Here are some of last week’s highlights in gaming, movies, and more:
Lego and Nintendo revealed the Lego Nintendo Entertainment System, a buildable version of the classic Nintendo console complete with a buildable controller, Super Mario Bros. game cart, and CRT
The Lego NES arrives on August 1, exclusively in Lego retail stores and Lego.com; the set will arrive elsewhere later next year
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Director Swery65 apologized for problematic writing in regards to LGBT characters in Deadly Premonition 2, promising to update the game’s scenario writing in response to criticism
Blizzard announced the next expansion to Hearthstone, titled Scholomance Academy
The expansion releases in early August
Overwatch is running a new mini-event, titled Sigma’s Maestro Challenge
Players can earn new cosmetics, including a legendary Sigma skin, by winning games until July 27
Microsoft’s Project xCloud game streaming service will come to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate this September, according to Xbox head Phil Spencer (via Xbox)
No Man’s Sky’s next major update, titled Desolation, brings procedurally generated abandoned spacecrafts to the game which players can salvage from, updates to combat, as well as new mission types
A patch to Overwatch has removed McCree’s noose cosmetic spray
It has been replaced by a spray depicting the โBad Luckโ horseshoe spray (via Polygon)
Bungie has delayed the release of Destiny 2‘s next expansion, Beyond Light, to November 10 due to development challenges surrounding working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic
Geoff Keighley broadcasted a hands-on look at the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller, with a demo of Astro’s Playroom and an interview with Sony’s Eric Lempel
Developer Crytek released a short look at Crysis Remastered running on Nintendo Switch
The game releases on all platforms on July 23
GameStop customers in the U.S. will be required to wear face masks in-store starting on July 27 (via Polygon)
EA Sports will replace the logo and team name of Washington’s football team in Madden 21 with a generic Washington team, after the now former Washington Redskins announced it would be retiring the team name and logo
The team name and logo will be updated accordingly with a future title update (via Polygon)
Developer Behaviour Interactive outlined plans to bring cross-platform play and progression to horror multiplayer game Dead by Daylight (via Behaviour Interactive)
Publisher NIS America is pulling several games in the Dangenronpa series from the PlayStation Store in the near future (via NIS America)
In Star wars/streaming news, a spinoff of Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series titled Star wars: The Bad Batch is coming to Disney+ in 2021 (via Star Wars)
The latest film from The Russo Brothers directing duo (Avengers: Endgame) will be The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans made with Netflix’s largest budget so far (via Deadline)ย
A new trailer for Disney Plus’ Muppets Now show was released
The series premieres on July 31
The first trailer for Netflix’s Project Power, starring Jamie Foxx and Jospeh Gordon-Levitt, premiered
The super-powered action film comes to Netflix on August 14
The first trailer for Tesla, a biopic about inventor Nikola Tesla starring Ethan Hawke, was released
The film releases on August 21
And now a list of some of last week’s notable releases in games and movies
Games
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ย 7/13: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (iOS) – Level5
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7/14: Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town (PC, Switch) – XSeed Games
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7/14: rocket Arena (PC, PS4, XONE) – Final Strike Games/EA
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7/14: Halo 3 (PC) – Bungie/343 Industries
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7/14: Death Stranding (PC) – Kojima Productions/505 Games
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7/16: Superhot: Mind Control Delete (PC, PS4, XONE) – Superhot Team
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7/17: Paper Mario: The Origami Kingย (Switch) – Intelligent Systems/Nintendo
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7/17: Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) – Sucker Punch Productions
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