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Deadpool & Wolverine is now officially the highest-grossing R-rated film of all-time.

Free demo dropping on 20th August (Tuesday) with the opening chapters of the game, and additional chapters being added on 23rd and 28th before the full release on 29th August – and yes, you can carry your progress from the demo over to the full game! Lovely stuff!

Planets trailer:

Yeah, I think a lot of us here have either used URLs from X/Twitter or dedicated image-hosting sites like Imgur – generally you're probably best off opening said images in another tab to ensure the quality is right (even if it has likely been compressed). The former was definitely the easiest and best way to get images on here back when a straight upload from console images galleries was possible, but that's no longer an option, so Personally (other than GIFs and news-related things) I tend to make sure I'm using images I'm hosting *somewhere*, such as for Gaming Diary write-ups, just because otherwise you risk the image just being lost to the bottomless pit of the internet at some point!

Confirmed by Nintendo themselves for the 17th too Same, very surprised it's come around so fast after not getting a meaningful update for a while – but probably means they were being smart and just letting it cook. From the outside looking in it seemed like it would be lucky to scrape into Nov/Dec, if not potentially getting delayed to next year. Glad it snuck up on us like this instead, always nice to have a game release a bit earlier than it was perhaps expected!

The game will also be included Day One in the PS+ Game Catalog. What a get! They've been knocking it out of the park with some of the indies they've got on there Day One this year!

So there's actually this trailer on the Devolver channel which went up on 25th July, which I'm guessing was kept private as it's only just become watchable and has a very low view count; description says it's coming to Switch on September 17th too! So there we have it

Some numbers on Embracer from the last 12 months: Over 4 in 10 employees carted off (41.7%). Over a quarter of their internal studios shuttered (25.8%). Over 4 in 10 projects shelved (40.9%). Brutal. Disgraceful. Definition of a massacre.

September 17th it is! Next month has filled out quite nicely by the looks of things: Astro Bot, this, Zelda, some other titles like Space Marine 2, UFO 50...okay it's filled out a good bit more than I thought it had when I started typing that list. Should be a good month!

Some pre-order bundles have been added to the Nintendo Store: The Nintendo Store always has some really nice pre-order bundles, shame I don't have the space

I feel like Halo's in a weird spot when coming over to PlayStation – I'm not sure how essential the story is to that world and those games, but I feel like before Infinite you'd at least want some footing on the PS5 already, potentially with the Master Chief Collection? There were those rumours too a couple of months ago about them wanting to remake/remaster Combat Evolved again and that would then be coming over to PS5. On the other hand, like you said, it could give the game a good bump in players. I wonder if they're going to be really weird about it and potentially have the multiplayer come over first without the campaign, similar to how Infinite had that weird staggered release on Xbox too? If not Halo related and it's not Forza Horizon 5 (yet), honestly I'm left scratching my head a little. I've seen Starfield thrown around as a potential one too, but I feel like that's a much easier sell with a complete edition sometimes next year than to just bundle in the game + it's first DLC when more DLC is on the cards (and coming next year). As far as I'm concerned, they can keep Gears Maybe a Flight Sim game? They've got that new one coming up so maybe they port over 2020?

There have been a lot of rumblings about Xbox bringing a first-party title to be ported over which will be announced next week (likely at Gamescom during ONL), and the initial teases seemed to imply Forza Horizon 5, but despite everyone agreeing it'll come at some point, apparently it won't be what's revealed next week. ...maybe it'll be Hellblade II? It could be a number of other things but the way I see it that game has no chance in hell of even being nominated for GOTY without getting in the hands of more players, and it feels like total GOTY bait (to completely oversimplify it in as few words as possible), so, maybe?

