Nintendo’s latest behemoth of a game released this weekend with most fans enjoying its creative sandbox, this year’s hottest indie Metroidvania moves further and further away, and a highly anticipated fighting game is set to have an open beta next weekend. Today, Game Rant’s weekly recap takes a look at some of the most notable headlines from the past week.
Summer Game Fest unveils its list of contributing partners, Destiny 2 offers an incredibly brief but revealing look at its upcoming season, and more questions plague fans in recent teasers for Mortal Kombat 12. All that and more in this week’s roundup of games industry news.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Receives an Unfortunate Development Update
Hollow Knight: Silksong refuses to get any closer to a concrete release window. Indeed, Hollow Knight: Silksong has been officially delayed, but at least there has been some communication regarding fans’ expectations.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Gets Review-Bombed
Big-budget games are often review-bombed for myriad reasons, with only a few criticisms ever managing to point out something agreeable or respectable. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s own review-bombing comes as no surprise, then. There are certainly issues worth noting about any game, but hoping that one’s review score will drop the game’s aggregate rating is disappointing nonetheless. After all, it's clear that fans are having a blast with the new title.
Street Fighter 6 Getting Open Beta Next Weekend
Street Fighter 6 has announced an open beta for this upcoming weekend, landing on May 19–22. This gives any remaining fans an opportunity to experience Street Fighter 6 if they were not able to in its previous two closed betas, and this open beta contains more gameplay features than those two betas anyhow.
Summer Game Fest 2023 Partner Lineup Revealed
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest has announced its partners who will be participating in the event this June. This includes a number of publishers who wish to show off more from their respective games, and fans are sure to spot a logo or two from Summer Game Fest’s partner graphic that they will be excited to hear from.
Destiny 2 Reveals Look at Season of the Deep
Destiny 2 finally offers a look at its newest season, Season of the Deep, which is a brief tease for the player’s return to Saturn’s largest moon and an exploration of its underwater vista.
Features
Mortal Kombat 12 is finally getting a lot of attention lately as it seems near to an actual reveal, regardless of what it turns out to be. There have been multiple alleged leaks in the last little while pertaining to certain characters who might be a part of it, and two teaser clips have since stirred debate online about what NetherRealm’s next game will be.
- Though Mortal Kombat 12 Has Not Been Revealed, One Thing Already Seems Obvious
- Mortal Kombat 12: What’s the Importance of the Sand?
Movies & TV
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was a great reminder of how inseparable Cal Kestis and BD-1 are at this point in their adventure, but that duo is only one of many iconic pairings belonging to the Star Wars franchise.
Guides
Nintendo fans hopping into Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom this weekend don’t necessarily need to have played Zelda: Breath of the Wild beforehand, but there are a number of things they will not be fully clued in on if they decide not to. Because a lot of the same muscle memory and exploration mechanics are carried over into the sequel, there are few advantages players may already have, such as knowing how to avoid being struck by lightning in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Game Rant Exclusives
Game Rant spoke to Capital Games this past week to discuss The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth, a mobile strategy RPG set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic legendarium, and the idea of creating alternate storylines within that IP.