If you’re planning on playing games on your phone this summer, Apple has a surprisingly solid upcoming lineup of Arcade releases next month. They include: the deckbuilder Slay the Spire (July 7th), a remastered version of Ridiculous Fishing (July 14th), and the legendary farming game Stardew Valley (July 21st).
That’s Matt Booty, Xbox Game Studios chief at Microsoft, while talking about how much the company needed to spend to get a foothold with its Game Pass subscription — which could have potentially included scooping up Sega or Bungie.
Season 3 of The Witcher kicks off this week, with volume 1 — there are two halves — streaming on June 29th. You can get a brief taste in this new trailer, in which Geralt is decidedly not excited about the future. (Maybe that’s because of this.)
The big release this week is Final Fantasy XVI on the PS5, which takes the long-running RPG series and turns it into something like Game of Thrones, with mixed results. You can keep up with all of our coverage right here.
There’s also plenty new streaming: Secret Invasion on Disney Plus, I’m a Virgo on Prime Video, and Skull Island on Netflix. And if you’re a Switch owner, you can check out the first two Pikmin games and the GBA version of Fire Emblem.
Director Laura Moss’ Birth/Rebirth is a haunting reinvention of the Frankenstein myth, and it was one of our favorite movies out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. You can see it for yourself soon — it’s coming to theaters on August 18th.
There’s a very good dog in the just-released Final Fantasy XVI, but it has nothing on these little fellas doing Eikon cosplay.
