Star Fox Remake, Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees, GameStop Seeks Cash + more!

Duration: 06:59

Timestamps:

0:00 Star Fox 64 Remake

1:28 2026 Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees

2:38 GameStop Seeks More Money to Buy eBay

3:59 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:08 Sony Settles PlayStation Store Lawsuit

4:42 RUSE Returns to Steam

5:09 Civilization 7 Updates

5:38 Epic Games vs Apple Continues

6:16 Kids Use Minecraft to Fix NYC

NEWS SOURCES:

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NINTENDO LOVES THEIR REMAKES

Star Fox is landing in the Switch 2 next month and while it’s technically another remake of Star Fox 64, considering the decade-long drought, I’ll buy it - but I won't be happy about it. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-fox-buying-guide/1100-6539831/

Besides getting a complete graphical makeover to fit “modern standards,”

https://x.com/NintendoAmerica/status/2052180361187115496

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4FtjCck8Y

the game offers a new feature letting the Gamechat use Switch 2’s camera to track your face and map it onto Fox, Falco, or Slippy in real-time during voice chat. https://ca.pcmag.com/nintendo-games/15508/in-gamechat-new-star-fox-for-switch-2-can-replace-your-face-with-8-characters

https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_ca/photo/a/a-selectio/a-selection-of-characters-you-can-use-as-your-avatar_mcy1.960.jpg

If going "Full Slippy" feels like a HR violation, you can opt for AR filters that give you Fox’s ears or Falco’s beak, but I'm not sure that makes it much better. https://x.com/Andy_VGC/status/2052154426010263600/photo/1

Beyond the digital taxidermy, fans are clowning on the game because it's yet another Star Fox 64 remake - apparently the barrel roll demands eternal refreshment.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fans-cant-stop-clowning-on-the-latest-star-fox-reveal/1100-6539829/

Pre-orders are live with the digital version costing $50 dollars.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/star-fox-switch-2/?srsltid=AfmBOopAVIWJEplN0EjrzoxgfX8kYaxa-PQgN-8ouCKp2QJGvl8Xf_Pr

Good luck explaining to your therapist why your best friend’s face is now a high-fidelity frog but hey.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/star-fox-switch-2/?srsltid=AfmBOopAVIWJEplN0EjrzoxgfX8kYaxa-PQgN-8ouCKp2QJGvl8Xf_Pr

At least the memes are top-tier.

https://x.com/kristanovva/status/2052187838393827626 https://x.com/jack_luddy/status/2052152065439187082 https://x.com/lolo_aburto/status/2052166135324254375

WE DIDN’T KNOW THIS WAS A THING EITHER

The 2026 inductees into the Strong Museum’s Video game hall of fame have been announced - https://nintendoeverything.com/2026-world-video-game-hall-of-fame-winners-announced/

This year’s additions are Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA International Soccer, and Silent Hill

https://www.polygon.com/video-game-hall-of-fame-inductees-2026-strong-museum-play/

Angry birds creative officer Ben Mattes told variety that the angry birds team is deeply honored by the recognition saying that “Characters, emotion and story are what keeps our fans coming back to our games year after year.” - https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/angry-birds-world-video-game-hall-of-fame-1236739560/

These games beat out legends like frogger Glaga, Ruineskape, Skyrim and megaman - https://www.engadget.com/2164266/angry-birds-and-fifa-international-soccer-join-the-world-video-game-hall-of-fame/

This year’s inductees join 49 other games in the hall of fame, including Classics like Doom, the Genre Defining MMOrpg World of Warcraft , and Tamagotchi for some reason - https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/inducted-games/

GAME RECOGNIZE GAME…STOP

Gamestop CEO is potentially raiding the Game Informer Vault to fund or hype his eBay acquisition - https://kotaku.com/gamestop-ebay-ryan-cohen-auction-game-informer-ban-2000693746

For context Gamestop CEO and guy who’s trying to sell you MDMA at a skrillex concert, made an entirely unsolicited 56 billion dollar bid to try and buy ebay - https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2026/05/04/gamestop-makes-bold-us56b-play-for-ebay-ready-to-go-hostile/

It’s been going badly for Cohen as he exposed on CNBC that he has no clue how he’s going to pay for it where he’s going to - stunning the newscaster into silence - https://kotaku.com/gamestop-ceo-ryan-cohen-cnbc-interview-ebay-stocks-2000693270

