Summer Game Fest has announced its first event returning for 2021, Day of the Devs. Day of the Devs has historically been an indie games showcase produced by Double Fine Productions and iam8bit. Last year, in light of the pandemic, it was run as a digital event in June and again in July as a part of Geoff Keighley's four-month-long Summer Game Fest, and included a number of gameplay trailers and announcements for indie titles like Sky: Children of the Light, Drake Hollow, and Sea of Stars. This year's showcase returns in a digital format once again, though this time the announcement specifies that both indie and AAA games will be involved, as well as some video game musical performances (last year, we got a Bugsnax concert!). [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/07/20/day-of-the-devs-developer-showcase-july-edition-summer-games-fest"] Developers can submit their games for consideration in the showcase beginning today through April 9. So far, this is the first and only event on the calendar for the Summer Game Fest, which is planned broadly for summer 2021 and begins in June -- though the official Twitter has indicated this year's is likely to be a bit condensed from last year. Unlike 2020, E3 is also in the cards for the summer, but it is remaining firmly as a digital event. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.  

Summer Game Fest has announced its first event returning for 2021, Day of the Devs. Day of the Devs has historically been an indie games showcase produced by Double Fine Productions and iam8bit. Last year, in light of the pandemic, it was run as a digital event in June and again in July as a part of Geoff Keighley's four-month-long Summer Game Fest, and included a number of gameplay trailers and announcements for indie titles like Sky: Children of the Light, Drake Hollow, and Sea of Stars. This year's showcase returns in a digital format once again, though this time the announcement specifies that both indie and AAA games will be involved, as well as some video game musical performances (last year, we got a Bugsnax concert!). [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/07/20/day-of-the-devs-developer-showcase-july-edition-summer-games-fest"] Developers can submit their games for consideration in the showcase beginning today through April 9. So far, this is the first and only event on the calendar for the Summer Game Fest, which is planned broadly for summer 2021 and begins in June -- though the official Twitter has indicated this year's is likely to be a bit condensed from last year. Unlike 2020, E3 is also in the cards for the summer, but it is remaining firmly as a digital event. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.  

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been delayed past its Spring 2021 release window, and TT Games promises to "provide updated launch timing as soon as possible." TT Games shared the news on Twitter, saying, "All of us at TT Games are working hard to make LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga the biggest and best-ever LEGO game - but we're going to need more time to do it. We won't be able to make our intended Spring release date, but will provide updated launch timing as soon as possible." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/08/27/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-gameplay-trailer"] LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga's Spring 2021 release window was announced during gamescom 2020's Opening Night Live alongside confirming the game would have upgraded PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions. Originally revealed during E3 2019, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will include levels from all nine films in The Skywalker Saga and will feature the largest roster of playable characters in LEGO Star Wars history. This isn't just some collection or remake, however, as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is brand-new game built from the ground up is meant to "shake the [LEGO games'] formula up and try something completely different." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/24/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-announcement-trailer"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been delayed past its Spring 2021 release window, and TT Games promises to "provide updated launch timing as soon as possible." TT Games shared the news on Twitter, saying, "All of us at TT Games are working hard to make LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga the biggest and best-ever LEGO game - but we're going to need more time to do it. We won't be able to make our intended Spring release date, but will provide updated launch timing as soon as possible." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/08/27/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-gameplay-trailer"] LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga's Spring 2021 release window was announced during gamescom 2020's Opening Night Live alongside confirming the game would have upgraded PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions. Originally revealed during E3 2019, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will include levels from all nine films in The Skywalker Saga and will feature the largest roster of playable characters in LEGO Star Wars history. This isn't just some collection or remake, however, as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is brand-new game built from the ground up is meant to "shake the [LEGO games'] formula up and try something completely different." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/24/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-announcement-trailer"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Apple has announced that it has added more than 30 new games to its Apple Arcade subscription service today, April 2, including Final Fantasy creator's Fantasian. Apple also revealed that it would be adding two new game categories, Timeless Classics and App Store Greats, which feature such games as Good Sudoku by Zach Gage, Threes! and Fruit Ninja Classic. As always with Apple Arcade, these games are all ad-free and fully unlocked. Fantasian is a new JRPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobi Sakaguchi and features a game world built on dioramas that are fully 3D and scanned using the same sort of photography used to map real-world cities using drones. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/03/02/fantasian-story-trailer"] While many of these games are classics brought to center stage once again on Apple Arcade, we are also getting some new Apple Arcade Originals including Wonderbox: The Adventure Maker, PlatinumGames' World of Demons, Clap Hanz Golf from the developers of the PlayStation exclusive Everybody's Golf, and Taiko no Tatsujin: Pop Tap Beat. The full list of games available now with this big Apple Arcade update are as follows;

