Updates

Panic has announced that the Playdate, its $179 handheld console with a crank and a black-and-white screen, will be available to preorder in July with shipping starting later in the year. The company doesn’t have a specific date lined up just yet but says it’ll provide at least a week’s notice before orders open. Panic is doing its best to avoid a PS5/RTX 3080-type stock situation by implementing its own ordering system.

Samurai Simulator from Game Hunters Studio is a complex feudal Japan life simulator with extensive RPG mechanics. Play as a young adept of the art of bushido, who finds his master and pledges allegiance to him. Complete missions, travel through beautiful regions, and make complex moral choices. Defend your Daimyo’s honor and live to old age, rising through the ranks of your clan or finding followers and founding your own!

We’re edging ever closer to the reveal of Battlefield 6, which is now all but confirmed to be a futuristic shooter called Battlefield 2042. The new installment from DICE and EA might just be the leakiest game of 2021 so far, thanks to a prominent leaker and industry insider who’s been delivering regular updates on the anticipated release… much to EA’s delight, I’m sure. Now, that same leaker has a pretty confident prediction about the new game

When you think of Microsoft and esports, you probably think of Halo’s fraught gunfights, not Microsoft Office spreadsheets, but that’s about to change. The official Microsoft Excel Twitter account has now claimed that financial modeling is an esport, and it promoted an upcoming tournament that will pit top modelers against each other in head-to-head competition.Yes, that’s right. Eight spreadsheet jockeys from eight different countries will compete to “use the most

For those that have a PlayStation 5, a new PS5 update is rolling out on the 9th of June that tackles the usual performance enhancements. It also includes adjustments to the DualSense controller, and it looks like that firmware update tackles the battery issue players have reported.  PS5 System Update 21.01-03.20.00 For those expecting a big flashy update, we’ve got some bad news. Outside of the DualSense, this one is

The first version of stadia on Chromecast with GoogleTV is set to be launched on the 23rd of June. This is a step of Google’s vision to expand its game streaming service Stadia to the maximum number of TVs and streaming devices. The announcement was delayed for more than eight months because the device was released without official Stadia support, this can also be said a flaw in planning or

A new Ubisoft multiplayer PvP game combining multiple Tom Clancy titles named BattleCat has been leaked. As reported by VGC, Twitter user Zer0Bytes put up a series of internal images from the game that have since been deleted, with VGC confirming that the images were real and for the in-development first-person shooter BattleCat coming to consoles and PC. The game reportedly combines Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and Division games

The Greatest Human disaster to date which brought the biggest threat to humanity and it almost the scariest disaster, and the horror is going to come back in the form of game and Chernobylite, a survival horror RPG that has been in Steam Early Access since October 2019 but its full release is just around the corner. Developer The Farm 51, the creators of getting Even, share a haunting new trailer

The International Olympic Committee has decided to host virtual games and this will be in the creation of a new chapter in history. The sporting events will be held virtually, that is by playing a virtual version of the 5 events, which are motorsport, cycling, baseball, sailing, and rowing. as of now, it is decided that what is going to be the virtual meta of the sport like for motorsport

Is the Xbox Series X / S about to lose its only true next-gen exclusive? It seems that way, as a rating listing points to Bloober Team’s The Medium making its way to Sony’s PS5 console. Gematsu notes that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (more commonly known as the ESRB) has filed a rating for the game, not only on ‘Xbox Series’ consoles but on PlayStation 5, too. The psychological horror game,