Summer Game Fest host Jeff Keeley has warned fans to calm their expectations for today’s live event, which begins several days with demonstrations and events. Indeed, the show didn’t have many big revelations – especially since one of its biggest announcements, a remake of The Last of Us’s PlayStation 5, expired just before the show.
But Summer Game Fest managed to present a few surprises and new gameplay for the big titles next year. Besides, for some reason, much of it involved outer space.
If you haven’t watched the show, you can see the biggest messages below.
A new Aliens game is coming next year
Alien and Aliens, to put it mildly, differ in quality. And we don’t know much about Aliens: Dark Descent, a recently announced part of the franchise. (Supposedly unrelated to Amnesia’s Frictional: The Dark Descent.) Developer Tindalos Interactive describes it as a squad-based action game where you command a group of colonial Marines against xenomorphs and a new, unknown enemy. The game is scheduled to release the current and next generation PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus a computer, in 2023.
We’ve already seen a trailer for The Callisto Protocol, a survival horror game made by Striking Distance Studios, whose members worked on the original Dead Space. But today’s event gave us a closer look at the gameplay. The project seems to strongly channel the horror style of Dead Space survival, with ugly monsters, plasma knife-like weapons, and terrifying death animations for your character. As previously announced, the game will be released on December 2.
New level from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II remains months after its release on October 28, and Summer Game Fest sheds a little more light on what we’ll find there, showing a full game level. The video shows players boarding a ship to neutralize a rocket and survive a storm, emphasizing the physics of the water and wind in the game.
The classic Flashback platformer will be continued
Flashback helped create the cinematic platforming genre in 1992, and 30 years after its release, it received a sequel. The sequel is being developed by the French studio Microids and is apparently coming to the current and next generation PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Steam and Nintendo Switch in the winter of 2022. That’s all we know! You can check out the teaser above for a feel for the atmosphere.
Ubiquitous voice actor Troy Baker and Roger Clark of Red Dead Redemption 2 cast their voices at Fort Solis, a recently announced game by independent studio Fallen Leaf. Baker describes Fort Solis as a “narrow thriller” and “Dead Space Meets the Duncan Jones Moon,” and apparently it’s a fast-paced narrative game set in a remote Martian mining post. The trailer tells him that it will be released on Steam.
Robot horror game Routine was postponed for a decade, but returned
The routine first appeared in 2012, promising a terrifying atmosphere of horror on a spaceship populated by dangerous robots. It was then postponed year after year as a relatively inexperienced team tried to complete it. There is now a new trailer stating that it is coming for PC, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass on an unknown date.
Frost Giant Studios was founded by former Blizzard developers, including veterans of the StarCraft and Warcraft real-time strategy series, and has just unveiled its first title: Sci-fi-plus-demons RTS, called Stormgate. Stormgate is supposed to “stay true” to the classic RTS formula. But it is designed to be more affordable and use a free game model, without including payout mechanics or crypto tokens. You can see a short trailer above.
Golf Club: Wasteland Demagog developer’s new title Highwater is “an adventure strategy game set in a world ravaged by extreme climate change,” according to Keeley. At Game Fest, we received a colorful but melancholic trailer for characters moving in a flooded city called Alphaville, showing parts of the game’s exploration and turn-based battle.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns is coming on October 7th
Firaxis Games’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns was announced last year at Gamescom, and now we have an official release date: October 7. In case you forgot, this is a tactical role-playing game that takes place in the “dark side of the Marvel universe” and you can see some new shots above.
The big news of Naughty Dog actually expired before Summer Game Fest: it released a remake of The Last of Us Part I for PlayStation 5 on September 2, and a PC version is under development. But it’s also annoying new project: a multiplayer-focused game that should be as big as a single-player title and include a story that is “very unique” to the game. As Naughty Dog co-president Neil Drackman describes above, the project began as a multiplayer mode for The Last of Us Part II. It was then expanded into its own – as yet unnamed – game. Part of the conceptual art suggests that it will take place in post-apocalyptic San Francisco and includes a “brand new lineup of characters.” So far, that’s all we know, and more news promises to come next year.
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