Also in this edition:
- a game that lets you shoot basketballs and guns (one from each hand)
- a game where your car has a harpoon for whipping around tight turns
- a game co-developed by someone who used to have my surround sound speakers
- a game by people who really liked Wind Waker
I don't love writing video game previews, so I crammed 26 into one edition of Game File.
Kept it short! Read about:
- the game that came to its developer in a dream
- the one by a guy who worked on God of War's yak
- the one with Sonic in it
And more...
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My favorites: Bub. Ithaca. Sonic Pico Park. Clutch. Valor Mortis. Slap Out Of It. My least favorite: Blood Message.
I don't love writing video game previews, so I crammed 26 into one edition of Game File.
Kept it short! Read about:
- the game that came to its developer in a dream
- the one by a guy who worked on God of War's yak
- the one with Sonic in it
And more...
www.gamefile.news/p/27-summer-...
My favorites: Bub. Ithaca. Sonic Pico Park. Clutch. Valor Mortis. Slap Out Of It. My least favorite: Blood Message.
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Found a fellow member of Team Emuurom. I’ve only played the demo so far, but John asserts that the whole game is quality
Nintendo's showcase on Tuesday was very focused on the summer. Time-limited challenges expiring Sept 1. A Treehouse showcase of June/July games.
Compare to 2019's E3 Treehouse event, with them playing games set to release through the following March
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They picked a date.
Then this happened:
- Control Resonant: Sept 24
- Silent Hill Townfall: Sept 24
- Capcom's Onimusha: Sept 25
“As soon as Control announced September 24th, we knew we were moving the date.”
Stephen Totilo
Game File: "Were you previously making a PlayStation version and then stopped?”
Matt Searcy, studio creative director: “Well, we can’t really talk about our development process or our plan"
From a presentation I attended about Gears of War E-Day
Item 2: www.gamefile.news/i/201497058/...
Also in that item, an attempt to nail down when E-Day was. In the process, I learned that days on Sera last 26 hours and there are 10 days in the week
With Switch 2 prices set to increase in US/Canada/Europe on Sept 1 and Nintendo generally running a big Direct that month, it seems like their strategy this week was to pump up their summer line-up/quarter.
Then get people jazzed about the Switch 2's future in September to counter the price hike