The next Dark Pictures Anthology game is getting closer

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Super Bomberman R Online is about to debut on new platforms. When it does, its first season will kick off by introducing Old Snake Bomber.

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Plans for this year's Summer Game Fest are starting to come together, and they include a pretty sizeable number of companies. Today, organizer Geoff Keighley announced the kickoff date, participating partners, and more for the 2021 festivities.

The action will kick off on June 10 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT with a live show hosted by Geoff Keighley. On Twitter, Keighley estimated that the show will run "around 2 hours" with over 12 premieres—"[probably] more than that."

Rock band Weezer will also play a "co-stream safe" performance of a brand-new video game soundtrack song during the kickoff live show. As for participating partners, the Summer Game Fest site lists the following:

Samsung may have started the craze for super ultrawide 32:9 mega monitors with their CHG90, CRG9 and Odyssey G9 gaming screens, but now we're starting to see other monitor manufacturers take up the mantle as well. AOC's Agon AG493UCX is one such super ultrawide gaming monitor, offering the same 5120x1440 resolution as its latest Samsung rival, but at a much lower price - £900 / $1000 versus the Odyssey G9's £1200 / $1480.

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Supermassive Games has shared a first look at the next part of its Dark Pictures Anthology with a new House of Ashes teaser trailer. Even better, the Until Dawn studio has shared when horror fans can expect a full reveal, and it's going down next week! 

In the below trailer, we can see a military background for the upcoming chapter in this horror saga. When tension crests and the military lays siege in the Zagros mountains, something ancient and evil makes its way to the surface. While the narrative is different than Man of Medan and Little Hope, the tone is the same: things are about to go from bad to worse to oh my god, Liana stop screaming. 

Deathloop game director Dinga Bakaba break down some of the challenges of putting a second player into the open-ended levels Arkane Studios has become known for. ...

PlayStation, EA and Xbox will take part in Geoff Keighley's definitely-not-E3 Summer Game Fest event, which will broadcast an announcements show on Thursday 10th June at 6pm UK time.

Mark your calendars for the usual flurry of world premieres, as well as a musical performance by Weezer.

While absolutely not part of the official E3 (which will exist digitally this year via a web portal/app) Summer Game Fest will take place at roughly the same time.

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E3 2021 will undoubtedly feature several big announcements but it looks like any news on Hollow Knight: Silksong won’t be among them. Matthew Griffin, who works in the marketing and publishing arm of Team Cherry, recently posted in the game’s official Discord channel to share that the developer has no plans to share anything new during the annual event, which would presumably include any update on Silksong. 

A screencap of Griffin’s short but not-so-sweet statement made the rounds on the official Hollow Knight subreddit, which you can view here. Otherwise, you can read it below:

“Hey guys! I just wanted to pop in and let you know that Team Cherry does not have any announcements/blogs scheduled for E3 this year.” said Griffin. 

PC-specific features give a twist to zombie survival, but it probably stops there

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Summer Game Fest returns with Geoff Keighley at the helm of big reveals, musical entertainment, and a few surprises on the way. Summer Game Fest 2021 will kick off on June 10 and promises to be a big start to the festivities of E3 that are set to follow just a few short days later. 

The kickoff of the latest event will start with a performance from Weezer (I hope they are wearing sweaters). The show is set to begin at 11 a.m. Pacific and will feature announcements from Activision, PlayStation, Xbox, Ubisoft, EA, and so many more: 

☀️The first lineup details are here! ☀️

Welcome to #SummerGameFest 2021

It begins Thursday, June 10 with KICKOFF LIVE! a spectacular live world premiere showcase, including a performance by @weezer, streaming everywhere at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 6 pm BST.@summergamefest pic.twitter.com/s6inizAuhU

Inti Creates shared new art of the Blaster Master Zero 3 characters returning for this game, as well as extra screenshots.

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It’s Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, and for many people, this means taking extra time to appreciate our cultural history, highlight Asian work, and call attention to issues in the community. For people who love video games, that second part might involve playing the huge amount of Asian-made and sadly less ubiquitous Asian-starring games that have impacted video game history and aesthetics, like Japanese-made Super Mario Bros. and Shenmue.

