) – As the high priest, uncover and purge heretics to prepare for the awakening of your beloved god beneath the waves. It is a mistake to assume danger only lies within your island – beware the seas that surround you. A mysterious spiritual contagion has washed upon the shores of your village and contaminated your citizenry. Lock the infected away in the purification tower and allow the holy salt water to wash away their sins, but know such treatment can have ill effects on the healthy…
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG(Ysbryd Games, €19.99 / £17.99) – After witnessing a woman vanish from an elevator, college graduate Alex embarks on an adventure to rescue her, which spirals into an epic quest with stakes higher than he could have ever imagined. Alex’s search for the woman and the truth behind her disappearance lead him and his companions towards the new millennium, on a journey rife with mystery and danger… or so goes the tale of YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, the surreal Japanese-style RPG from Ackk Studios and Ysbryd Games. – Read our YIIK: A Postmodern RPG review
Ancient Rush 2(Heideland GameWorks, €9.99 / £8.99) – Old Legends surround the long forgotten kingdom of Ozolan. They tell stories about Chulua, the former Ruler of Ozolan, who is said to have buried himself in his own treasury, only using his bare hands. But after Ozolans fall, no one ever heard of the kingdom or it’s king ever again. Only the legends survived the time and remained until today.
Cinderella – An Interactive Fairytale(Golden Orb, €4.99 / £4.39) – Explore the magical world she lives in, feed pigeons, bond with the castle’s watchdog (a noble Pomeranian) and save the prince in this little adventure for fairytale enthusiasts of all ages! Enjoy a relatable and diverse mix of characters who prove that being beautiful is not about fulfilling common, unattainable ideals of beauty. In addition to the interactive story and its puzzles, some mini-games are also included and seamlessly incorporated into the narration.
Fight of Gods(Digital Crafter, €11.29 / £11.29) – For the first time ever, gods, holy spirits and mythological characters from around the globe and throughout history will clash in an explosive 2D fighter where the entire world is at stake! Who will emerge victorious from the most destructive combat tournament the universe has ever witnessed?
Old School Racer 2(Riddlersoft Games, €6.49 / £5.99) – Hey there all you dirt bike fans welcome to the world of Old School Racer, race through a 2D retro world, across 60 unique and amazing levels with twists and turns everywhere. We have a brand new mechanic added to the game……MORPHING! The world will literally morph at times creating extra paths, platforms, jumps and drops to help or possibly hinder your performance. Gravity modifications once again returns, redefining what you will call the ground, soon you will be racing upside down, up sheer walls or flying through the sky.
Paladin(Pumpkin Games, €8.99 / £7.99) – Protect the cities, destroy the aliens and upgrade your fighter. Drive back the vile invading scum and save mankind in this frantic twin-stick shooter! You pilot a highly manoeuvrable space fighter across a 2d landscape, charged with saving the last remaining human cities from destruction.
UTOPIA 9 – A Volatile Vacation(QubicGames, €4.99 / £4.49) – Shoot your way through unexpected mutants in a deep rogue-like adventure, alone or with a friend. Are you in need of a vacation to remember? Utopia 9 guarantees sunshine, entertainment…and bloodthirsty mutants! You play as the most recent guest of this scam resort. Can you survive the onslaught and sue the travel agency?
Switch eShop – Demos
Drowning Demo(Sometimes You, Free) – Walk through a variety of beautiful low-poly environments as a story unfolds about how he learns to live with his inner demon. You will play in the eyes of a young boy starting out high school in year 7 and play through his following years, where he learns that living with depression is like living with someone trying to put you down all the time. Walk through all the beautiful environments with a lovely soundtrack that suits the current mood of the game, and find all the hidden endings.
Combat Core Demo(MABManZ, Free) – Combat Core is a 3D arena fighting game sporting a colourful mix of modern aesthetics and futuristic cyberpunk. Fighters from across the galaxy have gathered to compete in the Combat Core League! The fighting mechanics focus on fast-paced combat, strategic use of your environment, and weapons in the arena. Fight against challenging AI or your friends, online or offline!
Piczle Colors Demo(Rainy Frog, Free) – Use the numbers around the side of the puzzle to work out how many blocks of which colour should be painted in each row and column. Since the order of the numbers doesn’t determine the order you need to paint the colours you’ll need to stretch your brain to figure it out. Luckily there are two types of numbers that indicate if the colours should be painted together or separately.
Cinderella – An Interactive Fairytale(Golden Orb, Free) – Explore the magical world she lives in, feed pigeons, bond with the castle’s watchdog (a noble Pomeranian) and save the prince in this little adventure for fairytale enthusiasts of all ages! Enjoy a relatable and diverse mix of characters who prove that being beautiful is not about fulfilling common, unattainable ideals of beauty. In addition to the interactive story and its puzzles, some mini-games are also included and seamlessly incorporated into the narration.
