Month: August 2020

Developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced Overwatch‘s Summer Games event starts tomorrow, August 4, on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The event runs until August 26.

While Blizzard has yet to outline what else is in the new event series, it does feature a brand-new skin for DPS hero Pharah. It’s her Legendary Lifeguard skin, which suggests that some sort of fun-in-the-sun event–where characters are dressed to hit the beach–will take place over the next few weeks.

Pharah isn’t the only hero to have gotten a new skin in recent weeks. Tank hero Sigma received a Legendary skin last month for those who secured enough wins during his Maestro Challenge event.

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Last month, Fanatical hosted its July Madness Sale, discounting a ridiculous number of games over several weeks. While it would be easy to assume that was Fanatical’s big summer promotion, that’s not the case. Fanatical has kicked off its official Summer Sale with another round of massive savings on Steam games. Thousands of games are up for grabs for discounted prices until August 16, including Death Stranding ($48), Resident Evil 2 ($18), Monster Hunter World ($18), and more. Like usual, Fanatical also has flash deals that expire in just a few hours, so you’ll want to hurry to get some of the best discounts.

Fanatical is also throwing in a bonus game if you spend $10 or more. You don’t get to see the bonus game until you finish checking out, but you will get to pick from a number of titles. Most games in Fanatical’s Summer Sale are Steam keys, except for titles from publishers with their own launchers such as Ubisoft and Rockstar and the occasional Epic Games Store key.

Best deals at Fanatical

• A Plague Tale: Innocence — $15.29 ($45)
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Deluxe edition — $24 ($80)
• Batman: Arkham Bundle — $10.79 ($60)
• BioShock: The Collection — $13.79 ($60)
• Borderlands 3 – Super Deluxe edition — $46 ($100)
• Civilization VI – Platinum edition — $40.52 ($119.19)
• Death Stranding — $48 ($60)
• Devil May Cry 5: Deluxe edition — $23 ($50)
• Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen — $8.39 ($30)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance — $15 ($30)
• Monster Hunter World — $18 ($30)
• NBA 2K21 — $54 ($60)
• The Outer Worlds — $28.19 ($60)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 — $46.19 ($60)
• Resident Evil 2 — $18 ($40)
• Resident Evil 4 — $4.59 ($20)
• Resident Evil 7 – Gold edition — $19.14 ($50.38)
• Shenmue I & II — $6.89 ($30)
• The Yakuza Bundle — $26.49 ($70)
• Yakuza: Like A Dragon – Day Ichi edition — $49.79 ($60)
• XCOM 2 Collection — $28 ($100)

*bold indicates flash deal

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The Alienware Area 51m is one of the best “desktop replacement” gaming laptops that money can buy. Normally such luxury would be reserved for only the deepest of pockets, but not today. Last week we saw one Alienware Area 51m config drop nearly $1400. Today there are several more heavily discounted options to choose from. Dell’s Black Friday in July Sale has already ended so these last minute deals will expire very soon. In other deal news, there’s a 10% off Green Man Gaming coupon that works on nearly all PC games, including Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds, and even the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition PC variant.

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Another week means a new crop of deals at every retailer, and Best Buy’s deals have been better than most recently. This week’s game deals are no different, featuring a nice group of games for Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One at lower-than-usual prices.

Notably, at least one game is at its lowest price yet: Burnout Paradise Remastered, which just launched on the Switch in June. As with many Switch ports, it was priced considerably higher than what you’d pay for the game on other platforms, selling for $50 on Switch compared to $20 on PS4 and Xbox One. This week, however, you can snag Burnout Paradise Remastered on Switch for $30–still higher than other platforms, but a $20 discount on a new Switch port isn’t anything to sneeze at. If you’re in the mood to play a fantastic racing game, Burnout Paradise Remastered is worth grabbing on sale.

Of course, Best Buy has many other games on sale this week to help you pass the time during this never-ending pandemic. PS4 players have some particularly great picks, including the critically acclaimed open-world adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 for $30 and the definitive edition of a JRPG hit, Persona 5 Royal, for $40. The Xbox One offerings are less notable, but you can pick up the excellent survival horror game The Evil Within 2 for just $11 on Xbox One. The brand-new 3×3 shooter Rocket Arena has already received a steep discount as well, with its $40 Mythic edition now going for $10.

