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The thing about factory games is the final product doesn’t really matter.  What’s being built, what’s its purpose?  Who cares!  The goal of making a thing isn’t so important as the process of its construction, with a million bits and pieces all whirring along in sync, each machine hand-placed in a system that makes perfect sense to the builder but is utterly incomprehensible to anyone else.  There’s an order to the systems that’s satisfying to watch, and whatever the outcome may be is less important than that it all functions as designed.  The original Shapez is a game about using factory elements to mine, cut, manipulate and stack basic shapes into a specific configuration, and the sequel is more of the same but much shinier and with a few wrinkles to the landscape to shake up production.

EA has officially announced NHL 24 to the world and has revealed its cover athlete. There will be two versions of the game, both a standard edition and an X-Factor Edition as both will have separate covers. This year, the series has dubbed Cale Makar, the defenseman of the Colorado Avalanche, to be the cover star for this year’s title. He will be the fifth defenseman to grace the cover of the game joining P.K. Subban, Dion Phaneuf, Chris Pronger and Scott Stevens. Subban was the last defenseman to make the cover back in 2019, and he is the first Colorado Avalanche player to make the cover since Peter Forsberg back in 1998.

In the final major outlook of the year, Amazon Game Studios has detailed its roadmap for September, October, November and December, showing off some rather exciting additions and changes. They are even adding additional content in the August update next week which will do a lot for players who login every day. These include some surprises such as dailies being reduced to us getting the recently released (in Korea) Souleater class surprisingly soon.

In a couple of months, the newest entry in Ubisoft’s historical open world franchise, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, will be transporting players to ninth century Baghdad as they take on the role of former street thief Basim.

Madden NFL 24 releases in just about a week for consoles and for PC and with a lot of changes on the horizon, today EA released a deep dive for the return of Superstar Mode into the game. Based on feedback players have provided in response to career modes in recent years, the fanbase strictly wants Superstar Mode. While Face of the Franchise has been more narrative-driven since its arrival a few years ago and had evolved to more of a career mode, Superstar Mode will bring back a lot of elements for starting an NFL career.

CyberConnect2’s latest paid DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, The 23rd World Tournament, is out next week. Announced by Bandai Namco DE on Twitter, it launches on August 17th. It’s the second DLC in Season Pass 2, following Bardock – Alone Against Fate, and set before the Saiyan Saga.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot downloadable content “The 23rd World Tournament” will launch on August 17, publisher Bandai Namco and developer CyberConnect2 announced.

Sledgehammer Games and Activision today revealed the reveal date for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III alongside details about what content from Modern Warfare II will carry forward into the sequel.

Today, 2K has released its first release for player ratings for NBA 2K24. The game is slated to release on September 8 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. With the cover athlete being granted to Kobe Bryant and four different versions available that include the NBA 2K24 25th Anniversary Edition, NBA 2K24 Black Mamba Edition, NBA 2K24 Kobe Bryant Edition, and the NBA 2K24 WNBA Edition, none of the actual top players will be gracing this year’s title from the NBA. There are twelve initial reveals that range from a 98 overall down to a 94, so there will not be a 99 overall player at launch.

The end of the world was never going to be the actual end of the world, unless humanity somehow dropped a black hole into the center of the planet or something similarly over the top.  All the horrors of the end fade into nothingness after a few decades, and while the damage may take a while to heal nature adapts to the new environment, growing in the ruins while every part of those that died is used as fertile grounds for new life.  And then in the drowned city of Cosmopolis a single upbeat hipster tech-bro wakes up from his sleeping capsule with barely a memory to call his own, and only a few small hints to indicate who he might have been and his relation to humanity’s final days on the planet.  The worst is long in the past and the world is finally peaceful, so maybe he can make a nice, pleasant little home above the flooded remnants of civilization.

After a little over a year in early access, Randwerk’s destruction builder title, ABRISS – build to destroy, will be seeing a full release on September 5 for PC. It’ll be releasing at an initial price point of $16.99 on Steam for its first couple of weeks and will evventually settle at a price of $19.99 for those who miss the initial window. Of course, those who’ve already purchased the early access version of the game will be upgraded to the full release free of charge.

During a special Pokémon presentation, we got a new look at upcoming DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet. There are two expansions for the games both of which lead you on new, exciting adventures. The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero consists of part 1: The Teal Mask and part 2: The Indigo Disk.