We’re back with another live recap, this time for the Xbox + Bethesda livestream! While this showcase was initially hosted at E3, then took place as a standalone event, it has now migrated to be part of Summer Game Fest. We’re expecting some big news about Starfield, Halo: Infinite and maybe, just maybe, Elder Scrolls VI.

Redfall

• New from Bethesda, Arkane Austin.
• Something’s going on at a chuch, there’s blood and the pastor’s gone missing.
• It’s a shooter, looks creepy yet the gun is pink and has stickers.
• Floating monster in the attic. Turns out it’s a… half-werewolf man in his 20s?
• More of these things show up. “Jacob” also shows up and disintegrates someone.
• Greetings from Redfall – undoubtedly the city the game takes place in.
• Enemies are vampires. There’s also cultists.
• The town is on an island.
• Remi de la Rosa – engineer, most likely playable.
• Layla Ellison – Telekinetic Threat in Student Debt.
• Seems to be a co-op shooter where every player has different abilities.
• Door that goes somewhere mysterious – into a “collective consciousness”. Could be procedurally-generated?
• “Stay Alone or Squad Up”.
• Weapons, upgrades UI.
• Coming 2023 ob XBOX, PC and ‘the cloud’.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

High on Life

• Console launch exclusive.
• Developed by Squanch Games.
• Morty’s voicing this one.
• Lots of disgusting monsters. Talking fish.
• High on Life, coming October 2022 on Xbox, PC and the cloud.

Sarah Bond Enters The Stage

• She says things like “something we’ve never done before”, “iconic team”, plugging Xbox Game Pass.
• Marc Merrill, president of games at Riot Games is talking.
• LoL, Wild Rift, Valorant, Runeterra, Teamfight Tactics coming to Game Pass.
• Unlock all LoL heroes while you’ve got Game Pass. Other games are also getting similar perks.
• Promotional trailer for all Riot Games games coming to Game Pass.

A Plague Tale: Requiem

• Developed by Asobo Studios, Focus Entertainment
• Bunch of kids walking around. Seems to be A Plague Tale: Requiem again.
• Alicia killing a bunch of people, sneaking around, lighting people on fire, pushing them into swarms of rats.

Forza Motorsport

• Cars. Sounds of cars. “Car game music”.
• It’s another Forza Motorsport.
• Coming 2023. This one is not labeled with a number, because of course it’s not. Should be the eighth in the series.
• New [old] track: Maple Valley.
• Fully-dynamic time of day. Starting to believe this is just a remaster for the new console.
• Gameplay showcase of a race.
• A 48x improvement in the fidelity of physics simulation.
• The ground honestly looks amazing – made through 3D rendering and photorealistic… photo-capture technology.
• They’re talking about the vegetation a lot.
• Dynamic weather system available on every track.
• Changes in time of day also affect temperature, which affects grip on the track.
• Added depth in car-building.
• Advanced materials and shaders. Everything looks shiny. Complex self-reflection, ray-tracing.
• Car damage is reproduced down to the individual scratches. The paint peels away at exposed and raised edges.
• “Cars reflecting onto other cars”.

Microsoft Flight Simulator

• Introducing helicopters, gliders.
• Things are flying. Microsoft Flight Simulator.
• 40th anniversary celebration, coming in November 2022.
• Coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator: THE GODDAMN HALO PELICAN. Take my money! Free add-on available today.

Overwatch 2

• Tracer shows up.
• “A New Era Begins”.
• Free to play.
• People getting arctic weather jackers.
• Early access on October 4th.
• New hero: Lady with an axe. A “wastelander”. Interesting hair choice.
• She’s fighting the Junker King.
• We don’t have a name for her yet.

ARA: History Untold

• New turn-based strategy game.
• Trailer voided by Shorheh Aghdashloo.
• Historical game.
• ARA: History Untold.
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Pete Hines in the House

• Pete does a quick recap on what we’ve just seen.
• New trailer for Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle, coming out June 21.

• Fallout turning 21 this year. Fallout 76 new expedition: The Pitt, coming this September.

Forza Horizon 5

• Forza turns into Hot Wheels.
• Available July 19. Actual collaboration with Hot Wheels.

ARK 2

• A dodo! Munching on a rotten hand with an electrical device.
• Bigger and bigger dinosaurs. ARK 2?
• Vin Diesel shows up on the dinosaur. Yep, ARK 2, coming 2023.
• Fun fact: Vin Diesel is part of the development team for ARK 2.

Scorn

• Super disgusting space. Someone’s got a juicy tentacle in their belly.
• Looks reminiscent of the Necris maps in Unreal Tournament 3.
• Coming October 22.

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

• A game by A44.
• There’s pestilence, thanks to ‘the gods’.
• She kills skeletons and she’s got what looks to be a cute fox pet.
• She’s got an axe and a gun.
• She combines with the fox for an aerial dash.
• Big bugs, giant knights.
• Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, coming early 2023.

Minecraft: Legends

• Developed by Mojang, but maybe not Minecraft?
• It’s Minecraft, or some form of it.
• Well-shaded trailer, almost makes you forget how the base game looks.
• Little spirit that builds a house for you.
• Minecraft: Legends. A new action strategy game coming 2023.

Lightyear: Frontier

• Space. But not for long! You just crash-landed on some place. A vibrant planet.
• Gather resources from the comfortable confines of your mech-suit.
• It sort of seems like the purpose of the game is to make an honest livin’ farming on some planet.
• Lightyear: Frontier, coming spring 2023.

Gunfire Reborn

• It’s all pets.
• 4-player co-op. Roguelite action.
• Gunfire Reborn, coming October 2022.

