Xbox’s 2024 Summer Games Showcase has just concluded, and immediately after the show ended, VGC’s Jordan Middler and Andy Robinson sat down to discuss their thoughts. Live from the streets of LA, Jordan and Andy chatted all thingsXbox, such as Fable,Perfect Dark, and the return ofGears of War. You can find the show on your regular VGC: The Video Game Podcast feed later today, or you can watch the video version now....

2021 has been some year for time loop games, with the likes of Returnal and Twelve Minutes exploring the psychological horrors of being trapped in an endlessly repeating cycle. Deathloopisn’t concerned with that stuff. It’s the other kind of time loop game. The one that wonders how much fun you could have if nothing was permanent and you were free of consequences. A lot, it turns out. If you’ve playedArkane’s previous action RPGs, especially Dishonored, Deathloop’s mix of first-person stealth and combat will be instantly familiar....

At $100 cheaper than the flagship model and lacking key features, you may assume Nintendo Switch Lite is the sort of no-frills redesign aimed at capturing the Pokémon market we’ve seen before with Nintendo 2DS and 2DS XL, which admittedly it’s timed exactly right to do. However, hold a unit in your hands and it’s immediately clear this is no cheap downgrade. In fact, Switch Lite feels high quality in ways the original model does not; there are no rattling Joy-Cons as you grasp it or gigantic bezel around that distinctly-off-the-shelf tablet display....

Sci-fi action RPG The Surge 2 will be released worldwide on September 24, development studio Deck13 Interactive has announced. Published byFocus Home Interactive, the follow-up to May 2017’s The Surge will launch onPS4,Xbox OneandPC. The game was announced in February 2018, when Lords of the Fallen developerDeck13said: “The Surge 2keeps what fans and critics loved about the original – hardcore combat utilizing a unique, dynamic limb targeting system and deep character progression – while also expanding greatly upon the formula....

Shohreh Aghdashloo will star in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, it’s been revealed. The Oscar-nominated actress is known for her roles on 24 and The Expanse. Known for her unique voice, Aghdashloo will take on the role of Roshan, the mentor of Basim Ibn Is’haq. In a message recorded forUbisoft‘s showcase, Aghdashloo said that she was “thrilled to announce that she will be voicing Roshan”. The actress also said that she was “seduced by Roshan’s strong personality and her backstory”....

Sony and Amazon have reportedly rebooted their plans for a God of War TV series, with scripts scrapped and an entire new writers room due to be hired. According to Deadline, showrunner Rafe Judkins (The Wheel of Time), and EPs Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus (Children of Men, Iron Man, The Expanse), have left the live-action project after completing multiple scripts for the first season. “The studios are apparently looking to move in a different creative direction, though one source told Deadline the trio’s scripts were praised by bothSonyand Prime,” the publication said....

Sony is set to start selling refurbished PlayStation 5 consoles. ThePlayStation Direct sitenow has a section called Certified Refurbished, offering consoles and controllers at a reduced price. Refurbished consoles are pre-owned hardware which has been returned toSonyfor a variety of reasons, be that because they were faulty, or simply because they opened the box, changed their mind and returned it for a refund, meaning it can no longer be sold as new....

Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite’s previously announced Spider-Man outfit will be available today, along with a Mary Jane one. The new outfits are designed to look like Tom Holland and Zendaya, and are being released to tie in with the cinema launch ofSpider-Man: No Way Home. Players will be able to use a built-in emote to put on and take off Spider-Man’s mask. The black and gold suit, which makes an appearance in the new movie, will also be available....

Square Enix’s share price has dropped by nearly 16% following its FY2024 financial results on Monday. When the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed on Monday the company’s share price was sitting at ¥6,268. As soon as the market opened again today, this plummeted and at the time of writing now sits at ¥5,268, a drop of 15.95%. The drop in price appears to show shareholder unease at recent financial results, and what’s planning in the next couple of years....

Update 5.15pm on Tuesday July 16:Sega has released the first Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD trailer. It’s also confirmed a US and European release date of October 29 on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One, and a winter 2019 Steam release. Original story:Famitsu has released the first details of the next entry in the Super Monkey Ball series — a remaster of 2006 Wii exclusive Banana Blitz. Featuring “additional functions”, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz will be released in Japan onSwitchandPlayStation 4on June 20, 2025, ahead of aPCrelease viaSteamin December, according to aGoogletranslation of thepublication....

Japanese firm Access has announced that Nintendo Switch Lite will use its NetFront Browser NX. Nintendohas used the WebKit-based browser component in its consoles since 2011 including 3DS,Wii Uand the flagshipSwitchmodel. Access says of the technology: “NetFront Browser NX is a WebKit-based browser component that features ultra-low levels of memory usage, enabled by ACCESS’ unique technology that improves memory usage efficiency and ensures powerful rendering on a variety of devices and operating systems....

Bandai Namco’s fighting games boss Katsuhiro Harada has opened a bar in Tokyo, and he’s celebrating by holding a series of talk show videos featuring guests from the games industry. The exact location of Harada’s Bar is currently secret, but the Tekken boss says that he will eventually announce its address and invite general guests to visit. In his first episode of Harada’s Bar, he invitesPlayStationfounderKen Kutaragifor a beer and a chat about old times....

It appears that the first in-game screenshot of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has leaked. Twitter userScriptLeaksR6, who usually leaks upcoming content inUbisoft‘s Rainbow Six series, has now tweeted an image from the publisher’s upcoming Avatar game. VGC understands the image is authentic. The screen seemingly confirms that the game will primarily be a first-person shooter, and shows the player firing at a giant mech. ScriptLeaksR6 also says they’ll be “posting gameplay soon” – VGC will update this article if the footage is indeed shared....