Summer season Recreation Fest 2024 formally wrapped up on June 10, after an extended weekend of recreation previews, developer interviews and limitless chilly brew — however we simply printed our last tales from the present this week (held beneath embargo, after all). These have been Mat Smith’s impressions of Black Myth: Wukong and Tales of the Shire, and so they capped off a month of juicy online game information out of the summer season’s greatest present.
No, Silksong didn’t make an look.
There have been, nevertheless, loads of brilliant and glossy video games on the present, and plenty of of them have been accessible to play for the primary time ever. Our hands-on and first-look tales embody Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Astro Bot, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Lego Horizon Adventures, Marvel Rivals, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Neva and Skate Story.
On prime of the playable previews, Day of the Devs, Devolver, Xbox and Ubisoft held their very own showcases brimming with new data and recreation reveals, and the large Summer season Recreation Fest kickoff occasion was equally stacked. Simply to call a number of of the hits: There is a new Doom with a medieval aptitude (and flail), Civilization VII is popping out in 2025, Slitterhead will land on November 8, Coronary heart Machine is constructing a gorgeous-looking platformer referred to as Possessor(s), and the Fable reboot is due out in 2025. There are additionally new Xbox Series consoles popping out this fall — and because it seems, Microsoft’s mid-cycle refresh says rather a lot concerning the Xbox {hardware} enterprise as a complete, especially when compared to the corporate’s inside roadmap that leaked in October 2022.
After E3 collapsed on itself like a tragic soufflé, Summer season Recreation Fest has emerged as the house of mid-year online game goodness, providing somewhat extra room for smaller studios and loads of house to develop. It has been 4 years of digital and bodily Summer season Recreation Fest occasions at this level, and the present simply retains getting higher.
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