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Well, here we go. Really not expecting much seeing as there's another DLC expansion still to come. An Ultra Sword & Ultra Shield maybe, including all the DLC? I certainly hope not Too soon for Explorers of Sky DX (I wish though) and probably too soon for Diamond & Pearl Remakes considering the DLC. Would love a new Ranger... Maybe some Detective Pikachu and Pokémon Sleep news?

4K version of The Empire Strikes Back is being lined up for the reopening of cinemas in the UK, sometime next month. On the one hand, I would absolutely love to go to this. The Empire Strikes Back is my favourite Star Wars film, on par with A New Hope, and I've never seen it in theatres before. On the other? I think the rush to reopen cinemas so soon is a terrible idea with everything going on, and I would much rather play it safe and watch this at home (and similarly wait for new releases to come to home media). The screenings would also be at Vue cinemas, my closest one being a good while away. Oh well, guess I'll wait until next time

Looks like DC Fandome is going to be the home for news regarding the potential new Batman game, amongst other game announcements. Well, it's about time. One of the industry's worst kept secrets for, what, two or three years?

Trailer from the other day:

My bad guys yeah can we leave it up for now? Just based on Joe saying that there might be new product information, and considering just how vague the press release is, might be best to keep it separate until we know more

Really weird to me that they didn't come out and say what this was for, but Serebii and the press release seem to have clarified it further. Still haven't heard more about the Detective Pikachu game for Switch, either. Also... So maybe there will be something new? No idea at this point to be honest @S.C.G/mods I know I requested the thread be moved/merged, but could we leave it like this for now, at least until after the event? You know, when we're all going to be disappointed that it was only DLC talk?

YouTube Premiere: Well okay then. 14:00 BST for those wondering. No idea if this will be related to games, especially considering that the DLC drops tomorrow. Maybe related to a spin-off? Or something else entirely. Pikachu's ears here do kind of look like old TV antennae...could also quite easily be show or film related. If this is related to games, very weird that it wouldn't be under the usual Pokémon Direct format. Guess we'll have to wait and see. UPDATE: Well, that hype was short-lived... Weird to have it literally the day the DLC goes live. Maybe they'll tease the next expansion? But then there's this. Super mixed messaging, so not sure if this should be closed or left as it is for now? @S.C.G (or another mod) I leave it up to you guys

Didn't know whether to put this in this thread or the eShop one, but I figure it's best placed here. According to this article from VideoGamer, Nintendo won't be offering refunds for customers who bought the wrong version of the DLC. Hope they do a U-turn on this if that really is the case, because that's bordering on stupid in the case that it is true. What harm does it do them refunding, knowing full well that the customer is going to just use that refund for the other version of the DLC (and again, let's not forget just how silly this sounds in the first place)? It's such a shady move, basically hoping players buy the wrong DLC and have to purchase it again.

I mean, I respectfully disagree based on the types of games I like to play being much aligned with the games we saw last week (I mean, see the games I mentioned above - clearly this was a good showing for my preferences), but not every game can be for everyone. If the showing wasn't filled with games coming to PS5 that you're not interested in then I get why you might feel that way. I'm not going to respond really to the comment about exclusive titles right now because technically you're right, we haven't got scheduled release dates for a lot of these first party games, so I can't exactly say you're wrong in that regard. But the intent to have them be console exclusive is clearly there, and then there are already massive AAA games from third parties like Resident Evil Village which we know are going to be coming to next-gen consoles only. As for backwards compatibility, again, I read it now more as Cerny going "we've tested the most popular 100 games and they work or are being adapted, but we're still testing a lot of other games at this point". It's honestly a little tiring to see the backwards compatibility argument come up every single time the PS5 is discussed here, because it feels like it falls on deaf ears almost entirely due to the PlayStation 4's success. Absolute worst case scenario I still have a PS4 to pop the games into, that's not a deal-breaker for me. As for a very expensive brick not doing much until 2022? At the very least it's a UHD player, and Sony's top of the line UHD players usually have a RRP around £350. Another £250 (at most) to make that a next-gen console is a good deal in my books.

