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Why does it really feel like it is been at the very least a thirty day period considering that I final wrote a single of these columns? Oh appropriate, due to the fact so substantially things took place! One particular of the downsides of crafting on a Friday is that I wasn’t equipped to include the weekend’s news in past week’s column. Enable me tell you, it went down this weekend. It went down this week. My head is however spinning.

Here’s a swift recap of the largest announcements at the numerous exhibits (besides the Summer time Recreation Fest, which I protected very last 7 days):

I believe that about covers the large things, but needless to say there are loads of other tales in there. In non-demonstrate information, Activision Blizzard has seemingly shut its very own internal investigation into its possess difficulties with harassment. A single selection aspect of their report claims: “While the board and administration have executed the earlier mentioned steps to continue on to make improvements to the workplace, it ought to be reported that the organization has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of media criticism that makes an attempt to paint the full business (and many innocent employees) with the stain of a very small part of our employee inhabitants who engaged in undesirable actions and were disciplined for it”

By the way, on a absolutely connected notice, the corporation has a shareholders assembly coming up, where by it’s encouraging shareholders to vote towards compiling a report about its efforts to prevent just this kind of abuse from going on. It is also encouraging them to vote in favor of its government payment deal, that would increase CEO Bobby Kotick’s income.

Considering the fact that it’s been this kind of a huge week, I confess I haven’t experienced as substantially time for game titles (apart from far more of the A few Hopes demo, which I’m even now fired up about). But now that I have a three-day weekend in advance of me, I could give Neon White a check out. But just after Xbox uncovered a new gameplay trailer for Slime Rancher 2, the sequel to the wiggly sim title that I adore with my full coronary heart, I made the decision to reinstall that and performed a whole lot of it the past couple of times. If just about anything can continue to keep me from burning out, it is my adorable, jiggly young children.

What to perform this 7 days

What is new:

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

New on subscription services:

• Undertaking Highrise: Architect’s Version (Xbox Video games with Gold)
• Raskulls (Xbox Video games with Gold)
• Kirby Tremendous Star (Nintendo Swap On-line*)
• Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (Nintendo Swap On the net*)
• Kirby’s Desire Training course (Nintendo Switch On-line*)
• Chivalry 2 (GeForce Now)
• Builder Simulator (GeForce Now)
• Supraland (GeForce Now)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (GeForce Now)
• Postal: Brain Damaged (GeForce Now)

*These games actually launched on NSO very last week, but I forgot to notice it in previous week’s column.