• Backgammon
• BADLAND
• Blek
• Chameleon Run
• Checkers Royale
• Chess - Play & Learn
• Clap Hanz Golf
• Cut the Rope Remastered
• Don't Starve: Pocket Edition
• Fantasian
• FlipFlop Solitaire
• Fruit Ninja Classic
• Good Sudoku by Zach Gage
• Mahjong Titan
• Mini Metro
• Monument Valley
• NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition
• Really Bad Chess
• Reigns
• Simon's Cat: Story Time
• Solitaire by MobilityWare
• SongPop Party
• SpellTower
• Star Trek: Legends
• Sudoku Simple
• Taiko no Tatsujin: Pop Tap Beat
• The Oregon Trail
• The Room Two
• Threes!
• Tiny Crossword
• Wonderbox: The Adventure Maker
• World of Demons

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/nba-2k21-arcade-edition-launch-trailer"] Apple Arcade is available for $4.99/month and offers a one-month free trail. Furthermore, those who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, or Apple TV get three months of Apple Arcade for free. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Apple has announced that it has added more than 30 new games to its Apple Arcade subscription service today, April 2, including Final Fantasy creator's Fantasian. Apple also revealed that it would be adding two new game categories, Timeless Classics and App Store Greats, which feature such games as Good Sudoku by Zach Gage, Threes! and Fruit Ninja Classic. As always with Apple Arcade, these games are all ad-free and fully unlocked. Fantasian is a new JRPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobi Sakaguchi and features a game world built on dioramas that are fully 3D and scanned using the same sort of photography used to map real-world cities using drones. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/03/02/fantasian-story-trailer"] While many of these games are classics brought to center stage once again on Apple Arcade, we are also getting some new Apple Arcade Originals including Wonderbox: The Adventure Maker, PlatinumGames' World of Demons, Clap Hanz Golf from the developers of the PlayStation exclusive Everybody's Golf, and Taiko no Tatsujin: Pop Tap Beat. The full list of games available now with this big Apple Arcade update are as follows;

• Backgammon
• BADLAND
• Blek
• Chameleon Run
• Checkers Royale
• Chess - Play & Learn
• Clap Hanz Golf
• Cut the Rope Remastered
• Don't Starve: Pocket Edition
• Fantasian
• FlipFlop Solitaire
• Fruit Ninja Classic
• Good Sudoku by Zach Gage
• Mahjong Titan
• Mini Metro
• Monument Valley
• NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition
• Really Bad Chess
• Reigns
• Simon's Cat: Story Time
• Solitaire by MobilityWare
• SongPop Party
• SpellTower
• Star Trek: Legends
• Sudoku Simple
• Taiko no Tatsujin: Pop Tap Beat
• The Oregon Trail
• The Room Two
• Threes!
• Tiny Crossword
• Wonderbox: The Adventure Maker
• World of Demons

