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Ryuu96 on 11 June 2025
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Angelus said:
Ryuu96 said:

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I mean some of the most popular release windows for video games are February, March, and April. GTA isn't releasing until the tail end of May (and that's of course assuming they don't delay it again). There's no reason the January direct couldn't really be business as usual. Not like everybody's gonna stop playing games until GTA releases.

Yeah, I'm not ruling out stuff releasing in February-March and maybe April but I don't know how much they'll pack in those 3 months, in fairness they did have Avowed, South of Midnight and Oblivion Remastered in those 3 months for 2025 but Oblivion Remastered was kind of an out of the blue shadow-drop. Doom was May which they're going to avoid like the plague and they'll also avoid June.

January can only be a shadow drop, so maybe that Kiln from Double Fine.

Given GTA 6 is at the end of May, then April is probably safe but I do think it depends on the type of game, I can't see them releasing any really lengthy videogames or big GaaS at the end of April - into May even before GTA 6's release because the GaaS will have their vital legs cleaved off by GTA 6 and the lengthy games will be dropped like a bag of bricks, plus people may take that into account; "Well, I want to play Fable but there's no way I'd finish it before GTA 6 so I'll just wait for GTA 6" and for those buying, save $80, Lol.

If I'm a publisher I'm probably going to put a month between me and GTA 6 in either direction for my big AAAs. But January (Shadow-Drop), February and March are perfectly safe Imo, and early April should be too, any later, like late April into May, I would only risk a smaller project but even then, the month leading up to GTA 6, ain't nobody going to be reporting on or caring about anything other than GTA 6. You will not be able to compete with the marketing and socials leading up to GTA 6, anything releasing in May even before GTA 6 will be drowned out.

Angelus said:
Ryuu96 said:

Rewatched all the trailers from the showcase, I think I might bump my rating up to 7.5 based on all the stuff I'm interested in. I don't know how to rank them but this is basically everything that I found interesting, a mix of "definitely day one" to "very likely day one" and finally a few "they look interesting but I'll want to see more and/or wait for reviews" but I have my eye on them all.

  1. Clockwork Revolution (Game Pass)
  2. Gears of War: Reloaded (Game Pass)
  3. Grounded 2 (Game Pass)
  4. Keeper (Game Pass)
  5. The Outer Worlds 2 (Game Pass)
  6. Planet of Lana II (Game Pass)
  7. Aphelion (Game Pass)
  8. High on Life 2 (Game Pass)
  9. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy (Game Pass)
  10. Super Meat Boy 3D (Game Pass)
  11. At Fate’s End (Game Pass)
  12. Beast of Reincarnation (Game Pass)
  13. There Are No Ghosts at The Grand (Game Pass)
  14. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (Game Pass)
  15. The Blood of Dawnwalker
  16. Mudang: Two Hearts

Blood of the Dawnwalker 15?!

A cool ass looking vampire RPG from a bunch of people who worked on Witcher 3? Dafuq?

It's not in order, Lol. It was mostly just the order of the trailers I watched on the Xbox Wire article, I did originally have it broken down a little but then I gave up when I couldn't decide where to place things, if it was in order though then Black Ops 7 would be at the bottom, Lol.