Shift Happens Demo(Daedalic GmbH, Free) – The two jello jelly creatures Bismo and Plom got connected in a tragic yet funny accident and thus can exchange their size and abilities at will. Welcome to the world of Shift Happens – the only game out there which doesn’t take a closer look at the body mass index and where players are actually forced to work together (and occasionally stab each other in the back).
Wii U eShop – New Releases
El Silla – Arcade Edition(MarkAnime.net, €1.00 / £1.00) – Help El Silla to hit with the chair to every character that he encounters, And thanks to the advanced technology of the Wii U you will be able to feel that you have a chair in your hands, go player, throw this chair to everyone ! There also hidden achievements, be ready to unlock them and try to get maximum score possible.
Switch eShop – Pre-Orders
#KILLALLZOMBIES(Beatshapers, €13.99 / £12.59, pre-order from 15/01/2019) – In the distant future, #killallzombies is thrusting civilians into a sport of survival where a ravenous zombie population is unleashed in the name of sports entertainment.
99Moves(EnjoyUp Games, €2.99 / £2.69, pre-order from 15/01/2019) – 99Moves, a retro arcade game where you will have to survive with just 99 Movements. Without a heading in the galaxy, all was lost because your energy was about to run out… gravity would chart the course of your destiny… Suddenly, V-99 entered a zone called Shaders, which provided energy… It was a new opportunity to survive. However, it was not all good news, as you only have 99 energy pulses to move through the Shaders zone.
Mages of Mystralia(Borealys Games, €17.99 / £16.19, pre-order from 15/01/2019) – In the kingdom of Mystralia, it takes more brains than brawn to succeed. You will face down giant, powerful creatures and navigate treacherous terrain. You will encounter puzzles that confound even the wisest of the old sages. And you must overcome obstacles put in place by people who do not want you to succeed.
Drowning(Sometimes You, €2.54 / £2.28, pre-order from 16/01/2019) – Walk through a variety of beautiful low-poly environments as a story unfolds about how he learns to live with his inner demon. You will play in the eyes of a young boy starting out high school in year 7 and play through his following years, where he learns that living with depression is like living with someone trying to put you down all the time. Walk through all the beautiful environments with a lovely soundtrack that suits the current mood of the game, and find all the hidden endings.
Inops(ZRZStudio, €9,99 / £9.99, pre-order from 16/01/2019) – Explore the shadowy Mine, twisty Jungle and extra-terrestrial Elect-City but be careful of lurking dangers. Escape traps, solve puzzles and dodge enemies using the Inops ability to split into many little creatures or join into one big Inop whenever you wish. Use the environment to your advantage by using unique intractable components whilst guiding the Inops simultaneously. Get to the end of each level and save as many Inops as you can to avoid being lonesome.
Dragon Marked for Death: Frontline Fighters(Inti Creates, €14.99 / £13.49, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – Dragon Marked For Death is a side-scrolling 2D action RPG that can be played solo or with up to four players in local or online multiplayer. The playable characters in Dragon Marked for Death: Advanced Attackers are the Shinobi and Witch. You play as the survivors of the Dragonblood Clan who set out to take revenge on the Kingdom of Medius, who destroyed their home and captured the Dragonblood Oracle, Amica. To obtain the power they need to enact their revenge, they forge a pact with the Astral Dragon Atruum. Pre-order includes the DLC Equipment: Striker Gear
Dragon Marked for Death: Advanced Attackers(Inti Creates, €14.99 / £13.49, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – (see above)
Airheart – Tales of broken Wings(Blindflug Studios, €14.99 / £11.99, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – Airheart is a dieselpunk airplane action game, where every colourful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere. Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia – a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world’s edge. Sky fishing became a really dangerous job, with pirates roaming around everywhere. So start your engines, arm your airplane and get ready to make the catch of a lifetime!
Asdivine Hearts II(KEMCO, €12.99 / £11.69, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – Picking up two years after the events of their first adventure, Zack and friends find themselves off on another quest, but this time to save the parallel world of Archelio, which is on the verge of being frozen in ice. With a convenient summary of the previous title included, players can jump right into Asdivine Hearts II without having played the first
Cursed Castilla(Abylight, €12.59 / £11.33, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – The tears of a young witch have been turned into a key by a demon to open a gateway to hell. In Cursed Castilla, one takes the role of Don Ramiro, a knight appointed by King Alphonse VI, to fight and banish the evil invading the lands of Tolomera.
JackQuest: The Tale of the Sword(Blowfish Studios, €9.99 / £8.99, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – One fateful night, when young Jack takes the beautiful Nara for a walk in the woods, his love is kidnapped by the villainous orc Korg. Forced to mount a rescue, Jack plunges into Korg’s underground base, where he happens upon a strange blade that becomes an unlikely ally. In JackQuest, players will explore the cavernous depths of Korg’s slime-ridden, labyrinthine lair. There, they will solve environmental puzzles, discover power-ups, collect weapons, and challenge subterranean foes, including massive bosses.
