Summer season Sport Fest kicked off on Friday with a two-hour showcase during which host and gaming impresario Geoff Keighley got here out swinging haymaker punches on behalf of embattled video video games builders for publishers and builders giant and small.
“This has been a tumultuous and tough yr with firm layoffs and studio closures which have disillusioned all of us.” Keighley stated in his opening assertion.
Then, introducing a title card for what the viewers might count on over the following two hours, he confirmed an inventory of the highest 10 promoting video games on Steam to date. Two, he stated might be thought-about the sort of large finances, large advertising console-style video games. The opposite eight come from unbiased, mid-size, and even solo improvement groups.
“I take a look at this checklist and I get impressed that new concepts, new groups, and new creators, can and can break by means of,” Keighley stated. “It’s a reminder to large corporations that they need to deal with their builders proper, as a result of at present, there are lots of paths to sustainability and success, and that’s what makes this trade so, so nice,” Keighley added.
And with that stated, let’s check out the massive announcement and divulges over the two-hour lengthy showcase of Summer season Sport Fest 2024.
Lego Horizon Adventures
Yep, Lego’s subsequent crossover is with Sony’s award-winning Horizon IP. Or possibly Sony’s post-apocalyptic canon, whose most up-to-date launch was 2022’s Horizon: Forbidden West, is crossing over with the latter. Both manner, it appears like a lighthearted tackle the in any other case very severe (and critically acclaimed) journey collection for PlayStation. It launches on PlayStation 5 this vacation season.
No Extra Room in Hell 2
A hardcore multiplayer survival shooter, No Extra Room in Hell 2 is the sequel to a 2011 Supply engine mod launching, appropriately sufficient, by Halloween for PC on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. There’s permadeath and an entire lot of swear phrases.
Harry Potter Quidditch Champions
If Quidditch was an actual sport, a participant taking its pitch on a broomstick through the sport’s debut within the 2001 movie Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone would seemingly be a retired champion at present. Lastly it will get triple-A therapy with Quidditch Champions. Notably absent from 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy (the Hogwarts headmaster pronounces the Quidditch season has been canceled for security causes) Quidditch returns t’s the primary Harry Potter title solely devoted to the game since 2003’s Quidditch World Cup. The sport launches Sept 3 on PlayStation 4, PS5, Nintendo Swap, and Home windows PC through Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer.
Cuffbust
Cuffbust is a prison-break roguelite that — properly, see for your self after which ask the inevitable query, “What did I simply watch.” You will have cartoon characters babbling simlish as they hatch a plot to explode bathrooms and bust out of the joint. Depend me in. It’s all of the work of a single developer, Gavin Eisenbeigz. Gamers can cooperate or subvert each other’s plans.
Star Wars Outlaws
Upfront of a fuller reveal at Ubisoft Ahead on Monday, Summer season Sport Fest offered a story teaser displaying Star Wars Outlaws, the open-world house pirate journey introduced final yr. Star Wars Outlaws pulls on the oldest and most romantic thread within the sprawling house journey’s continuity, and it premiers Aug 30. Tune in Monday, June 10 for a fuller reveal.
Civilization VII
Leaked earlier on Friday, Summer season Sport Fest confirmed the following installment of the revered technique title is coming August 2025, Sid Meier himself adopted a debut trailer with a message to the longtime followers of the 30-year-old technique title.
Batman: Arkham Shadow
This Meta Quest VR recreation takes gamers into Gotham Metropolis to confront a brand new menace: The Rat King. Jim Gordon appears able to violate some suspects’ rights to due course of to cease the hazard; Batman, as at all times, is keen to go even additional is his vigilante escapades. Batman: Arkham Shadow launches this fall completely for Meta Quest headsets.
Tears of Steel
Billed as a roguelike co-op, hack-n-slash, Tears of Steel calls upon the best traditions of Scotland, which begin with going out along with your tribe to beat ass galore with a really giant sword. In Scotland’s protection, that’s a great custom to have. Tears of Steel doesn’t but have a launch date.
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero
If Tears of Steel didn’t go sufficient excessive for you, there’s at all times Dragon Ball Z’s subsequent preventing recreation. Break the heavens within the final Dragon Ball showdown with Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, launching Oct. 11 for PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X.
Blumhouse’s horror video games
Blumhouse, the horror film studio behind crowd-pleasers like Get out, M3gan, and 5 Nights at Freddys, is attempting its hand at video video games with a slate of titles launching over the following tk: Crisol Theater of Idols, Grave Seasons, Sleep Awake, Worry the Highlight, The Simulation, and Undertaking C. Launch dates and platforms haven’t been introduced.
Alan Wake II’s Night time Springs enlargement
That includes three fan-favorite playable characters, Treatment Leisure is delivering the primary enlargement content material for the 2023 horror/thriller journey on Saturday, June 8. Alan Wake II is on the market on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X.
Skate
As soon as once more, followers of Digital Arts’ skateboarding franchise, which final launched in 2010 and whose reboot was introduced 2021, received an ironic, eff-the-man live-action trailer, some “pre-pre-alpha footage” and no launch date, however a promise of console testing coming someday this fall.
Slitterhead
First introduced in 2021, Slitterhead is a horror journey from the creator of Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, who based Bokeh, an unbiased recreation studio in 2020. It launches Nov. 8 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox Collection X.
