Microsoft has confirmed that its major annual Xbox Games Showcase will be held on Sunday, June 9th at 10am PT/1pm ET. In a blog post, the company confirmed that games from its first-party studios, as well as third-party partners, will be featured. Some games that will likely be shown include Bethesda's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Avowed. Notably, this will be the first Xbox Games Showcase since the company closed its massive acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October, and Xbox says the Call of Duty publisher will be showcased during the presentation as well ..read more

Endless Ocean is back with Endless Ocean Luminous, but instead of being a true sequel to Endless Oceans 2: Adventures of the Deep, it’s more of a soft reboot of the first game’s concept, combined with online features from the second game. If you’re looking to leisurely swim around an ocean with your friends, then this is the game for you, but if you want an undersea adventure, I’m sad to say the story here is extremely underdeveloped. But we’ll get to that later. For now, let's start with how developer Arika has put together this undersea world. The Veiled Sea The main game world in Endless O ..read more

Xbox held its 2024 ID@Xbox Showcase on April 29th, offering a look at dozens of promising indie games. Notably, two of these games were Canadian: the action-RPG 33 Immortals (Montreal's Thunder Lotus) and the adventure game Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Dontnod Montreal). The former has teams of players slaying demonic beings in MMO-style raids, while the latter is a choice-driven narrative about childhood secrets from the creators of Life is Strange. As revealed in the showcase, the closed beta for 33 Immortals begins on May 24th -- you can sign up here. It's worth noting th ..read more

Prime Video's Fallout TV show, which is based on the Fallout video game franchise, is surprisingly great. The TV series, set in a post-apocalyptic take on Los Angeles, stars Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, Moises Arias, Aaron Moten and more. Goggins is excellent as The Ghoul, and the series also goes back 200 years before the apocalypse when his character attempts to learn more about Vault-Tec and its misdoings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mugKDQDlg Purnell's character, Lucy MacLean, is a young woman who's lived her entire life in a vault, but after raiders invade her home to steal her fa ..read more

Bethesda's free next-gen update for Fallout 4 has a variety of issues across all platforms. Following its rollout on April 25th, players have taken to the web to report a litany of problems, particularly on Steam. On Reddit, PC players note that many of the bugs that were supposed to be addressed in the update have not actually been fixed. What's more, the implementation of the supposed patch means that mods that some PC players created to work around these issues in the first place are also no longer functional. One user said the game is also now unplayable on Steam Deck following the update ..read more

The successor to the Nintendo Switch might feature magnetic Joy-Cons, according to a new rumour. Citing sources at peripherals manufacturers, Spanish outlet Vandal (via VGC), says Nintendo's next console, colloquially referred to as the 'Switch 2,' will have magnetic stripes on either side of the display. Joy-Cons, the wand-like Switch controllers, will then attach to these magnets. However, this raises a few questions that Vandal wasn't able to fully answer -- chief among them whether the Switch 2 will support existing Joy-Cons. After all, these gamepads attach to the Switch d ..read more

iOS Nintendo console emulator Delta launched with an incredible amount of polish, but there are still a few notable updates that developer Riley Testut is working on. The most recent update Testut shared on Threads showcases a more refined Delta home screen with rounded corners on the box art. This update also justifies the art, making it look more organized. Testut furthers this by saying that he may come back and re-organize the home screens again to make the games more compact when he has more time.   Post by @rileytestut View on Threads   Beyond that, in the same thread abou ..read more

Shoppers Drug Mart has a pretty great deal on Nintendo Switch games right now. As posted on RedFlagDeals by a user named Skilas, via @Lbabinz on X (Twitter), their local Shoppers Drug Mart in Bradford, Ontario has 50 percent off ($39.99 versus $79.99) a bunch of Switch titles. Based on the picture they shared, this includes such notable games as: Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD Mario Strikers: Battle League Pokémon Legends: Arceus Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Pokémon Shining Pearl Pok ..read more

Valve has updated its Steam return policy to close a loophole that some gamers have been exploiting. Now, Steam has introduced an 'Advanced Access' label to games that are purchased and played before their official release date, as outlined in a new Steam Community post. This is effectively an expansion of Steam's standard refund policy, which allows you to get your money back as long as you only played the game for more than two hours within the first 14 days of purchase. But while Steam's two-hour/14-day policy has been around for nearly a decade, it didn't take into account the increasing ..read more

A group of modders have managed to get Grand Theft Auto V up and running on a Nintendo Switch, albeit with mixed results. Last year, the source code for GTA V leaked, making it available to the modding team known as Superstar South (an apparent play on GTA developer "Rockstar North"). The group then announced last month that it planned to develop a native Switch port of GTA V. Now, it's shown the fruits of that labour in a post on X (Twitter) courtesy of @SuperstarS31668. https://twitter.com/SuperstarS31668/status/1780676856129196294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetemb ..read more