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Not-E3 2022 Part 3: Netflix, Tribeca, and Freedom Games

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Jun 102022
 

Table of Contents

Not-E3 2022 Schedule
Limited Run Games
Summer Game Fest
Devolver Digital Marketing Countdown to Marketing 2022
Netflix Geeked Week 2022 Games Showcase
Tribeca Games Spotlight
Freedom Games Summer Showcase
Guerrilla Collective
Wholesome Direct
Future Games Show
Xbox & Bethesda
PC Gaming Show
Capcom
Xbox Games Showcase 2022 Extended

Netflix Geeked Week 2022 Games Showcase

I was a little uncertain when I saw Netflix had a game showcase, but I decided to give it a chance. They started with trailers for two animated shows based on games, Dragon Age: Absolution and Tekken: Bloodline.

Then they started announcing games based on shows. First was Shadow and Bone: Destinies, a game I might be interested in if it wasn’t a mobile game. The next was a dating sim based on Too Hot to Handle, which I’m not familiar with at all, but it looked to me like a lot of mobile visual novels I’ve seen. Third was La Casa de Papel, a mobile heist game. Finally, they announced The Queen’s Gambit Chess, which as far as I can tell is just chess.

Moving back to shows based on games, they featured the Cuphead show.

Next was a platformer called Lucky Luna and a turn-based strategy game called Desta: The Memories Between, which was actually announced earlier this week. A new entry in the Reigns series was announced next, Reigns: Three Kingdoms. Then came Terra Nil, a reverse city builder, and Poinpy, a vertical climber.

Back to shows, they featured DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, Sonic Prime, and Castlevania: Nocturne. In between, they also announced some existing games that will be available with a Netflix subscription.

If you can’t tell, the Netflix gaming showcase didn’t exactly do much for me.

Epic Games

Epic Games also had a showcase today, but it was mainly focused on already-announced games coming to the Epic Games Store, so I’m not officially counting it as a Not-E3 show. One exception was Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria, a new Epic-exclusive Lord of the Rings game.

Tribeca Games Spotlight

This was also our first year watching the Tribeca Games Spotlight, which focused on already-announced titles, with an extended look at each of them. Thirsty Suitors, The Cub, As Dusk Falls, and Venba don’t particularly interest me, but I did enjoy seeing more from A Plague Tale: Requiem.

They showed the Cuphead DLC again, and then Oxenfree 2. I enjoyed the first Oxenfree, although not as much as some people did, so it could be interesting.

After that, they showed Immortality, an interactive FMV game that looks like it could be pretty cool.

American Arcadia was featured once more as the final game in the show.

Freedom Games Summer Showcase

The final showcase today came from publisher Freedom Games. Like the previous showcase, most games had a small segment of the show devoted to it.

They started with an open world sandbox crafting game called Good Heavens!, and then shadow dropped a turn-based strategy RPG called Symphony of War.

Next was a survival game called Retreat to Enen, and then a mystery thriller called Broken Pieces that could be interesting.

After that, they showed a pixel art adventure game called Monorail Stories, an open world monster catching RPG called Monster Tribe, a cyberpunk action game called Neon Blight (not to be confused with yesterday’s Neon White), a multiplayer game called Against All Odds, and a space farming sim called One Lonely Outpost.

Nine Years of Shadows was the next game to get my attention, a Metroidvania that looks beautiful (but sadly was one of the only games not to be discussed beyond showing the trailer).

The next game was an open world zombie game called HumanitZ, then new content for the open world game Sands of Aura, and then a turn-based strategy game called Tyrant’s Blessing.

Meanwhile, Voltaire the Vegan Vampire is a bizarre concept I love, but since it’s described as an “action-farming-roguelite,” I don’t know that I’d actually enjoy playing it.

Terracotta was the next game shown, an action-adventure game that I definitely want to keep my eye on.

