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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Release Date Announced During Xbox Games Showcase

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches November 19, 2024, Microsoft announced during its Xbox Games Showcase.

The follow-up to 2020’s well-received Microsoft Flight Simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, and graphics, Microsoft said. It’s all powered by an evolved Asobo Studio engine and built by French outfit Asobo Studio.

As an Xbox Game Studios title, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches day-one across Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows 10/11, and Steam. For more, check out everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024.

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Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Hands On: Sonic X Shadow Generations Is A Love Letter To Sonic Adventure 2

Shadow Superstars.

Back in 2011, Sonic Generations felt like an attempt to win back long-time Sonic fans. Whether they grew up with 2D Sonic or the 3D adventures, both sides of the fanbase were becoming frustrated with the attempts at experimentation, and the supposed abandonment of what made Sonic great – fast, frantic, flowing action.

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What’s on your bookshelf?: author and games writer-abouter Alice Bell

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! You likely already know that books are made from trees, but did you know that Kindles are made from discarded tree asset packs? My uncle, who is a tree, told me that. This week, it’s the one and only author and games-worder-abouter, Alice Bell! Cheers Alice! Mind if we have a nose at you bookshelf?

What are you currently reading?

What did you last read?

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Sonic Team On Remasters: “If There’s A Title People Like, We’ll Think About It”

What Sonic game would you like to see return?

Sonic X Shadow Generations remasters the original title and adds a brand-new Shadow the Hedgehog campaign.

This upcoming release and Sonic Colors Ultimate have led to speculation about what other Sonic games could potentially return in the future, and now Sonic Team’s head Takashi Iizuka has responded to a question about this during a chat with IGN – mentioning how fan requests will be considered.

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Round Up: Every Switch Highlight At The Future Games Show – Summer Showcase 2024

So many games!

The Future Games Show – Summer Showcase for 2024 has now wrapped and it was filled with all sorts of video game announcements.

Some of these even included console announcements and a handful of them have also been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch and “Nintendo” platforms in general. Here’s a round up of everything Switch related:

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Lost And Found Co. is a hidden object adventure in which you play as a duck-turned-human intern

I wrote about the Wholesome Direct earlier this evening and pulled out a handful of games I liked from the showcase. I didn’t mention the game I liked most, because I wanted to give it this fuller shoutout. Lost And Found Co. is a hidde object adventure game set in a colourful, densely detailed world, and there’s a demo available to play now.

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Dredge’s Next Expansion Update ‘The Iron Rig’ Launches This August

More DLC is on the way.

The spooky fishing sim Dredge is getting its next dose of DLC on 15th August 2024, with its new ‘Iron Rig’ update.

This update is the “second official expansion” for this title. As highlighted in the PR, it adds a new story, new tiers of equipment, abilities, gadgets and consumables. There’s also 50 new fish being added, a new tier of fishing equipment, new characters, new hazards, new lore and new world events.

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State of Decay 3 Trailer to Debut at Xbox Showcase, According to Leak

State of Decay 3 will be one of the games shown off at tomorrow’s Xbox Showcase, according to a fresh leak today.

As spotted by @gematsu on X/Twitter, developer Undead Labs seemingly accidentally leaked the news itself with a link to a press kit on its jobs page. The link, per gematsu, leads to a press release which reads, in part, “Undead Labs revealed its new brand during the highly anticipated Xbox Showcase presentation on June 9th in the newest State of Decay 3 trailer.” Its new logo also appeared to leak.

The Undead Labs jobs page, however, was swiftly taken down once the leak was spotted. The website’s homepage is still live, but the navigation bar at the top of the page, which includes “jobs,” no longer has any hyperlinks.

It’s big news for fans of the survival horror series, considering it’ll mark our first look in years at the long-awaited sequel. The last one we got was its cinematic announcement trailer all the way back at a July 2020 Xbox Showcase, where Undead Labs revealed it was in early development. Ever since then, there’s been few updates, and it was a no-show at last year’s Xbox summer showcase as well. We’re still awaiting a release window, but that could be revealed during the trailer debut tomorrow.

State of Decay 3 is only one of a number of titles that have leaked ahead of tomorrow’s Xbox Showcase. In the days and weeks leading up to the livestream, reports have cropped up about the announcement of a new Doom installment (which is reportedly called Doom: The Dark Ages, and will apparently also be announced for PS5) and Gears of War 6.

While we wait to see if there are other surprises left in store for the Xbox Showcase, check out our breakdown of everything we’re expecting there. Additionally, stay turned for our subsequent chat with Xbox head Phil Spencer at IGN Live.

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.