Future Games website PC Gamer details how to watch today's Future Games Show Summer Showcase, which gets underway in a couple of hours at 1:00 pm EDT. Here's the plan:

The 2023 Future Games Show Summer Showcase from our friends at GamesRadar is happening today—Saturday, June 10—at 10 am PT. If you're not sure when that is in your time zone, here's a handy guide.

The videogame showcase will be streamed on Twitch, YouTube (embedded above), GamesRadar, among other channels, and will feature 10 world premieres, plus new looks at a bunch of games, including:

• Lords of the Fallen (I'm excited about this one ever since I saw it at GDC)
• Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
• Life By You (Another cool one I checked out at GDC)
• Layers of Fear
• Pacific Drive
• C-Smash VRS
• VR Skater

The June Humble Choice* is now available for members, it being June and all. Subscribers receive a collection of DRM-free games each month which are free to keep. The headline game this month is Ghostwire Tokyo while other offerings include Remnant: From the Ashes - Complete Edition, Curse of the Dead Gods, Honey I Joined a Cult, and more. Here's an overview from the Humble Bundle Blog:

Explore the spectral streets and haunted rooftops of Ghostwire: Tokyo. Survive the twisted otherworldly realms of Remnant: From the Ashes – Complete Edition. And much more….

June’s Humble Choice games have arrived from places beyond, and this month’s mix will take you on an otherworldly journey through a haunted metropolis, alternate dimensions, cursed temples, across time—and to a crazy golf/race course too for good measure. Eight supernaturally great games are waiting, all yours to own and add to your PC gaming library forever when you’re a Humble Choice member this month!

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Intel discusses its foray into the enthusiast market with a post about X^eSS support in Intel Arc graphics cards. X^eSS, or X^e Super Sampling, is Intel's upscaling tech, and the post goes on to discuss what it brings to the game(s):

Intel Arc graphics have dedicated AI hardware built-in. Leveraging those capabilities for gaming gets the most performance possible out of Arc GPUs, and that’s exactly what Xe Super Sampling does. Let’s look closer: when you turn on XeSS, every frame the GPU renders starts at a lower size than your target resolution. That smaller image renders quickly, then XeSS steps in. XeSS uses a trained AI model combined with motion vectors and frame history to intelligently upscale frames to full HD, 1440p, or 4K. Got all that? The sausage-making can get pretty technical, but the important thing is turning XeSS on scales games to high resolutions faster than traditional rendering could.

FPS numbers aren’t the only thing we’re increasing: over fifty games now include XeSS, from the biggest franchises to your niche favorites. When we launched the Intel Arc A750 and A770, we showed how XeSS works to boost FPS in nine popular games with over a dozen more on the way. Now with our high-performance desktop GPUs out for half a year, our game developer friends have helped deliver even more AI-fueled upscaling to over fifty new and existing games. A full list of every game and demo with XeSS included is at the bottom of this article.

A new trailer from Grasshopper Manufacture touts development of a Shadows of the Damned Remaster (thanks Game Informer). The original version of this action/adventure came to PlayStation 3 and Xbox One in 2011. Platforms go unmentioned, but presumably the remake is coming to the current console generation, and perhaps will arrive on PC as well. This will likely be cleared up next week on the Grasshopper Direct 2023 show. Here's word:

Coming soon from the collective brains of Suda51 and the Grasshopper Manufacture team in collaboration with Engine Software - Shadows of the Damned: Remastered!

Also be sure to check out our very first Grasshopper Direct on June 14th at 9:00pm PST/June 15th at midnight EST/June 15th at 9pm JST right here on the Grasshopper Archives!

• Assassin's Creed Franchise Sale on Steam.

• GameStop is doomed, water is wet, and other observations - This Week in Business.
• Deep Rock Galactic - A Final Rock and Stone for The Sonic Architect of Deep Rock Galactic.

• RESIDENT EVIL - RETRIBUTION (2012) Behind-the-Scenes Evil Goes Global (video). Thanks Ant.

Official patches.