Johnny Turbos Arcade Joe and Mac Caveman Ninja(FTE Games, €7.99 / £7.07, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – Grab your club and get ready to go on a wild, prehistoric adventure with the Cavemen Ninjas – Joe & Mac! Help Joe and Mac, two cavemen who fight against enemy cavemen and dinosaurs using prehistoric weapons.
My Arctic Farm 2018(Plug In Digital, €4.99 / £4.49, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – At the beginning of the game, all you own is an empty field, a few pennies and a single little penguin… You need to feed your penguin, take care of it and improve its lifestyle. Well fed with fishes, your penguin will lay eggs which can then be sold to the Shopkeeper. With this money, you can buy new animals at the Farmers’ Market.
Pikuniku(Devolver Digital, €11.69 / £10.52, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a fun little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Zombie Night Terror(Plug In Digital, €14.99 / £13.49, pre-order from 17/01/2019) – Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into bloodthirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic to wipe humanity of this planet. Because the only way to survive the zombie apocalypse is to BE the apocalypse!
Switch eShop – Special Offers
Game Title
Price
Saving
Until
Original Price
Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum’n’Fun! – Song “Zassou”(Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Free
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Thu 31st Jan
€1.49 / £1.19
Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum’n’Fun! – Hikakin Pack(Bandai Namco Entertainment)
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region.As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Nintendo Switch retail
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes(Grasshopper Manufacture, Fri 18th January, $29.99) Several years after No More Heroes 2… This time, the setting is a small town in the middle of nowhere in the American South. Badman shows up at the trailer Travis has been living in to exact revenge for the murder of his daughter, Bad Girl, and things go horribly wrong. As they battle it out, the two are sucked into the game world of the legendary game console, the Death Drive MkⅡ. Read our Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes review.
The Raven Remastered(THQ Nordic, Tue 22nd January, $29.99) London, 1964. An ancient ruby is stolen from the British Museum. At the crime scene: a raven feather. Is somebody trying to follow in the footsteps of The Raven, the legendary master thief who disappeared years before?
Switch eShop
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG(Ackkstudios, Today, $19.99) After witnessing a woman vanish from an elevator, college graduate Alex embarks on an adventure to rescue her, which spirals into an epic quest with stakes higher than he could have ever imagined. Read our YIIK: A Postmodern RPG review.
ACA NEOGEO KIZUNA ENCOUNTER(HAMSTER, Thu 10th January, $7.99) “KIZUNA ENCOUNTER” is a fighting game released by SNK in 1996. Create a team of two fighters and use weapons and your fists to win in single-round sudden death tag-team matches! Experience the feel of an advanced battle system that pairs mid-battle character change-ups and easy commands leading to rush combos!
Apocalipsis Wormwood Edition(Klabater, Thu 10th January, $9.99) In Apocalipsis Wormwood Edition the static woodcuts from the Middle Ages start living their own life, but the medieval philosophy and occult symbolism go beyond the visuals and inspire the story itself. In this game, the music and the graphics work in perfect tandem to immerse you in this bizarre, dreary world.
At Sundown: Shots in the Dark(Versus Evil, Tue 22nd January, $19.99) At Sundown: Shots in the Dark is stealth driven, top-down multiplayer shooter in which up to 4 players compete in both online and local deathmatch.
Bash The Bear(FuryLion Group, Wed 16th January, $4.99) Lead the squad of hedgehog commandos in reclaiming the mushrooms stolen by the lazy bear from the forest animals. Work out a plan, put your prickly friends in place, and light the fuze! Teach the old rascal a lesson – show him who is the boss here!
Bedtime Blues(Forever Entertainment, Today, $9.99) Play as a youngling surviving through the night in the pixelated horror. Your once beloved teddy bear had come to life and became conscious. Wander around your bedroom, searching for clues to unravel the story – but keep a close eye on the room, as each hour it slowly changes. Listen close for when it comes, scare the teddy away with your flashlight, and don’t forget to check under the bed for monsters… Is this nightmare real? Is your bedtime over?
Big Crown: Showdown(Sold Out Sales & Marketing, Thu 10th January, $12.99) Big Crown: Showdown sees friends become foes as they compete for the crown in 4-player local and online multiplayer combat, set over 3 wacky worlds full of medieval shenanigans. Avoid perilous hazards and engage in frantic fights as you attempt to knock your opponents off 15 crazy courses in the ultimate royal battle!
Bubble Shooter DX(EntwicklerX, Thu 10th January, $2.99) Bubble Shooter Deluxe (DX) is a classic bubble shoot game. This addictive classic bubble blast match-three game comes with clean and modern graphics, hundreds of great challenging levels and some nice special items for a better game experience in harder levels.