[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/nba-2k21-arcade-edition-launch-trailer"] Apple Arcade is available for $4.99/month and offers a one-month free trail. Furthermore, those who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, or Apple TV get three months of Apple Arcade for free. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Microsoft has confirmed that MLB The Show 21 will be arriving on Xbox Game Pass on its launch day of April 20, 2021, for both Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Announced on Xbox Wire, this once-PlayStation exclusive is arriving on Xbox consoles for the first time this year, and Xbox Game Pass subscribers will be able to enjoy the standard edition of the game on consoles, as well as on Android phones and tablets via Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) if they have Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/mlb-the-show-21-xbox-game-pass-announce-trailer"] MLB The Show 21 also features cross-platform play and progress, meaning you will be able to play across the platform and generation of your choice, and play with your friends no matter where they choose to play. Just last week, we were able to exclusively reveal the first Xbox gameplay of MLB The Show 21 alongside an interview with Sony San Diego Gameplay Designer Ramone Russell. Yesterday, the team shared a look at the some of baseball's greatest legends will look on next-gen consoles, including Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Fernando Valenzuela, and more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/mlb-the-show-21-exclusive-xbox-series-x-gameplay-dev-interview"] MLB The Show was first released on PlayStation 2 in 2006, and has been exclusive to PlayStation platforms since then. While Xbox fans will be able to enjoy the game this year, there is still hope for Nintendo fans as the company retweeted the announcement in 2019 that the game was going multi-platform, hinting we may see in on the Switch in the future. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Microsoft has confirmed that MLB The Show 21 will be arriving on Xbox Game Pass on its launch day of April 20, 2021, for both Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Announced on Xbox Wire, this once-PlayStation exclusive is arriving on Xbox consoles for the first time this year, and Xbox Game Pass subscribers will be able to enjoy the standard edition of the game on consoles, as well as on Android phones and tablets via Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) if they have Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/mlb-the-show-21-xbox-game-pass-announce-trailer"] MLB The Show 21 also features cross-platform play and progress, meaning you will be able to play across the platform and generation of your choice, and play with your friends no matter where they choose to play. Just last week, we were able to exclusively reveal the first Xbox gameplay of MLB The Show 21 alongside an interview with Sony San Diego Gameplay Designer Ramone Russell. Yesterday, the team shared a look at the some of baseball's greatest legends will look on next-gen consoles, including Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Fernando Valenzuela, and more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/mlb-the-show-21-exclusive-xbox-series-x-gameplay-dev-interview"] MLB The Show was first released on PlayStation 2 in 2006, and has been exclusive to PlayStation platforms since then. While Xbox fans will be able to enjoy the game this year, there is still hope for Nintendo fans as the company retweeted the announcement in 2019 that the game was going multi-platform, hinting we may see in on the Switch in the future. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Supercell, the mobile game company behind Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, normally likes to keep its game announcements close to its chest. But today, it dropped a trailer revealing a whopping three in-progress mobile games, all set in the Clash universe. The first game, Clash Quest, is a turn-based, tactical, adventure-strategy game where players send out troops on a grid-based map to fight enemies on an opposing map. Individuals can attack on their own, but combining groups of similar troops can be used for more powerful effect. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/supercell-announces-clash-quest-clash-mini-and-clash-heroes"] While Clash Quest is being developed at Supercell in Helsinki, the other two games are being developed at Supercell's newer outpost, in Shanghai. One of these is Clash Mini, a mobile board game that uses miniatures (hence the name) of classic Clash characters. The second, Clash Heroes, is a top-down action-adventure game that gives off light-hearted Diablo vibes. What may immediately strike Clash fans is that none of these games looks much like Clash Royale or Clans in terms of play, despite aesthetic similarities. That's on purpose, wrote Supercell in an announcement today: "These new games are nothing like prior Clash games. We want to focus on creating new ways of enjoying and playing with your favorite Clash characters, while deepening the world through new environments and gameplay experiences. That last part is key - we want to offer new ways of playing Clash and hope these games add on to your current gaming experience. Of course, there’s a chance you might not like these games - and that’s okay, it’s all good. We totally understand these are very different from Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. On top of offering a new Clash experience to current players, we want to broaden Clash to new audiences who haven’t experienced Clash before." All three games are still very early in development, and it should be noted that Supercell as a studio has a long tradition of cancelling titles, often before they are even announced but sometimes even once they've been in open betas for months. So while all three of these games may look bright and shiny in this trailer, it's possible any one of them may not see the light of day. But on the bright side, whether or not any of them are released, Clash of Clans and Clash Royale business will continue as usual. Clash of Clans is still releasing new content on the regular despite having released nearly a decade ago, as is Clash Royale -- which just celebrated its fifth anniversary. And Supercell confirmed it is still working on other games outside of the Clash universe, as well. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.  

Supercell, the mobile game company behind Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, normally likes to keep its game announcements close to its chest. But today, it dropped a trailer revealing a whopping three in-progress mobile games, all set in the Clash universe. The first game, Clash Quest, is a turn-based, tactical, adventure-strategy game where players send out troops on a grid-based map to fight enemies on an opposing map. Individuals can attack on their own, but combining groups of similar troops can be used for more powerful effect. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/supercell-announces-clash-quest-clash-mini-and-clash-heroes"] While Clash Quest is being developed at Supercell in Helsinki, the other two games are being developed at Supercell's newer outpost, in Shanghai. One of these is Clash Mini, a mobile board game that uses miniatures (hence the name) of classic Clash characters. The second, Clash Heroes, is a top-down action-adventure game that gives off light-hearted Diablo vibes. What may immediately strike Clash fans is that none of these games looks much like Clash Royale or Clans in terms of play, despite aesthetic similarities. That's on purpose, wrote Supercell in an announcement today: "These new games are nothing like prior Clash games. We want to focus on creating new ways of enjoying and playing with your favorite Clash characters, while deepening the world through new environments and gameplay experiences. That last part is key - we want to offer new ways of playing Clash and hope these games add on to your current gaming experience. Of course, there’s a chance you might not like these games - and that’s okay, it’s all good. We totally understand these are very different from Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. On top of offering a new Clash experience to current players, we want to broaden Clash to new audiences who haven’t experienced Clash before." All three games are still very early in development, and it should be noted that Supercell as a studio has a long tradition of cancelling titles, often before they are even announced but sometimes even once they've been in open betas for months. So while all three of these games may look bright and shiny in this trailer, it's possible any one of them may not see the light of day. But on the bright side, whether or not any of them are released, Clash of Clans and Clash Royale business will continue as usual. Clash of Clans is still releasing new content on the regular despite having released nearly a decade ago, as is Clash Royale -- which just celebrated its fifth anniversary. And Supercell confirmed it is still working on other games outside of the Clash universe, as well. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.