Update 2: Thursday May 30th there will be a State of Play at 6PM Eastern.
Update 1: It doesn’t look like there is a State of Play today, but they have confirmed Days of Play will be on the 29th. It is possible we still get a Days of Play soon though.
This time of year is packed with gaming news. What used to be E3, is not Summer Game Fest and around it is a bunch of showcases and press conferences that showcase upcoming video games, consoles, accessories, everything you could imagine. We already know that June 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th are packed with press conferences. In those four days, ten showcases are already announced. There are two big companies that are missing in those days. Nintendo and Sony have not announced any conferences, This isn’t surprising, for years the two have shied away from the traditional E3 style showcases that Ubisoft, Xbox, and others have done. Normally they do have a showcase all their own around the same time.
This year, May 28th, 2024 is the rumored date for the Playstation State of Play. While it’s not officially announced, the 28th would fall in line with their past events. In 2023, they did a showcase on May 24th.
On May 29th, assuming that May 28th is the State of Play, should start the Days of Play sale. Expect to see games, consoles, accessories, etc on sale. One item that I personally am excited to see if it goes on sale is the PlayStation Portal. It’s been hard to keep in stock as is and having it on sale would only increase the demand even more. I have to admit I didn’t see the appeal at first, it seemed like it would only work on your home Wifi, but I am happy that isn’t the case. While streaming to a phone would have been more convenient, the Portal is the next best thing.
I can’t wait to see whatever Sony is up to, especially since it seems that 2024 will be a light year for first party titles, maybe they have some surprised for the latter half of the year? We will just have to wait and find out.
Is Leatherface going to be going the way of the Demogorgon? That may be the case. Earlier this week alternate names for Leatherface’s perks were found in the player test build (PTB). While we have no confirmation from Behaviour directly, Leaks by Daylight on Twitter backed up this news by saying that Leatherface will only be in the game for a few more months.
Stranger Things was rumored to be coming back to the game last year, but now the rumors are saying that it will be the anniversary chapter in June and feature the Rainbow Room. Last year there was a video that seemingly featured the new map. Unlike Stranger Things, Leatherface was only a character. Back then they considered him a paragraph and not a chapter. He didn’t have a map or a survivor with him, so his departure from the game would only mean that you wouldn’t be able to purchase him anymore. It’s assumed that if you own him already, he will be playable even after he’s no longer purchasable.
A Texas Chainsaw Massacre game will be coming out in a few months. That could play into the reasoning why Leatherface will be leaving the Entity’s Realm. While the game looks fun, it’s hard to imagine that a franchise focused game is going to knock Dead by Daylight off its current horror throne. I wouldn’t be surprised if Leatherface was back after a year or so after their game releases.
On Sunday morning the first gameplay seemingly leaked from the upcoming GTA6. If this is legitimate, it’s the first look we have at the game. It was rumored for years that the game would have both male and female playable characters and feature Vice City. This video seems to confirm both those rumors.
The video, embedded below, features, gunplay, dialogue, robberies, some interesting unfinished assets (those strippers just look like the sex dolls from Saints Row), and more. The debug tools that appear on screen appear to be those same ones from Red Dead Redemption 2. If they’re using the same engine, that would make sense that they do.
Teapotuberhacker claims that these came from Rockstar’s internal Slack groups, but some aren’t convinced. Reusing so much of Grand Theft Auto 5’s assets has some people convinced that these are fake. It’s been nine years since the fifth game came out and it’s been updated multiple times for PC and throughout generations of consoles, so it could make sense why the game is reusing assets. The assets could also be placeholders and not meant to ship with the final release of the game.
GTA6 was confirmed earlier this year and was said it would be released when Rockstar was ready, but if legitimate, the video proves that it could be pretty far along in development. Could we see it release next year? Ten years from the release of GTA5 could be the goal. I know if this is legit, I am excited. I can’t wait to get back into a GTA game and seeing as how GTA5 is the only Grand Theft Auto that I completed the story (so far) I can’t wait to get into whatever comes next.
It’s been rumored that Gears of War is going to get a Marcus Fenix Collection, similar to the Halo Master Chief Collection. It was rumored to be revealed this year at Summer Game Fest, but we had no such announcement. The Coalition stated a few months ago that they are starting work on the next Gears of War game. It wasn’t officially named, but it’s possible the next game is Gears of War 6 and not the Marcus Fenix Collection. So does this mean that the rumored game doesn’t exist? Maybe not.