Crazy Strike Bowling EX(Corecell Technology, Today, $9.99) Join Aiden, Mr. Jenkins and a host of other cute, fun-filled characters in Crazy Strike Bowling EX, a wacky bowling game fit for the whole family!
DYING: Reborn – Nintendo Switch Edition(Coconut Island Games, Today, $9.99,) DYING: Reborn – Nintendo Switch Edition is a highly unique first-person problem-solving puzzle game. In this special edition, we will be introducing you to a whole new story; every shred of paper, every nook and cranny, are scattered with fragments of the past.
Elli(BandanaKid, Thu 10th January, $19.99) A whimsical hand-crafted single-player adventure filled with a variety of puzzles and exciting platforming. Watch your step, there are many dangers to overcome! Discover a delightful world, inhabited by the playful and usually helpful Mandragora. Read our Elli review.
Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force(Ghostlight, Today, $39.99) Three stories, three paths in three branching stories, friends become foes, foes become friends, and based on your choices, multiple endings can be unlocked! Shape the World, customize weapons by fusing them with fairies and change dungeon stats through World Shaping.
Feudal Alloy(Attu Games, Today, $16.99) Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.
Fight of Gods(Digital Crafter, Fri 18th January, $12.99) For the first time ever, gods, holy spirits and mythological characters from around the globe and throughout history will clash in an explosive 2D fighter where the entire world is at stake! Who will emerge victorious from the most destructive combat tournament the universe has ever witnessed?
Football Heroes Turbo(Run Games, Today, $14.99) Blast through the defense and go for the touchdown with uppercuts, tornado kicks, and thunder bombs! Jump into the arcade action in Season Mode and power up every pass, kick, and tackle. Take your team online against other players in real-time multiplayer. Battle your friends on the same screen or over Local Wireless to find out whose team reigns supreme.
Fragment of Marine(Mediascape, Fri 11th January, $4.99) Traverse circles in a mysterious ocean world, and search for your lost memories and your body! Checkpoints are spread out generously throughout the stages, so that even beginners can play the game, whereas special challenges like the Time Attack mode or clearing the whole game without dying ensure that also game veterans and achievement hunters have a good time.
FutureGrind(Milkbag Games, Tue 22nd January, $19.99) Grab your bike and hit the rails in FutureGrind, a stylish stunt-racer all about tricks, skill, and speed. Use your futuristic bike to chain together huge combos on tracks made of floating rails, but watch out: touch the wrong color and you’ll explode instantly!
Gunman Clive HD Collection(Hörberg Productions, Today, $3.99) In the year of 18XX, the west is overrun by thugs and outlaws. A group of bandits have kidnapped Mayor Johnson’s daughter and are spreading havoc across the land. Gunman Clive must rescue the girl and bring order to the west, then finish the fight in Gunman Clive 2.
Guns of Mercy(Storybird Games, Thu 10th January, $11.99) Guns of Mercy is a game combining shoot and arcade in retro 16bits spirit. 20XX, the Earth is a vast and hostile wasteland. The surface has been rendered uninhabitable since the great war against the alien invasion. To find peace, humanity has been reduced to living underground, but the enemy is getting there!
Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!(Rising Star Games, Today, $14.99) Space… the final french fried-tier! Set out on an intergalactic voyage of discovery, adventure and potato-based puns in Holy Potatoes! We’re In Space? ! , combining hard-boiled battles, mashed management and scalloped simulation into a dish that’s out of this world!
IHUGU(Arts Alliance, Mon 21st January, $3.99) The rules are refreshingly simple and designed to promote peace and positivity – hug everyone, but only once! This is a fun memory game where quick thinking and the ability to remember who you have hugged and who you haven’t are the keys to success.
Left-Right : The Mansion(Triple Boris, Today, $3.99) Left-Right: The Mansion is a little game about a boy, Billy, whose dog named Gigi ran away inside a big mansion. He must journey through this mysterious place, where he will have to find and remember the right path in order to find her.
Marble Power Blast(EntwicklerX, Thu 10th January, $2.99) Play Marble Power Blast, a Match-3 Bubble shooter game! Get beautiful HD backgrounds in 50 levels and 7 different locations/themes. Unlock the shuffle gaming mode and generate your own levels with random calculated difficulty, marble waves, length and number of colors.
Mars or Die!(34BigThings, Fri 18th January, $19.99) The Interplanetary Spacecraft FORTITVDO VIII carries our Intrepid Explorers who are tasked with Scouting the Martian soil, Fighting the disgusting Martian natives, and Building Defensible Outposts spearheading our inevitable conquest. Our Supremely Illuminated Leader has bestowed upon YOU the honor of commanding them: survive, gather, and build our way to victory!
Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes(Arcade Distillery, Thu 10th January, $7.99) In the aftermath of a great flood, a vengeful leader threatens to conquer the world with the aid of a once lost technology, and only a small but determined army stands in their path. Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes is the definitive release of the 2009 turn-based strategy classic, Mecho Wars.
Mega Mall Story(Kairosoft, Today, $12.00) Design a towering mall of mega proportions! Attract droves of customers and elevate yourself to 5-star status in this mall management simulation game! Add anything from fast food joints to sushi restaurants, stairs and elevators–even a heliport–all with a touch of the finger!
Neko Navy – Daydream Edition(Fruitbat Factory, Thu 10th January, $12.99) Flying cats versus 10,000 soothing characters! What awaits them beyond all those furious midair fights? Witness the world’s most shocking ending for yourself! Shoot, evade, and detonate Bombers! “Neko Navy” is an exhilarating horizontal scrolling shooter where you can shoot them up with easy controls.
Number Place 10000(Success, Thu 10th January, $5.89) The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with numbers without repeating in all rows, columns and 3×3 squares. 10,000 questions in 4 levels of difficulty from Easy to Expert. Let’s choose a question that suits yourself, or challenge harder with others!
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition(Square Enix Collective, Today, $12.99) Surf through a pulsating underworld on platforms YOU pull from thin air, where and when you want, in this psychedelic action platformer. Unlock devastating abilities across 50+ handcrafted levels as you defy gravity to a pumping beat. Read our Octahedron: Transfixed Edition review.
Old School Racer 2(Riddlersoft Games, Fri 18th January, $7.99) Hey there all you dirt bike fans welcome to the world of Old School Racer, race through a 2D retro world, across 60 unique and amazing levels with twists and turns everywhere. We have a brand new mechanic added to the game… MORPHING! The world will literally morph at times creating extra paths, platforms, jumps and drops to help or possibly hinder your performance.
Rampage Knights(Rake in Grass, Today, $11.99) Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat ’em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration which you can play alone or with a friend. You play as a hero trapped by a spell in a magical forest. All paths lead you to a nearby ruined castle, infested with goblins, skeletons and other foul creatures. Gear up with awesome and ridiculous weapons and spells and descend into the deep labyrinth below the ruin to face its sinister master!
Samsara: Deluxe Edition(Marker, Thu 10th January, $9.99) While playing in the park, Zee follows a squirrel through a portal to a world of echoes, inhabited by a shadow child. Surrounded by the unknown and trapped in a series of realms both confusing and dangerous, the youngsters must avoid slipping into the pool between dimensions, embarking on a voyage of discovery and awakening they share with the player, up and down staircases, through light and dark, across the upside-down and the right-side-up to their eventual freedom.
Spot The Differences: Party!(Sanuk Games, Today, $4.99) The most complete difference game on Nintendo Switch! Play solo or with up to 3 friends, and see who is the quickest spotter!
The Office Quest(11Sheep, Today, $11.99) Not all heroes wear capes…. some prefer fluffy onesies. The Office Quest is a point & click adventure for all you people who just cannot stay in the office any longer! Solve challenging puzzles and riddles Surprisingly handy objects + your beautiful sharp mind = a clear path towards freedom!
The Shrouded Isle(Kitfox Games, Today, $14.99) Who will you sacrifice, Your Excellency? Sinners in this isolated village try to hide their dark secrets, but heretics must be purged for your salvation.
Voxel Sword(SAT-BOX, Thu 10th January, $7.00) Voxel Sword is an easy to play action game, set in an adorable toy fantasy world, where you can wield various weapons to defeat monsters. This is our toy fantasy world, Voxel. Since ancient times, humans and monsters have worked together and coexisted in peace.
Nintendo eShop sales
Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
So that’s your lot for this week’s North American Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!
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How Microsoft built the city of the future, right at home
How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future
A small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft cast aside suggestions that the company spend US$60 million to turn its 500-acre headquarters into a smart campus to achieve energy savings and other efficiency gains. Instead, applying an œInternet of Things meets Big Data” approach, the team invented a data-driven software solution that is slashing the cost of operating the campus™ 125 buildings. The software, which is saving Microsoft millions of dollars, has been so successful that the company and its partners are now helping building managers across the world deploy the same solution. And with commercial buildings consuming an estimated 40 percent of the world™s total energy, the potential is huge.
By Jennifer Warnick
1: The Visionary
“Give me a little data and I™ll tell you a little. Give me a lot of data and
I™ll save the world.”
– Darrell Smith , Director of Facilities and Energy
Microsoft
œThis is my office,” says the sticker on Darrell Smith™s laptop, and it is.
With his œoffice” tucked under his arm, Microsoft™s director of facilities and energy is
constantly shuttling between meetings all over the company™s 500-acre, wooded campus
in Redmond, Washington.