For some white people, though, Asian appreciation tends to crawl past appreciation and into something more damaging. Recently, some white e-girls have been catching criticism online for “asianfishing,” a term predated by “blackfishing” and “catfishing,” all of which refer to people that significantly alter their appearance online. For asianfishers, this usually means engaging in the highly-criticized “fox eye” trend of pulling eyes back to make them look slanted, taping their eyes back, or using makeup to significantly change their facial features to look “Asian,” most typically East Asian.

Arkane Studios’ time-looping shooter looks fantastic

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Fortnite has hosted football clubs, American football clubs and - most recently - Neymar Jr. Now, it's the turn of basketball, and the NBA.

A collection of NBA outfits join Fortnite this week on Friday's shop reset (that's 1am on Saturday here in the UK). As with previous sports skins, each outfit will let you customise it with licensed logos for all of the league's teams.

Perhaps more fun, though, is the Mini Hoop Back Bling item - which looks like it'll let you take a basketball shot when standing with someone else who is wearing it.

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The series is all about the young adult lives of Clark Kent and Lois Lane

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I love the premise of Deathloop: trapped in a timeloop, you need to assassinate eight targets before the day is out to stop everything from resetting. While you're at it, you're being hunted yourself - by another assassin who can played by your pals. I'm really hoping Dishonored developers Arkane will deliver something great with this one, and having seen an action-packed (if hands-off) preview, I can't imagine any other studio pulling it off.

I was given the low-down on all the weird and wonderful supernatural abilities at your disposal in Deathloop, and Arkane also showed off how missions on the game's 60s-themed party island can go down. While it offers you plenty of stealthy opportunities, however, it seems pretty different from the Dishonored experience, sometimes favouring the guns-blazing approach.

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You don't have to find the Koroks, as they are immediately visible on these items.

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Naughty Dog has announced another good reason for PS5 owners to clear a game off their backlog. The studio announced a performance patch is out today for The Last of Us Part II on PlayStation 5.

Once The Last of Us Part II owners have installed the latest patch on their PS5, they'll be able to access a toggle in the Display options allowing them to target either 30 or 60 FPS. Though it's already a pretty nice-looking game, a bump in framerate sounds like a good reason to jump onto this one.

In today's PlayStation blog, Naughty Dog also teases that this patch is "just the first step" of working on the PS5, and they'll let us know when they have more news to share. Reports have said the studio is looking into a remake of the first game, but even if it's just more enhancements to fidelity, I'm down for that.

Either way, seems like a good time to finally get around to The Last of Us Part II. Hopefully all that revengin' and guitar-playin' looks even nicer running at higher FPS.

It's a delicious irony that one of PlayStation 5's most exciting exclusive prospects this year comes from some of the newest members of the extended Xbox Game Studios family, but let's not let that quirk of timing obscure the real story here: Arkane Studios, creators of some of the finest immersive sim experiences in its brace of Dishonored games and 2017's superlative if somewhat underappreciated Prey, is back with an all-new game that funnels some of that expertise into a tightly wound timeloop, and layers plenty more on top besides.

The topline? It's Dishonored with guns, an extension of Arkane's previous work in the world of immersive sims that mixes all that sorcery and supernatural power into a hard-boiled late 60s world of assassins and stylish villain's lairs; there's a dash of Clockwork Orange, a touch of The Prisoner, a serving or two of John Boorman's Point Blank and even - if you're old enough to recall - a bit of Monolith's beloved No One Lives Forever.

It's quite the mixing pot, then, but there's no doubting that first and foremost this is an Arkane joint, an immersive sim swimming in style and full of all sorts of murderous possibilities. You play as Colt, waking with a bleary head on the bleak shores of Blackreef. A remote northern European island, it first presents itself as a head of cliffs as craggy as Colt's hangover as he pieces together his situation - helped along by floating, fragmented text prompts, a knowing lift from What Remains of Edith Finch and further confirmation, should you need any, that Arkane is a studio with exquisite taste.

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As we detailed in our cover story a few months back, Deathloop is the story about a secret society that invents an eternal timeloop on a chilly, Northern European island called Blackreef. The catch is that most of the people caught in this cycle don’t have any memory of previous loops. Colt Vahn is the unfortunate hero who actually remembers everything that happens across these loops. And, if he wants to escape this torment, he must assassinate the eight leaders of the mysterious Aeon program. Time to get to work.

