Today on Bud’s #WeeklyGeekOut . . . Bud’s annual highlight reel from this year’s E3 Expo. =) webmeister Bud
Microsoft
Elden Ring is a game with a rather famous collaborator: George R. R. Martin, of Game of Thrones. He’s working on a new world within this game which looks intense, and freaky, and quite good from the early clips. But freaky.
A Blair Witch game is in development! It looks scary, like the movie, and a neat twist is that it looks like you use the screen of a handheld videocamera, just like they used in the movie, to maybe reveal things in front of you your eyes can’t see? It comes out August 30th on PC and Xbox One.
And, there’s a game coming out next April, not only on Xbox, but PC and PS4 too, called Cyberpunk 2077, and it stars . . . Keanu Reeves . . . who walked out on stage in a cloud of theatrical smoke to talk about the game himself. A lot of wholesome heckling from the audience . . . and I loved the way he said “Cyberpunk.”
Bethesda
If you remember Doom from your early gaming days, Doom Eternal FINALLY has a release date: November 22. It looks good. Fast and gory. And it seems that you get to fight monsters in . . . heaven?
Fallout 76 is getting a 52-player battle royale mode called Nuclear Winter which you can try right now, for free, until June 17th.
And finally, a free-to-start Elder Scrolls game is coming to the Nintendo Switch.
It’s called Blades (get it? Switch? Blades? haha?), you can carry over your progress from its previous incarnations on mobile devices, you use the detachable Joy-Cons to flail your arms, and it’s a hack-‘n-slash which honestly reminds me of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out, only with dryads and skeletons and ghosts and orcs, and a sword and shield instead of your fists.
Ubisoft brought Jon Bernthal from The Walking Dead and The Punisher on stage WITH HIS DOGGO to talk about his role as the BAD GUY in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
Square Enix, best known for the Final Fantasy series of games, finally gave a release date for Final Fantasy VII Remake: March 3, 2020. It looks photorealistic incredible, with all its spikey anime hair and gigantic swords.
EA announced, surprise! another Star Wars game, along with Battlefield 5, FIFA 20, and Sims 4 getting an expansion called Island Living, with volcanoes, fishing, jet skis, and . . . mermaids.
Nintendo
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, set on an island with a camping theme, originally set to release this year . . . has been pushed back until March 20, 2020. Super sad, but at least it should be wonderful when it finally drops.
My kidlet’s gonna love this. Luigi’s Mansion 3, where Mario’s little brother nervously and adorably makes his way through a haunted hotel armed with a vacuum, and a second-player goo version of himself, known as GOOIGI.
There’s gonna be a mostly-practical-puppetry series on Netflix for The Dark Crystal August 30, and now we know there’s gonna be a game for the Switch: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics, coming this year.
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield (Pokémon games are generally released in tandem now) got their release date: November 15. Guests at E3 can play it at the conference!
A gangster game, uncharted Nintendo territory, Empire of Sin, spring 2020.
All the Marvel characters ever showed up in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. Not ever, but a lot.
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, a wild-looking remake from the 1993 Game Boy original, where the characters look half like cartoons, half like toys, finally got a release date: September 20, 2019.
And it looks like you can BUILD YOUR OWN LEVELS, which is a first for Zelda games.
No More Heroes was a very unexpected game on Nintendo Wii years back. Oddly violent, very dark humour, but a great game. Well, No More Heroes III is coming to Switch in 2020 with what looks like the same beam katana, same attitude, and new mech armour which sticks to your body like Iron Man.
As hoped, [DEEP BREATH] Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the Necrodancer featuring The Legend of Zelda, a rhythm game, which I love, featuring Link and Zelda, who I love, was given the best of release dates: TOMORROW. I’ll be taking Friday off, I think!
And . . . just like Apple does their “one more thing,” Nintendo’s surprise end-of-Direct tease was that the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is in development.
