The Nintendo-like presentation will have reveals and chill vibes The Wholesome Games crew is back again this year with some more wholesome games. The Wholesome Direct will air on June 12 at 1 p.m. ET. Last summer, the Wholesome Direct wasa nice, relaxing breakfrom the usual press showcases, filled with lots of cozy game trailers. This year looks to be more of the same, with even more on display: Wholesome Games is saying it will have exclusives from over 75 games, including new game reveals....

Slowly learnin’ life is ok Last week saw the release of Square Enix latest entry to the explosive open-world adventure seriesJust Cause.This third sequel sees apparently indestructible hero Rico Rodriguez once again taking to land, sea and air, bringing absolute armageddon to mercenary group The Black Hand and its leader, the notorious Gabriela Morales. Still, that doesn’t mean your boy Rico isn’t able to take time out to indulge in some ’80s classics, as this recently-found Easter Egg demonstrates....

The 2021 movie’s director could be returning to the chair The sequel toMortal Kombat(2021) could be seeing a familiar face at the helm.Deadline reportsthat Simon McQuoid is set to return to theMortal Kombatfollow-up. McQuoid made his feature film directorial debut onMortal Kombat, which hit both theaters and HBO Max last year. We gotconfirmation in Januarythat New Line Cinema had reportedly greenlit the sequel. Deadline also reports thatMoon Knightwriter Jeremy Slater is writing the screenplay for theMortal Kombatsequel....

TheLeague of Legendspublisher agrees to settle the 2018 class-action suit Riot Games announced on Monday thatit will agree to settlea 2018 class-action suit with California state agencies and female employees for $100 million. TheLeague of Legendspublisher agrees to pay $80 million to members of the class-action suit, made up of current and former women who worked at the company full-time or as a contractor since November 2014. An additional $20 million will be paid toward legal fees and expenses, perReuters....

A sizeable shake-up following Criterion’s latest game Some changes are being made at Electronic Arts’ Criterion Games, following its latest launch. Five long-time developers at the studio are leaving, just after Criterion launchedNeed For Speed Unbound. As reported byGamesIndustry.biz, Criterion GM and VP Matt Webster is leaving the studio after working at Criterion for more than two decades. Head of studio development Alan McDairmant and head of content Steve Uphill are also departing, as well as executive producer Pete Lake and senior technical director Andrei Shires....

Prepare your palate In just under a month’s time, Nintendo will release the goofy-but-funSushi Striker: The Way of the Sushidoon Switch and 3DS. A new Japanese trailer has been uploaded to give fans a glimpse at the comical, quick-reaction title. In a world where sushi has been forbidden by a totalitarian government, rebel and professional fish-eater Musashi takes it upon themselves to overthrow the country’s rulers by taking up grass-roots, sushi-eating, plate-flinging action....

They also have Bubsy on the brain Shovel Knightturned five this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down. He’s sold over three million copies and counting. There arenot one,not two,butsixdifferentbooksthat tell his story in one way or another. His game hasa new card-game infused single-player campaign,multiplayer party fighting mode, and anamiibo 3-pack all coming in 2019, and on top of all that, he just made hisSmashdebut as an assist trophy....

Silent Scope I’m not exactly well versed in the world of VR gaming. While I think the technology is cool and all, I feel it has more value in academics than gaming. You can certainly make interesting games around the technology, but there hasn’t been much that sticks out to me. I like first-person shooters, and there are a ton of first-person VR games, but they are almost always compromised by the limitations of VR headsets, usually playing dramatically slower than what you can play on a standard system....

Stick your laggy Blanka rolls Capcom has confirmed that its exciting new scrapperStreet Fighter 6will indeed have fully redesigned rollback netcode, and will not simply port the online infrastructure that powers previous entryStreet Fighter V. The news was revealed bySF6director Takayuki Nakayamain an interview with IGN. (Suspiciously, it appears that the interview has since been made private.) “SFValso had rollback netcode, butSF6will have rollback netcode [but] it’s not going to be the same as what we had inSFV,” said Nakayama (in dictation recorded by EventHubs)....

And the original Subnautica is going up by five bucks Not to get your hopes up, butSubnautica: Below Zerois still in early access. It’s close to the finish line – close enough that Unknown Worlds is about to raise the price by $10 – but it’s notquitethere. That said, if you lovedSubnauticaand you’re down for more alien ocean expeditions,Below Zerois a pretty safe bet at this point, even if you have no intention of playing it until the 1....

Every quarter counts Surprise! I’m here on a Wednesday! I’ll also be here for the usual weekly stream on Friday, but today you get extra. We’re not doing anything too nutty today — maybe try some moreThymesiasincethat game got REALLY tough super fast, or more specifically I was thinking of just chilling with a cute little arcade tycoon game calledArcade Paradise. We’re gonna manage profits and try to flip the family laundry business into a top-notch arcade....

Whimsical indie-hit coming to Nintendo console Australian indie-outfit Prideful Sloth have announced that their daydream adventure titleYonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles,will making its Nintendo Switch debut later this month. Yonder,which was released on PS4 and PC in the Summer of 2017, sees a custom player character searching the mystical island of Gemea for sprites, the gathering of which will prevent a suffocating fog – known as The Murk – from destroying the pleasant environment and its inhabitants....

Regardless of what one thinks aboutStarfieldas a game, it’s a simple statement of fact thatits post-launch supporthas been quite stellar across the board. One thing that’s been left overlooked up until now, though, was its strange mod cap, which has now been lifted. Specifically, while there’s an absolute glut of cool mods to choose from, ranging fromDune-themed planet conversionstoStar Warsdoohickeys, going all-in on player-made content would eventually lead to game-breaking bugs no matter what....