The launch of Cyberpunk 2077 back in December 2020 was, by most accounts, a bit of a car crash. The game's poor performance on base consoles led to the game being pulled from the PlayStation Store, and was followed by a significant slump in CD Projekt's stock price.

This led to a bunch of angry investors, many of whom filed class action lawsuits against CD Projekt for allegedly misleading them over the state of the game. So many, in fact, that several lawsuits have now been rolled into one big lawsuit by a US court.

CD Projekt has now confirmed that four lawsuits against the company from December and January have been consolidated into one. The court has now appointed a lead plaintiff, and all four lawsuits will now be subject to "potential common court proceedings".

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Abrams, Bruce Timm, and Matt Reeves will produce Batman: Caped Crusader

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Nintendo’s $20-a-year online subscription service gets slightly better on May 26 with the addition of Caveman Ninja, Magical Drop 2, Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, Spanky’s Quest, and Ninja JaJaMaru-Kun, bringing its grand total of playable old games to 104. Which are you most excited for, and why?

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The Vindicators get their own series, alongside other Adult Swim spinoffs

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Charity speedrunning bonanza Summer Games Done Quick has revealed the schedule for July's week-long event, and it looks like another good'un. Along with many old favourites, the livestreamed show will include Dragon Age: Inqusition in under an hour, a perfect score on GeoGuessr, a Factorio run, and maybe someone playing Trackmania Nations Forever while blindfolded.

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Only one volume remains until the Switch completely catches up with the Phantom Trigger series.

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So Square Enix decided to unload a ton of new info for Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (the DLC/PS5 upgrade thing for Remake), and there's a lot to unpack. Let's start with the characters.

Nero has been revealed, serving as a "member of an elite unit in Deepground known as the Tsviets." Scarlet is also going to get down to business in the DLC utilizing the Crimson Mare mech, and Ramuh will be usable as a summon. As you can tell, from an antagonist standpoint the DLC is going to diverge quite a bit.

"People usually do a lot of dying in games like this, so you might as well make it a part of the core gameplay," says J.W. Nijman, one of the developers behind the Independent Games Festival finalist Disc Room. ...

It's been two-and-a-half years since Frontier Developments first announced it was working on the mysterious "next era" of Elite Dangerous - one which would, it promised, deliver a "defining moment" in the history of the game. That, we'd eventually learn, meant the advent of perhaps one of the most requested features in the seminal space sim series' near-four-decade-long existence - the ability for players to leave their ships and stomp across the galaxy in first-person - and today marks the day this once-enigmatic new expansion, now officially titled Odyssey, finally appears.

But how did the journey toward Odyssey's PC release begin? As Piers Jackson, game director on Elite Dangerous, explains, "You probably need to wind all the way back somewhere into the '80s and really look at [original co-creator David Braben's] vision for this. I think it's always been the case that, at some point, he wanted to get out of ships and walk on planets. So this is a long burn, shall we say, to get to that point."

The residents of English town Walsall have levied complaints at their local council over the implementation of 15 enormous plant pots, which bear more than a striking resemblance to the "warp pipes" of the Super Mario series. While this is obviously a positive boon to any city, some members of the Always Pleased British public are unhappy with the "eyesores."

According to local newspaper Birmingham Mail, the Walsall council was asked to slash £29 million from its budget, which is leading residents to question why taxpayer cash has been splashed on the admittedly huge installations, which have been situated throughout the quiet market town. Rumors that running across Walsall's rooftops allows you to skip a few worlds are yet to be verified.

"We've had so many shop closures in the last few years and the best thing the council can come up with is these garish monstrosities," said local florist Andrea Loveridge to the Birmingham Mail, before cementing her point with delighfully old-school phrase "It beggars belief."

BAFTA-nominated bird combat game The Falconeer will take up roost on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PS5 on 5th August.

It'll launch on those platforms in a new Warrior Edition, which includes all previous updates and add-ons, plus a new expansion: Edge of the World.

Edge of the World is described as a "significant" update to the game, with new quests, map locations, story and items.

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Most Care Bears, as good as they are with the caring, have a singular focus. Bedtime Bear is for bedtime. Birthday Bear is for giving aunts and uncles easy present choices. Grumpy Bear is about cosplaying my spouse. But the newly-introduced Togetherness Bear? She’s here to ensure everybody loves everybody. So do that.…

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