Image collage done by me, but individual screenshots from Amazon and PlayStation Blog . Image credit for game box to Sony, Marvel, and Insomniac.  Hello, everyone. This is Arca, and today I will be doing a news roundup of sorts. This post was originally, as I hinted at in yesterday's post (which you should totally read here ), going to focus on next-gen AAA games potentially all costing $70 rather than $60. Then, two pieces of breaking news occurred. First, yesterday at noon, the book sequel to Ernest Cline's 2011 movie-sparking phenomenon Ready Player One was given a confirmed title, cover, and release date. Then, just 3 hours ago as of the time I started typing up this post, Sony via the official PlayStation Blog showed off for the first time what PlayStation 5 games will have as their cover art design through Spider-Man: Miles Morales . Let's tackle all of those subjects, as well as my thoughts on them, in precisely that order, starting with... Ready Player Two book is ...

Image Credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Based on the title of this, you have probably assumed that I am going to be reacting to a teaser trailer of some kind. You would be correct. But if you also assumed that it would be for a movie, you’d be incorrect. A TV show? Also incorrect. A videogame? Not that, either. Star Wars: The High Republic has nearly five related projects for it, and they’re all coming out as early as this summer. It was all made by a big team of storytellers with one central plan in mind from the start and the freedom to explore whatever they wanted, set hundreds of years before the events of the now-concluded Skywalker Saga. So to explain this time period to fellow Star Wars fans, that would be wedged between the time of the Old Republic (which is a fan-favorite time period from the now non-canon Legends). The only way that would be possible so quickly without any filming or coding whatsoever, you guessed it, would be in the form of books. Star Wars: The High Re...