Summer Game Fest Kickoff Locks Down a June Date, Tickets Go on Sale in May

XDefiant, the free-to-play arena-shooter - a la Apex Legends, Overwatch 2, Valorant or the multiplayer team-based game of your choice - built around classes and factions from across the Ubisoft universe games from Splinter Cell and Far Cry to Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs, has been delayed. Originally outlined for a launch before the end of March - you’ll note that we’re now in April - the upcoming FPS will apparently now decide a release date after an upcoming stress test for its servers.

XDefiant has been delayed again as it was previously scheduled to be released by the end of March 2024. Now, Ubisoft is aiming to "lock" down a release date after a short test period.

Gearbox Entertainment has been hit with a wave of layoffs, mere hours after the game development company announced its pending acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. After recent rumors that the company was potentially up for sale, it was confirmed on March 27 that Embracer Group will be selling Gearbox for $460 million. This comes after nearly a year of the Swedish media conglomerate divesting itself, through sale or closure, of multiple subsidiaries to increase cash flow.

LEGO Fortnite is getting updated with version 29.10, which has been named Mechanical Mayhem. This new update is bringing vehicles to the game, including three free vehicle builds. Those are the Speeder, the Offroader, and the Hauler. Players will also be able to build their own customised vehicles, and there will be new toys too such as wheels, seats and power centers. A new item called the Compost Bin is being added, which will allow resources to be recycled to create Biomass, Fertilizer, or Soil. Biomass will need to be used to create Power Cells.

The yellow rubber duckies that were your bathtime play pals have now come to life with Chuck The Duck In: Crossy Seas. It’s a new casual indie game that’s a mixture of roguelike adventure and city-building. Dropped on Android recently, it’s free to play.

From Skull and Bones to Beyond Good and Evil 2 and many others, Ubisoft has been no stranger to games being stuck in limbo in recent years, and it seems another one of its in-development projects is currently facing similar struggles. Multiplayer shooter XDefiant has faced numerous delays in recent months, and though Ubisoft said earlier this year that the game would launch before April, with March now nearly over, that’s look incredibly unlikely.

Nailing down exactly what PS5 game INDIKA is seems like an impossibility, so we will let the trailer above do a lot of the talking. Now confirmed for a current-gen launch on 8th May 2024, you play as a young nun with the devil by her side on a journey of self-discovery. You shall be taken back to the 19th century in an alternative Russia where «religious visions clash with harsh reality» for a third-person adventure likely to live long in the mind.

The rather charming-looking Harold Halibut has landed itself a release date.

The Hauntii release date was revealed at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase, with developer Moonloop Games confirming that its atmospheric adventure game will launch on May 23, 2024. 

E3 is comfortably six feet under at this point, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be bereft of video game shenanigans this summer. Host Geoff Keighley has announced that his Summer Game Fest event will return on Friday, 7th June at 5PM PT/5PM ET/10PM BST. It’ll be broadcast live from the YouTube Theatre in glitzy Los Angeles.

It's a rather sad time to be a Nintendo fan nostalgic for the 3DS and Wii U era of games. In less than three weeks, the online servers for all games on the consoles will be shut down for good, making an enormous number of online modes for fan-favorite games unplayable forever.

Bigmode Games has officially announced that the indie game Animal Well will be released on May 9, 2024. Bigmode Games was co-founded by Dunkey from the popular Videogamedunkey YouTube channel back in 2022, and this will be the first indie game published by the studio.