Author: Olivia Sinclair

With Stalker 2’s November release looming, anyone looking to acquaint (or reacquaint) themselves with the series’ acclaimed post-apocalyptic horror action ahead of its arrival will soon be able to do so on the go, with the original Stalker trilogy now set for a Switch release on 31st October – a little earlier than developer GSC Game World had initially announced.

Stalker comes to Switch with a choice of purchasing options. First, there’s the Legends of the Zone bundle that launched for Xbox Series X/S and PS5 earlier this year, packaging together 2007’s Shadow of Chernobyl, 2008’s Clear Sky, and 2009’s Call of Pripyat. That’ll set you back £32.99/39.99 EUR/39.99 USD, but players looking for a slightly less concentrated dose of Stalker can alternatively buy each game individually, for £15.99/19.99 EUR/19.99 USD apiece.

All three games whisk players to an alternate version of the real-word Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, which – thanks to a second nuclear disaster in 2006 – has become rife with mutants and anomalies, tempting adventures known as Stalkers to enter its boundaries. The series’ acclaimed mix of bleak FPS survival horror an…

Developer Riot has issued a statement to distance itself from a strike by SAG-AFTRA actors’ union members against its League of Legends game.
Last night, the actor’s union called a strike against Riot’s online game due to its connection to Formosa Interactive LLC. Formosa Interactive is a production company involved in making League of Legends, and one which SAG-AFTRA has accused of trying to “subvert the video game strike”, which was announced in July.
The union’s press release stated Formosa – which has also worked on the Call of Duty series, Zelda and God of War, among others – attempted to “cancel” one of its games affected by the SAG-AFTRA video game strike in order to continue with non-union actors.
Since then, Riot has issued its own statement, writing “League of Legends has nothing to do with the complaint mentioned” by SAG-AFTRA.

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Join us to watch today’s Indie World & Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, live at 3pm UK time. (That’s 7am Pacific, or 10am Eastern.)

Stand down your expectations of seeing more Zelda or Metroid Prime – or Switch 2. Today’s event will instead spotlight upcoming Nintendo Switch games from third-party publishers, as well as indie developers. The show is set to run for around 40 minutes.

Will Silksong be there? Probably not. But we’re hopeful we may see more of The Plucky Squire, out in September. What else could we see? Other upcoming titles set for Switch include Sonic X Shadow Generations in October, plus the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection and Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed in September.

Indie World & Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase – 27/08/2024

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