• Diablo IV Patch Notes — 1.0.2i Build #42338 (PC).
• System Shock - CITADEL STATION SYSTEMS UPDATED - PATCH 1.0.
• World of Warcraft Hotfixes- June 9, 2023.
• Xbox App for Windows [2306.1001.10.0]. Thanks Console General.

• Growth of Video Game Subscription Spending Stalls, New Data Suggests. Suggest.

• The Vision Pro’s biggest advantage isn’t Apple’s hardware.

• Chants of Sennaar - Behind The Glyphs Trailer - Tribeca Games Spotlight 2023.

↑ Official trailers. ↓ Content creator videos.

• The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge - Gaming Historian. Thanks Ant.
• Firearms Expert Reacts To System Shock (2023)’s Guns.

• Inside Battle.net- Meet the sound team behind Hearthstone’s harmonic design.
• Mortal Kombat 1: PS5 hands-on report and Ed Boon Q&A – PlayStation.Blog.

• Alan Wake 2 Closed-Doors Demo: Maybe Remedy's Best Game Yet - Kotaku.

Thanks Console General.

• New Games, New Storage & New Announcements - This Week on Xbox (video).
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha (2308.230607-1102).
• Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Skip-Ahead (2308.230607-1102).

• Latest Pixel leak reveals new tools to give your phone a fun makeover.

• New Release: Tor Browser 12.0.7. Thanks Ant.

Thanks Console General and Neutronbeam.

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D Rumor Foretells of a Budget AM4 Gaming Champ.
• GDDR6 VRAM Prices Plummet- 8GB of Memory Now Costs $27. Thanks Simon.
• Chinese GPU Maker MetaX Emerges With Xisi N100, Gaming Card Coming Soon.
• Apple's M2 Ultra Seemingly Can't Beat AMD and Intel Rivals.
• Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over. Uh-oh. I can be replaced by AI!
• Sysinternals Suite 2023.06.07.
• Plex Media Server v1.32.3.7162.
• Evernote v10.58.3.

• Muggers make serious moves on unpatched Microsoft bugs.
• Ransomware gangs are losing interest in US firms.

• 9 Years After the Mt. Gox Hack, Feds Indict Alleged Culprits (may require registration or subscription).

• 'The Greyhill Incident' Is a Truly Terrifying Video Game for Anyone Who's Afraid of Aliens - Bloody Disgusting.
• Greyhill Incident Review - IGN.
• Plantera 2: Golden Acorn - Christ Centered Gamer.
• Star Wars Jedi Survivor PC Review - DSOGaming.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Laptop: 2023 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 Review - MobileTechReview (video).
• Monitor: Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240 OLED monitor review - Guru3D.
• SSD: Seagate Lightsaber FireCuda SSD Review- Return of the FireCuda - Tom's Hardware.

• Meet a collector who's taken his video game console hobby to the next level…
• Real-life trucking companies are trying to hire American Truck Simulator players with in-game ads…

The air purifier I ordered arrived yesterday, a day earlier than expected. But the haze and smell from the smoke condition were already gone. The device's air quality meter confirmed this. It rated our AQ as "good" to start, which quickly graduated to "very good" after running it for a short time. We're happy with the improvement and pleased to have a filter running. I've mentioned MrsBlue's asthma in the past, which makes this seem like a sensible purchase. Naturally, some of the smoke that left our area is now causing problems elsewhere, so I hope you're being safe if you're in its path.

Cleared-up Round-up
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Stories
Thanks Acleacius.

• 4 children lost for 40 days after plane crash found alive in Colombian jungle.
• Snakehead, aggressive, air-breathing fish, invades Louisiana.
• Florida's 'Dr. Deep' resurfaces after a record 100 days living underwater.

Science

• Study shows promising treatment for tinnitus. Thanks Cutter.
• Largest explosion since the Big Bang was powered by a bizarre energy jet unlike any other.

Media

• What would Craiyon have been like in 1988.
• Largest Glass Observation Platform Gives Stunning Views.
• Rick Rubin: The 60 Minutes Interview. Thanks RedEye9.

Follow-up

• Does shingles vaccination cut dementia risk? Large study hints at a link.