Which leads us to the game informer vault fire sale - https://80.lv/articles/gamestop-ceo-is-reportedly-selling-stuff-from-game-informer-vault-on-ebay-to-pay-for-ebay

For those of you that don’t know Game informer was a magazine that was a video game magazine that began in 1991, at first a six-page booklet handed out free in every FuncoLand (now GameStop).Back in 2000, Barnes & Noble bought Funcoland and merged it with Babbage's to form GameStop. Vault has some cool historical or rare gaming memorabilia/games

https://replay.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Informer

Bloomberg reports his ebay account was suspended while he was trying to sell these thing in order to fund the ebay aquisition - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-06/gamestop-s-cohen-says-he-s-selling-on-ebay-to-help-fund-takeover

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/gamestop-ceo-ryan-cohen-banned-115859538.html

QUICK BITS

STORE CREDIT

Sony reportedly agreed to a $7.85 million US settlement after a class-action lawsuit accused them of monopolizing the PlayStation Store by killing off third-party digital game codes back in 2019.

https://www.engadget.com/2163227/sony-will-soon-settle-playstation-store-class-action-lawsuit/

If you bought any of the eligible digital titles

https://psndigitalgamessettlement.com/media/qeefysnv/0219-06-2026-02-26-exhibit-e-list-of-eligible-games-and-plan-of-allocation.pdf

between April 2019 and December 2023, you might see a slice of that payout.

Court Document: https://psndigitalgamessettlement.com/media/f2sbfoy2/0190-2024-12-13-second-amended-consolidated-complaint.pdf

No claim form is required and once settled eligible users will be automatically credited to their PSN wallet after the final court hearing on October 15th.

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit-settlements/7-85m-sony-playstation-store-class-action-settlement/#:~:text=No,to%20receive%20settlement%20benefits

OUI BACK

RUSE the cult-hit Real Time Strategy game is coming back to Steam after years spent in licensing limbo,

https://www.polygon.com/ubisoft-ruse-rts-pc-game-steam-release/

all because Ubisoft technically owned the game

https://lmg.gg/rusedevsteamresponse

When fans found out Ubisoft officially decommissioned the multiplayer servers back in 2024, fans were noticeably rallying to bring it back.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/21970/discussions/0/4139438760461168253/

Unfortunately due to the licensing issue the OG devs had to fight and wait it out until getting an opportunity to re-release the game - which they have officially done and even added some extra content.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/21970/RUSE/

ACT YOUR AGE

2K's CEO has admitted Civilization 7's most controversial mechanic, the new “Ages system” that abruptly swapped your civ partway through a game, “was a bridge too far.” https://kotaku.com/ceo-admits-civilization-7-was-a-bridge-too-far-as-it-ditches-its-most-controversial-mechanic-in-new-fundamentally-game-changing-update-over-one-year-later-2000693964

Over a year after Civ 7’s launch, the team is now re-adding the mechanic where players can play as one civ across history in what they're calling a "fundamentally game-changing update" over a year after launch.

https://lmg.gg/civ7readdinplayingasoneciv

https://assets.2k.com/1a6ngf98576c/32iC4OXq6ksIPTpjQ9NgT4/91a156e12eb046a94341f2ea3bfc38af/IMG_0835.jpg

EPIC BATTLE

US Supreme court sides with Epic in the Apple vs Epic lawsuit over ios fees -

https://kotaku.com/epic-games-apple-lawsuit-supreme-court-refuses-appeal-2000693934

Apple tried to delay the supreme court decision on monday - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5862947-apple-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-contempt-finding-in-epic-games-case/

But the supreme court said apple’s tactics were anticomptitive and kicked it back to the california district court - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-court-declines-pause-order-holding-apple-contempt-epic-games-lawsuit-2026-05-06/?taid=69fb52cf083ff2000107782a

BLOCK BY BLOCK/CONCRETE JUNGLE MINECRAFT TOMAAATOO

Polygon dropped a documentary called Battle of the Boroughs: The Kids Who Build New York City in Minecraft,

https://www.polygon.com/battle-of-the-boroughs-full-documentary-minecraft/

covering a NYC public school tournament where teams build Minecraft solutions to real problems like food access, climate change, and city infrastructure,

https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/blog/battle-of-the-boroughs-nyc

https://youtu.be/nLsQjV35y_U?si=j5_1r1505VFejqHK documentary