Marcus Fenix
Marcus Fenix is a legendary war hero. He is a formerly retired soldier in the Coalition of Ordered Governments army. He fought in the Pendulum and Locust Wars. Even though when we meet him he is in jail for abandoning his post, he did so to try and save his father. He was pivotal in ending the Locust War and was the star of the first three Gears of War games. After the games he retires and settles down and has a family. In Gears 5 and 6 we play as his son JD. Marcus will presumably be back in Gears of War 6.
Gears 6?
Gears 6 is presumably going to wrap up the storyline that started in Gears of War 4. In most cases there is a huge gut wrenching moment in the third of a trilogy. In Gears of War 3 this moment happens when Marcus’ friend and fellow COG, Dom, sacrifices himself. Could Marcus be the one to sacrifice himself in Gears 6? He would do it if it meant saving his son. His son is the reason he went back to being a soldier. His son could be a reason for him to sacrifice himself to save JD.
Marcus Fenix Collection
Unlike the Master Chief Collection, which was released with Chief being alive and having a new game on the way, could this collection be something different? Could The Coalition be looking to move on from the Fenix era? What if the Marcus Fenix Collection is going to be the last hurrah for him? He could die in 6 and then they remaster Gears 2 and 3 and release all 6 (maybe 7 if it includes Judgement) in a collection. Perhaps even have the collection come out as part of Gears 6. A legendary edition of it where it comes with all 6 games remastered with Gears 6 being the base game and the others as extra content? Other companies have done something similar.
Though it wasn’t six games, when South Park: Fractured but Whole came out, if you preordered it you got a remaster of South Park Stick of Truth for free. When Fallout 4 was announced, if you preordered it, you got Fallout 3 for free. Maybe The Coalition would do something where they have the remasters finished and if you preorder Gears 6, you get Gears 1-5 that day to catch up on the story. Gears 2, 3, and Judgement never had a PC release either, so to have all Gears games on PC seems like it would be a goal for them, especially since Microsoft and Xbox have been big in pushing Xbox or PC gaming in the last few years.
What do you think of the Marcus Fenix rumors? Do you think the insiders’ reports of it coming are real? What do you think the chances are that it is a bundle released before Gears 6 or as part of a legendary bundle with Gears 6? Let me know.
With just under a month to go until the Xbox and Bethesda press conference for Summer Game Fest, the rumors are flying. What rumors you ask? According to Green Ninja on Twitter, Microsoft is going to announce Ubisoft+ Classics will be part of Game Pass. Will they actually include it? It’s possible, but I doubt it. EA Play already can be accessed with Game Pass, so adding Ubisoft seems like a pipe dream. As great as three bundled services under one price sounds, Ubisoft+ Classics is already part of Playstation Plus.
Ubisoft+ Classics is a collection of older Ubisoft games and doesn’t include their full library. Ubisoft+, however is their entire catalog of games. New releases are added to the service on release and any DLC and premium editions of games are part of their subscription service. It’s a pretty great deal and I wish EA Play and Game Pass included DLCs as part of their subscription fee. Even if Game Pass included DLC for their first party games, that would be pretty huge.
They also said that Xbox Game Pass Family plan will also be announced at the showcase. This would be huge if true. Xbox 360 had a family plan for their Gold Membership, so the fact that it disappeared was disappointing. People with multiple Xboxes (including me) will be ecstatic that we will finally be able to allow our families to play with us on a separate console or even on PC using their own accounts.
Contraband
The final leak they revealed was that we will Contraband gameplay. Contraband is co-op smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan. From Avalanche Studios. It was announced last year at E3, so a lot of people have been waiting for more information about the game. This was last year’s trailer:
Are you excited about these potential leaks? Anything you’re hoping to see?
Journalist Nick Baker from Xbox Era claimed that a Master Chief Collection style game was in the works for Gears of War. He went on to say “if you go from November 2021 to November 2022 and you look at Microsoft’s big game output, it could wind up being Halo, Gears, Forza…” If he’s right then that would be a huge game for Xbox this year.
As for what it would include? It will probably include remasters of Gears of War 2 and 3. It should also include the Ultimate Edition, which is a remaster of the first Gears game. If it is like the Master Chief Collection then it’s possible that we would get Gears of War Judgement either included as part of the collection or as a DLC later on. Would it include Gears of War 4 and 5? I doubt it for a few reasons. The first being that Gears of War 4 and 5 wouldn’t get much out of remasters for the Series X. Second, both games have already received updates for the Series X/S. I think it’s just a matter of time before we get a collection of Xbox 360 Gears games. The real question is will it be in 2022?