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It’s no secret that Netflix has become a haven for slickly-produced documentary films and series on all sorts of topics, from true crime to exotic animal ownership. Later this month, designers and artists behind some of the most successful video games of the ’80s and ’90s will get their turn, when the Netflix series High Score premieres on August 19.

A press release describes High Score’s focus as the “golden age of video games,” a descriptor that some enthusiasts might quibble with. Examined games include arcade classics like Space Invaders, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter 2, as well as home console hits like Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy, and Madden NFL.

While High Scores may prove to be the most high-profile video game documentary yet, it’s far from the first. Indie Game: The Movie chronicled the struggles of high-profile indie developers like Super Meat Boy’s Edmund McMillen and Fez’s Phil Fish back in 2012. The most famous video game documentary might still be The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, which documented (and arguably dramatized) the feud between now-disgraced arcade champ Billy Mitchell and rival Steve Wiebe as they competed for the top score in arcade Donkey Kong.

Nintendo has amassed what is inarguably the most storied collection of video game franchises. Staple series like Mario and Zelda have kept fans invested in the Nintendo ecosystem for decades, while the company’s hardware innovations and more recent series like Splatoon continue to attract new fans. Its catalogue is vast and its characters beloved, which comes with an inevitable downside: certain franchises get left behind, leaving passionate fan bases waiting (often begging) for new releases.

To gain a better understanding of Nintendo’s first-party output, we’ve created the list below, which shows how long it’s been since Nintendo has released an original, mainline entry in 34 of its biggest franchises.

(This list measures the time between original, mainline releases only — if a spinoff or remake was released more recently, it’s noted with an asterisk (*). Time elapsed figures are based on U.S. release dates, except where noted, and are recorded as of August 2020. The list begins with Nintendo’s most recent releases and is broken up into three generation-based groups.)

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0-3 Years (Switch/3DS)

Paper Mario – 1 month

Latest release: Paper Mario: The Origami King (July 2020)

Animal Crossing – 4 months

Latest release: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (March 2020)

Brain Age – 7 months

Latest release: Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (December 2019 (JP))

The latest from Nintendo’s Brain Age series is not available in North America, despite being released in Japan, Europe, and Australia. The series’ latest North American release, Brain Age: Concentration Training, came in 2013.

Pokemon – 9 months*

Latest release: Pokemon Sword and Shield (November 2019)

*A free-to-start spinoff, Pokemon Café Mix, is the franchise’s most recent release (June 2020). Two additional spinoffs, Pokemon Unite and New Pokemon Snap, have been announced, though Nintendo has yet reveal a release date for either.

Nintendo is taking a new direction with its latest mainline releases by supporting Sword and Shield through two expansions. The first, Isle of Armor, was released in June; the second, Crown Tundra, is scheduled for later this year. Future mainline entries are all but a certainty considering the importance of the franchise to Nintendo and the overwhelming success of Sword and Shield, which have combined to sell over 17 million copies.

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Mario Sports – 9 months

Latest release: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (November 2019)

The Mario Sports umbrella encompasses the Mario & Sonic franchise, Mario Tennis (latest release: Aces in 2018), Mario Golf (World Tour in 2014), Mario Baseball (Sluggers in 2008), and Mario Strikers (Charged in 2007).

Luigi’s Mansion – 10 months

Latest release: Luigi’s Mansion 3 (October 2019)

Ring / Wii Fit – 10 months

Latest release: Ring Fit Adventure (October 2019)

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Fire Emblem – 1 year, 1 month

Latest release: Fire Emblem: Three Houses (July 2019)

Fire Emblem: Three Houses received a new side story, Cindered Shadows, as part of its expansion pass in February.

Nintendo Labo – 1 year, 4 months

Latest release: Nintendo Labo VR Kit (April 2019)

Yoshi – 1 year, 5 months

Latest release: Yoshi’s Crafted World (March 2019)

Super Smash Bros. – 1 year, 8 months

Latest release: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (December 2018)

Coming up on the two-year anniversary of Smash Ultimate, Nintendo continues to support its prize fighter through Challenger Packs, DLC that adds a new fighter, stage, and music. The latest pack introduced Min Min from Arms in late June. Nintendo’s support of Smash Ultimate will continue for the foreseeable future with five additional fighters coming by the end of 2021.

