Don't let these games fall off everyone's games radar as we've not heard anything from them recently. From conferences to what was suppose to be E3 this year, we've still heard nothing from these games that I can't wait to play. What do we want? These games! When do we want it? In some reasonable time without any need for delays please.
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00:00 This summer we got a bunch of updates on games we're excited for, and I'm not gonna lie
00:09 there are still a bunch of games we haven't heard from, so allow me to update you on those
00:13 absent games and let you know what we know about some of the most anticipated launches
00:19 of the near future.
00:22 Given Sony and Santa Monica Studios' much anticipated follow up to 2017's God of War
00:28 is still, at the time of recording, scheduled to arrive this year, it seems pretty incredible
00:33 we didn't at least see something over the course of this summer.
00:36 Having missed Sony's most recent State of Play event, most of us reckoned Kratos and
00:41 Atreus' next adventure was for sure going to show its painted face during the following
00:46 week's Summer Games Fest.
00:48 It didn't, making God of War Ragnarok the highest profile MIA game from this year's
00:53 season of showcases.
00:54 We'll undoubtedly see more soon, be that new gameplay footage, or at the other end
01:00 of the anticipation spectrum, news of a delay, but boy unlike the bond between this father
01:05 and son, we feel abandoned.
01:16 Massive Games, the team behind Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus is working on an official
01:21 Indiana Jones game.
01:23 We haven't seen or heard much other than the first teaser trailer that dropped in January
01:28 of last year, and given the fact it's been several years since the studio's last release,
01:33 we thought we might have seen something indie related at their Xbox and Bethesda Games showcase.
01:38 Alas, as it's placed on this list of firms, we did not see a lot, leaving us craving a
01:43 modern day gamified take on Dr. Jones more than ever.
01:47 But hey, at least he's in Fortnite.
01:52 We know that Joanna Dark does her best work in the shadows, but we'd sort of hoped she'd
01:57 be dragged into the spotlight sometime soon.
02:00 Xbox Game Studios assigned a reboot of the Perfect Dark series to The Initiative, a brand
02:05 new studio that's trying to build prestige AAA games for the Xbox platform.
02:11 We've heard reports of a rocky development since it was announced in 2020, so perhaps
02:15 it's no surprise that Perfect Dark has left us perfectly in the dark.
02:20 With The Initiative now co-developing the game with Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics,
02:25 hopefully we'll see some more of Perfect Dark at the next Xbox showcase.
02:42 Since its announcement in 2019, fans of 2K's big daddy sporting underwater FPS have been
02:48 pining for more info on Bioshock 4.
02:51 The Ken Levine-led Irrational Games may have disbanded since the series' last entry, but
02:56 the specially formed Cloud Chambers Studios has taken on the mantle, tasked with bringing
03:01 Bioshock to life once more.
03:03 A mix of speculation and reading between the lines has us thinking Bioshock 4 will extend
03:08 its first-person shooter heritage and will be set in a fictional 1960s Antarctic city
03:14 called Borealis, but nothing is certain at this point.
03:18 A trailer this summer could have shed light on the subject, but it just wasn't meant to
03:22 be.
03:25 News of an open-world Avatar game named Avatar Frontiers of Pandora wowed the virtual crowds
03:31 of E3 last year, and with James Cameron's Avatar 2 film due to hit cinemas this December,
03:38 a 2022 launch date for its video game counterpart seemed to have made sense.
03:43 Fast forward 12 months and we've seen very little of Ubisoft and massive entertainment
03:48 slant on Pandora, making its absence ever since all the more bewildering.
03:53 In May, Ubisoft reaffirmed that Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, Mario + Rabbids 2 and Skull & Bones
04:00 were all on track to launch before the end of the fiscal year which concludes March 31st,
04:05 2023.
04:06 We'll take them at their word, but a wee little E3 trailer would have gone a long way.
04:26 Built in Unreal Engine 5 and bolstered by state-of-the-art photogrammetry technology,
04:32 Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 looks every bit the sequel to 2017's Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice.
04:39 The latter was primarily a solid third-person action-adventure game inspired by Norse mythology
04:44 and Celtic culture.
04:46 Having liaised closely with neuroscientists throughout the course of the game's development,
04:51 Ninja Theory also created a protagonist struggling with psychosis, and seeing how the developers
04:56 will expand on these ideas in part 2 is very exciting.
05:00 Given the games on show at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase are all due in the next 12
05:06 months, and given the fact Hellblade 2 didn't feature, this one is likely further away than
05:11 we're hoping.
05:27 Microsoft first unveiled that Fable 4 was in development back in 2020, and is a full
05:32 series reboot in development at Playground Games, that's the studio behind the Forza
05:37 Horizon series by the way.
05:39 Since then we've been sustained by the short cinematic reveal trailer for 2 years now,
05:44 and many believed, and when I say believed I do mean of course desperately hoped, that
05:48 we would finally get a look at the new Fable game this year.
05:51 But then another Xbox conference came and went and another no-show for Fable 4.
05:56 There's been such a lack of new information since its reveal that the Fable reboot is
06:00 clearly earlier in development than we'd hoped for.
06:06 In what can only be described as a match made in heaven, Hitman developer IO Interactive
06:11 is actively working on a James Bond game, currently boasting the working title Project
06:16 007.
06:18 The quality of old school spy games has dipped somewhat in recent years, but given the fact
06:23 Hitman is essentially James Bond with a bold protagonist, this one seems to be in safe
06:27 hands.
06:28 Details are still thin on the ground at present, with the latest snippet of new information
06:33 being the fact that it didn't appear.
06:36 So just like a Bond villain stroking their pet rabbit whilst sat in a chair, we'll be
06:40 expecting this game.
06:44 I'm not gonna lie, we let the internet get our hopes up for this one.
06:47 The swell of excitement around the Xbox and Bethesda conference, particularly as countless
06:52 Obsidian developers took to social media to tease their involvement in the showcase, had
06:57 gotten us excited about seeing more Avowed.
07:00 If you don't remember it, Avowed is Obsidian's brand new RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity
07:05 world, but otherwise looks like the studio's take on the Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
07:09 Well that didn't happen.
07:11 Obsidian announced Pentamon instead is in the works, and we didn't get anything about
07:16 Avowed.
07:37 And those are the games we're still waiting to hear from.
07:41 I guess there's always games com.
07:43 Speaking of, we're going, and we're going to be bringing you all the latest news and
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07:55 Auf Wiedersehen!
08:00 (electronic music)
08:02 (laughs)