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Developer Hopoo Games has announced that Risk of Rain 2 will leave Steam Early Access on August 11. This 1.0 release–which is dubbed the Launch Update and was previously delayed–will introduce a bunch of new content, including a new playable character, an added final boss and stage, dedicated serves, and more.

The Captain, Risk of Rain 2’s 10th playable character, will join the roster when the game launches this August. Voted by 60,000 community members, The Captain brings his high-ranking authority and lethal shotgun-rifle combo that stuns targets after charging to the roguelike battlefield. He can command the dropship to send in beacons and probes to provide either armor buffs or healing zones for him and his allies.

In addition to the new character, Risk of Rain 2 will also see a brand-new stage: The Moon. This location, where you’ll battle against ferocious lunar monsters, will also house the game’s true final boss.

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Nintendo is celebrating Splatoon 2‘s third anniversary by announcing another Splatfest for the game. The event takes place next month, and like May’s bonus one-off Splatfest, it’s a repeat of a previous theme, this one asking the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?

The event kicks off at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET on August 21 and runs for 48 hours, concluding at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET on August 23. This particular Splatfest was previously held in March 2018 and saw Team Chicken emerge victorious, so egg devotees have a chance to rewrite history.

To participate in the Splatfest, you’ll first need to go to the terminal in Inkopolis Square and choose a side. After you’ve joined a team, jump into Turf War matches during the event and try to rack up wins for your side. The winning team will be determined by popularity and win percentage. Everyone who participates will take home a handful of Super Sea Snails, which are good for adding new ability slots to a piece of gear or re-rolling one that has already been maxed out.

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Ghost of Tsushima is a game about a lot of things–honor, sacrifice, the political climate of feudal Japan, and one man’s butt. That man is Jin Sakai, whose is voiced by and modeled on actor Daisuke Tsuji.

Tsuji has been playing the game on his Twitch channel, and a perfect moment has been captured during it–the first time the actor encountered his own naked butt in-game. When Jin visits an in-game onsen, the camera briefly shows off the character’s bare butt–and Tsuji gets pretty excited.

The video, clipped by Twitch user ABSP2006, shows the moment in all its glory. Appropriately, the clip has been named “THICC”.

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Marvel has just dropped a surprise announcement that it has a brand new non-fiction show, Marvel’s Storyboards, streaming for free from Thursday July 23. The series features Marvel Entertainment’s creative director Joe Quesada as he interviews famous storytellers of all kinds, following them to their favourite haunts around New York City and beyond.

Unsurprisingly, the show will feature Marvel-linked storytellers such as The Life Of Captain Marvel writer Margaret Stohl, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’s Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman. Storyboards will also follow people who fit a less traditional definition of the ‘storyteller’ term, however, including former Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir and high-altitude mountaineer Ed Viesturs.

“Whether you choose to speak through your words or through your actions, we are all storytellers with something to share,” Quesada explained. “With all of us now spending so much more time at home, we felt it was more important than ever to make these inspirational stories accessible to as many people as possible and share them with the world.”

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A new study has shown in numbers what we’ve already discovered anecdotally–gaming has surged in popularity in the last few years, and even more so since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The report by The NPD Group shows not only that more people in the United States are gaming since 2018, they’re also playing more often, and across more different platforms.

As of 2020, three out of every four Americans play video games, according to the survey, an increase of 32 million people since 2018. They’re also spending more time playing–the category of gamers playing less than five hours a week decreased 8% since 2018 to a total of 39%, while gamers playing 5-15 hours increased 2% to 32% total, and those playing over 15 hours per week increased 6% to make up 20% of players in the US.

While gamers are also, on average, playing on more devices, the study doesn’t lean towards anyone in the console wars–rather smart phones, tablets and PCs were the platform of choice. The number of gamers using more than one device increased from 59% in 2018 to 65% in 2020.

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Hot on the heels of the news that Christopher Nolan’s Tenet would be delayed indefinitely, Sony has also pushed back The Broken Hearts Gallery, a rom-com produced by Selena Gomez. According to reporting by Deadline, Sony and other studios are now waiting to see how the situation with theaters shapes up, in the face of increasing numbers of new COVID-19 cases in the United States.

Just like Tenet, Broken Hearts Gallery has been pushed back multiple times as cinema closures extended. Once intended to premiere on July 10, it was pushed back a week to July 17, then to August 7 as cinemas in the big markets of New York City and LA remained closed.

Now Broken Hearts Gallery no longer has a planned release date, though Sony clearly wants the movie to be one of the first off the block when cinemas re-open. Theater chains seem to be ready to open in lower risk areas, but end up waiting on the studios to release new content to re-open with. Major theater chains are having to push their opening dates back as movies get delayed again and again.

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