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Mario Party – 1 year, 10 months

Latest release: Super Mario Party (October 2018)

Xenoblade – 1 year, 11 months*

Latest release: Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country (September 2018)

*Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, a remastered version of the original Xenoblade, was released for Switch in late May.

Wario – 2 years, 1 month

Latest release: WarioWare Gold (July 2018)

Kirby – 2 years, 5 months*

Latest Release: Kirby: Star Allies (March 2018)

*A free-to-start mobile spinoff, Super Kirby Clash, was released more recently in September 2019.

Super Mario – 2 years, 10 months*

Latest release: Super Mario Odyssey

*Super Mario Maker 2, the creation-based spinoff, was released just over a year ago. Nintendo is also reportedly planning to release multiple Super Mario remasters this year to commemorate the series’ 35th anniversary.

Splatoon – 3 years, 1 month

Latest release: Splatoon 2

The Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2 added 80 single-player challenges to Nintendo’s colorful shooter in June 2018. Three years after its release, Splatoon 2 is still supported with semi-regular multiplayer updates — Nintendo most recently released two updates in June to address bugs.

The Legend of Zelda – 3 years, 5 months*

Latest release: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

*A remake of Link’s Awakening for Switch was released 10 months ago. A Breath of the Wild sequel is currently in development at Nintendo, though there’s no word on when it will be released.

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4-9 Years (Wii U/3DS)

Star Fox – 4 years, 4 months*

Latest release: Star Fox Zero (April 2016)

*Star Fox 2, the once-cancelled sequel developed in the ’90s, was released more recently than Star Fox Zero as part of 2017’s SNES Classic Edition. Fox McCloud was also prominently featured in Ubisoft’s 2018 toys-to-life game, Starlink: Battle for Atlas.

It’s not uncommon for Nintendo to take four or five years between Star Fox releases. However, the series’ sales have continuously declined, as charted by analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, and Nintendo has made no announcement regarding the future of the franchise.

Mario Kart – 6 years, 3 months*

Latest release: Mario Kart 8 (May 2014)

*The latest Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Tour, is a mobile spinoff released in September 2019.

This is the longest Nintendo has ever gone between mainline entries in the Mario Kart franchise. However, in 2017, it released Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, an upgraded version of MK8 for Switch. MK8 Deluxe remains Nintendo’s best-selling game on Switch and continues to sell well three years later — it was June’s ninth-best-selling game in the U.S. — which offers a possible explanation for Nintendo’s recent restraint with the franchise.

Donkey Kong – 6 years, 6 months*

Latest release: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (February 2014)

*A Switch version of Tropical Freeze was released a little over two years ago in May 2018.

Nintendo’s long history with the series, going back to the 1981 arcade original, has resulted in a diverse collection of Donkey Kong games. On console alone, the Kong family has been the subject of an educational game, two racers, several platformers, and a series of rhythm games. Nintendo hasn’t announced any future DK games, and with recent Donkey Kong Country developer Retro Studios working on Metroid Prime 4, it’s unclear which direction Nintendo will take with the series’ next installment.

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Pikmin – 7 years, 1 month*

Latest release: Pikmin 3 (July 2013)

*A 3DS spinoff, Hey! Pikmin, was released more recently, in July 2017.

A fourth mainline entry was announced back in 2014. Last we heard development was “progressing,” though that update came three years ago at E3 2017. A release window has not yet been announced.

Kid Icarus – 8 years, 5 months

Latest release: Kid Icarus: Uprising (March 2012)

Just months after the release of Uprising, developer Project Sora shuttered. Prior to the studio’s closure, Nintendo’s Masahiro Sakurai told IGN the company had no plans for a sequel. “We pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game,” he said. “For now, my thought is that perhaps we’ll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years.”

For now, the dormant franchise lives on through Smash Ultimate, which features Pit, Dark Pit, and Palutena as playable characters.

