App Trigger got a chance to talk to Blizzard at PAX East 2017 about Diablo III’s upcoming Rise of the Necromancer pack and demoed the female Necromancer.
The Nerd Stash: “With an exciting spate of six eclectic horror games, Blumhouse is set to knock it out the park with plenty of perspective-shifting terror.”
By far the best announcement in SGF! Although I am biased as horror genre is my favorite.
I am inclined to agree with the article.Lots of cinematic heavy of atmosphere looking games
Xbox writes: "Join us for a double feature on June 9, 10am PT - Xbox Games Showcase immediately followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct. The Xbox Games Showcase is your look at the new games from Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, as well as our partners from around the globe. Immediately following the Showcase, stay tuned for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct for a special deep-dive into the beloved franchise."
I'll be honest, if they don't announce some major shit, this could be the nail in the coffin.
If I hear about major 1st party titles going multiplatform, it's over.
They need to build the brand trust right now. A lot of damage has been done.
We need bangers, AND some news about next Gen.
It's just started 4 games in and it's already been a fantastic show.
This is gonna be the best showcase in years
So far this is a great show, and mostly all GamePass games? Looks like the bangers are finally coming!
Investments finally paying off.
Now they need new hardware so they can start over
At this rate, best show of the last 2-4 years, been an absolute bangerrrrr so far!!!
Agreed. Way better then what Sony did and has done. Those multiplayer games really fked Sony over for a few years. Xbox showed off some good looking stuff. I'm most interested in state of decay 3.
@obcured:”BEST XBOX SHOWCASE EVER!!!!”
You need at least 10real people to agree in writing with you for anyone here believing you after saying the same thing year over year for the last 10+ years.
Now that I finished watching the show for me personally it was a ok as I don’t play FP games but that’s just me and I can recognize that for people that like FPG it’s a amazing show so ENJOY them.
Another thing and I hope for Microsoft sake they don’t do their next system digital only based on the S sales over the X, I hope they’ll learn the lesson of not making a lower power version just to try to undercut their competitor.
Metal gear 3 looked sweet.
Overall a lot of pretty games CONGRATS to all Xbox gamers this is what you deserve year over year 👍✨
Very certain Perfect Dark will show up. fable showing up and 2025 release date.
Unpopular opinion here but INL think Final Fantasy 16 will release on Xbox. I dunno if it'll be on Gamepass but I think it's going to other platforms now.
HERE WE GOOO!!!
Time to see what amazing games Xbox Game Studios has been cooking for us, boys!!!
THE HYPE IS REAL!!!
I'm glad Microsoft had a great show. Hopefully this show potentially wakes up Sony and Nintendo. Competition is good for the industry. We don't need publishers and developers to get comfortable and get lazy on us. Keep them thinking and on their toes
Absolutely agree, many of the games shown are also coming to PS5 (despite MS hiding other platforms from the reveals) but the genuine exclusive all look great. Nintendo will obviously continue to carve it's own path and will be very busy with the Switch 2, but Sony and PlayStation really needs to pull it's socks up and start bringing out the big guns or people are going to start losing faith. Hopefully the rumours of a big PlayStation Experience show later this year are true.
This showcase was great. Not just a great Xbox showcase but in general the best one this year so far.
I'm tuned in now. I can't say I've ever been big in to Xbox, but I got myself a Series S when it launched. Can't say I've used it much but I'm intrigued to see what's in the pipeline.
Pretty confident they will drop the ball. It's what Microsoft has been doing now for a long time.
Its doubtful
The other events have been terrible and there’s not many of them anyway so there’s no real competition.
They also have Bethesda under their belt which had their own show when they were independent so they’ve got all of that for themselves
They also have Activision now
There’s games they announced years ago that will most likely get new trailers
Then you have the fact because there’s not many other events third party developers will see Microsoft as the best event to show off their multiplatform games
There’s no way they can drop the ball with everything going for them.
They knocked it outta the park with the showcase. Big title after big title.
Should of held off on your comment big time.
For me the first five games shown were more interesting than anything from the events this week to date.
Like 3 black female protagonists in new games so far that’s wild. That Louisiana one by compulsion looks really good I’m hyped. I have to get the name again after this lol
This has been the xbox showcase of the decade, just truly epic. This should be the standard now for xbox. PlayStation, Nintendo can't match this.
I gotta try out Flight Sim. It's a beauty. Flightsim would be the only game I'd be interested in playing in VR
Looking like a 9/10 showcase. Pretty entertaining. A lot of games that look dope. Some Xbox exclusives I want to play.
