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Happy Zelda launch day, everybody! I hope you all take pleasure in your time with the most recent Nintendo title, and I’ll verify in with all of you subsequent week after we’ve all had an opportunity to take pleasure in it over the weekend. And hopefully none of you bought spoiled by that leak that occurred final week. It feels that this entire week has been a holding sample, ready for Tears of the Kingdom to drop — however we’ve nonetheless had an attention-grabbing week anyway.
Nintendo and Electronic Arts each posted their monetary earnings studies this week. While Electronic Arts’ numbers look like steady — although not steady sufficient to spare layoffs earlier this yr — Nintendo’s Switch gross sales are slipping. If the report is something to go by, the corporate has anticipated this and has ready accordingly. I’ve the sensation we’re not going to see that oft-rumored Switch follow-up any time quickly.
Unfortunately, Hollow Knight: Silksong has been delayed once more. While it by no means had a agency launch date, plan gave the impression to be to launch it within the first half of this yr. That window of time is closing quick, so it seems the builders aren’t going to race to succeed in it. We’ve additionally heard a rumor that the subsequent recreation within the Call of Duty sequence is a remake of Modern Warfare 3 — a narrative which I’d be completely happy to expertise once more.
In private information, I simply managed to get my Dead Island 2 assessment out earlier than Tears of the Kingdom dropped. While I’ve loads of room in my coronary heart for different video games, I feel I’m going to commit myself to the brand new Zelda as a result of I get severe FOMO when a recreation as massive as this comes out. Other than that, I would try to squeeze out a while to play extra Jedi: Survivor, however I make no guarantees about taking part in something apart from Zelda within the subsequent few days.
Event
GamesBeat Summit 2023
Join the GamesBeat group in Los Angeles this May 22-23. You’ll hear from the brightest minds throughout the gaming business to share their updates on the most recent developments.
What to play this week
What’s new:
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Darkest Dungeon II
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2
- Death or Treat
- Occupy Mars: The Game
- Voidtrain
- The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-Earth
- TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 3
- Dokapon Kingdom: Connect
New on subscription providers:
- Weird West: Definitive Edition (Xbox Game Pass)
- Shadowrun Trilogy (Xbox Game Pass)
- Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition (Prime Gaming)
- Lake (Prime Gaming)
- Robo Army (Prime Gaming)
- Last Resort (Prime Gaming)
- Far Cry 6 (GeForce Now)
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