Hideo Kojima’s series remains demanding and inscrutable, but the original game sets up the sequel perfectly.
Wong Kar-wai, the director behind Chungking Express and In the Mood For Love, made his first TV series with the 30-episode-long Blossoms Shanghai, which aired in China in 2023. And soon you’ll be able to watch it yourself: it’s coming to the Criterion Channel “later this year.”
Remedy is working on a full sequel to Control, but in the meantime there’s FBC: Firebreak, a co-op shooter set in the same universe that launches today. For more on what the studio is aiming for with Firebreak, you can check out this story I wrote in May.
Just kidding. Microsoft is continuing to beef up its Game Pass offerings by adding Blizzard titles, this time with the remasters of the first three Warcraft games, which are available on June 26th for subscribers on PC.
Just a day after announcing the speedy Blitz Royale, Epic has unveiled a second major game mode for Fortnite that’s dropping on June 18th. It’s called Lego Expeditions, and it’s a PvE option that looks sort of like a brick-infused take on Diablo.
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After defining a new category with the original Switch, Nintendo is content sticking with what works.
It sure looks like Hank Hill is coming to Fortnite. If ever there was a time to add a new king of the hill mode, this is it.
You may have forgotten in the midst of the Switch 2 launch and multiple live gaming events, but a sequel to Death Stranding is hitting the PS5 on June 26th. This new trailer gives a pretty good rundown of what to expect.
