Spirits were running high at this year’s Summer Game Fest amid the gaming industry’s excitement for the upcoming release of “Grand Theft Auto VI” — despite the fact the Rockstar Games title had no presence during the four-day event. No, “GTA 6” wasn’t formally part of host Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Live presentation or … Read more
Xbox leadership shook up its strategy this week with the announcement that upcoming games “Gears of War: E-Day” and “Clockwork Revolution” would be exclusive to Xbox consoles and PCs. Following years of Xbox breaking down platform barriers for its games with competitors PlayStation and Nintendo under longtime chief Phil Spencer, the move was a radical … Read more
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Jennifer Maas reports on Summer Game Fest, the gaming industry’s annual product showcase. Xbox and Paramount made news with strategic shifts and an executive appointment. Overall, Maas observes the mood among insiders was better at this year’s event compared to last year, when the games sector was … Read more
Vincent Cassel, who will star in the fourth season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” is set to play Napoleon Bonaparte in the upcoming first-person Soulslike video game “Valor Mortis.” Per the game’s description, “Set in a supernatural reimagining of 19th-century Europe, Valor Mortis casts players as William, a resurrected soldier of the Grande Armée who … Read more
The first new “Spyro” game in nearly two decades will release next spring from developer Toys for Bob in collaboration with Microsoft’s Activision. Tom Kenny, the original voice of Spyro, will be reprising his role as the iconic purple dragon for the project. Titled “Spyro: A Real Beyond,” is described as “a completely original adventure … Read more
“Resident Evil: Veronica,” a remake of the 2000 “Resident Evil” game “Code: Veronica,” will be released by Capcom next year. The original “Resident Evil – Code Veronica” took place three months after the events of 1998’s “Resident Evil 2” and concurrently with 1999’s “Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.” The story follows “Resident Evil” characters Claire Redfield … Read more
Paramount Games Studio brought its turtle power to Summer Game Fest Friday with the reveal of the combined Paramount-Skydance in-house studio’s first project: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin.” Developed by Platinum Games and published by Paramount Games Studio, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin” is a described as AAA action-adventure game based … Read more