PilotWings – 9 years, 5 months

Latest release: PilotWings Resort (March 2011)

Nintendogs – 9 years, 6 months

Latest release: Nintendogs + Cats (February 2011)

The nine and a half years since the last Nintendogs is perhaps the most surprising figure on this list, considering how well the DS entries sold — just shy of 24 million copies, good for second on Nintendo’s list of best-selling DS games — and how well-suited the franchise is for a home-handheld hybrid like Switch.

A spiritual successor of sorts, Little Friends: Dogs & Cats, came to Switch in 2019, though it holds an unfavorable Metacritic score of 53.

Metroid – 10 years*

Latest release: Metroid: Other M (August 2010)

*Since Other M, Nintendo has released both a spinoff (Metroid Prime: Federation Force in August 2016) and a remake (Metroid: Samus Returns in September 2017).

The long-awaited Metroid Prime 4 is currently in development at Retro Studios. Development on the sequel restarted in January 2019, and as of this February, the studio was seemingly still hiring for key roles. There’s currently no timeline for its release.

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Excite – 10 years, 9 months

Latest release: Excitebike World Rally (November 2009)

It’s been over a decade since Nintendo released a new Excite game, yet the racing franchise hasn’t completely been ignored; the series is honored in Mario Kart 8 with a DLC track based on the original NES game, and versions of that original were released in 2016 and 2018 on the NES Classic and Switch eShop, respectively.

Punch-Out!! – 11 years, 3 months*

Latest release: Punch-Out!! Wii (May 2009)

*A spinoff called Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!! was released a bit more recently in October 2009, exclusively for Club Nintendo members.

Developer Next Level Games, the studio behind Wii’s Punch-Out!!, continues to work with Nintendo, most recently developing Luigi’s Mansion 3. However, neither company has hinted at a future entry for the boxing series.

Advance Wars – 12 years, 7 months

Latest release: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (January 2008)

Nintendo hasn’t returned to Advanced Wars in over a dozen years, and regular series developer Intelligent Systems has found success in its other turn-based strategy franchise, Fire Emblem. In 2017, Nintendo’s Hitoshi Yamagami said he’d “love to do Advance Wars, but since it’s harder to create relationships between its characters compared to Fire Emblem, I don’t have a clear idea of what kind of setting it could have.”

Fans of the tactics series may find their fix in 2019’s Wargroove, which our review called “the Advance Wars successor its long-neglected fans have been waiting for.”

EarthBound/Mother – 14 years, 4 months

Latest release: Mother 3 (April 2006, Japan only)

Outside of the Japan-exclusive Mother 3, Nintendo hasn’t released an original game in the series since Mother 2/EarthBound 25 years ago.

Despite the time gap, the franchise remains part of the conversation around Nintendo and its major franchises, in large part due to the appearance of protagonist Ness in each of the five Smash Bros. games. Outside of Smash, Nintendo’s recent activity with the series includes the western release of Earthbound Beginnings (Mother 1) in 2015 and the inclusion of Earthbound (Mother 2) in the 2017 SNES Classic.

There have long been rumors of Mother 3 coming west, though an official English version has yet to materialize. In a 2018 interview with IGN, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said the company is “aware” of the franchise’s fan base, but in regard to a new entry, was quick to note he was making “no promises, no commitments one way or the other.”

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F-Zero – 15 years, 10 months

Latest release: F-Zero Climax (October 2004, Japan only)

The last F-Zero to be released outside of Japan, GP Legend, came to North America and Europe shortly before the release of Climax in 2004.

F-Zero fans were given hope for some sort of series revival in 2012’s Nintendo Land, the Wii U pack-in game that featured Captain Falcon’s Twister Race as one of its 12 attractions. There’s been no word on a new entry since, though the series lives on through Smash, in which Captain Falcon is a regular fighter, and Mario Kart 8, which features two F-Zero-inspired tracks and a kart.

Hope was briefly rekindled earlier this year when a new F-Zero Twitter account was seemingly linked to Nintendo, according to VGC. Unfortunately, that hope was extinguished when the account posted a risqué video that was definitively not from Nintendo.

