Something for the Weekend – 17/02/24
It’s been a strange week in the games industry’s big three. After far too much speculation and back-and-forth reports, Microsoft had their “business update” podcast that was about as restrained as you should have expected this whole saga to be. Then Sony suggested that the next year could be quite quiet from their first party studios (if you’re a sequel-liker, that is), and now there’s reports that the Switch 2 isn’t coming until 2025.
Is 2024 going to end up as a bit of a down year? Will there be a chance to clear some of your pile of shame? I wouldn’t count on it!
There was some big and impactful news this week with the Xbox business update, but maybe not a whole lot of it. Here’s the main headlines:
There’s been some really good and fun games coming out in February.
Elsewhere, I got to go hands on with the upcoming Splatoon 3: Side Order DLC, which you can see in action here:
And we rounded things out as always with What We Played, featuring Helldivers 2, Banishers and Lysfanga.
Fly across Arakkis in Microsoft Flight Simulator Dune DLC
Check out the Slime Rancher 2: Gadgets My Way Update
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game Year One Pass revealed
Here’s what you in our community have been up to this week:
That’s the round up for this week. We’ll be back on Monday for more gaming bits and bobs. See you then!
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