The best and worst (June 26 to July 2): Weekly video game news including Nintendo, Fall Guys, and Diablo Immortal
This past week of video game news had some serious highs and lows. With the ongoing Steam Summer Sale, Nintendo decided they weren’t going to be outdone, and revealed a brief but powerful Nintendo Direct focused on third-party developers. Furthermore, with Gundam Evolution’s console test ending, Sportskeeda has released a series of interviews with Sony Music Entertainment Japan’s Project VEE.
Some of it has been negative, unfortunately. Many fans are still concerned about God of War’s release date, and the toxicity within the fanbase has become worse, even leading to a response from Sony Santa Monica.
Perhaps most interesting of all, it’s being said that Diablo Immortal was banned in China. The discussion points below are just a sampling of video game news covered by Sportskeeda, but it’s not everything that has gone on this week.
There were rumors throughout June 2022 that a Nintendo Direct was on the way, said to be focused on third-party developers. Fortunately, this turned out to be true. It was an exciting series of announcements, with games like NieR: Automata finally coming to the console.
Dragon Quest Treasures received a December release date, and the Megaman Battle Network Legacy collection was also revealed. Interestingly, all ten Mega Man Battle Network games will be accessible in one location for the first time.
PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC was announced as a remake of the classic game, for an August release, and so much more. There were a wealth of exciting announcements and video game reveals at the event for devoted Nintendo fans.
Once Fall Guys went free-to-play, it wasn’t a shock to assume there would be a major shift in players, but few people could have predicted this much of a jump. In this week’s video game news,
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