But Smith always returns to one unique place.
The Redmond Operations Center (often called œthe ROC”) is located in a drab, nondescript
office park. Inside is something unique “ a new state-of-the-art œbrain” that is transforming
Microsoft™s 125-building, 41,664-employee headquarters into one of the smartest corporate
campuses in the world.
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Smith and his team have been working for more than three years to unify an incongruent network
of sensors from different eras (think several decades of different sensor technology
and dozens of manufacturers). The software that he and his team built strings together
thousands of building sensors that track things like heaters, air conditioners, fans,
and lights “ harvesting billions of data points per week. That data has given the team
deep insights, enabled better diagnostics, and has allowed for far more intelligent decision
making. A test run of the program in 13 Microsoft buildings has provided staggering results
“ not only has Microsoft saved energy and millions in maintenance and utility costs,
but the company now is hyper-aware of the way its buildings perform.
It™s no small thing “ whether a damper is stuck in Building 75 or a valve is leaky in Studio
H “ that engineers can now detect (and often fix with a few clicks) even the tiniest
issues from their high-tech dashboard at their desks in the ROC rather than having to
jump into a truck to go find and fix the problem in person.
If the facility management world were Saturday morning cartoons, Smith and his team have
effectively flipped the channel from œThe Flintstones” to œThe Jetsons.” Instead of using
stone-age rocks and hammers to keep out the cold, Smith™s team invented a solution that
relies on data to find and fix problems instantly and remotely.
SLIDESHOW: Building the Microsoft Campus
œGive me a little data and I™ll tell you a little,” he says. œGive me a lot of data and I™ll
save the world.”
Smith joined Microsoft in December of 2008. His previous work managing data centers for Cisco
had given him big ideas about how buildings could be smarter and more efficient, but
until he came to Microsoft he lacked the technical resources to bring them to life. What
he found at Microsoft was support for these ideas on all sides “ from his boss to a handful
of savvy facilities engineers. They all knew buildings could be smarter, and together
they were going to find a way to make it so.
Smith has a finger-tapping restlessness that prevents him from sitting through an entire
movie. His intensity comes paired with the enthusiastic, genial demeanor of a favorite
bartender or a softball buddy (and indeed, he does play first base for a company softball
team, the Microsoft Misfits).
Ever punctual and an early riser, Smith lives near Microsoft headquarters and has taken to
spending a few quiet hours at his desk on Sundays.
œI call it my den because I live a mile away. I come here, I make coffee, I have the building
to myself,” Smith says.
His family and the people who know him best understand. Smart buildings are his passion,
and everything in his life has been moving toward finding ways for companies the world
over to get smarter about managing their buildings (which will help them save money and
reduce their energy use).
œSmart buildings will become smart cities,” Smith says. œAnd smart cities will change everything.”
Strap yourself into the cockpit of some of the worlds most formidable fighter planes and skim through the clouds embarking on daring aerial stunts and nerve-shredding tactical dogfights.
In Ace Combat 7, you take on the role of an Ace an elite fighter pilot tasked with patrolling the most open and intimidating space on Earth: the sky. Choose from an array of authentic modern and futurist aircraft and load them up with an arsenal of cutting-edge super weapons as unfolding events drive you into ever more dangerous aerial face-offs.
PlayStation VR support will allow you to actually climb inside the cockpit with a series of exclusive features that create a new level of death-defying immersion.
Check Out the 2019 Linux Foundation Events and Expand Your Open Source Experience
The Linux Foundation just recently announced its 2019 events schedule, featuring all your favorite events as well as some brand-new ones to cover the latest technologies. Make plans now to speak or attend and expand your experience with open source.
The Linux Foundation’s 2019 events are projected to more than 35,000 open source influencers to learn and share best practices in open source technologies ranging from operating systems, cloud applications, containers, IoT, AI, networking, security, storage, and more. New events on the schedule for this year include Cephalocon and gRPC Conf.
Submit a Proposal
If you’re interested in submitting a proposal, act soon because calls for papers for some of the earliest 2019 events are on the verge of closing. Speaking proposals are now being accepted for:
Check back soon for submission details for other upcoming events, as the calendar is regularly updated. The Linux Foundation welcomes first-time speakers and is happy to provide additional information about the submission process.
If you don’t plan to speak but do want to attend, note that events like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe are expected to sell out. The recent event in Seattle was record-breaking in terms of attendance, so register early to secure your spot.
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Ubisoft's Teased Space Game Pioneer Seemingly Canceled
Pioneer, the sci-fi project teased within Watch Dogs 2, has seemingly been canceled. A trailer for the space exploration game was found in a Watch Dogs 2 mission that had you infiltrate Ubisoft's real-life San Francisco office. However, ex-Ubisoft game director Alex Hutchison has now cast doubt on the project's status.