Description for the trailer: Yeah, didn't do a great job in my opinion of conveying that this is an online multiplayer game. If we just had the trailer to go off I think it could easily be mistaken for a single player adventure. Nope, missed Geoff's talk about it but I think most of it (minus the multiplayer) aspect could be taken from the trailer. Also there were definitely some tactical moves on show in the trailer, would love if we could direct our squadron in this like in Republic Commando during the campaign (i.e. need to destroy a bridge so we target it up, press Up, and now it's "All fighters, focus on taking that bridge!", or the enemy launch a surprise attack so we press Down and the squadron scrambles). Not surprised by the alternating story perspective, think it's the best option here. And yeah, screamed first-person to me from the initial shots, unfortunately. Hope it's not just first-person, but wouldn't surprise me if they just focused on that. But that does mean a VR component coming to PS4 and PC... Yep, caught Wedge, didn't notice Hera though! Makes sense, always cool to see it bleed over like this. Also going from the price on Steam, does appear to be a budget title, which I'm happy about: Also the pre-order bonus content seems to be hinting at the wider customisation options available: flight suits, starfighter skins, and decals.

Damn they got me having chills with the music and some of those shots, that's cheating cool, post-Return of the Jedi but presumably long before The Force Awakens, guess we have got a 30 year gap to start filling in a bit more so why not? A lot of cinematics and story focus for what I imagine is a very short campaign though, perhaps a misleading amount of it. There really wasn't much to suggest multiplayer if we're being honest here, even that shot of the squads felt like a campaign cinematic. Seems like I could be right about a replayable campaign from both sides - that'd be cool, guess we'll have to wait and see. Releasing 2nd October. Cool. Not much else to say until we see some gameplay on Thursday really!

Tease for the next Josef Fares game during EA Play on Thursday: Very excited, loved A Way Out. Also don't know who decided it was a great idea to hold EA Play at 16:00 PT (that's midnight over here in the UK) but they deserve to get sacked. Normally had a 21:00 BST showing during E3 if I recall to get all Western eyes on them so this is really weird, guess I'll be skipping out on that one and catching the highlights and reactions the following morning.

Yep, I'll be buying at launch. I was going to regardless because I have a 2015 model base PS4 which is starting to chug (thankfully the 1TB is still serving me well), and at the very least I've been looking forward to revisiting Spider-Man and Shadow of the Colossus, and running the best that they can. Whether that Spider playthrough gets bumped up if Miles makes it to launch I guess we'll see but apart from that I still have plenty of PS4 games I want to play, most (if not all) of which I imagine will be backwards compatible. Also, given a bit more thought to the event, and of the 25 games shown at the event last week, the games that I am absolutely in for are Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Project Athia (we'll see if this ever sees the light of day), Kena: Bridge of Spirits (probably my highlight of the show), Little Devil Inside, Astro's Playroom (small but a pre-loaded, free Astro Bot game from ASOBI after all of the praise for VR Mission and as something to play while everything installs? Yes please I'm in), Pragmata (ditto what I said for Project Athia, but major Kojima vibes and a new IP from Capcom is very exciting), and Horizon: Forbidden West. Slight question marks, but very much leaning towards a buy, over Demon's Souls (only just completed my first horror game, so we'll see if I'm ready for that by then - would be a great point to jump in with From Software and start catching myself up, though; basically the same but just replace From with Capcom for RE: Village, going to try some of those out this summer), Ratchet & Clank (have limited experience with this series, might check out the remastered titles on PS3 first, but it looks great) and Gran Turismo 7 (loved 3 A-Spec back in the day on PS2, but haven't touched the series and have enjoyed Forza since, so we'll see what launches around it). Returnal, Stray, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and Ghostwire: Tokyo all have my attention, even if the latter lost a bit of my interest by being first-person. The other games shown I currently don't plan on picking up. Overall, I'm going to stick with the B that I gave the event last week. It was a solid showing, but nothing (besides Spidey, but that being a Lost Legacy-type situation isn't nearly as exciting as seeing a number 2) was really unexpected or blew me away. Games like Goodbye Volcano High and Oddworld Soulstorm I'm sure will have their fans, but nothing we saw to me suggested that they belonged at a next-gen event. But then there were clearly games that did. Considering that PlayStation knew about Xbox having a first party showcase in July, I think they showed some restraint with this showing, and have saved some things for later. I think there's still the potential for a mic drop moment which will flip the tables almost entirely in their favour akin to "$299". And I'm just saying, Play Has No Limits makes much more sense on a console which offers (almost) full backwards compatibility for their legacy titles... Oh man poor @bob. Anyways, yeah, about that price point I think the PS5 is £599 maximum, so that's what I've budgeted for so far. Realistically I think we could see the PS5 be £499 and the Digital Edition at the absolute lowest be £399, but expecting something more like £429. Also interested in the headphones to try out some of their 3D Audio tech. Guess we'll see what their launch line-up looks like, but think I'll only pick up three games at most at launch (excluding Astro's Playroom).

