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Why does it experience like it’s been at least a month considering the fact that I final wrote 1 of these columns? Oh proper, for the reason that so a lot stuff happened! A single of the downsides of creating on a Friday is that I was not able to protect the weekend’s news in final week’s column. Enable me explain to you, it went down this weekend. It went down this week. My head is even now spinning.

Here’s a swift recap of the most significant announcements at the numerous exhibits (apart from the Summer time Match Fest, which I covered final week):

I assume that about addresses the major stuff, but needless to say there are tons of other tales in there. In non-present information, Activision Blizzard has seemingly shut its personal inner investigation into its individual difficulties with harassment. A person selection part of their report states: “While the board and management have carried out the earlier mentioned methods to continue to strengthen the place of work, it will have to be reported that the business has been subject matter to an unrelenting barrage of media criticism that tries to paint the full firm (and numerous innocent personnel) with the stain of a extremely modest portion of our personnel inhabitants who engaged in bad behavior and were disciplined for it”

By the way, on a totally linked be aware, the firm has a shareholders meeting coming up, in which it is encouraging shareholders to vote versus compiling a report about its efforts to prevent just these types of abuse from taking place. It is also encouraging them to vote in favor of its govt compensation offer, that would elevate CEO Bobby Kotick’s income.

Considering the fact that it is been this sort of a huge 7 days, I confess I have not had as a great deal time for video games (apart from additional of the 3 Hopes demo, which I’m still fired up about). But now that I have a 3-day weekend forward of me, I could possibly give Neon White a try. But after Xbox revealed a new gameplay trailer for Slime Rancher 2, the sequel to the wiggly sim title that I really like with my full coronary heart, I made the decision to reinstall that and performed a lot of it the previous handful of days. If anything can hold me from burning out, it is my lovable, jiggly children.

What to participate in 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 membership companies:

• Task Highrise: Architect’s Edition (Xbox Game titles with Gold)
• Raskulls (Xbox Games with Gold)
• Kirby Super Star (Nintendo Swap On the web*)
• Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (Nintendo Swap On the internet*)
• Kirby’s Desire Training course (Nintendo Swap Online*)
• Chivalry 2 (GeForce Now)
• Builder Simulator (GeForce Now)
• Supraland (GeForce Now)
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Chilly Steel II (GeForce Now)
• Postal: Brain Ruined (GeForce Now)

*These online games essentially released on NSO very last 7 days, but I forgot to take note it in previous week’s column.