"RIP Pioneer," he stated on Twitter, including a link to the game's trailer. When followers asked if this meant the project was dead, he simply responded with crying emojis. Ubisoft has declined to comment, but then the game was never officially announced in the first place. It was seemingly due to be revealed at E3 2017, before needing to be "retooled," according to Kotaku's sources in November 2016.
There's no sign, meanwhile, of a third Watch Dogs game, which has been heavily rumored to be set in London. The next major Ubisoft title to launch will be February's Far Cry: New Dawn.
Xenon Racer Aims To Scratch That Futuristic F-Zero Itch On Switch This March
Publisher Soedesco has revealed that its upcoming racing game Xenon Racer will be speeding onto Switch on 26th March. A new trailer has been released to celebrate.
The game takes place in the near future, where an official racing federation has allowed teams to transition from the cars we know today to flying vehicles. You’ll be putting the pedal to the metal in a championship, with your advanced cars driving at “crazy speeds”, drifting and boosting your way to victory. Obvious comparisons can be drawn to the likes of F-Zero, Wipeout, and Fast RMX on Switch.
Here’s a feature list to give you a little more info:
Features – Race at top speeds in electric vehicles boosted by Xenon gas – Drift through the streets of cities like Tokyo and Dubai in 2030 – Triumph in singleplayer, split-screen & online multiplayer championships – Customize your car with tons of parts to create the ultimate racing vehicle
At the time of writing, Soedesco is streaming the game on its Twitch channel to celebrate the release date announcement. You can head to the channel here to give that a watch.
Do you love futuristic racers? Will you be getting behind the wheel in this one? Tell us below.
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Meet the Minecraft Education team at Bett 2019 Jan. 23-26 in London
The Minecraft: Education Edition team will be travelling to the UK next week for Bett 2019! Bett is the first industry expo of the year in the education technology landscape, bringing together 800 leading companies, 100 startups and more than 30,000 attendees from the global education community.
We will be running hands-on workshops and demos at the new Minecraft Classroom (stand F280), an immersive space next to the Microsoft stand where attendees can learn how to teach and code with Minecraft: Education Edition, speak with members of our team for customer support and take fun photos with Minecraft mobs. Sign up for workshops here. Read this Education blog to learn what’s offered at the Microsoft stand (E300).
We hope you will follow along on social media @playcraftlearn #MinecraftEdu #Bett2019.
Here is a breakdown below of the Minecraft team’s Bett schedule, and what we will be covering during our workshops and demos:
Workshop – Code with Minecraft Location: Minecraft Classroom, Stand F280
Wednesday, January 23, at 11AM and 3PM GMT Thursday, January 24, at 1PM GMT Friday, January 25, at 11AM and 3PM GMT
Minecraft: Education Edition offers educators all you need to get started teaching computer science. In this interactive workshop, learn the basics of using Code Builder, the new in-game coding feature, and explore new lessons and standards-aligned curriculum that you can put to use in your school. Devices will be provided. Register here.
Workshop – How to Teach with Minecraft Location: Minecraft Classroom, Stand F280
Wednesday, January 23, at 1PM GMT Thursday, January 24, at 11AM and 3PM GMT Friday, January 25, at 1PM GMT Saturday, January 26, and 11AM GMT
Attendees will be immersed in a hands-on experience to learn how to use Minecraft: Education Edition, from login to game-play. In addition to learning how to play the game, we’ll show you how to navigate our lesson library to find classroom activities that fit into your curriculum. Devices will be provided. Register here.
Stage Demo – Building STEM skills with Minecraft: Education Edition Location: Learn Live Theater, Stand E300 Times: 1PM daily
In this 30-minute demo on the Learn Live Theater stage in the Microsoft stand, see how you can engage your students in STEM subjects using special features in Minecraft: Education Edition, from Code Builder to the Chemistry Resource Pack.
Customer Support
Stop by the Minecraft Classroom (stand F280) to have your questions answered. Learn how to deploy licenses, empower educators to get started with Minecraft in their classrooms and discover professional development resources available online. We’re here to help!
Not at #Bett2019? You can always visit the Help Center for technical support.
Introducing New Computer Science Curriculum!
We just launched a CSTA-aligned computer science curriculum to accompany Code Builder. This flexible, 30-hour curriculum includes downloadable lessons, worlds and teaching resources to help students ages 11-16 learn fundamental coding concepts.
Code Builder is the in-game feature that allows you to code in familiar learn-to-code environments including Microsoft MakeCode and Tynker. Once you are in the Minecraft: Education Edition world, simply press letter ‘C’ on the keyboard to launch Code Builder or press the Agent if using touch controls on a tablet. (The Agent is a character who can be programmed to run different coding commands, from mining to building and farming in Minecraft.)
