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E3 could also be useless, however we’ll all the time have … a bunch of online game trailers within the summertime.
Geoff Keighley’s annual Summer season Sport Fest kicked off on Friday with a prolonged keynote stuffed with bulletins and updates on hotly anticipated titles. Listed here are the largest reveals it’s worthwhile to learn about.
Summer season Sport Fest 2024: Largest bulletins
There have been way more video games featured at Summer season Sport Fest, however these have been the ten that stood out to us.
Lego Horizon Adventures
SGF received off to a weird begin with Lego Horizon Adventures. You understand Horizon, the sequence of open-world PlayStation-exclusive adventures about killing robotic dinosaurs? Nicely, now it is made out of LEGO, supposed to be performed in two-player co-op, and now not unique to PlayStation consoles.
This appears to be a really totally different recreation from its predecessors, however possibly that is a great factor. Lego Horizon Adventures launches later this 12 months on PS5, Nintendo Change, and PC.
Neva
Neva is an upcoming side-scrolling action-adventure recreation from the oldsters who made Gris, an exquisite puzzle recreation that got here out in 2018. Nomada Studio’s subsequent effort seems to be to be a bit extra complicated as a recreation than Gris was with the addition of fight, however the hand-drawn visuals are as placing as ever. Neva is coming to each main gaming platform later this 12 months.
Civilization VII
The phrases “Sid Meier’s Civilization VII” converse for themselves. The legendary turn-based technique sequence is again, and whereas the cinematic trailer did not have a lot in the way in which of helpful information in regards to the recreation itself, that does not actually matter. Whereas the Civ franchise continues, all is correct with the gaming world.
Civ VII is popping out subsequent 12 months. Considerably surprisingly, it is not PC-only to begin, or in any respect. It is coming to PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Change.
Blumhouse Video games
Blumhouse Productions, the studio recognized for bankrolling well-liked horror films like M3GAN, is stepping into the video games enterprise. The parents from Blumhouse confirmed off a bit sizzle reel of neat-looking principally horror-based video games, together with one that appears like Stardew Valley added a scary monster that lurks round your farm. Creators similar to Sam Barlow and Brandon Cronenberg have been additionally name-dropped within the announcement.
Mashable Mild Pace
When you like horror and video games that do not have bloated budgets, this trailer is for you. Platform data for these video games is TBD.
Slitterhead
Keiichiro Toyama is a distinguished online game creator who helped beginning just a few common franchises, however most related to this announcement is the truth that he created Silent Hill. His new recreation is named Slitterhead and it received a recent gameplay reveal at SGF this 12 months. It seems to be like…quite a bit.
So far as we are able to inform, gamers can soar between the our bodies of assorted human bystanders in darkish metropolis streets and alleyways whereas combating and/or working from horrifying nightmare creatures. The fight seems to be a bit clunky for our tastes, however many Silent Hill followers would not have it every other manner.
Slitterhead launches on Nov. 8 for PC, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Collection consoles.
Cairn
Cairn is the most recent work from one of many best-named growth studios on all of gaming, The Sport Bakers. The makers of two wildly totally different (however each very cool) indie video games in Furi and Haven are again with one thing that appears, nicely, completely in contrast to what they’ve made earlier than.
Whereas Furi was a sweaty motion recreation and Haven was a extra peaceable outer house tackle Romeo & Juliet, Cairn is a recreation about climbing up a mountain. A really dangerous-looking mountain, at that. It is launching on PC and consoles in 2025.
Wanderstop
Wanderstop is the most recent recreation from creator Davey Wreden, finest recognized for 2 metatextual narrative adventures referred to as The Stanley Parable and The Newbie’s Information. His new recreation seems to be wildly totally different from these two, in that it seems to be about working a peaceable cartoon tea store in a fantasy world and doing chores.
After all, there’ll virtually assuredly be some type of wild twist that up-ends the entire thing. We won’t wait to seek out out what it’s when Wanderstop launches on PS5 and PC later this 12 months.
Alan Wake II DLC
Alan Wake II was the most effective online game of 2023. There’s DLC for it popping out this weekend, on June 8. It has three new playable characters, one in every of whom is Jesse Faden, star of Management, which was the most effective recreation of 2019. That is quite a lot of good issues occurring without delay.
Skate
Digital Arts introduced a pair years in the past that it was reviving its long-dormant sequence of skating simulations, Skate, in a free-to-play format. Little or no information adopted within the two years since, however now Skate followers have a brand new trailer — starring the always-fun-to-see Tim Robinson.
There was actually solely a tiny little bit of gameplay proven, and the trailer could be very clear about the truth that Skate remains to be a piece in progress. However the excellent news is there will probably be console play assessments this fall.
Phantom Blade Zero
Phantom Blade Zero was first introduced final 12 months, however a brand new gameplay trailer at SGF made it clear that followers of high-octane motion video games ought to concentrate. In brief, it seems to be like a recreation for individuals who need extremely skill-based samurai fight with very violent ending strikes. It is coming to PS5 and PC at an indeterminate date.