Missing 'AA' Games, Xbox Partner Preview + more!

Duration: 07:43

Timestamps:

0:00 endure it

0:07 Former PS boss wants 'AA' games

2:06 Xbox Partner Preview showcase

4:01 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:16 Concord going F2P ??

4:42 Analogue 3D is a new N64

5:30 Super Mario Party Jamboree

6:16 Exodus trailer ft McConaughey

6:47 'Tales' building 'Large World Model' AI

NEWS SOURCES:

DOAA

Former PlayStation boss says lack of AA games is “threat to the ecosystem”

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/shawn-layden-aa-is-gone-and-thats-a-threat-to-the-ecosystem-going-forward

There’s a “collapse in creativity” https://www.eurogamer.net/former-playstation-exec-says-theres-a-collapse-of-creativity-in-the-industry

AAA games are too expensive to take chances on creative games https://lmg.gg/pBhZz (GI.biz)

Anyway, 2K revealed free-to-play hero shooter Project Ethos https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/2ks-first-free-to-play-hero-shooter-is-project-ethos-an-extraction-game-with-a-minor-roguelike-twist/

Layden’s film analogy https://lmg.gg/t02hX (GI.biz)

This might be what the future looks like: Gravity Ball Trailer https://youtu.be/y0WjRnTDqfw

NBA 2K25 is taking notes from Fortnite, becoming a strange new digital platform by offering the only way to play the new game from acclaimed Lego racing devs

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/nba-2k/nba-2k25-is-taking-notes-from-fortnite-becoming-a-strange-new-digital-platform-by-offering-the-only-way-to-play-the-new-game-from-acclaimed-lego-racing-devs/

Visual Concepts president Greg Thomas explained it started as a passion project https://medium.com/@GregThomasVC/nba-2k25-gravity-ball-36f0b2e0ec6e

XBOX IS CANONICALLY POLY

Xbox Partner Preview https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24272580/xbox-fall-partner-showcase-october-2024-trailers

Remedy’s Project Condor seemingly revealed as FBC: Firebreak, Remedy’s 3-player coop shooter https://youtu.be/TffTDeMgACY

New Alan Wake 2 The Lake House trailer, launches Oct 22nd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591RFRnhNEY

Like a Dragon: Pirates in Hawaii - Naval Combat Reveal https://youtu.be/_fVgonB6ubk?t=59

Also releasing a week early https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/pirate-yakuza-in-hawaii-will-now-release-one-week-earlier/

Cronos: The New Dawn, new game from Bloober after smashing the Silent Hill 2 remake https://youtu.be/Sp5X_7OGoBA

Nightmare creatures https://youtu.be/Sp5X_7OGoBA?t=54

Playing with grandma https://youtu.be/Sp5X_7OGoBA?t=46

Blindfire, multiplayer arena shooter in dimly lit rooms

trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQP3AmAVle0

First look at Subnautica 2, coming to early access next year https://youtu.be/MDO_VxUSOGI

Animal Well coming to Xbox https://youtu.be/zMXekttKP_M

Eternal Strands showed more of its magic system, how you can freeze enemy wings https://youtu.be/ESJWCOL8mA4?t=24

But also combine spells like fire and telekinesis to create a fireball launcher https://youtu.be/ESJWCOL8mA4?t=48

QUICK BITS

NOW FROM CONCENTRATE

Concord receiving mysterious updates

https://kotaku.com/concord-flop-sony-steam-updates-1851674858

Updates on SteamDB https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/history/

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/sonys-failed-shooter-concord-has-been-updated-dozens-of-times-on-steam-in-october-and-im-starting-to-feel-a-comeback/

CR-TEASE

$250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year,

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/the-analogue-3d-drags-the-fondly-remembered-n64-into-the-21st-century/

Don’t show off the “virtually indistinguishable recreations of CRT displays” they brag about

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/10/250-analogue-3d-will-play-all-your-n64-cartridges-in-4k-early-next-year/

Preorders live next week https://www.techradar.com/gaming/consoles-pc/pre-orders-for-the-reimagined-n64-the-analogue-3d-go-live-next-week

FUN 1, FRIENDS 0

Super Mario Party Jamboree release

https://www.polygon.com/review/466520/super-mario-party-jamboree-review-nintendo-switch

Receiving GREAT reviews for the most part https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/super-mario-party-jamboree-review-1235136068/

Except Eurogamer https://www.eurogamer.net/super-mario-party-jamboree-review

Reviewer may not have every played Mario Party before, or just doesn’t like the series https://lmg.gg/tOd8C (Eurogamer)

TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE, SPACE IS A FLESH SHIP

Exodus teaser shows ships made of flesh

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fair-play-exodus-having-ex-bioware-devs-and-matthew-mcconaughey-on-board-is-neat-but-your-freaky-flesh-spaceships-have-my-attention/

Matthew McConaughey doing what he does best: saying vaguely intellectual nonsense https://kotaku.com/exodus-trailer-scifi-rpg-matthew-mcconaughey-1851674488

trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytz156surXg&t=22s

TALL TALES

Startup ‘Tales’ building AI game generator, wants to run a “social experiment” where people “generate the vast levels of data required to create an incredible gaming console”

https://wccftech.com/startup-tales-wants-to-let-you-build-your-own-games-with-generative-ai-starting-next-month/

https://tales.world/

Horizon ripoff https://youtu.be/_CUoVGW8VCw?t=6

Helldivers, Doom ripoffs https://lmg.gg/kMUSg

“The Social Experiment”