Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 9th, 2024. In today's article, we've got a solid grab bag of goodies for you. A couple of news items, which is rare for a Thursday. Then, new releases. We're doing something a little different from today forward.
Amazon's Prime Video is riding a high after the success of Fallout and it has more video game-related projects lined up. The streaming service has ordered a Tomb Raider series with Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag fame set as writer and executive producer. The show was rumored to be happening as far back as January 2023 and now it's official. “If I could tell my teenage self this was happening I think she’d explode. Tomb Raider has been a huge part of my life and I feel incredibly privileged to...
Microsoft may want to add the following Call of Duty games to Xbox Game Pass. The Wall Street Journal writes that Microsoft wants to announce this next month. Earlier, the British Capital Markets Authority, which is still investigating the deal, said that this would not happen until 2025. The Wall Street Journal Writes based on […]
Xbox is reportedly set to add this year's Call of Duty - which is yet to be officially revealed - to Game Pass at launch, in what would be a first for the series and publisher. Naturally, this could in theory mean those with a subscription to the service would be able to grab the game without paying the usual price.This is according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that Microsoft will announce CoD's impending arrival on Game Pass during its showcase on June 9. The reported change would...
Amazon's live-action take on Fallout was a big hit, so to the surprise of no one it's given the go ahead for its Phoebe Waller-Bridge led Tomb Raider series. Last year, a report emerged that Amazon was developing a Tomb Raider series with Fleabag's Waller-Bridge, and it finally seems like it's deciding to move ahead with it on Prime Video. The streamer announced yesterday that Waller-Bridge is set to write and executive produce the show based on the classic video game series, though finer...
Alexis Lafreniere picked a good time to get off the schneid.
A pair of titles from publisher CI Games have leaked for Xbox Game Pass
You may have heard the rumors that the Citi Premier Card would be refreshed. Now we can confirm that those rumors are true. As of May 12, the Citi Premier Card has been rebranded as the Citi Strata Premier Card. Credit card changes can either be positive or negative — or a mix of both — …