Greetings from my desk, a place I have not seen much in the month of June. I just got back from Summer Game Fest's in-person event, Play Days, in Los Angeles. I saw and played a boatload of cool games that I'm eager to talk about.
If you'll allow me to step behind the curtain for a moment, the days immediately after Summer Game Fest (like the E3 days of old) are something of a whirlwind. Most developers do press the kindness of setting publishing embargoes until after the show itself so we're not incentivized to stay up all night writing and rush the process, which is great, but in doing so, you always end up with approximately one billion embargoes attached to the same day. This year, that day is June 10.
While I do plan to cover many of these games in more detail in the coming days, I thought rounding them up would be a fun way to review everything I saw and stay timely. And while we're at it, let's rank 'em.
Note: I've called out when showings were hands-on or hands-off, which is obviously a big factor in how exciting the appointment was. It's more fun and convincing to play games than have developers describe them.
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