This week had its ups and downs, even with a State of Play (that was a bit lacking),
Sony’s Stream Felt a Bit Weak
Sony held a State of Play on the 30th, going over a few new releases for PS5.
Firewalk, the developer made up of ex-Destiny folks, showed off their new multiplayer game Concord. The gameplay is similar to, well, Destiny PVP, and there will be new cutscenes every week to move an in-universe story along. There will be a beta in July, and the game will launch August 23rd.
God of War: Ragnarok is getting a PC port on September 19th. It’ll have all those PC upgrades you’d expect.
A new Dynasty Warriors is due out in 2025. This time you play as an unknown hero instead of Three Kingdoms legends, which…kinda seems against the point of Dynasty Warriors? Like, that’s half the name. Dynasty. Is Lu Bu even in this?
Infinity Nikki, a new game in the Love Nikki series of dress-up RPGs, looks to be Genshin-like? Elvie is well-versed in these games, so I can’t wait to hear what she has to say about this. A beta test is due in quarter three of this year.
Ballad of Antara is another game from the same team as the Nikki games, funnily enough. It’s due out next year, and while there were some nice visuals, it’s a bit hard to judge anything about it yet.
Skydance showed off their next VR game, Behemoth. They highlighted that they’re the developers of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, which….seems a bit foolhardy. Is it just us or does every mainstream VR game look like a Skyrim? It’s out late 2024.
Another VR game, this time an Alien game called Rogue Incursion. Not too much to go off of details-wise, but Isolation was good in VR at least. Due out Holiday 2024.
Marvel Rivals, the Marvel PVP shooter, is coming to consoles. There will be a closed beta in July, and the Scarlet Spider outfit for Spider-Man will be exclusive to PS5. Venom, Hela, Magneto, and Adam Warlock were highlighted in this trailer, so I’m guessing they weren’t previously announced.
Where Winds Meet, a game set in Chinese myth, was announced. Lots of cool Wuxia vibes here, could be neat! No release window, however.
The Until Dawn remake got a release window, Fall 2024 for PS5 and PC.
Path of Exile 2 is coming to consoles with couch co-op. Early access will launch in late 2024.
Bloober Teams’ Silent Hill 2 remake looks like garbage go do something else
Monster Hunter: Wilds is out in 2025, and there was plenty of new gameplay. John wrote this up so he doesn’t know anything about these games, so whatever’s new here went over his head. If you have save data from Monster Hunter: World and/or the Iceborne expansion on your console, you get exclusive new outfits for your Palico.
Finally, the new Astro Bot game, just called Astro Bot, was revealed. Due out September 6th, it looks like a fun 3D platformer with plenty of references to Playstation franchises Sony won’t make new games for any time soon.
Updates for Gaming Favorites
Tekken 8‘s second DLC character was confirmed to be Lidia Sobieska, the Polish Prime Minister who packs a punch.
The Limited Run published re-release of the first Tomba game is confirmed to release August 1st for PS5, Switch, and PC. A PS4 version will release later.
Further Failure to Protect the Industry
IGN dug into the Take-Two studio closures, and have found that they wish to either sell or completely shut down their entire indie label, Private Division.
A report from Rascal News has revealed that itch.io has not provided the funds raised for the recent Games for Palestine bundle hosted on their site.
Goodbye to a Legend
Geoff Follin, brother of iconic video game composer Tim Follin, passed away recently from pancreatic cancer. Geoff contributed to less titles than Tim did, but his music include the NES Silver Surfer game and Plok for SNES. Tim announced his passing on Facebook.
And finally, Atari has acquired the catalog and name of their original rivals, Intellivision. It’s unknown exactly what game IPs they now own, or if this does anything to halt or help the Intellivision Amico that’s supposed to be happening.
