Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin, An Action-Farming Game, Comes West Later This Year

Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin, an action-simulation game, is coming to North America on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC on November 10, publisher XSeed announced. The game combines action-packed side scrolling with an immersive farming simulator.

The game follows Sakuna, a harvest goddess banished to a dangerous island with a group of humans, where she must prove herself worthy of by harvesting rice and enriching the lives of humans. Battle demons across the island using farm tools and power up Sakuna by improving your farming skills.

Sakuna also must build a community with the humans, who will create weapons, armor, and meals using the ingredients and materials she gathers on her adventures. The game features a unique take on Japanese mythology, with twists on gods and demons alike.

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Big Update For Pokemon-Style MMO Temtem Releases Tuesday

Temtem is getting its biggest update since its PC version launched via Early Access. Coming out July 21, developer Crema will add a new island called Kisiwa into the Pokemon-like massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Beyond the tropical island filled with catchable monsters to explore, the patch will also include the ability to remap controls, the ability to join an in-game club, and increase the level cap from 48 to 58.

The star of the update is the island itself as Kisiwa features plenty of Temtem creatures to capture, additional traversal options, and unique items to use. The storyline has players defending the island from an evil organization called Belsoto led by General X. The update is so notable that Temtem’s price will increase after the patch is released to $37.50 instead of $35.

While the studio originally meant to release a major update earlier this year, it later decided to merge it with the Kisiwa update. As such, it now boasts several social additions as players will be able to create clubs that allow 50 members to join. Each club has its own banner that will show on player’s profiles, and players will have to pay a fee using in-game currency to join them. Currently, clubs serve merely as a social hub as Crema is still working on implementing wars between competing clans.

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Borderlands 3 For $10, Let’s Go Pikachu For $40, And More Killer Game Deals At Best Buy

We may not be getting Amazon Prime Day this month–the annual blowout sale that normally occurs mid-July has reportedly been delayed to October–but we’ve still seen some better-than-usual game deals at Amazon and its competitors lately. Best Buy, in particular, has been offering some pretty great game deals in July, and this week’s discounts are even beating some of last week’s. Notably, Borderlands 3 is down to just 10 bucks after last week’s record-low price of $13. Meanwhile, Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Let’s Go, Eevee are down to $40 after hitting $45 at Best Buy last week.

Quick look: The best game deals at Best Buy

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Brand-New Spyro Compendium Releasing Tomorrow Gets Discount At Amazon

Originally unveiled last fall, The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy finally releases tomorrow, July 21. The oversized coffee table book explores the well-received remastered collection of the classic platforming series. Spyro fans can still pre-order the hardcover art book at Amazon, and you can even get a discount, albeit a small one.

The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy | $40.50 ($45)

The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy

Normally $45, you can grab The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy for $40.50. Yes, we know that isn’t a large discount by any means, but the Blizzard Entertainment-published book hasn’t been discounted much at all since going up for pre-order last year.

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Call Of Duty: Season 5 Of Warzone And Modern Warfare Teased

Infinity Ward appears to be teasing its plans for Season 5 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone. Though the tease is short on details, it may give us an indication of when to expect the next season to drop.

Charlie Intel reports that the company sent a video to Twitch streamer NICKMERCS. The video shows the date August 5, which is when the current Battle Pass is set to end. It also shows a vehicle on a train track, and late in the video a helicopter flies overhead.

We may see more teasers coming in advance of the new season launch. There have also been consistent rumors that Activision will tease or announce this year’s Call of Duty game from within Warfare, in absence of a press event or televisted sports games to show off the big reveal. We know that Warzone will continue to evolve with new annual Call of Duty game releases.

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Watch The Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Cast Reunite For A Table Read

Most of the cast and both co-writers behind 2010’s fantastic Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have reunited for a 10th anniversary virtual table read. Scott Pilgrim creator and cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley and screenplay co-writers Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright were flanked, from quarantine, by Michael Cera, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Jason Schwartzman, and more to read through the screenplay online. A video of the event has just been released online.

Presented by Entertainment Weekly, the special event also doubled as a benefit for the charity Water for People, a global nonprofit that “helps people bring clean water and sanitation solutions to their communities for generations to come.” Donations can be made via the Water for People website, and those who donate are also entered to win one of the drawings completed by O’Malley during the table read.

Like the graphic novel series it’s based upon, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is about a slacker musician who must defeat the seven evil exes of his newest girlfriend, Ramona Flowers. In addition to the cast mentioned above, the film also starred Kieran Culkin (Succession).

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Call of Duty 2020: Dataminers Reportedly Find Campaign, Zombies, Warzone Details

Dataminers have unearthed a number of interesting potential details about Call of Duty 2020, including notes about Zombies, Warzone, Campaign and Multiplayer maps.

Twitter user Prototype Warehouse unearthed a set of tags within the game files, which appear to have been pulled from ‘The Red Door’, an alleged alpha of this year’s Call of Duty which appeared on the Microsoft Store earlier this week. Some users have reported being able to download The Red Door, saying that it’s titled Call of Duty: Black Ops CIA when downloaded.

The phrases posted to Twitter yesterday seem to pertain to different modes within the game – the embedded tweet below supposedly contains strings tied to the game’s single-player campaign, with titles like “nam_armada, nam_prisoner” and “rus_kgb” suggesting parts of the story will take place in Vietnam and Russia. A leak we reported on back in May suggested that this year’s Call of Duty game will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and will return to the historical setting of its namesake franchise.

Tags for multiplayer maps such as Moscow, Satelite and Tank were also found, with Eurogamer noting that earlier in the year, one of the COD 2020 gameplay leaks featured a map called Tank. Dataminers also found Warzone references such as “duga” and “ski slopes” and a lone tag which is supposedly tied to the game’s Zombies mode, “Silver.”

It’s not clear how any of this ties together in practice for now, but evidence is building concerning the alleged makeup of 2020’s Call of Duty game. Some expect the game to be officially revealed at this week’s Xbox Games Showcase, although that remains speculation for the time being.

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Madden NFL 21: Full List of Player Ratings Released

EA has revealed the official player ratings for all 2000+ players in Madden NFL 21.

Published on the Madden website, you can compare and filter the rating of every player in the game, and use the search function to find your favourites. You can also sort the list by individual statistics such as strength and speed.

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Five players this year have hit the fabled 99 overall stat this year: Aaron Donald, Christian McCaffrey, Michael Thomas, Patrick Mahomes, and Stephon Gilmore. As with all modern Madden games, these are stats for launch, and can change over the source of the year.

EA recently announced that it will be removing the former logo and name of the Washington Redskins from Madden NFL 21, implementing a “generic Washington team” as they wait for the team’s management to update its branding.

Madden NFL 21 will launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC this August 25, 2020. We’re yet to receive a release date for the next-gen versions of the game, but if you purchase the game on current-gen consoles, you’ll be able to upgrade the game using EA’s Dual Entitlement system, allowing users to acquire the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X version of the game free of charge. This promotion will run until the release of Madden NFL 22. If you’d like to view all the different versions of the game to figure out what bonuses are available, check out our preorder guide here.

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