Maybe kicking off with Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown did it, but not even a cameo from Nicolas Cage was enough to re-energise Summer Game Fest after that first premiere. Despite a lot of hooting and hollering, the two-hour show – held at LA’s YouTube Theater – felt curiously flat, and of the 40-plus games featured, only a few came as a surprise.
While prior shows stood in E3’s long-established shadow, in 2023 SGF stepped (reluctantly, we’re assured) across the event’s grave. It took until March and Ubisoft’s exit for the ESA to publicly withdraw E3, and since then all eyes have been on Geoff Keighley and co. Yes, comparisons are inevitable. No, not all of them are fair. But the ESA had been slow to acclimatise to an industry revising not just its development schedules but its relationship with its communities, and it was SGF which picked up the dropped ball.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
15 years!? Holy depressing passing of time, Batman!
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
Keeping us engaged with the carat-and-stick approach
Alan Wake 2: Night Springs
Keepin' it weird
GRAND THEFT AUTO VI
The ruler of the crime sandbox returns
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2
Up to your pauldrons in science-fiction action
DELTA FORCE: HAWK OPS
Teaching an old hawk new tricks
Welcome to the Roughnecks
Blasting bugs and shooting the breeze with Starship Troopers game lead Peter Maurice and star Casper Van Dien
LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES
Bricks and stones may break robo dino bones
ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS
Presenting protagonist double trouble
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
A delightfully devilish refresh