Biggest Video Game News Of The Week (June 4 - 10)
We are very much in the middle of reveal season in the video game world, which means there was plenty to dissect and quite a bit to get excited about over the course of the past seven days. And yes, even though there was a designated evening on which most of that news was supposed to break, Summer Game Fest, some of it leaked ahead of time, because of course it did. Most notably we got some expected but still pretty big news regarding The Last Of Us, which is where we'll begin this week.
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With just hours left to go until it was officially revealed at Summer Game Fest, PlayStation accidentally broke the news that The Last Of Us is getting a PS5 remake. It had been rumoured for a while, and right as Naughty Dog was at the no-leak finish line, the project made it out into the world, trailer and all. The news was still deemed big enough to close Summer Game Fest, and it also came with some other TLOU news. A look at some concept art for the series' upcoming multiplayer spinoff, and the reveal that Joel and Ellie's voice actors will have roles in the HBO adaptation.
The second season of Fortnite's third chapter came to a close last weekend with a suitably massive end-of-season event. Season three was then ushered in a few hours later and the whole thing is just one big party, suitably labelled “Vibin'”. An odd time to introduce Darth Vader to the mix, who famously isn't really known for being a party animal. Vader is joined by Indiana Jones and another version of Spider-Man. Spider-Man Zero, which is a version of the web-slinger designed specifically for Fortnite, can currently only be unlocked by redeeming a code from the new Fortnite
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