Check out the Computer Science lessons for easy activities and standards-aligned lessons across STEM subjects. Minecraft: Education Edition also offers two MEC training courses to help educators learn how to teach CS with Minecraft.
New Digital Badging Program
We have also re-launched our digital badging to engage more educators in the global Minecraft community. Earn badges to access exclusive learning content, provide early feedback on new features and support other educators using Minecraft: Education Edition. Visit our Community page learn more.
We can’t wait to meet educators from around the world and share the transformational power of Minecraft in education. Come learn with us and explore the future of education technology. See you in London!
Learn how to use Let’s Encrypt in this tutorial from our archives.
Back in the bad old days, setting up basic HTTPS with a certificate authority cost as much as several hundred dollars per year, and the process was difficult and error-prone to set up. Now we have Let’s Encrypt for free, and the whole thing takes just a few minutes.
Why Encrypt?
Why encrypt your sites? Because unencrypted HTTP sessions are wide open to multiple abuses:
Internet service providers lead the code-injecting offenders. How to foil their nefarious desires? Your best defense is HTTPS. Let’s review how HTTPS works.
Chain of Trust
You could set up asymmetric encryption between your site and everyone who is allowed to access it. This is very strong protection: GPG (GNU Privacy Guard, see How to Encrypt Email in Linux), and OpenSSH are common tools for asymmetric encryption. These rely on public-private key pairs. You can freely share public keys, while your private keys must be protected and never shared. The public key encrypts, and the private key decrypts.
This is a multi-step process that does not scale for random web-surfing, however, because it requires exchanging public keys before establishing a session, and you have to generate and manage key pairs. An HTTPS session automates public key distribution, and sensitive sites, such as shopping and banking, are verified by a third-party certificate authority (CA) such as Comodo, Verisign, or Thawte.
When you visit an HTTPS site, it provides a digital certificate to your web browser. This certificate verifies that your session is strongly encrypted and supplies information about the site, such as organization’s name, the organization that issued the certificate, and the name of the certificate authority. You can see all of this information, and the digital certificate, by clicking on the little padlock in your web browser’s address bar (Figure 1).
The major web browsers, including Opera, Firefox, Chromium, and Chrome, all rely on the certificate authority to verify the authenticity of the site’s digital certificate. The little padlock gives the status at a glance; green = strong SSL encryption and verified identity. Web browsers also warn you about malicious sites, sites with incorrectly configured SSL certificates, and they treat self-signed certificates as untrusted.
So how do web browsers know who to trust? Browsers include a root store, a batch of root certificates, which are stored in /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/. Site certificates are verified against your root store. Your root store is maintained by your package manager, just like any other software on your Linux system. On Ubuntu, they are supplied by the ca-certificates package. The root store itself is maintained by Mozilla for Linux.
As you can see, it takes a complex infrastructure to make all of this work. If you perform any sensitive online transactions, such as shopping or banking, you are trusting a whole lot of unknown people to protect you.
Encryption Everywhere
Let’s Encrypt is a global certificate authority, similar to the commercial CAs. Let’s Encrypt was founded by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to make it easier to secure Websites. I don’t consider it sufficient for shopping and banking sites, for reasons which I will get to shortly, but it’s great for securing blogs, news, and informational sites that don’t have financial transactions.
There are at least three ways to use Let’s Encrypt. The best way is with the Certbot client, which is maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). This requires shell access to your site.
If you are on shared hosting then you probably don’t have shell access. The easiest method in this case is using a host that supports Let’s Encrypt.
If your host does not support Let’s Encrypt, but supports custom certificates, then you can create and upload your certificate manually with Certbot. It’s a complex process, so you’ll want to study the documentation thoroughly.
When you have installed your certificate use SSL Server Test to test your site.
Let’s Encrypt digital certificates are good for 90 days. When you install Certbot it should also install a cron job for automatic renewal, and it includes a command to test that the automatic renewal works. You may use your existing private key or certificate signing request (CSR), and it supports wildcard certificates.
Limitations
Let’s Encrypt has some limitations: it performs only domain validation, that is, it issues a certificate to whoever controls the domain. This is basic SSL. It does not support Organization Validation (OV) or Extended Validation (EV) because it is not possible to automate identity validation. I would not trust a banking or shopping site that uses Let’s Encrypt– let ’em spend the bucks for a complete package that includes identity validation.
As a free-of-cost service run by a non-profit organization there is no commercial support, but only documentation and community support, both of which are quite good.
The Internet is full of malice. Everything should be encrypted. Start with Let’s Encrypt to protect your site visitors.
Learn more about Linux through the free “Introduction to Linux” course from The Linux Foundation and edX.
Absolver puts players behind the mask of a Prospect, who has taken a sacred vow and chosen to join the Absolvers, an elite corps of combatants fighting to maintain stability in the world.