1080 Snowboarding – 16 years, 9 months

Latest release: 1080: Avalanche (November 2003)

Alongside Sony’s Cool Boarders, Microsoft’s Amped, and EA’s SSX, 1080 helped popularize snowboarding games during the subgenre’s boom in the late ’90s and early 2000s. However, that boom has since faded, and Nintendo isn’t alone in recognizing its decline; Sony, Microsoft, and EA have also shelved their once-popular snowboarding series.

Wave Race – 18 years, 9 months

Latest release: Wave Race: Blue Storm (November 2001)

In 2018 series producer Shinya Takahashi teased a possible return of Wave Race on Switch. “We have been trying to make many games and that may be one of them,” he said. “I personally love Wave Race!” However, in the two years since there’s been no indication Nintendo is working on another Wave Race.

Detective Club – 23 years, 5 months

Latest release: BS Detective Club: Lost Memories in the Snow (February 1997, Japan only)

A remake of the first two games is expected to be released in Japan this year, according to Nintendo. There’s no word on a western release, which isn’t a surprise given the previous three games’ Japanese exclusivity.

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What do you think of Nintendo’s first-party output? What series on this list surprised you most? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to vote in the poll below!

And stay tuned to IGN in the coming weeks as we explore how Microsoft and Sony have managed the output of their biggest franchises.

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Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.

Additional reporting by Peer Schneider.

The popularity of Star Trek on TV has varied hugely over the decades. The original 1960s series was a groundbreaking show that influenced dozens of sci-fi shows in the following years, and remains one of most iconic TV shows ever made. And yet, it wasn’t until 1987 that a second series–Star Trek: The Next Generation–hit screens. In the meantime, the franchise had transformed into a blockbuster movie franchise featuring the original Enterprise crew.

Since then, Star Trek has continued to deliver shows and films with varying degrees of success and popularity. The movies took another hiatus throughout the 2000s, while TV series such as Voyager and Enterprise kept fans happy without ever quite achieving the popularity of the earlier shows. And while JJ Abrams’ big screen reboots started off very well, disappointing box office results of 2016’s Star Trek Beyond seem to have stalled cinematic Trek for the time being.

In 2017, Star Trek made its return to the small screen on the CBS All Access streaming service. Star Trek: Discovery was set ten years before the original series and delivered a new crew, ship, and series of adventures. It was co-created by Alex Kurtzman, who had co-written two of the recent movies, and did a good job of keeping old-school fans happy while introducing the world of Trek to younger viewers who might not have grown up with earlier shows.

Discovery Season 2 followed in 2018, and Season 3 was greenlit soon after. Luckily, the third season had been entirely shot before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most of Hollywood, and the post-production was completed remotely. The series is now set to premiere later this year.

With the future of Star Trek on the big screen unclear, the franchise continues to thrive on TV. A second show, Picard, premiered late last year, and there’s lots more on the way, including the animated shows Lower Decks and Prodigy, and the Discovery spin-off Strange New Worlds. In short, it’s a great time to be a Star trek fan. So here’s our guide to everything we know so far about Star Trek: Discovery Season 3

When does Discovery Season 3 premiere?

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 will premiere on CBS All-Access on Thursday, October 15.

How many episodes will it be?

This season will be 13 episodes long, and will be streamed weekly. This is the shortest Discovery season to date–Season 1 had 15 episodes, while Season 2 had 14.

Who’s coming back?

All of the regular Discovery cast will be back for the next season. That includes Sonequa Martin-Green (Burnham), Doug Jones (Saru), Mary Wiseman (Tilly), Oyin Oladejo (Owosekun), Emily Coutts (Detmer), Anthony Rapp (Stamets), Wilson Cruz (Culber), and Michelle Yeoh (Georgiou).

Who’s new?

We know about a couple of new additions to the Discovery cast. Supergirl and Nightflyers actor David Ajala will play a regular new character that the Discovery encounters named Cleveland Booker, also known as Book. He’s described by Deadline as “smart and capable [with] a natural charisma and devil-may-care attitude that tends to get him into trouble as often as it gets him out.”

In addition, veteran actor Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) can be seen in the season’s trailer, playing a character that looks like an important Federation official.

Who’s in charge?

