Every last trailer and new game reveal
A big old look at lovely Fable, with Richard Ayoade playing Dave the giant grocer
Kicking things off with a bang, we got our first proper look at Playground Games’Fable. It will be a Day One Game Pass game, too, and will feature a giant veggie enthusiast called Dave played by British comedian Richard Ayoade. It sure looks like Fable all right, with daft jokes, fart jokes and other flavours of jokes. Us Brits like our jokes, all right? We also got to see tiny glimpses of its magic combat and the legendary beasts we’ll be fighting. Still no release date, though.
A crusty stop motion musician called Shakin' Bones took centre stage here to introduce a brand-new game called South Of Midnight. In it, a modern-looking female warrior rocks up in a swamp asking where she could find a big old nasty monster. Mr Bones isn’t very talkative, it seems, but in classic fashion, said monster then rises up from the swamp behind her. The trailer doesn’t give much else away, but it will be a third-person action adventure set in a magic realist American South. No release date for this one yet, either.
After theintensely disappointingCrime Boss Rockay City this year, Pay Day 3 is back to show other bank heist games how it’s done. Probably. Personally, I’m amazed any of these bank robbers can see where they’re shooting with so many flashy effects going on, but I guess that’s just the way of things these days. Can’t claim you’re ‘next gen’ unless you’ve got sparks blasting from every crevice now, can you? It’s coming September 21st.
What a very pleasant surprise. In the next free chapter forSea Of Thieves, you’ll be visiting Monkey Island and hanging out with Guybrush Threepwood. Your adventure will begin on Mêlée Island, and Rare say this will be a “love-letter” to the classic adventure game series. You’ll be able to play it solo or with pals, and there will be three Tall Tales coming to the game over the next three months. The first one arrives on July 20th.
Nope, it’s notLike A Dragon 8. It’s anotherYakuza gamecalled Infinite Wealth. Goodness knows what it’s about, or what kind of game it is. But it will star Like A Dragon’s hero Ichiban, and from the looks of things a very naked Ichiban at that. He wakes up dazed and confused on a beach, seemingly in America this time, but until Sega tell us more, your guess is as good as mine on this one.
It’sFallout 76. On Game Pass. That’s it. That’s the headline.
Holy heck Capcom, sign me the hell up for whatever this is. Steeped in Japanese mythology, this stunning-looking action game is one of the most colourful things I think I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s called Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess, and from the looks of things you’ll be hacking and slashing all manner of eye-popping demon lads in the mountains of Japan, like a realistic Okami. Consider me psyched. It will be a Day One Game Pass game too.
The official trailer for Forza Motorsport, everyone. Nope, I got nothing for this. I guess the cars look nice? It’s coming out on October 10th.
ESO Online’s Necrom expansioncame out earlier this week, but just in case you forgot or needed more persuading to give Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls MMO a try, here’s another trailer for it showing off its new locations, monsters and other mushroom-y based things you’ll be facing.
A new trailer for seemingly the basic concept ofOverwatch 2was up next, although looking further into it, the trailer was actually about Overwatch 2: Invasion, a big new update coming on October 10th. It will also come to Game Pass on that day as well, bringing with it new Story missions, a new PvP mode and a new support hero.
What a time to be alive for Persona fans. Arriving on November 17th, Persona 5 Tactica is a new strategy RPG featuring the Phantom Thieves of Persona 5 along with some new faces. If you ever wanted to know what Persona might look like as XCOM-like, well, I think this might have the answer. It will also be on Game Pass.
Man alive, Don’t Nod sure are busy bees these days, aren’t they? Justant is a new climbing game with lovely cartoonish visuals that almost certainly won’t be one for anyone who’s afraid of heights. Then again, Xbox say it will be a “brand-new action-puzzle climbing game with meditative vibes”, so maybe it won’t be quite so vom-inducing as it first appears. In any case, we’ll find out for sure whether we’ll be losing our lunch over it later this Autumn.
We already knowCyberpunk 2077has an expansion called Phantom Liberty coming, but tonight we had a little live chat with Keanu Reeves about it, who was teed up to introduce the official trailer for it. But why are you wasting time reading this when you could bereading Ed’s proper hands on thoughts of it? He’s been to play it in LA, so go on, off you pop. Then come back to read the rest of this. Phantom Liberty is coming out on September 26th.
City planners rejoice. Paradox didn’t just reveal a snazzy new trailer forCities: Skylines 2this evening, but we’ve also got a release date: October 24th. And if all that wasn’t enough, it will also be on Game Pass Day One. How very pleasant. I could tell you about its bridges, nuclear plants, road planning and housing layouts, but honestly, the trailer does a much better job of showing those off. Go and have another watch of it.
I could not tell you what the heck was going on in the trailer for Metaphor: Re Fantazio, at least not without watching it several more times in a row, but the only things you really need to know is that it’s a new RPG from the makers of Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5, and it has the most incredible looking menu screens in existence. Seriously, just look at the things. That is some seriously gorgeous UI design right there. The battles don’t look half bad, either. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to watch that trailer another dozen odd times to soak in those lovely menus.
Capping off the Xbox Games Showcase was a brand-new first-person action RPG from InXile Entertainment called Clockwork Revolution. It’s being led by the creators of Arcanum, but is it me, or does its steampunk world of Avalon look suspiciously like an alternate reality cousin ofBioshock Infinite’s Columbia? Time travel is doing to be a major theme in Clockwork Revolution, as the evil Lady Ironwood appears to have been rewriting history behind the scenes thanks to a mysterious device she’s got hold of. It’s still quite early in development, InXile say, as it will be out “in due time”, according to the trailer.