From what I've read elsewhere about it, some feel that it harkens back to a time in early Hollywood when caricatures of Africans depicted them as savages, with the features of tribal masks exaggerated to extreme degrees for comedic purposes (such as massive lips). EDIT: @Fierce_LiNk actually points out some of the other issues, such as the dreadlocks, which I think could be taken as being more direct than perhaps any of the other features - considering that in particular is certainly connected to a certain racial background historically, I think is probably the strongest case for this being innocent ignorance on behalf of the developers, but nothing more. I'll leave the rest of my post as it was because I do feel like some of it could still prove for some fruitful discussion./EDIT Personally, I don't see it. Now I'm not an African person so maybe the context is completely lost on me, or it was too long ago for me to be acquainted with such images, but I feel like there's a lot of virtue signalling going on in a lot of places over this, mostly because of what's going on at the moment, from non-African/dark skinned peoples. I read some of the posts on Reddit and ResetEra about it and people of colour are questioning what the issue is just as much as I was. Again, if this has genuinely offended people, then I absolutely agree that it needs to be taken down and either removed or altered. Good on the developers for being proactive about that and getting a response out there. I think my greatest concern relating to this would be, well, if there is even a place where the idea of "tribal savages" are even allowed anymore, which I think is perhaps a greater issue for society at large. If these were aliens wearing masks it would be viewed as painting tribal people as aliens, something we don't understand, and are thus scared of; similarly, if they were fair skinned I'm sure there would be an uproar over the developers mocking African tribes and painting them white. It's a curious thought for me, but I feel like we're getting to this dangerous stage of self-censoring as a society where practically anything in fiction, in any medium, is teetering on the edge of controversy. Female main character? Clearly a Mary Sue, aiming for a wider demographic, or an example of toxic feminism. A character is LGBTQ+, dark skinned, or part - or from - any other minority group/background? Obviously a token character. That character acts a way that is contextualised in the story where they do a bad deed? The author/creator is a racist/homophobic/anti-feminist, etc., obviously painting the entirety of that group as being that way because one character acts in such a way. Again, that's probably total conjecture, but I'm curious to know what everyone else thinks about this and controversy regarding similar cases.

Yeah, the U-Wing, and there's also a TIE Reaper. Both are troop carriers, so wonder if that's hinting at the type of missions/strategies we could see (i.e. flying troops from A to B in the middle of a battle, etc.). It gives me hopes at least that we won't just be seeing space combat. Kind of hoping we see a B-Wing and TIE Defender too... Scale threw me off a bit on the ship at the bottom, I feel like it could be an MC-75? Absolutely a Mon Cala ship, we saw one in Rogue One (Admiral Raddus's Profundity). Yeah, I've got fingers crossed for customisation too. Would love if we had a variety of Need for Speed-style upgrades, paints, and decals for the ships. As an aside, still a bit disappointed that they seem to only be going in on the original trilogy era stuff, judging from the promo art, at least to begin with (assuming a heavy multiplayer focus means updates will presumably be aplenty). I get it, it sells well, but in terms of their main visual and interactive entertainment, since Disney bought Star Wars we've had: a Battlefront game which was OT-era only; a second Battlefront game which shows the end of/deals with the aftermath of the OT, and at launch was still heavily OT focused; Jedi Fallen Order, which deals with the Empire heavily and feels very much an OT era game, even if it's set 14 years prior to ANH and RO; two of two Star Wars Story films taking place in the OT era; and an animated show in the OT era. Prequel era content has been thin up until the last year or so with Battlefront II updates and the final season of The Clone Wars in this regard, and even the sequel trilogy and The Mandalorian very, very heavily harken back to the OT and are almost overwhelmingly filled to the brim with OT-era ship designs. I know EA is likely pushing this out as quickly as they can, and likely a Fallen Order sequel and potentially a Battlefront III too before their Star Wars deal finishes (thank the Force), but it still blows that we haven't seen much representation of other eras of the franchise which quite frankly have just as many fans as the original trilogy. Hope we see some more diversity in the when and where of it all when it comes to Star Wars content moving forwards.

Don't think the link's working properly @bob? The image linked is a supposed screenshot of a PlayAsia pre-order page for SM64 coming to Switch on 11th August: I've just had a quick nose around on the site and can't see it anywhere, so could just be a photoshopped effort unless it's been taken down? Also the cover seems a bit weirdly thrown together: the Mario image is just from the end of the first Odyssey trailer when Cappy's eyes pop out I'm pretty sure, the star and logo look pretty lazily tacked on, but there's an actual hint of some effort there. Which is weird compared with their other pre-order pages, such as Metroid Prime 4's just being the logo on a blank Switch game case background. Also, apparently the screenshots are from a wide-screen emulator hack. I'm calling a fake on this one even being a legitimate screenshot of the PlayAsia site, but I'm still optimistic that we'll see 64 come to Switch this year. Fingers crossed!

