Author: Padraig Fahy

Here are my notes from Summer Game Fest 2024

• Top 10 New Steam Games from January – May 2024 – Palworld, HellDiver II, Enshrouded, Manor Lords, Supermarket Simulator, Hades II, Dragon’s Dogma II, Baltro, Deep rock Survivor, Buckshot Roulette
• LEGO trailer. Trailer for LEGO Horizon Adventures from PlayStation Publishing – Coming to PS5, Steam, Switch and Epic Games Store – Available this Autumn – Trailer
• From the developers Chivalry II, a game play trailer for a horror game, No More Room in Hell 2 – Early Access this Halloween. – Trailer
• Harry Potter Quidditch Champions releasing on September 3rd on Playstation, Xbox, PC – Trailer
• Gameplay trailer for CuffBust from the creator of Choo Choo Charlie(sic?) – Available to Wishlist now on Steam – Trailer
• Star Wars Outlaws – Releasing August 30th – Gameplay Trailer – More information coming at Ubisoft Forward – Trailer
• Gameplay trailer for Neva, made by the creator of the Game Award winner Gris – Releasing in 2025 – Trailer
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VII announced – Coming to PC and consoles – Coming 2025 – Full reveal this summer. – Trailer
• Trailer for upcoming Black Myth: Wukong – Releasing August 20th for PS5, Steam and Epic Games Store – Trailer
• Ad for Meta Quest VR game – Asgard’s Wrath II – Trailer
• Ad for Once Human – Releasing July 9th – Steam & Epic Games Store – Trailer
• Ad for Samsung Gaming
• Trailer for Warhammer 40000 – Space Marine 2 Releasing September 9th 2024 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC – Trailer
• Art designers and developer for Metaphor Refantazio are on stage to describe how the game works while showing some of the “Archtypes” that you can become – New trailer – Trailer
• Batman Arkham Shadow – VR game trailer – Releasing this Fall for Meta Quest 3 – Trailer
• M Bison, Terry, Mai & Elena are coming to Year 2 of Street Fighter 6 – Trailer
• Trailer for Tears of Metal, a ‘Braveheart’ fighting game. A roguelite – Available to Wishlist Now – Releasing on Steam Trailer
• Trailer for DragonBall Sparking Zero – Releasing 11th October – Trailer
• New gameplay trailer for Delta Force – Hawk Ops‘s extraction mode – Global PC Alpha Coming July – Trailer
• Delta Force – Black Hawk Down – Based on the Ripley Scott movie – Trailer
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – Coming Early 2025- Trailer
• Ad for Dolby Atmos
• Ad for Samsung Monitors
• Ad for NC Soft game – Battle Crush releasing July 27th – Trailer
• Ad for Mechabreak – Coming later this year for PS5, Xbox Series S|X and PC Trailer
• Trailer from Blumhouse Games featuring the following games: Trailer
  • Cisol Theater of Idols, Grave Seasons, Sleep Awake, Fear the Spotlight, The Simulation, Project C
• Blumhouse are working on the new Five Nights at Freddies movie.
• Releasing PC and Console – Fear the Spotlight releasing later this year. – Trailer coming at ‘Day of the Devs’ – :bongocat~2:
• Brand new Power Rangers game – Side-scroller fighter – Based on the first series – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita Rewind – Wishlist on Steam – Trailer
• Trailer for a heartfelt story involving a boy and a young deer – Deer & Boy – Available to wishlist – Trailer
• Trailer for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 – Coming 2024 – Trailer
• Trailer for Slitterhead – Releasing 8th November – Trailer
• Trailer for Killer Bean – Early Access Summer 2024 – Trailer
• The Game Bakers – The founders are on stage introducing their new game – CAIRN – More revealed during ‘Day of the Devs’ – Trailer
• Ad for Wanderstop – Coming later this year – Releasing on PS5 and Steam- Trailer
• Story trailer for Unknown 9: Awakening – Releasing later this year on PS5/PS4, Xbox and Steam – Trailer
• Trailer for Enotria – The Last Song – Trailer
• Trailer for The First Descendant – Releasing July 2nd – PS4/PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X – Trailer
• Innersloth (Among Us) devs on stage introducing a new game – Announcing Outersloth – They provide funding for indie titles – Trailer
• Mars First Logistics, Battle Suit Aces, Mossfield Archives, ONE BTN BOSSES, Rogue Eclipse, Project Dosa
• Among Us TV Show trailer – Coming Soon – Trailer
• Sonic X Shadow Generations – Trailer – Releasing 25th October – Trailer
• Dune Awakening trailer – Wishlist for Xbox, PlayStation, PC – Trailer
• Trailer for Battle Aces – An RTS game – Beta at playbattleaces.com – Trailer
• Trailer for THE FINALS – New Season releasing June 13th – New map and new ranked mode – Trailer
• Sam Lake from Remedy – Alan Wake 2 is getting a Physical deluxe on October 22nd and Collectors Edition on November 2024
• Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC announced – Releasing tomorrow – Trailer: Trailer
• Trailer for New World expansion Aeternum – Releasing October 15th – Coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S – Trailer
• Trailer for Honkai Star Rail – Art of Dreaming update – Trailer
• Dark & Darker trailer – Available for Epic Games and Steam right now. – Trailer
• Trailer for Kunitsu-Gami Path of the Goddess – Releasing July 19th for PS4/PS5, Xbox One, S|X and PC – Trailer
• Trailer for Hyper Light: Breaker – Trailer
• Trailer for Party Animals that is coming to Xbox – Trailer
• Trailer for Skate with Tim Robinson in an office about his “company” M Corp – Pre-pre-Alpha gameplay – Trailer
• Palworld – First major update – Sakurajima Update with new pals, new island, Xbox Dedicated Servers, new building, level cap, new raid, arena mode, new faction & boss, – Releasing 27th June 2024 – Trailer
• VALORANT gameplay trailer – Coming to console – Xbox Series X|S and PS5 – Limited Beta starts June 14th – Trailer
• Movie Trailer for Inside Out 2 – Out July 2024
• Ad for Samsung Monitors
• Ad for Squadbusters from Supercell. Mobile game – Trailer
• Monster Hunter Wilds – Head of Monster Hunter on stage – A new trailer releasing for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC in 2025 – More revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live in August – Trailer
• Gameplay trailer for Phantom Blade Zero – Soulslike game – Trailer