They may not. While they do offer an abundance of visually appealing, narrative-driven single-player games, it appears that starting this fall, we will transition into the Era of Fun.
And Fun will be the only metric in establishing potential GOTY.
No dude. All gamers win here. Sony has been killing it for so long. MS finally answered across the board. Iron sharpens Iron. Game on!!!
That was my biggest turn off. Like damn why everything gotta be first person. Either way Xbox crushed sonys last four showcases, state of plays, combined. I hope Sony was watching. Xbox showed off so many single player games. It was nice and refreshing
2024-2026 is gonna be stacked! So many interesting Day 1 games. They hit a home run grand slam
After years of Sony decimating Xbox I thought this year they were gonna surrender. Never did I imagine them having so much better of a showcase than them.
I'll be damned CoD actually Innovating. Never thought I'd say that. Black Ops the only modern cod series, that's good. Yeah I said it, this impressive. 343 step ya game up
Really interested in the movement innovation. I agree with them that we might come to expect that in all FPS games going forward.
Ong, this extra impressive cause I'd never expect this from CoD. How long was this game in development? Cause they definitely took the time to do something special rather than copy and paste. As a Halo player I'm jealous. Halo 5 movement mechanics was innovative and new for the franchise. And was well received. Infinite took a step back in the innovation department.
Yeah there were rumors that made it sound like treyarch didn't have enough time to plan or whatever. Glad to see them deliver
The show has ended....I have seen many XB showcases & I must say this is the first XB showcase that was very interesting to me & I'm a PS gamer first. XB 2024 showcase is the best in show this year so far... beating out this past Friday's Summer Game Fest & PS State Of Play. I have seen so many titles that I'm interested in playing. I'm not really into Indies so much but I want to try the game Mix Tape just for the music alone, I'm a Devo, Sioxusie & The Banshhees, Roxy Music fan because I'm a Gen X gal...lol. The Starfield expansion looks better than the original game. The downside of the showcase is that most interesting games are not releasing until 2025 with no concrete release date something XB always does. There were even some games shown that say releasing in 2024 but have no concrete release date. It seems the only thing releasing exclusive on XB the remainder of the year is the Starfield expansion & Stalker 2, Indiana Jones is also supposed to release this year but still has no actual release date which looks average at best. I give the XB showcase an 8.5 out of 10. Well done XB/MS! I'll definitely be buying a year sub to Gamepass next year. PS has to step up its first party showings.
Agreed. And SO much of it coming to GamePass. If by some miracle it stays at $10/month (PC) this holiday, I'll be in for sure now that COD is included.
I'm quite sure MS/XB is definitely increasing the sub fee due to COD & those AAA tiles landing on GP next year. I always play the COD campaign, I'm not into multiplayer & I always spend retail price for COD, now I don't have to. It's still a great deal knowing you don't have to pay retail price for those games, just rent them.
Best showcase from any company for years now.
They knocked it out the park, it was a near perfect presentation.
Definitely an A.
Carried the summer games fest for me. One of the better shows ive seen in years.
Indiana Jones is going to be so mid. The gameplay looks straight bad. Perfect Dark is a nice futuristic rip of Mirror’s Edge though…No real surprises today otherwise. We knew about pretty much all of this. South of Midnight looks like a flop in the making also. World of Warcraft PC only why?
Rupee, lol.
Your opinions of the show among your peers seems to be in the minority.
It was a fantastic show, but to each their own.
I didn’t say it was bad, I just made a few points on some specific games. It was a good show but Indiana jones and south of midnight will be busts…mark my words lol. I liked what I saw of perfect dark.
The showcase was really good but I have to agree that the Indiana Jones game looks very average & the graphics look more like an AA game than a AAA game.
Man, the graphics in Indiana Jones looks top notch, the animation and the texture looks excellent.
But again, we all have our opinions.
This was an excellent showcase imo. Definitely got me excited about Xbox again. I hope they release these games on time and are quality games. I’m sure Dreamcast Guy will find ways to hate and give it a 4/10 but I think it was definitely a 9/10.
It was a good showcase but it’s been the same games they’ve been waving in faces for multiple years now, no real surprises and many still without launch dates.
Hey actually praised the show while pointing out that he was expecting a 4/10 show.
Yeah and he took down his original tweet of him expecting a 4/10. He’s such a coward,liar and a lame. I don’t see how even PS fanboys can trust him.
