Two new Xbox Ally devices introduce Microsoft’s much-needed improvements to handheld gaming PCs.
“We will be playable natively and optimized for gaming handhelds on day one,” according to a post from Roblox CEO David Baszucki.
The announcement made me wonder: will the game come to Switch? “We are always looking for new ways to expand Roblox to both our creators and users,” Roblox spokesperson Juliet Chaitin-Lefcourt tells me. “We don’t have any details to share about the Switch at this time.”
Plus, in this week’s Installer: The Switch 2 is here, a Broadway show coming to TV, the next John Wick, and much more.
Xbox chief Phil Spencer just casually revealed Gears of War: E-Day is coming in 2026, 25 years after the launch of the original Xbox. It’s arriving alongside a “the next Forza,” according to Spencer, and “the return of a classic that’s been with us since the beginning.” That classic sure sounds like the Halo CE remaster I wrote about last year.
If you already bought a Windows gaming handheld, you might not need to upgrade your hardware to get the overhauled Xbox app, Game Bar, and Windows OS that Microsoft and Asus just announced.
Xbox exec Roanne Sones:
The Xbox full-screen experience will first come to the ROG Xbox Ally and the ROG Xbox Ally X, and our next focus will be updating the in-market ROG Ally and the ROG Ally X. Similar full-screen Xbox experiences will be rolling out to other Windows handhelds, starting next year.”
Xbox showed off some footage of the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong on the new ROG Xbox Ally handheld. But we still don’t have a specific release date for the game: all Xbox president Sarah Bond said is that the game will be available “at launch and in Game Pass when the Ally releases later this year.”
If you haven’t had enough of gaming events, Microsoft has one more. The Xbox Games Showcase kicks off at 1PM ET, and will be followed by a second event focused entirely on The Outer Worlds 2.
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An update on how the extremely public political breakup is going today, as protestors face off with federal immigration agents in Los Angeles.
Following another successful live event (this time it involved infiltrating a Death Star), Epic has revealed the next season for Fortnite’s battle royale, which is once again superhero-themed. It includes new locations like a superhero academy and new characters like, well, Superman. Check out all the details here.
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It’s the closest we’re likely to get to a global release for Xiaomi’s souped up EV, which last year set a record lap time for a four-door car at the Nürburgring, albeit using a stripped-out prototype to do so. There’s no release date just yet for the car’s addition to Gran Turismo 7 though.
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Almost every single thing in Friday’s executive order is about uplifting the drone industry and cutting through red tape (at the potential expense of safety), not about cracking down on the China-based leading manufacturer of drones. But as I noted last week, Trump doesn’t need to lift a finger. The ban on future DJI products happens automatically unless he steps in.
[whitehouse.gov]
In the thick of the Summer Game Fest presentation, Ian Proulx CEO of 1047 Games came out to promote his team’s new multiplayer shooter Splitgate 2. Problem is, he did it wearing a Make FPS Great Again hat which...is certainly a choice. A bad one. Now everybody’s talking about the hat and how much it sucks and not Splitgate 2.
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