Last month Starbreeze AB: an independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products; announced their agreement with 505 Games to acquire the full rights to the PAYDAY-franchise. The consideration for the acquisition amounts to 10.9 million B-shares in Starbreeze, equivalent to 30 MUSD.

Along with creating new DLC for PAYDAY 2, Starbreeze partnered up with CMUNE (UberStrike) to create a mobile PvP multiplayer game set in the Payday universe. This 2-8 player game let's you for the first time choose whose side you want to be on, the heisters or cops. Challenging your enemies in iconic locations from the bank to the Golden Grin Casino.

If you where at E3 for the past few days you may have passed by booth #F5A and have had the chance to play OVERKILL's new PAYDAY 2 DLC; The Biker Packs, along with the PAYDAY: Crime Wars demo. Please comment below seeing I was not there unfortunately, so I have no review of the demo Expo goers had a chance to play. Though I do know it will be out on both iOS and Android devices with a release date TBD.

I am very excited that this game is coming out. Like many mobile gamers, I have been waiting a long time to see PAYDAY crossover from a PC to a mobile platform. I hope I can get my hands on it soon, maybe even test drive what looks like to be a very will thought out crossover.

The game was this minimalist 3D game that looked like Hitman GO, a strategy game Square-Enix put out a few years back. It was the simple indie look that made me want to play OK Golf.

The game is very simple to play. Swipe back, move your finger to direct where you want your ball to go, then release. Even though that sounds super simple, these courses are accurately real life layouts of actual golf courses around the world.

From the lake country of Georgia

To the desert landscape of Arizona

To the Zen gardens of Japan

To the islands of Hawaii

And the beach fronts of Miami.

These courses are very challenging. It took me multiple tries on many of them to get a birdie first try. Getting under par (birdie or eagle) gave me a full three stars. Even though I was screaming at my phone every time I missed the hole, I still did not want to stop playing the game like I do with some games after being frustrated by my failure.

The game has three single player modes per course. The first is Free Play. Free Play let's you practice each course as many times as you want. After finishing Free Play the course is opened to Championship and Timed Mode. Championship is a regular scored golf game. So the more you practice in Free Play the better you are in Championship mode.

I have not played every mode or have gotten to try the multiplayer feature yet. Though it looks like like it can be fun playing friends all over the world, as long as they have the game and are running off the same OS. You can even do pass and play if you're looking to have some fun at the bar with your friends.

Overall this is one of the best casual games of the year. Definitely worth the $3. Don't wait till it's on sale or in a humble bundle. Get this game not the overpriced coffee you don't need.

2017 brings us the long anticipated follow up to 2014’s Modern Combat 5: Blackout with Modern Combat Versus. MCVS still has big open battle area's, though the game is just one mode, Zone Control. Each game you're paired with different plays of different ranks though you are in the same league.

Leagues are separated into six different elements: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Emerald, and Diamond. You reach the next league by collecting trophy points from winning multiplayer matches. You're also demoted from a league by losing multiplayer matches, in turn you lose trophy points.

Though all this is nothing new with free mobile PVP. Creates to level up your players XP with some coins thrown in, unlocking new characters, leveling them up to match the ones you started with, you know the deal. Though besides the typical PVP format, MCVS has become a daily game I will play, and stream for people to watch me as what I have coined #ZoneControlorDie.

I don't know how long the hype train will be, seeing the game seems to be in a alpha stage. I have already seen a lot of frustrated players in the MCVS Facebook Community and in the reviews on Google Play. The game has gone from a 3.9 rating to a 3.5 rating just in the first week of it's release. Compared to the game's predecessor's rating of 4.3. We will just have to see how many people jump off the MCVS train like a hobo when they see they're about to come to the next hot town that is Shadowgun Legends.