It’s fair to say Discovery has had a troubled history in terms of showrunners. The series was created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, with Fuller initially acting as showrunner. But behind-the-scenes arguments and schedule conflicts with Fuller’s American Gods, led to him be replaced by Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts during production of Season 1. Berg and Harbarts were themselves fired while Season 2 was being made, with Kurtzman assuming full showrunner status as well as producing. For Season 3, Kurtzman promoted writer Michelle Paradise, and the pair will act as co-showrunners.

What’s the story?

Discovery Season 2 ended dramatically, with the Discovery and its crew travelling forward 930 years into the future. This previously undocumented era of the Star Trek universe will be the setting for Season 3, and while specific plot details haven’t been revealed yet, interviews with the cast and crew have hinted at a few things.

Kurtzmzan has stated that the time jump has allowed the writers to break free of the franchise’s established–and restrictive–timeline. “The fun for us was actually to take the shackles off and free ourselves from established canon by jumping almost a thousand years into the future, and yet what we’re not doing is divorcing ourselves from canon,” he revealed at San Diego Comic-Con last year.

Regular director Jonathan Frakes suggested that the next season will have a lighter tone than the often very dark Season 2. “Discovery has primarily to do with Sonequa’s character,” he said. “At the end of Season 2, we flash-forwarded I think 930 years. Michael Burnham has found a new core, not to mention a new partner in crime. So again, there’s a big tonal shift on that show, less driven by the pain and guilt of her past and more about the magical reunification of the Discovery crew and wherever she went off to.”

In an interview with StarTrek.com, Martin-Green provided a few details about some of the other characters. “You have Saru going from fear-based to power-based,” she said. “Culber came back to life, so it’s Culber and Stamets having to realize who they are to each other. Tilly is realizing herself in this new way, separate from her mother. Then, obviously, Burnham had all these cornerstones of shame taken down one by one. Spock realized the balance between being Vulcan and being human at the same time. Michael helped him realize that, and he helped her realize herself. There’s all this self-actualization, and I love that we’re finding ourselves as a family and as a crew.”

Is there a trailer?

The first trailer for Discovery Season 3 was released way back in October last year, at New York Comic-Con. It revealed plenty of action as well as setting up the time-jumping story for the new season and confirming the return of many cast members. There was also this short teaser released to announce the show’s premiere date.

Will there be a fourth season?

While CBS hasn’t officially announced Discovery Season 4, it looks like it might be happening. In January, the industry website Production Weekly listed the fourth season as being in “active development.” With CBS continuing to expand its Star Trek TV universe, it seems highly likely its flagship show will continue for a few more seasons yet.

Some eagle-eyed Xbox fans have noticed a strange quirk on the Xbox One store. Several Xbox 360 games that were previously delisted are now available for purchase on Xbox One, including Silent Hill: Downpour, Deadly Premonition, and Tom Clancy’s HAWX. Several racing games also make the list: Dirt 3, Fuel, Grid 2, and Midnight Club LA.

These Xbox 360 games are playable on the Xbox One thanks to that platform’s limited backward compatibility, which the Xbox Series X will share. It’s not clear why exactly these games are available now, but it could have something to do with Microsoft preparing the Xbox store for the upcoming Xbox Series X. According to Reddit users, purchasing these games only allows you to play them on Xbox One, not Xbox 360.

Delisted games are an unfortunately common phenomenon due to rights expiring and the like, particularly when it comes to licensed music. On social media, players have reported that some of these relisted games have become unavailable again, so if you want to pick up one of these games, time is of the essence.

The executive shake-up at Ubisoft is still ongoing. Co-vice president Tommy François has left the company. Ubisoft confirmed the departure in a statement to GameSpot, saying it is “effective immediately.”

The company didn’t share further details on François’ departure. He had previously been placed on disciplinary leave pending an investigation into the allegations of sexual assault and harassment at the company. Reports of his departure began circulating from Business Insider reporter Samuel Horti, who said the other investigations remain ongoing. François was part of the editorial team in charge of greenlighting projects, and also worked on writing or design for some games.

François is just the latest in a long line of Ubisoft executives who have left following a reckoning with the company’s toxic “frat-house” culture. Others include executives Serge Hascoet, Yannis Mallat, and Cecile Cornet, and global head of HR Cecile Cornet. Assassin’s Creed creative director Ashraf Ismail also left the company in the midst of these revelations, seemingly for personal reasons.

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