Open world deck-building survival game Death Drive was next, then Mars Base, and then Blood and Zombies. A montage of monster catching games was the last thing before the end.

Today was a somewhat slow day for me as far as showcases went, with only a couple of games that caught my eye. Still, what games from these showcases stood out the most to you?

Not-E3 2022 Part 2: Summer Game Fest and Devolver Digital

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Jun 092022
 

Table of Contents

Not-E3 2022 Schedule
Limited Run Games
Summer Game Fest
Devolver Digital Marketing Countdown to Marketing 2022
Netflix Geeked Week 2022 Games Showcase
Tribeca Games Spotlight
Freedom Games Summer Showcase
Guerrilla Collective
Wholesome Direct
Future Games Show
Xbox & Bethesda
PC Gaming Show
Capcom
Xbox Games Showcase 2022 Extended

Summer Game Fest 2022 Showcase

Today brought us two E3 events, the first of which was the Summer Game Fest 2022 Showcase.

It began with another look at Street Fighter 6, which was previously shown at the State of Play last week. Next up was the announcement of Aliens: Dark Descent and then another look at The Callisto Protocol, which certainly looks like it will be a dark, intense game.

Then they spent a long, long time on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, before making the surprise announcement of Flashback 2, a sequel to 1992’s Flashback, which was remade in 2013. (Although apparently the original Flashback already has a sequel from 1995 called Fade to Black.)

Next up was the dark fantasy FPS Witchfire, followed by a thriller called Fort Solis that looks pretty interesting.

But oh my, I thought I was dreaming when I saw the next announcement, because the next game revealed was a sci-fi horror game called Routine.

Yes, that Routine. The Routine that was on my list of top 5 upcoming horror games back in 2014. The Routine we were still waiting for in 2017, when the developers promise fans it wasn’t cancelled. Honestly, so much time passed that I assumed it was cancelled after all, but Routine is back!

While I was still reeling from the shock of Routine being re-announced, they showed a movie trailer and then moved on to an Outriders expansion called Worldslayer, a montage of upcoming Switch games we already know about, and a new trailer for Fall Guys, which is going free-to-play, before revealing a real-time-strategy game called Stormgate.

Next was a turn-based strategy game called Highwater, a puzzle-platformer called American Arcadia, and a funny bait-and-switch trailer to announce Goat Simulator 3 (I’m pretty sure there is no Goat Simulator 2).

They showed Marvel’s Midnight Suns next, followed by a look at Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, and then a release date trailer for the first-person action game Neon White. Now, that caught my attention because Neon White was the focus of recent Nintendo Direct rumors, with the date theorized due to the belief that Neon White would be shadow dropped after a Direct.

So the shadow drop part isn’t true, but I’m still hoping for a Nintendo Direct.

The next game was Midnight Fight Express and then some new stuff for Warframe, and then it was time for two games from miHoYo, the developer behind Genshin Impact. Honkai: Star Rail is a turn-based strategy RPG set in space, while Zenless Zone Zero is an urban fantasy RPG. I’d be potentially interested in both, but they’re probably that same free-to-play model, which doesn’t appeal to me.

We got to see a new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, DLC For Humankind, and a look at One Piece Odyssey. I’m not familiar with One Piece, but the game looks good.

Then after that came one I am interested in, Soul Hackers 2 from Atlus, with its first English dubbed trailer! I’ve never played the first Soul Hackers, but I picked it up during Atlus’s recent 3DS sale.

Capcom Arcade Stadium 2 was announced, followed by new trailers for Mario Strikers: Battle League, Metal: Hellsinger, and The Quarry. The Quarry looks interesting, and it’s from the same developers who made Until Dawn, which is on my list to play someday.

Open world survival crafting Nightingale came next, then another look at the new Saints Row, and then Warhammer 40k: Darktide.

Bloober Team then officially revealed the new Layers of Fear game they’d been teasing… Layers of Fears. At first I thought it was a new entry in the series, but apparently it’s some sort of remake/reimagining of the previous Layers of Fear games, with new story content.

