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Ready your fragile skeletons, virtual skaters: Skate will launch in early access in 2025, as announced earlier today in a tweet from the official Skate account on X. «We're incredibly stoked to announce that skate. will be launching in Early Access in 2025. We'll share more details on what to expect in the coming months,» developer Full Circle said. Personally, I expect skating.
As part of its Geeked Week festivities, Netflix is giving us our earliest glimpses at what to expect from Black Mirror Season 7 with a look at its next lead cast. Coming in 2025, the dystopian scifi anthology will return with some huge names headlining its next set of episodes, like Crazy Rich Asians's Awkwafina, Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi, and Paul Giamatti from all the things that've given us the privilege of getting to watch Paul Giamatti.
Yesterday, Nintendo announced that it had finally turned its baleful gaze on Palworld, and would be pursuing legal action in the Tokyo District Court against developer Pocketpair over alleged patent infringement. But which patents? Nintendo's press release accuses Palworld of infringing on «multiple patent rights,» but Pocketpair says it doesn't know which patents it's supposed to have violated, and Nintendo hasn't elaborated. While we wait for more specifics on the lawsuit, I've been digging into patents held by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company to see where Mario's lawyers might be anchoring their case. After a crash course in patent research, I've got a strong suspicion that Nintendo's bringing Pocketpair to court over Poké Balls.
Back when God of War Ragnarok released on the various PlaysStation, Kratos and company ignited a wildfire of takes from frustrated players. The problem was puzzles—or rather, the fact that Ragnarok's only provided a scant few seconds of attempting potential solutions before Atreus or Mimir would shout out exactly what you needed to do to progress.
In a May 2024 financial report made public today (via Eurogamer), Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu said that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 haven't sold as many copies as the company had hoped. «We released multiple new titles, including major titles such as 'Final Fantasy 16' and 'Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth,' but profits unfortunately did not meet our expectations,» Kiryu said.
Space Marine 2 being the most recent action game du jour has meant there are suddenly a lot of people experiencing the grim darkness of the 41st millennium for the very first time. A friend of mine didn't even know Warhammer 40,000 had Orks, let alone that they reproduce via spores! Oh, to be so young. If Space Marine 2 gave you your first taste of 40K and you're eager for more, you're in luck. Humble Bundle is currently offering the Tales of the Space Marine Chapters bundle, a pay-what-you-want pile of Space Marine-centric Warhammer 40K ebooks, the first six of which you can get for as low as $1.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January and will be available for streaming on Netflix in October, tells the story of Mats Steen, who died of a rare degenerative muscular disease at age 25. When Steen passed in 2014, his parents feared that their son had spent his life in isolation, only to discover that he'd built a network of friendships as Ibelin, the philandering nobleman rogue detective he spent years roleplaying as in World of Warcraft.
Over the weekend, former Bungie general counsel Don McGowan gave his take on the ongoing turmoil at Bungie and the recent redirection for Destiny 2. «Much though it pains me to say this, it appears that Sony's inflicting some discipline on my former colleagues may have forced them to fix the things that were wrong with the game,» McGowan said in a LinkedIn post published on Saturday.