Amy Hennig is making a Star Wars game and a Marvel game, a new screen attachment for Xbox S makes the console portable, and Playstation Canada has announced pricing for the new subscription plans.

Skydance signs deal with Lucasfilm Games for new Star Wars game

Amy Hennig is going to get to make her Star Wars game after all.

Never tell me the odds.https://t.co/np8zSBMkdd

— Amy Hennig (@amy_hennig) April 19, 2022

The noted writer and game designer led writing and development on the Uncharted games for Naughty Dog. She left in 2014 and joined EA’s Visceral Games to be creative director on a Star Wars project. A couple of years later, though, EA shuttered Visceral. That Star Wars game is now in development at Respawn.

Hennig, meanwhile, landed at Skydance – already involved in film and television production – where she was tasked with creating a game development business.

We learned last week that one of the things she’s doing with Skydance is developing a new narrative driven, action-adventure game featuring an original story in the Star Wars galaxy.

This is in addition to the work she’s doing on an action-adventure for Marvel, which is also “a completely original story and take on the Marvel Universe”.

xScreen opens up portable gaming with your Xbox

The xScreen is an absolute winner.

It’s a 11.6-inch screen that delivers 1080p resolution at 60 Hz that was designed to integrate with an Xbox Series S. And it makes your console effectively portable.

The xScreen costs $250 USD – it’s actually sold out right now because it’s so in demand – and while you still need access to power, it means you can take your Xbox gaming almost anywhere.

Even on an airplane, where most modern commercial airliners deliver up to 100 W of power to your seat (Upspec Gaming says the xScreen and Xbox Series S only need about 80 W).

For this to work, you will need to have an all digital Xbox Series S. These systems cost $380 CDN and come with a 512 GB solid-state drive which can be expanded with Seagate storage expansion cards.

Upspec also sells a case that can carry your system for $60 USD.

Upspec expects to have new stock of the xScreen available in June. Just in time for summer holiday travel.

Canadian pricing for new Playstation Plus subscriptions

Playstation’s new subscription plans come into effect on June 13, and now we know what the three different options will cost in Canada.

A subscription to one of the three plans is required if you want to play any online multiplayer games like Destiny 2, Fortnite, or FIFA. You’ll also get cloud storage for your saved games and access to special deals and sales.

Each month, the basic plan, PS Plus Essential, gives subscribers two PS4 games and one PS5 game.

PS Plus Extra adds access to downloadable PS4 and PS5 games from the Playstation library, and PS Plus Premium adds classic Playstation games and streaming from the cloud.

Canadian pricing ranges from $12 to $22 a month. Purchasing three months or a year in advance reduces the overall monthly cost.

PS Plus Essential

• one month: $12
• three months: $30
• one year: $70

PS Plus Extra

• one month: $18
• three months: $50
• one year: $115

PS Plus Premium

• one month: $22
• three months: $60
• one year: $140