EA Sports FC 24 has now reached the business end of the football season, with the best players from the past nine months being rounded up for its annual Team of the Season awards.
01.05.2024 - 09:09 / rockpapershotgun.com
Microsoft's Xbox summer showcase in June will reportedly include a hefty post-show segment on the next and currently untitled Call Of Duty, alongside release dates for such first-party headliners as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Avowed and Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. As rumoured in April, they're also apparently going to show off new Gears Of War game. Nice to see the COG and Locust still getting work.
As with the April report, all that's according to the Verge, a paper of some note, who also say that the show will give us a release date for Starfield expansion Shattered Space, which the Verge further claims will be sometime in September. They're pegging the next Call of Duty for late October, while Avowed and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are apparently landing in November and Indiana Jones in December. All the ingredients for a classic Xbox Xmas, there: planes, whips and fireballs.
A new Gears game, eh? By gar, it's been a while. The series has been at low ebb since Gears 5 and frankly, I'd question its on-going relevance - everything Gears did well has long since been nicked and incorporated into a bunch of other shooters, not least its legendary (yes, I know Kill.Switch got there first) cover system. I do love me a good Gears campaign, though - that atmosphere of perpetual imminent ambush, the winding canyon level design, "destroyed beauty", etc - and it's been a while since Gears 5, which Matt Castle (RPS in peace) liked, and which remains one of our best PC co-op games. Who knows what The Coalition are doing with it right now? Even fancier dynamic weather? Expanded open worldy bits? Locusts with wasps coming out of their mouths? I'm curious to see more.
As for this year's Call of Duty, it's rumoured to be a new Black Ops game set during the first Gulf War - one codename is or was "Cerberus", and the official title likely won't be Black Ops 6. The story is apparently an ensemble affair, as is often the case for COD.
The showcase will run on Sunday, June 9th at 10AM PT, 1pm ET, or 6pm UK. We'll be at the show itself and also, reporting from afar. Expect lots of sneery remarks about interlude music.
EA Sports FC 24 has now reached the business end of the football season, with the best players from the past nine months being rounded up for its annual Team of the Season awards.
For gamers of a certain age, Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 was a landmark moment in gaming. This spy-themed shooter was the culprit behind countless sleepless nights and arguments over screen-peeking with friends. Since then, James Bond games never really hit those same highs and even disappeared for over a decade. Now, a new developer has taken up the iconic franchise to make a new 007 game, and the pairing seems almost too good to be true. IO Interactive, fresh off the stellar Hitman trilogy, revealed that it is creating a new James Bond game currently referred to by the code name of Project 007. Details are so scarce that even Bond himself would have a hard time uncovering them, but we’ve compiled all the intel so far on this new title.
Xbox president Sarah Bond has confirmed that the company will continue to launch its first-party games, including Activision titles like Call of Duty, on Game Pass. This news comes in the midst of a period of uncertainty over the subscription service, as recent reports claimed that Microsoft was internally debating whether new Call of Duty titles should be launched on Xbox Game Pass.
EA Sports FC still has plenty left in the tank. The Team of the Season promotion is in full swing, with Division Rivals rewarding our efforts every week.
Star Wars Hunters will finally be released for Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android devices on June 4, 2024.
After seemingly endless delays, the Star Wars: Hunters release date has at long last been confirmed! Best of all, it's launching soon.
Microsoft has announced an Xbox Games Showcase for its first-party titles for June, alongside a dedicated Direct event for an unnamed title. The showcase will be livestreamed on June 9, starting at 10am PT (10:30am IST) on Xbox's YouTube, Twitch and Facebook accounts. The event will feature an upcoming lineup of games from Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studios, along with third-party titles on Xbox.
Funko Fusion will be released on September 13, 2024, it’s been announced.
Target launch months for Xbox’s first-party games coming in 2024 have seemingly been revealed.
Microsoft has a stacked lineup of major first-party releases lined up for 2024, but while a number of them are officially confirmed for this year, not many of them have specific release dates. That, however, is going to change at the company’s summer showcase in June, as per a report published by The Verge.
To kick off (pun intended) the new season, Erling Haaland is coming to Clash of Clans as a Barbarian King – King Haaland.
Hades 2 developer Supergiant Games has signaled the end of the game’s technical test and early access launch soon afterwards.