That was a great show. Give it a 9/10. So much I'm interested in there. Hope the Series S doesn't limit them. Where was all the Final Fantasy games that people have been waffling about all week though? There wasn't any. Did people really expect FF16 and Rebirth. Its never happening
I know I'm going to get stick for this but I don't really don't care.
This has been Microsoft's best showing for like 12+ years. Going back to the 360 era. This was really fun to watch. Sure plenty multiplats on show. But I was actually excited for Microsoft on some of their titles. Like avowed like, Like Gears, Like Age of matholgy,
I know gaming is a luxury. I know buying games can be expensive. But any chance Xbox owners actually buy some of these games rather than rent them? Ill happily stick my hand in my pocket and give them money for AoM and Gears E-Day.
MS wants people to sub to GP, so the buying and renting argument is going against even what the company is looking for at this point.
I think it's evedent in how much we saw the "Play it on GP day one". So it's like you are arguing against ...well, nothing.
I'm arguing against Microsoft trying to destroy gaming as we know it.
If people want Xbox as a platform to go away then fine rent the games. Pay for a month a game wants to release play and complete don't sub the next month.
Truth be told, this was an amazing showcase.
Case in point:
Numerous single player games -check (Gear of Wars E-Day, Doom dark ages, Perfect Dark, Metal gear Solid Delta, LIfe is Strange, Mixtape, Wuchang, South of Midnight , Atomfall)
Surprises -check (Life is strange, South of Midnight game play, Perfect Dark gameplay, Atomfall, Wuchang)
Great looking games -check (Fable, South of Midnight, Perfect Dark, Gear E-Day, Flght Simulator)
New IPs- check (Mixtape, Wuchang, South of Midnight , Atomfall)
Even State of Decay 3 looks good after reportedly being in trouble.
Lots of gameplay footage as well, with very few cinematic trailers.
Perhaps the only two issues I can think of, are a) lack of concrete release dates which could result in delays b) lack of news on Rare's everwild.
But overall this was very enjoyable and one of the best I have seen in the last few years.
Much respect to Elda for acknowledging the quality of the show.
Great times for gamers. So. many games for so many platforms , to be released in the next 18 months!
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This was excellent!! Perfect Dark looked amazing, Expedition 33 looked cool, Stalker 2, Dragon Age. Damn, Assassin's Creed Shadows too, very cool, as well as Fable. Lots of awesome games shown. COD can fuck off though. Sony, come on dawg, you can't stay silent for much longer. Show us what Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Insomniac, Guerilla ++ is making!
It was a fantastic show no doubt but Microsoft continues be a bit shady and present everything as if it's an Xbox/PC exclusive.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred, Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, Atomfall, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, Mecha Break and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers are all coming to PS5 despite not being listed as a platform during the showcase, and I might have missed some others.
That said, the few genuine exclusives Microsoft showed all look great with Perfect Dark, Doom and Fable being highlights for me.
Wait, wait, wait, are you saying that there was only 3 exclusives? I doubt that
And I’m genuinely asking. Which games were actually Xbox exclusive? Anyone?
If you go to the site Gematsu there are about 14 titles from the showcase that say XB gaming console exclusives that are also on PC. But there's a chance that some of those titles may be timed exclusive, if not most.
Pretty woke showcase. So many non white non male protaganists... I bet it killed them on their deep woke inside to have keep Indiana Jones as a white male.
Stop the bigoted BS. Having diversity or non white characters in movies or games has nothing to do with woke or being woke. Try again.
Half the show was okay, and the other half I skipped through. The new hardware reveal was embarrassing. The best I can say is that it wasn't as bad as previous MS shows, then again they really had nowhere to go but up.
Just a reminder that many people were hyped for Gears of War 4, Redfall, Starfield, and others, but ended up disappointing. Stop getting too hyped up over games because inevitably some of them will let you down. But here's hoping that some of them turn out to be masterpieces, just as long as they keep micro-trash-actions out of those games.
Best showcase in a while. Sony better pull their head out their A** and step their game up. Congrats X Box fans!
It would have been the best show of any year, but this year the rest were so bad it's almost embarrassing for Sony and all the rest the huge difference between them, and I'm not the biggest ms fan by any means.
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All nice and well but i want to see that in real gameplay on a console...and Hellblade 2 dont cut it....
its just ... too little too late for me personally man :( i got 3k or so hours in diablo 3 between 360,pc and xbox one and i doubt this will bring me back... should have been free and should have come out 2 years ago :/