After a new trailer for Gotham Knights, they finished with a long look at various projects related to The Last of Us, including a remake of the first game, and a standalone multiplayer game.

That was it for Summer Game Fest, with no sign of the games I was hoping to see (but quite a surprise with Routine).

Devolver Digital Marketing Countdown to Marketing 2022

Then, later in the evening, it was time for Devolver Digital’s show. If you did not watch, here is the link to the full show, because it was an insane experience as usual. This year’s show involved Suda51 as a giant robot and video game singularities.

In between their bizarre story sequences, they showed off trailers for Cult of the Lamb, Anger Foot, and Card Shark, and announced The Plucky Squire and Skate Story. Of these, the most interesting to me by far was The Plucky Squire, an action adventure platformer that includes both 2D and 3D worlds.

As usual, Devolver’s show was worth it for the entertainment alone. That was the last of the showcases today, but we have several more coming up tomorrow! What were your favorite announcements from today’s showcases?

Not-E3 2022 Part 1: Limited Run Games LRG3

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Jun 062022
 

Table of Contents

Not-E3 2022 Schedule
Limited Run Games
Summer Game Fest
Devolver Digital Marketing Countdown to Marketing 2022
Netflix Geeked Week 2022 Games Showcase
Tribeca Games Spotlight
Freedom Games Summer Showcase
Guerrilla Collective
Wholesome Direct
Future Games Show
Xbox & Bethesda
PC Gaming Show
Capcom
Xbox Games Showcase 2022 Extended

Limited Run Games LRG3

The first showcase we’ll be covering for this Not-E3 season is from Limited Run Games. Of course, since LRG publishes physical editions of games that would otherwise be digital-only, their showcases usually focus on games that are already out or announced. Still, sometimes there are surprises. Let’s take a look.

To start with, their show was framed as an action story about agents fighting terrorist aliens… or something like that… while finding game trailers all over the place. I didn’t enjoy it, so let’s just talk about the games.

They announced physical editions for River City Girls 2, Undermine, Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, PowerSlave: Exhumed, Spidersaurs, Lunark, the Shadowrun Trilogy, and then a pair of games that caught my attention for how unexpected the announcement was, Go! Go! Kokopolo – Harmonious Forest Revenge and its sequel Go! Go! Kokopolo 3D – Space Recipe for Disaster.

The 3DS era might be coming to an end, but these two are coming out physically for the 3DS, both separately and as a dual pack.

From there they announced Skelattack, Doom 64 for Xbox, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Retro Collection, Rendering Ranger: R2, and the original Shantae for PS4 and PS5, while also unveiling a Shantae figure for the 20th anniversary.

Next up was A Boy and his Blob: Retro Collection, Konami Arcade Classics, and Knights of the Old Republic II (which is getting the cut content added as DLC). They also showed Garden Story, which I played a demo for a while back and found interesting.

DoDonPachi Resurrection, Plumbers Don’t War Ties: Definitive Edition, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, and Blossom Tales II followed. I haven’t played Blossom Tales, but I remember it looking interesting, and the sequel is due out on August 16 with the physical edition coming later.

Then came announcements for Enclave, American Hero, Prize Fighter: Heavyweight Edition, BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad, Night Trap, and one I recognized – D, a horror game we discussed a couple years ago. It’s not coming to modern consoles, though, but getting a physical release for the PC and 3DO.

After ESPGaluda II, they announced Glover… for the Nintendo 64. Yes, a physical Nintendo 64 game is coming out.

The next announcement was Tetris Effect: Connected, followed by an upcoming 3D platformer called Frogun, which looks like it could be fun.

Deathwish Enforcers came next, and the final game of the show was Doom Eternal for the Switch.

Not a whole lot of games I’m interested in, but there were a few interesting announcements in there. What did you think of this year’s Limited Run Games show?

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