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Why does it come to feel like it’s been at the very least a month considering that I very last wrote one particular of these columns? Oh appropriate, due to the fact so significantly things happened! One of the downsides of creating on a Friday is that I wasn’t capable to go over the weekend’s information in final week’s column. Let me inform you, it went down this weekend. It went down this week. My head is even now spinning.

Here’s a speedy recap of the greatest announcements at the various reveals (apart from the Summer Activity Fest, which I lined previous week):

I believe that about handles the massive stuff, but needless to say there are lots of other tales in there. In non-exhibit news, Activision Blizzard has apparently shut its own interior investigation into its have problems with harassment. One particular selection component of their report states: “While the board and administration have executed the above ways to keep on to boost the workplace, it should be claimed that the corporation has been subject matter to an unrelenting barrage of media criticism that makes an attempt to paint the overall enterprise (and lots of harmless employees) with the stain of a extremely smaller portion of our worker population who engaged in negative habits and were being disciplined for it”

By the way, on a entirely connected notice, the business has a shareholders conference coming up, the place it is encouraging shareholders to vote against compiling a report about its attempts to avoid just these kinds of abuse from taking place. It is also encouraging them to vote in favor of its executive payment deal, that would increase CEO Bobby Kotick’s salary.

Given that it’s been these types of a large 7 days, I confess I have not experienced as a lot time for video games (besides far more of the A few Hopes demo, which I’m nonetheless thrilled about). But now that I have a three-day weekend ahead of me, I could give Neon White a attempt. But soon after Xbox uncovered a new gameplay trailer for Slime Rancher 2, the sequel to the wiggly sim title that I appreciate with my entire heart, I decided to reinstall that and performed a ton of it the previous handful of days. If something can hold me from burning out, it’s my lovely, jiggly youngsters.

What to play this 7 days

What’s new:

• Neon White
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
• Lumbearjack
• Redout 2
• Zorro: The Chronicles
• Starship Troopers: Terran Command

New on subscription expert services:

• Challenge Highrise: Architect’s Edition (Xbox Online games with Gold)
• Raskulls (Xbox Game titles with Gold)
• Kirby Super Star (Nintendo Switch On the net*)
• Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (Nintendo Switch On line*)
• Kirby’s Aspiration Program (Nintendo Change Online*)
• Chivalry 2 (GeForce Now)
• Builder Simulator (GeForce Now)
• Supraland (GeForce Now)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (GeForce Now)
• Postal: Mind Ruined (GeForce Now)

*These video games truly launched on NSO past week, but I forgot to take note it in final week’s column.