The Rewind: Recent Episodes
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The Rewind is a weekly recap of gaming news with some things to get you excited (The Plays) and others that we may want to take a moment to digest whether good or bad (The Pauses).
Read more about last week's Plays & Pauses: https://thisislevelup.net/the-rewind-week-of-july-5th/
The Plays
• The Sims' Reality TV show has been announced. It is a competition show that will be debuting this upcoming week on TBS.
• Far Cry 6 has been announced. And Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad & The Mandalorian) will be our villian.
• Beloved SNES Classic, Donkey Kong Country, is one of the games making its way to Nintendo Switch Online this week.
• Games releasing this week!
The Pauses
• Sony makes a BIG investment into Epic Games
Read more about last week's Plays & Pauses: https://thisislevelup.net/the-rewind-week-of-june-28th
The Plays
• Sony announces the Playstation Indie Initiative. With 9 Indie titles announced as well! Such as Worms Rumble which has a beta sign up going on now. (Beta Signup: https://mailchi.mp/team17/worms-2020-beta-sign-up)
• A new battle-royale contender? Ubisoft teases their new upcoming game, Hyper Scape. And you can join the Tech Test by signing up here: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/hyper-scape/technical-test
• Kobe covers NBA 2K21 for the Mamba Forever Edition. This still hurts...
• Upcoming Game Releases for this week.
The Pauses
• Harry Potter Open-World RPG is coming in 2021. Some issues have caused delays but development is still ongoing.
•Another Delay, Crysis. The leak of the game left fans a bit upset about the graphics and the team decided to hold off on the release to adjust. Originally set for July 23 and still plans to release this year.
The Plays
• Last of Us Part II sales at over 4 million units sold. And it looks like the hype is real.
• Games are getting turned into TV series! Disco Elysium and Cyberpunk 2077 both announced TV series in their futures.
• We're about to dive into Animal Crossing with the new Summer update. And is that a new outfit on Gulliver?
• We have our Featured Streamer of the Month, SticQeno!
The Pauses
• Tales of Arise is no longer releasing this year. This is looking like a pattern...
• Pokemon misses the mark with their announcement of Pokemon Unite. Not sure what I was expecting but this wasn't it.
• Mixer shuts down abruptly, leaving many employees and content creators scrambling.