Yeah, it would be absolutely huge. PlayStation just doesn't have an open world racing game on the level of the Forza Horizon games, the closest thing I can think of to filling that gap (and is also available everywhere) currently would be The Crew Motorfest, which well... I'm glad GT and Polyphony have stuck to their routes, but I'm shocked PlayStation hasn't made a move to acquire someone capable of taking the assets built in the GT games and creating an open world spin-off series akin to Horizon. I think if FH5 does come over it'll comfortably be the bestselling of any of Xbox's first-party exclusives to come over – I genuinely think the only other released game from them this gen to maybe challenge that would probably be a Starfield port. I mean, Xbox have basically said everything in a very roundabout way about their games coming over anyways, but with how that escalated and how poorly they've communicated a lot of it...they probably are all coming I just think they've propped themselves up between a rock and a hard place and basically need to 127 Hours themselves out of there. Anyways, there was an update on this where apparently Forza Horizon 5 isn't going to be the game announced next week (presumably at Gamescom), but everyone and their mother is saying that it's coming at some point. Personally, I think it'd make a great TGAs shadowdrop. But there's still something being announced next week, apparently...so I'll move this part of the conversation over to the Series X|S thread

A physical release of the game has turned up on ShopTo (I think maybe the first time it's been confirmed to any extent to be getting one over here?), with an attached release date of 22nd November 2024 – which has since been removed. I feel like there's a small possibility here of an initial digital release (shadow drop during a Direct or something?) + delayed physical release, just because this seems like the type of game to do that, but either way, seems like 22nd November might be the latest we get our hands on this. Put my pre-order in

It is being teased that this is going to be getting ported to other platforms, with a potential announcement next week at Gamescom: Would absolutely love if it's the case – the Forza games are probably the biggest pull for me to buy an Xbox right now (and no, it's not enough, we've been over this ). This is the game I've been talking to my friends about wanting ported over from Xbox's catalog, over Gears and Halo and the like. Please, for the love of all that is good in gaming, be true!

Hey man, hate on the Star Wars re-releases and you bet you'll see the consequences @drahkon knew the risks It really is! Kind of insane to get three games from the same franchise all drop at once when we're still waiting on certain titles to turn up at all. But hey, I'll take it! Now Capcom, get in here with Dino Crisis and the PS1 Resident Evil games already! Though maybe the latter request might make more sense to save for October...

This month's line-up, with TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect all arriving August 20th! The splitscreen local co-op modes of the original games also make their way over.

I was just reading about this. It's genuinely insane and very unfortunate that she passed in the first place because, not for the first time, allergies aren't being given the proper attention they deserve. Disgusting negligence shown from any of the staff working that night. But to then try to cover it up in such a way? I think it's always worth remembering that Disney have had far more deaths in their parks than the public will ever be made privy to. Praying that they get their just desserts but the man is up against a monolithic entity.

Just announced for an October 4th release, just in time for spooky season. Comparison trailer:

Geoff sharing some details on the plans for next week's Gamescom ONL: 19:00 starts for us Brits isn't too bad, but think I'll see how I feel on the night. These shows become just about bearable with the right person or group streaming it

That's no age Rest in Peace

Korean company Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP. Well, holy hot damn. Nobody saw this coming. From Windows Central, who clarify that Ghostwire: Tokyo and Evil Within will both be IPs staying at Xbox. Awesome stuff, great to hear it. Another move in which Korean companies continue to expand and diversify in the gaming space; doesn't seem like they plan on going anywhere anytime soon, that's for sure.

I'd agree that it's the only one with a chance, and even then I feel like it's going to need to be massively oversold as being an Avengers set-up and with RDJ's Doom centre stage in marketing to do so. Fantastic Four as a brand itself has taken an absolute beating over the last couple of decades between the 2000s' FF films and 2015's Fant4stic. It's a real shame because they were still massive when I was little (saw both of the 2000s FF films in cinema, had the Mega Bloks sets, not to mention a couple of shows and their appearance during Secret Wars in the 90s Spider-Man cartoon and also appearing in some of the 90s Spidey games), but they basically vanished over night when the MCU came in and Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy almost forced out campy nature of FF out (and comic book adaptations in general, on-screen at least). Outside of the promise of their return to the MCU and being a comic book fan, I struggle to think of how Fantastic Four would even reach the eyes and ears of the average kid these days. Reruns of shows over a decade and a half old? I genuinely think the best representation Fantastic Four has had for a kid born in, say, the late 2000s/early 2010s would be the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes games, which is incredibly sad to think about (even if they are great games). Marvel have seriously got their work cut out for them if Fantastic Four is going to cross that $1B threshold, imo. I'd love to see it, but it's going to take one hell of a marketing campaign, one hell of a bridge to Doomsday, and also just be one hell of a film to stand a chance in my eyes; I don't think "Marvel's first family" carries the same weight today as it once did for the layperson.