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It's Friday, it's warm (well, it's warm here), and it's a holiday weekend, so let's take a look and see what's new and notable in gaming for the long weekend.

Botanicula is an adorable little puzzle game where you play as five different little tree guys trying to save a seed from a parasite that threatens their idyllic forest home, and it's this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.

The original Guild Wars launched in April 2005, so the game turns 20 years old this month, joining a venerable club of classic MMOs including EverQuest (1999 and yes, it's still going), EverQuest 2 (2004), and World of Warcraft (2004).

Now, we know cats can be incredibly cute, and dogs can be incredibly cute, but generally when you put them together, things are decidedly not cute, right?

This week we're playing Pigeon's 11, an adventure where our fine flock of felonious fowl are getting ready for the heist of a lifetime.

Somehow, we've managed to come to another Friday (it was just Monday I do not understand what happened), and while this week was a little on the slimmer side of large AAA game releases, let's talk games.

This week's free Epic Games Store game is River City Girls, a fun little nostalgia-filled brawler.

The EU is taking action against games that push micorotransactions, and it may have a ripple affect that touches on microtransactions in games across the industry.

Moonshot Games, one of the Dreamhaven game development studios, is launching the first Community Preview playtest for their upcoming game, Wildgate, which will begin April 10 at 9AM pacific time and ending on April 14 at 5PM pacific time.

Believe it or not, the Metro Richmond Zoo's precious Poppy was merely the last arrival in a personality-packed lineup of newborn pygmy hippos in the last year.