G'day Gamers,

This is a big week in gaming for me. As a kid who grew up playing the N64, the Star Fox announcement has me hyped. I will say I'm a little disappointed it's a remake of Star Fox 64 and not an entirely new story, but I'm just glad Fox is back.

On top of that, one of my most anticipated games of the year released today. Mixtape's early reviews have been really strong and I'm very excited to jump into this one. I'm a sucker for 90s nostalgia and a good old coming of age story.

Let's get into it,

Nintendo dropped a surprise Direct on us this week and announced a brand new Star Fox for Switch 2, releasing on June 25. After ten years of nothing since Star Fox Zero in 2016, the Arwing is back in the air.

The game is a remake of Star Fox 64. Yes, again. Sixteen stages with branching routes return, the character models have been redesigned in a more grounded cinematic art style, and Nintendo has added fully voiced cutscenes and mission briefings between stages. There are three difficulty modes and a Challenge Mode for replaying cleared levels with new objectives.

The introduction of multiplayer is an interesting concept, its a four versus four Battle Mode pits Star Fox against Star Wolf for the first time. Two-player co-op lets one person fly the Arwing while the other handles guns from a shared Joy-Con 2. And GameChat support comes with character filters that turn your webcam into Fox, Falco, Slippy or Peppy.

The bigger question is whether Star Fox 64 needed remaking again. The 1997 original got a 3DS remake in 2011, and now in 2026 it gets a Switch 2 remake. There has not been a new Star Fox game since Star Fox Zero in 2016. Ten years of fans waiting, and we’ve gotten a newer version of something that we already had.

Don’t get me wrong I will be buying this on day one. Star Fox 64 was one of the games that I played over and over again, I’m just happy this franchise has been rebooted. But it would have been cool to get a new story this time.

Hit reply and tell me where you sit on this one, do another remake or hold out for a new chapter?

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Mina the Hollower has a release date The Shovel Knight team's gothic top-down adventure lands May 29 across PS5, Xbox, Switch, Switch 2 and PC for $19.99 USD.

Asha Sharma cancelled Copilot for Gaming Microsoft is winding down the AI assistant on Xbox mobile and cancelling its console launch a year after debuting it. Sharma also brought in four executives from her former CoreAI team and reshuffled Xbox leadership.

Nacon Connect ran on May 7 Twelve mid-budget games over half an hour. Headlines included Hunter: The Reckoning Deathwish, Hell is Us coming to Switch 2 on September 24, and The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu releasing July 15.

Project Helix got an update at the Xbox Game Dev Update Microsoft confirmed dev kits ship in 2027 and recapped the architecture details from GDC. VP Jason Ronald said "more to share later this year."

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Capcom's Pragmata has crossed 2 million units in two weeks The April-launch sci-fi action game from Director Hideaki Itsuno is now Capcom's fastest-selling new IP.

Mixtape (PS5/Xbox/PC/Switch 2) – May 7 A coming-of-age story from the Beethoven & Dinosaur team behind The Artful Escape, set across the last night of high school and soundtracked by a curated 80s playlist. One of my most anticipated of the year, downloading it as I write this.

WILL: Follow The Light (PS5/Xbox/PC) – May 7 First-person adventure puzzler about a lighthouse keeper sailing the northern seas to find his missing son.

Alabaster Dawn (PC Early Access) – May 7 Action RPG from the CrossCode team, drawing comparisons to Devil May Cry and Kingdom Hearts.

Outbound (PC/Xbox May 11, PS5/Switch/Switch 2 May 14) A cosy open-world camper van survival game, brought forward on PC and Xbox to dodge a Subnautica 2 collision.

Directive 8020 (PS5/Xbox/PC) – May 12 Supermassive's sci-fi survival horror starring Lashana Lynch, hunted aboard a colony ship by an alien that mimics its prey.

Call of the Elder Gods (PS5/Xbox/Switch 2/PC) – May 12 Lovecraftian puzzle-adventure sequel to Call of the Sea, on Game Pass day one.

Subnautica 2 (Xbox/PC Early Access) – May 14 Underwater survival sequel from Unknown Worlds, finally surfacing after the most chaotic legal battle in studio history. Game Pass day one, no PlayStation version.