This year’s Xbox Games Showcase brought the heat with dozens of great-looking games, but seven in particular stood out to me and have me especially excited for them. From Perfect Dark and South of Midnight to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, let’s talk about my major highlights from the event!
Concord, the new first-person shooter coming from Firewalk Studios, finally got a proper reveal at last week’s PlayStation State of Play and people haven’t been too hot on it. Let’s talk about why I think it looks promising, the uphill battle ahead of it, and what I think will help differentiate it from Overwatch.
At the latest PlayStation State of Play, Team Asobi announced their new title Astro Bot is coming to PS5 in just a few short months on September 6. As a major fan of its predecessor, the PS5 pack-in game Astro’s Playroom, I’m over the moon about the return of this adorable little robot.
We’ve talked about my predictions for the rumored PlayStation Showcase and the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase. Summer Game Fest is a few weeks away and now I’m ready to share my predictions for the show! Will Borderlands 4 be announced? Is Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link going to get a new trailer and release date? A lot can happen at this event, so let’s talk about it!
We covered my predictions for the rumored PlayStation Showcase, so now it’s Xbox’s turn. The Xbox Games Showcase is just a few weeks away and there’s a lot that I’m hoping we see from Microsoft. Will Gears 6 finally be announced? Is there going to be a new Perfect Dark trailer? Will we finally get to see gameplay for Fable? I have predictions for all those games and so many others, so let’s talk about them!
A PlayStation Showcase is seemingly on the horizon, so I’m sharing some of my predictions for what will be at the event. Will Ghost of Tsushima 2 be announced? Is Marvel’s Wolverine getting a gameplay trailer? Should we hope for a new Kingdom Hearts IV trailer and release date? Let’s talk about it all and get hyped!
At Xbox’s business update earlier this year, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer tried to explain the company’s business rationale behind putting four of their first-party titles on other consoles. A key reason he gave for sharing these games with other platforms was that it would allow the company to “invest in maybe future iterations of those or sequels to those, or just other games like that in our portfolio.” One of those games was Hi-Fi Rush, the surprise 2023 hit from Japanese developer Tango Gameworks. Yesterday, the company announced internally that it would be shutting down multiple studios across Tango’s parent company Zenimax Media, and Tango is one of them.
The Kingdom Hearts series has jumped between consoles, handhelds, phones, and PCs, and if new rumors are to be believed, it’ll also be making the jump to the big screen. These rumors kicked off after film and TV insider DanielRPK stated that Disney was looking to make either a TV or film adaptation of the beloved Square Enix series. That information was then corroborated by Skyler Schuler, founder of TheDisInsider who says that idea has evolved with Disney looking to make a full-on Kingdom Hearts movie.
Kingdom Hearts is a special series to me. Not only has it played a key role in molding me into the person I am today, but it’s also been a constant source of comfort for me throughout my life. With that in mind, I decided to go back to six key games from the franchise, some of which I haven’t played in a long time, in a series I call Revisiting Kingdom Hearts to see what I think of them in the year 2024. Have my feelings changed about each game over the years? Am I able to take away anything new from them that I didn’t before? How does any one game compare to the rest of the series? These are the kinds of questions I’ll be asking myself as I work my way through the franchise. In part two of this series, I’ll be focusing on arguably the most divisive game in the franchise, Chain of Memories, and the great amount of respect that I have for it.
Going into Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, I was equal parts excited and nervous. Its predecessor, Final Fantasy VII Remake, set a high bar after it managed to blow me away and become one of my favorite entries in the franchise. After spending just shy of 80 hours with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, I feel confident in saying that once again my expectations have been surpassed in ways I never would’ve imagined. There are some bumps along the way, but they don’t keep Rebirth from being one of the best Final Fantasy games I’ve played.
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