What about Gears of War 6?
Last year Nvidia GeForce Now database was leaked. The leak included a list of unannounced games including God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Gears of War 6 and many others. The two former were announced for PC in the subsequent months, but Gears of War 6? That’s still unannounced. Nvidia did confirm that the leak was real, but that the games listed were purely speculative. Gears of War 5 released in 2019, so a new game releasing in 2022 would make sense. In July 2021, the Coalition announced they were winding down development of Gears 5 and would be working on new projects using Unreal 5.
While that may not seem like enough time to create any game, Epic developed Unreal Engine 5 with forward compatibility in mind. This means that developers can create games in Unreal Engine 4 and move them to the next-generation engine later. It’s possible that the collection or even Gears 6 started on Unreal 4 and moved to 5 in the past few months. Is it really that easy though? Epic makes it seem very easy to switch from 4 to 5. With Fortnite chapter 3, they switched from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5’s engine. How many other released games will be changing engines though? That remains to be seen.
What else was leaked?
Here is the full list of what was leaked, but it’s important to take these with a grain of salt:
Unannounced title by Square Enix (could be like four games) — Tomb Raider on Unreal Engine 5 announced
Kingdom Hearts IV
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Street Fighter 6
Dragons Dogma 2
Monster Hunter 6
GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas Remasters
Bioshock RTX remaster
Bioshock 2022
Mirrors Edge RTX Remaster
Untitled Respawn Game (Three Star Wars games)
Titanfall 3
Tekken 8
Human Fall Flat 2
The Talos Principle 2
Crysis 4
Earth Defence Force 6
Bayonetta 3
Judgement (this one seems odd to me due to legsl disuptes with SEGA and actor agency)
Catherine Full Body
Shin Megami Tensei V
Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster
Half-Life 2 Remastered
Project FPS
Xcom 3
Injustice 3: Gods will Fall
Destroy all Humans 3
MGS 2 & 3 HD (no shot in my opinion)
Mario and Rabbids
Death Stranding Directors Cut PC
Sniper Elite 5
City Skylines 2
Total War 9
Payday 3
Hangar 13 Unannounced (Cancelled Superhero game)
Fight for Middle-Earth
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (PC)
Mortal Kombat Next Gen & Mortal Kombat XII
Moss – listed on Steam (PSVR Timed Exclusive it seems)
Space Punks (for Steam)
Hitman Pro
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Remastered
Goat Simulator 2
Wreckfest Sequel
Worms Next =X
Titan Quest 2 =X
Outcast
Viking by Criterion.
Metro Next
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Android
As Dusk Falls and As Dusk Falls Season 2 (ERSB Ratings confirm)
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (Switch Exclusive)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
Ruined King
Summer Game Fest
If there is a new Gears of War game coming this year, then it will more than likely be announced at Summer Game Fest. The question is what else could be announced? It depends on how many of these titles are supposed to be released in the next year. I’d be very excited for remasters of the Gears games, but there is so many other games listed I’d be excited for. Ultimate Alliance 3 would be fun, I know it’s on Switch, but putting it on PC would be great. It would be even better if they could get the license to list 1 and 2 again, I’d love to go back and replay them.
Are you excited for the possibility of a Marcus Fenix Collection? What about Gears 6? What else on the list are you excited for?
Less than a week after Chapter 25 and 26 leaked, supposedly another future chapter has leaked as well. A few months ago, Dead by Daylight Mobile teased what looked like a collaboration with Five Nights at Freddy’s. Nothing ever came of it, though.
The strange thing about these tweets is that it was posted on their mobile Twitter. Surely if this was a new chapter tease, they’d post it on their main Twitter. Could it be that they were teasing something specific just for mobile? Yesterday Dead by Daylight posted on Instagram an interesting photo.
When you start a night in most Five Nights games, there’s usually an audio recording from a daytime manager. Could this picture of a cassette tape be a clue that ties to the DBD Mobile Twitter? Possibly, the question is if this is for a future chapter, why are they teasing it now? It wouldn’t come out for at least three months if the Dredge leaks are true. Six months if the second chapter of Resident Evil is true.