New promo image looks real nice: Fingers crossed for a good showing in tomorrow's trailer. Hopefully it'll be more than just in-engine cinematics.

Story trailer for Mafia: Definitive Edition. Looks fantastic, even if it is just in-engine cinematics so far. Hope we get to see some gameplay soon considering it releases in two and a half months...

Vanillaware's latest game finally comes to the West. Appeared in a lot of Japanese GOTY lists, and got heaped with praise by Masahiro Sakurai and Yoko Taro. One to keep an eye on for sure.

Had no idea where to put this, so it's going here. So we're basically picking our poison. EA, Take Two or Activision Blizzard to potentially pick up WB Interactive. Hmm. Could definitely see Xbox trying to jump in on this. Actually, I think they should – would be the better option by far in my opinion.

Oh wow okay, this is earlier than I had been expecting for this. Guess the trailer on Monday means we're lined up to get a decent amount of gameplay shown off later in the week during EA Play? Thanks for paging me @Ronnie, to be honest I'm very nervous about this one. The few rumours I've read about it from a few months back suggested that it's being headed by Motive, online multiplayer-focused, and with a single player campaign. At the launch of Battlefront II the Starfighter Assault mode was easily my favourite and though it takes some getting used to, I love how in control you can feel of those ships. I think the last update which included an update to that mode was actually the Crait DLC to tie into The Last Jedi at the end of 2017 (?), but don't think they've necessarily been working on this that whole time. Then again, if they started at that point that's a little over two and a half years of development time, so maybe? Based on the image alone my gut instinct would be a short campaign (like 5 hours long at a stretch?) which can be played through as either a Rebel and TIE Pilot. Same plot points, but from a different perspective? That'd be interesting. Probably through the major space/air battles of the original trilogy plus a little extra I'd imagine, based on the ships and art. Also, don't know why, but fully expecting it to be a budget title. I'm feeling like this is a £29.99 game.

I know it's not necessarily in the title itself, but the logo kind of has it? Unless that's a pause symbol. In which case I can't wait for Horizon [rewind] More Forbidden East

Maybe it's just because we follow the industry a bit closer here, but I didn't expect them to turn around a fully fledged Spider-Man game so quick, which is why I had assumed at best we get a teaser. As soon as we heard Peter and I saw Miles, I expected a Lost Legacy situation, but that's only because I thought about it quite a bit beforehand. I can see why some might have expected otherwise from this, maybe they could have done a better job of clarifying from the onset as you and @will' have mentioned. We all follow games quite closely so if some here are at a loss, then I imagine there might have been some confusion over that for a more casual audience too. Yeah, that'll be the big thing I think. I think Lost Legacy was £29.99 at launch? No more than £34.99 for this with a core story which is 8 hours or a little less (around half of the original's based on HLTB) I feel and I think this could be a great game in the opening month (if not at launch). And, this isn't a sleight against the original game, but there were a lot of cut and paste scenarios when swinging around and a ton of collectibles; add those in and this game could easily pad out to double that length to around 15 hours. Selfishly hope this isn't there day 1 (seeing as there are a couple of other prospective launch titles which could do great), mainly because I'd been planning a replay of the original's main story and DLC when I got a PS5 to test it out as I don't have a Pro

Honestly, I think the language used makes Uncharted: The Lost Legacy the closest point of comparison for this, as plenty have mentioned. That was planned as DLC for Uncharted 4 if I recall but ended up being fleshed out into its own thing. Given that the title isn't Spider-Man 2: Miles Morales, I think the title alone did a pretty effective job of communicating that it isn't going to have the scale of a fully fledged sequel. I expect it to be a shorter, better-looking revisit of 2018's Manhattan which is going to bridge the gap between the first game and 2, which I'm sure we'll get in a couple of years.

From the tweet or the article? Because Insomniac seem to be trying to be crystal clear in the comments responding to that tweet. Regardless of whether or not it might come bundled with a PS5 release of Spider-Man 2018 (which would be a weird launch title), I think they're trying to be very clear that the Miles Morales game will be available standalone. Yeah that's pretty much exactly how I took it too, like an inFamous First Light or Uncharted: The Lost Legacy situation.