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The Outer Worlds publisher Private Division has announced that it’s signed agreements to publish new games by Moon Studios (Ori & the Blind Forest), Roll7 (OlliOlli) and League of Geeks (Armello).

Details about the games are scant: Moon Studios’ game will be a “a compelling action RPG”, League of Geeks will be announcing a new IP, and Roll7 will be taking “the next jump forward in their mission to create awesome, flow state games.”

Don’t expect to be playing any of these games too soon, however – none of the studios have formally announced the projects, and the first of them won’t arrive until parent company Take-Two’s fiscal year 2022.

All the new games are in early development, and announcements about each project will come “in the future”. No specific platforms have been announced at this time.

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“Developing the Ori series over the last decade has been a fantastic experience for our team, and we’re thrilled to now be aiming our sights even higher with a new action RPG,” said Moon co-founders Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol in a press release. “We attribute our success to the ‘iterative polish’ process we use at Moon Studios, and we’re continuing that style of development to create a new game that rises above anything we’ve created thus far.”

Private Division was created by Take-Two as a publishing label for independent developers. So far, it’s published The Outer Worlds, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, and Disintegration, as well as republishing Kerbal Space Program.

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Phil Spencer has said that news on backwards compatibility for Xbox Series X should be coming in August, sparking speculation that the previously-rumoured August Xbox event (and possible Xbox Series S reveal) event is legitimate.

Speaking on iJustine’s Same Brain podcast, Spencer discussed the work of the backwards compatibility team on Xbox Series X, and praised their work on optimizing older games for the next-gen console. He then added: “I’m encouraged to be able to talk more about it – should be August. I think August we’ll have more to say on that.”

While Spencer is specifically referring to backwards compatibility news, many have connected the August timing to previous rumours about an Xbox event set to take place during the same month.

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Those rumours point to the formal announcement of Xbox Series S (or Xbox Lockhart), a lower-priced, lower performance version of the Series X. It’s not too much of a speculative leap to imagine that the backwards compatibility news could apply to how older games will perform on the new console model. Earlier this week, we saw an image of a supposed white Xbox Series X controller surface, which added to the Lockhart buzz.

If true, it would mark the second major Xbox event in two months, following the Xbox Games Showcase – we thought some of that show worked, and some didn’t, so hopefully Xbox will be reacting to those concerns in any future events.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone are getting a refresh today, as Infinity Ward has rolled out a series of new playlists (and removed some) for the multiplayer games.

For Modern Warfare, Gunfight, Gunfight 3v3 Knives Only, Deathmatch Domination, and Drop Zone are now available. Additionally, fans of the popular Shipment and Shoot House maps are in luck, as Infinity Ward has introduced 24/7 playlists for each of them.

In Warzone, players can now dive into Plunder: Blood Money Trios, alongside the normal playlists: Solos, Duos, Trios, and Quads. The Plunder Quads playlist, however, has been removed.

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With just over a week left until Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn releases for the first time on PC, minimum and recommended specs have finally been added to Steam and Epic Games‘ digital storefronts.

The game was first released in February 2017 as a PS4 exclusive, and has since received an in-depth story DLC, The Frozen Wilds. The PC version of the game is launching as a complete edition, with all DLC included.

As picked up by PC Gamer, here are the specs for PC players:

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Grounded has had a strong debut, shooting to the top of Steam’s top sellers list after yesterday’s launch. The Honey I Shrunk the Kids-inspired survival game is an experiment of sorts for developer Obsidian Entertainment. The studio is known for its story-heavy RPGs with the likes of The Outer Worlds, Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II filling out its expansive catalogue.

Grounded quickly became the top-selling game on Steam after launching in Early Access yesterday, despite being freely available as part of Xbox Game Pass for PC as well. SteamDB shows a concurrent player peak of 12,543 players, which puts it near the bottom of Steam’s top 100 most played games. However, this doesn’t take into account those playing on Game Pass or via the Windows Store.

These numbers jump up in terms of Twitch views, too, with the survival game reaching the top three spots in terms of viewers on the streaming platform.

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The Emmy nominations for 2020 have been announced, and Watchmen earned far and away the most nods–26 in total. It’s a huge figure, and includes six nominations across acting categories and three across directing. Showrunner Damon Lindelof is very happy with this–but it doesn’t mean he’s coming back for season 2.

Lindelof has spoken to Entertainment Weekly about the show’s Emmy success, and said that he’s very pleased with it. “I expect nothing in this day and age, and I think that it’s hard to put too much stock and invest in award shows,” he says. “But at the same time, we all have to acknowledge that they mean something because it’s our peers. I didn’t really realize how much I cared until my heart started racing.”

Lindelof said that he and his wife “shrieked out loud” when Jeremy Irons was nominated for his performance as Adrian Veidt, and that he’s very glad for all the technical nominations too. “The best part of it is not how many nominations, but it’s all these people that I worked with over the course of two years, my creative partners, whether they worked in the camera department or the sound mixing or they were composing the score or doing the costumes,” he says.

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New Zealand is looking to the world of video games to invite virtual visitors to its shores while the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The #PlayNZ campaign isn’t exactly a video game, but it’s borrowing heavily from them, promising the “world’s first gameplay walkthrough of a real country.”

New Zealand Tourism has partnered with Australian streamer Loserfruit to explore “the world’s most exciting open world… in the world,” with a ten-minute video showing some of New Zealand’s most popular tourist attractions in the form of a game walkthrough.

Sadly #PlayNZ isn’t a real video game, but it’s got some cute easter eggs that gamers would enjoy–including a hawk-bearing main character with a passing resemblance to a certain Uncharted protagonist. The faux-game has collectables named with the te reo Māori words “kaha” meaning strength, “aroha” meaning love, and “wairua” meaning spirit.

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