Gamer's Digest 2026-21: BIG Surprises at next State of Play?

On our plate for this week: 

State of Play is coming around the corner and its looking like a big one. Rumors swirling around a “Newish” game called Break-in and Media molecule making a open-world game??

 

Gaming News: 

1. State of Play returns Tuesday, June 2 – PlayStation.Blog
2. Sony Trademarks New Game Called 'Break In' Ahead of PlayStation State of Play | Insider Gaming
3. Report: LittleBigPlanet and Dreams Developer Media Molecule Working on New IP With 'Open-World Content'  | MP1st
4. 007 First Light - 88 Opencritic | 87 Metacritic
5. The End Of ‘Destiny 2’: All Expansions Canceled, Maintenance Mode Incoming | Forbes
   1. Bungie Plans Layoffs After Ending ‘Destiny 2’ Development | Bloomberg
   2. The first, cinematic look at Marathon season 2 paints it as the horror game it always should have been | Rock Paper Shotgun 
6. Major Xbox hires expand leadership team to strengthen console brand | VGC
   1. Xbox Reportedly Canceled The Family Game Pass Plan Because Of Pressure From Electronic Arts | Game Observer

Quick Hits

1. Hasbro is spending $1bn making video games, and none of them are games-as-a-service | The Game Business
2. Take-Two CEO says it out loud: "The big tech companies who laid off thousands of people and said it was because of AI were not telling the truth" | GamesRadar+ 
3. Baki's Yujiro Hanma is the perfect fit for the Tekken franchise | Polygon
4. Forza Horizon 6 sells 4.9 million copies despite Xbox Game Pass "cannibalizing" revenue, says analyst | GamesRadar

What We Been Playing:

• Sean - Saros (Platinum)
• Dj - Crimson Desert, getting Hyped for 007 
• Savion - CD ( just doing side quests), Mixtape (pretty much done but didn’t finish) on chapter 1? 2? of lego batman and prologue mission for 007