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The previous boss, Gabriel Aul, announced his retirement in February with Saxs Persson, once the EVP of the Fortnite ecosystem at Epic, taking over, Business Insider reports.
[Business Insider]
According to the Steam page for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis:
AI-assisted tools were used during development to support some early exploration and temporary development content. Any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team.
Crystal Dynamics tells Eurogamer that “we leverage AI tools to help our teams iterate on ideas faster and more efficiently, while ensuring that all finished content in the final product is human-crafted.”
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PlayerUnknown Productions is restructuring to a “smaller team” and stopping work on Prologue: Go Wayback, the survival roguelike launched in early access last year.
The studio plans to release one more update and then bring the game out of early access and make it free. It’s “investigating” refunds for people who already bought it.
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Netflix’s next animated series, Dealies, sounds like a weirdo version of Superstore. But it’s especially interesting as its co-creator Joe Bennett was behind both Scavengers Reign and Common Side Effects. No word on when it’ll start streaming.
The idea of a pedal with swappable, console-style effects cards isn’t new. But they don’t normally use actual video game console carts. There’s even a synth cart that you control with an N64 controller. Sadly, the base unit is currently sold out on the Console Pedals Etsy shop.
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Along with announcing when Pokémon Champions will arrive on iOS and Android, The Pokémon Company revealed the signature abilities of Mega Raichu X and Y, which will become playable in Champions after receiving free in-game rewards.
According to Variety, “Amazon execs were concerned that [Martin] Gero’s take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise’s already dedicated fanbase.” Gero formerly wrote, produced, and directed episodes of all three of the original Stargate series and was set to lead Amazon’s reboot as writer and showrunner.
It was great to see how motion capture was used by the cast of the upcoming God of War Laufey game in Sony’s behind-the-scenes video. Jack Quaid was especially in character for his portrayal of Phranque, a sentient gelatinous cube. 10/10, no notes.
The slasher movie-turned-game series is back with a full-on sequel that launches in 2027. It has a new setting and characters, but the same interactive film format.
The second season of Marathon, Bungie’s highly stylized extraction shooter, starts today. It’s called Nightfall and will be available for everyone to play for free from June 2nd to June 9th, so now’s the time to see if Bungie’s doing enough to keep Marathon alive in the long run. Bungie has the best gunplay in gaming, so here’s hoping.
The franchise has been on quite a run between the SH2 remake and the excellent F, and Townfall looks like it’ll add a new flavor to the horror. It launches on September 24th.
Try the demo ahead of the game’s full release on September 25th. Hopefully Capcom’s strong 2026 run continues.
Survival game Dune: Awakening is getting a port, and will be hitting the PS5 on September 22nd. It’ll include an all-new single-player mode when it does.
We got a look at a dinosaur survival game called The Lost Wild: True Fear Is Primal. It looks like all my Jurassic Park video game dreams come true. It’s slated for PS5 in 2027, and I will be seated.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis was scheduled to launch in 2026, but during Tuesday’s State of Play show, it got a release date of February 12th, 2027. Like Fable, seems it’s steering clear of Grand Theft Auto VI.
Kemuri: Hunt the Unseen, which comes from The Evil Within artist Ikumi Nakamura, is heading to the PlayStation 5 in 2027. The first gameplay trailer offers a glimpse at its characters zipping around the city and battling paranormal creatures.
Bancho the Chef tells the story of how Bancho, the intense chef from Dave the Diver, learned his craft. No word when it will be available, but it’s in the works for PS5.
Sony showed a reveal trailer for Rayman Legends Retold, a 3D reimagining of the 2013 platformer. It launches August 27th. You can watch the trailer below.
If Wolverine was too bloody for you, we also got a new look at Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the 2D fighting game that might be the ideal way to test Sony’s new fight stick.
Here’s what you can expect from the game, which has the full title Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!:
Pressed into the service of the newly-incarnated buff anime elf, you’ll speed your magic delivery truck to complete objectives across two worlds, running over pedestrians, sending them to another world as Truck-kun, and helping Carissa power up a Galactic Gate with the stars you generate together.
It’s coming to PC and Xbox on July 29th.
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The show, which will run for more than 60 minutes, begins at 5PM ET. First up, Sony is promising a “closer look” at Marvel’s Wolverine, which launches on September 15th.
The revenue will help Yacht Club Games stay afloat after Mina’s lengthy development, per Bloomberg. The game rules, I highly recommend it — it’s also one of the highest-reviewed games of the year.
Fresh off interviewing the chatbot-powered stunt that is Tilly Norwood, the NYT tells us of Martin Scorsese’s advisor and partner arrangement with Black Forest Labs (whose Flux tech has powered xAI’s image generation) in what it calls “a clear sign of Hollywood’s softening stance on artificial intelligence.”
Right now, however, that softening extends only to a test of storyboard creation:
I recently tested this out on a scene and the ability to visualize and immediately share the storyboard was creatively freeing. During the pre-production process, time costs money, and this allowed us to move faster without sacrificing quality or craft.
That’s true for folks living underground in Silo, Apple TV’s sci-fi series, as you can see in the new trailer. But it’s also true for the show’s creators, who only have two more seasons to wrap-up the sprawling post-apocalyptic story. Season 3 starts streaming on July 3rd.
Nintendo just put out a lengthy overview video about the upcoming N64 remake, which continues to look impressive. The game also launches pretty soon: it’ll be out exclusively on the Switch 2 on June 25th.
Maverick Games, a studio made up of former Forza developers (which was previously working with Amazon), just teased its first title, an open-world racer called Clutch. It looks like a mixture of Forza and Need For Speed, and the studio will be showing more off at SGF Live on Friday.
You have to sort a list of seven items based on a theme that you need to figure out, and you have five guesses to do it. Thankfully, you can ask for a clue if you need one.
Check the game out right here.
[The New Yorker]
Prime members in the US will have the chance to watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day in select theaters on July 29th, two days before the movie is widely released stateside. Tickets will be available here, and you can sign up to be notified when they go on sale.
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