The Dredge and Chapter 24
The chapter 24 leaks looks like they may have gotten some legs with an Instagram post today. It is supposed to come with a map called Garden Joy, that certainly looks like Garden joy on the pamphlet.
Personally I think there’s too many leaks lately. A few weeks ago there was a leak that there was going to be a double BP event, then the next day it was cancelled. It was replaced by a double XP event. I think Behaviour might be deliberately leaking things at this point to try and find the leaker or to just throw off the people who post these leaks.
What do you think? Do you think it’s possible that some of these are just some random things let out to throw people off? Let us know in the comments.
It looks like on the heels of these, DBDLeaks on Twitter is claiming that chapter 25 will be a second Resident Evil chapter that will include Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers as survivors and Albert Wesker as the killer. I never thought of Rebecca Chambers as a central character, Ada sure, Wesker of course, but Rebecca? She was in the first one briefly and she was in Resident Evil 0, but that was it. She had her own spinoff series planned though, unfortunately it was scrapped. Could her inclusion mean that Capcom is gearing up to put her in more content? We haven’t seen her since Resident Evil 0, unless you count the photo in Resident Evil 2 Remake. I know I wouldn’t mind more Rebecca content.
DBDLeaks also claims that chapter 26 will be original with a killer known as the Knight. That could be really cool, we have a Samurai type character, a knight would be pretty cool. What other historical figures would you want to see in the game? A mummy, werewolf, Dracula would all be pretty interesting I think, but those are also pretty traditional historical monsters.
Chapter 25 is meant to be second Resident Evil chapter, including: – Ada Wong (Survivor) – Rebecca Chambers (Survivor) – Albert Wesker (Killer)
Dead by Daylight(DBD) is coming up on it’s sixth year of being released. Every year they release a new chapter for their anniversary and the last few years they were licensed, last year was Resident Evil, the prior year was a Stranger Things chapter. This year the rumors are that it will be an original license. In year five they had three licensed chapters, so it makes sense that they’d go for original content this anniversary. Is this the new content coming to DBD though?
The Dredge
The Dredge’s powers are currently unknown, but their rumored perks are as follows:
Septic Touch: Whenever a survivor performs the healing action within your terror radius, that survivor suffers from blindness and exhaustion, it lingers for 6 seconds after healing is interrupted by any means. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 40.
Darkness Revealed: When you open a locker, the auras of all survivors within 16 meters of any lockers are revealed for 3 seconds. This perk has a 30 second cool down. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 35.
Dissolution: 3 seconds after injuring a survivor by any means, Dissolution activates for 12 seconds. The next time a survivor fast vaults over a pallet inside your terror radius, the Entity will break the pallet at the end of the vault and the perk deactivates. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 30.
Haddie Kaur
Haddie Kaur’s backstory is currently unknown, but their perks are rumored to be:
Residual Manifest: After a successful killer blind, the killer is affected by blindness for 30 seconds. The perk also allows you to rummage through an opened chest once per Trial and guarantee a basic flashlight.
Inner Focus: You can see other survivor’s scratch marks within a 32 meter range of you. Whenever another survivor loses a health state within a 32 meter range of you, the killer’s aura is revealed to you for 5 seconds.
Overzealous: After cleansing a totem, your generator repair speed is increased by 4%. This perk deactivates when you lose a health state by any means.
Thoughts
If these are the perks for the new characters, wow. Finding survivors within 16 meters of a locker will pair nicely with Trickster and Huntress. I could also see killers stacking Dissolution, Spirit Fury, and Brutal Strength to not have to worry about pallets that much, plus it would change loops and chases a lot.
Inner Focus is a lot like Inner Strength, but you see other scratch marks instead of your own. Those two could stack nicely together. Residual Manifest would be a game changer, especially during Endgame Collapse. If you’re the last survivor, you could blind the killer for 30 seconds, hide, have them leave the area, then get the door open. If this is real, as a survivor main, even I have to say that Residual Manifest seems like it’s really powerful and going to get nerfed.
Noticeably absent are a new Boon Perk. The last four survivors came with them and they were a big deal at last year’s anniversary event, so are they done releasing them? Maybe. Maybe they are taking a break from totem perks in general, since neither killer or survivor have them. There’s been no mention or leak of a map yet either. They just remastered Haddonfield last chapter, so we should be getting a map with this chapter.
What do you think, are you excited for the new Dead by Daylight chapter? If these perks are real, do you like them? Do you want to see any tweaks made? Let us know in the comments.