And that is Summer Game Fest

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• Remedy Games (Alan Wake, Control, Quantum Break) have re-branded their social media profiles to ‘Poison Pill Entertainment’ to tease the upcoming Alan Wake 2 DLC.
• Sony will hold a PlayStation State of Play this Thursday at 11pm Ireland Time
• Activision have been granted default judgement in its course case against cheating provide EngineOwning. They owe Activision $14.45 Million in damages and $292,900 in legal fees. And the EngineOwning domain must be transferred to Activision.
• Sony have removed the interview with Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann with the following statement:

In re-reviewing our recent interview with Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, we have found several significant errors and inaccuracies that don’t represent his perspective and values (including topics such as animation, writing, technology, AI and future projects). We apologize to Neil for misrepresenting his words and for any negative impact this interview might have caused him and his team. In coordination with Naughty Dog and SIE, we have removed the internet.

• Valve have confirmed that once you die, your Steam account cannot be transferred to someone else.
• It Takes Two has been updated to remove EA’s launcher, to allow Steam Friends and the game can now be played on the Steam Deck.
• Sony in Korea have certified a PC adaptor for the PlayStation VR2. No information as to when the adapter is being released.
• Intercept (Kerbal Space Program 2) developer has revealed that the team will be laid off on June 28th.
• Star Citizen still doesn’t have a release date, but has raised over $700m with $3 million being raised from the free play period that was held last week.
• CD Projekt Red have announced that development of Cyberpunk 2077 is has wound down after 3 and a half years. At the end of February, 17 people were working on CP2077, as of April 30th, that number is 0. The bulk of the developers from CP2077 have moved onto developement of the new Witcher game titled Poloris