We got our first real look at Metal Gear Solid Delta. No release date so far.

We got a new gameplay trailer for South of Midnight, a new IP from Xbox. The game shows the traversal, combat, and unique art style of the game. Game will come to Game Pass Day 1 in 2025. 

A new Action-RPG set in a messed-up version of France is coming next year. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 seems to play similar to the Final Fantasy VII remakes. 

A new expansion for Fallout 76, Skyline Valley, is coming later this month.

The next Starfield expansion will bring new story and gameplay to Bethesda's space RPG. Shattered Space releases later this year.

The next Dragon Age shows its face for the first time. The Veilguard will receive a gameplay premiere on June 11th, and will release in 2024

A new trailer for State of Decay shows what to expect from the game. 

A New Doom game was announced at the Xbox Showcase, and it sees the Slayer going Medieval. Wield shields and ride dragons when Doom the Dark Ages launches in 2025.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 gets a new gameplay trailer to kick off the Xbox Showcase. There will be a 25-minute presentation after the event.

We've now fully recovered from an outage that began this morning Eastern time.

Timeline

9:57 PM (June 7)

• We received an alert that the website was down.
• Connectivity issues were intermittent.
• The problem did not last long enough for any proper debugging to occur.

5:41 AM (June 8)

• We received an alert that the website was down.
• Notifications did not fire as expected, no one on our ops team was notified.
• We sleep.
• Based on our traffic data, the site came back online a few moments later.

11:41 AM

• We received an alert that the website was down.
• Investigations began.
• Private networking between our hardware was failing when going to our primary database.
• Servers were rebooted.

12:09 PM

• Our ISP provided a notice that a hardware failure had occurred on one of our racks with the private networking equipment.
• We opted to not failover the site to our secondary nodes as we had expected the failure to be resolved quickly.

5:19 PM

• Our ISP indicated the hardware had been replaced.
• Private networking between our hardware was working again.
• Out of Games came online with 50% capacity.

5:27 PM

• We started a reboot process on our hardware.
• One of our servers no longer responded to ping requests.
• Out of Games was online at 30% capacity.

5:49 PM

• A rescue operation from our ISPs datacenter team started on the down server.

6:39 PM

• Bad CMOS battery replaced on downed server.
• Server booted successfully.
• Out of Games remained at 30% capacity.

9:56 PM

• Fixed an operating system issue that was preventing Out of Games services from communicating with each other.
  • Docker Swarm was having a fit with our networking cards.
  • This was a previous issue we encountered upon updating our docker software and had thought it was resolved.
  • Changes did not persist correctly on server reboots.

What We've Learned

• Confirm whenever you make changes to your operating systems they will actually persist on reboots.
  • Just one of those things everyone should be more careful about. Document everything. 
• We should have disabled CMOS checks on our hardware and instead let it simply log the issue.
  • This would have enabled our hardware to come back online without any real issue.

Also, the site was quite slow during Summer Game Fest, and I never got a chance to dive into it because of how much stuff was going on. I believe the cause of this was failing network equipment at our ISP.

Official Site: https://PossessorsGame.com 

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2132890/Possessors/ 

Escape a sprawling, flooded city overrun with surreal interdimensional horror in this fast-paced action side scroller from Heart Machine and Devolver Digital. Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration. Play as Luca, the host, and Rehm, her less-than-cooperative counterpart, as they explore a quarantined city ripped apart and flooded by an interdimensional catastrophe. Their only hope of survival is by learning to co-exist.

In Tenjutsu, you play as a renegade yakuza hellbent on defying her former associates and loosening their grip on the Secret Garden City. Revealed at this year's Devolver Direct, this fast and fluid rogue-jutsu is the latest game from Sébastien Benard, designer of the acclaimed Dead Cells. Four powerful crime syndicates control the city, ruling with an iron fist. To defeat them, you must master a brutal brawling system and build a diverse arsenal of weapons, upgrades, and martial arts techniques, breaking their hold on the streets in a flurry of violence. The city is reborn as these sinister organizations fall to your fists, tackled in any order you wish. The ruined streets become vibrant and full of life, and you can spend gathered resources in shops and restaurants to help you on your quest. Shape the city to fit your play style, unlocking new weapons, combat moves, and new areas. Just don't take too long: the longer you spend preparing, the stronger your enemies will become.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363940/Tenjutsu/ 

Releases tomorrow! June 8!

A new trailer for a new season has been released at Summer Game Fest.

What do you think?

Wanderstop is a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea. Playing as a fallen fighter named Alta, you’ll manage a tea shop within a magical forest and tend to the customers who pass through. But Alta does not want to be here. And if she gets her way, the tea shop will be nothing but a brief and painful memory.