The Last Case of Benedict Fox

• An old-timey car rushing across hills. Arrives at mansion.
• It’s spooky. There’s a spooky voice.
• Character finds his dad (dead).
• 3D sidescrolling platformer. Lots of tentacles, teeth, and evil purpleness.
• Coming 2023.

As Dusk Falls

• Interactive experience all levels of players can enjoy.
• This game was already revealed on Friday. This seems to be… the same thing again.
• Solo or multiplayer, up to 8 players.
• Coming July 19.

Naraka: Bladepoint

• Console launch exclusive.
• Naraka: Bladepoint. Battle royale.
• Cross-play enabled.
• New campaign mode.
• June 23, 2022. Included with Game Pass on launch.

Pentiment

• Takes place in a time when the average lifespan was 25. Everyone looks like they smell.
• A narrative adventure from Obsidian Entertainment.
• Out November 22.

Grounded

• Disgustingly detailed mosquito.
• Another one from Obsidian Entertainment.
• Hey, it’s the one from last year with the teenagers that became ant-sized!
• Survive the yard against terrifying insects, treacherous wastelands.
• There’s lots of lasers.
• Game preview is over.
• Full release of Grounded in September.

Ereban: Shadow Legacy

• Searching for Helios. We’ve been here before.
• Coming 2023.

Diablo 4

• Furry creature eating the carcass of some poor soul.
• What looks like Diablo’s Necromancer enters the scene.
• She’s resurrecting the corpse. This is definitely some Diablo.
• She, uh, decapitates the dude she just resurrected. Seems a bit of a waste.
• Necromancer joins Diablo 4 as the final class for launch.
• Gameplay showcase. There was a blood wave. Lovely.
• Turn into an ice block and freeze surrounding enemies.
• Reclaim Strongholds. They become a friendly town.
• Fully-enabled cross-play on PC and Xbox.
• Dedicated PvP zones.
• Endgame: New items, new dungeons, Paragon passive tree.
• Coming 2023.

Sea of Thieves

• Get ships, name them however you want, decorate them!
• Use new cash-in points to sell loot with ease.
• Season 7 coming out July 21st.

Ravenlok

• Developed by Cococumber Games.
• This little girl just got pulled into a mirror. She’s in a fantasy world now.
• There’s a crazy mix of art-styles here.
• Ravenlok, coming 2023.

Cocoon

• Console launch exclusive.
• A light comes down from the sky, hits a canyon pillar, activates a walnut.
• Walnut births… you?
• Isometric platformer. Move orbs around to solve puzzles.
• Yep, it’s all about the orbs. Orbs within orbs within orbs.
• Spooky bad man outside of the orbverse.
• Coming 2023.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

• Lots of gross insects.
• People being murdered by other people in some pagoda village on fire.
• Huge monsters. Giant dragon.
• Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
• Coming 2023.

Phil Specter In Da House

• He’s ‘thrilled’ to bring Wo Long to Game Pass day one.
• Returning to Xbox from ATLUS: The worldwide RPG phenomenon. Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5 coming on all the still relevant Xboxes.
• Persona 5 coming late this year.

• A special partnership announcement between Xbox and…
• Hideo Kojima!
• They’re working on a completely new game that Hideo’s been wanting to make for a long time.
• We’ll know about it ‘in the future’.
• Kojima Productions x Xbox Game Studios.
• He’s talking about Bethesda now. Starfield when?
• Extended first look!

Starfield

• Starts with a quite from Anatole France. Classy.
• “Space wonder theme” music plays.
• The man. The legend. Todd Howard enters the stage.
• “Our most ambitious game ever”. I keep hearing that.
• Gameplay reveal starts. You arrive on the mysterious moon of Kreet.
• May 7, 2330 (hopefully not release date)
• Seems to be a sulphurous wasteland.
• There’s a mech friend!
• Scan nearby thing: It’s a dust root.
• Creepy crustaceans roam this land.
• Survey the environment for resources. Then laser drill them.
• There’s a research lab here, occupied by Crimson Fleet pirates.
• Time to gear up. Player switches to weapon.
• Crouches. Stealth is going to be a component.
• These level 2 pirates don’t seem too dangerous.
• There’s a sci-fi shotgun.
• Open closed cases with the “Digipick”. Seems to indeed be Skyrim in space.
• Exits to a balcony and a pirate ship lands nearby.
• After some initial encounters, you’re invited to join Constellation, the last group of space explorers. They live in New Atlantis on the planet Jemison.
• The people of New Atlantis look like regular people, which is a fresh sight to see when so many games come up with the most ridiculous haircuts for “future people”.
• You can also sign up with the Crimson Fleet pirates.
• Lots of different monsters. Huge dinosaurs. Gravity-defying artifacts.
• Their most flexible character creation yet. Biometric ID, body, face, background (bounty hunter, bouncer??), traits (extrovert, neon street rat, kid) that give different advantages.
• Physical, social, combat, science and tech skill trees.
• Deep crafting systems: Research projects, weapon mods.
• Build your own outposts. Seems to be very modular and easy to set up.
• Hire characters to keep your outposts maintained.
• You can also build your own spaceships. Choose crewmembers. Completely customize the look and layout.
• Engines, shields, weapon systems. Get all that figured out because you can also fly the ship.
• Cue footage of player just faffing about in orbit when suddenly, these damn pirates warp in.
• Yup, there’s space battles.
• Fields of giant asteroids. Space stations. Docking between ships (presumably to loot).
• You can land and explore anywhere on any planet, in over a hundred systems. Over 1000 planets to fully explore.
• Coming 2023.

That’s all for the Xbox + Bethesda showcase! Join us as we recap the PC gamer show which starts in less than an hour!