We’re back again to take a look at the highlights of a gaming showcase. This time, we turn our attention to Gamescom, the gaming trade show in Germany whose “ Opening Night Live ” presentation happens to be hosted by Geoff Keighley . Can’t so much as walk five paces without bumping into a show that that man is hosting. Anyway, same principle as before - just the good-looking and interesting projects, keeping the pessimism and negativity to a minimum. Bubsy 4D Developed by: Fabraz Someone made the call to stick this in the pre-show before the main presentation, and that’s baffling to me because it’s one of the most interesting nostalgia revivals I’ve seen in a while. Immediate takeaway: Fabraz seems to be leaning hard on self-aware and self-deprecating comedy here. An understandable creative choice, given both Bubsy’s wisecracking persona and the series’ charms having been overshadowed for three decades by this game’s infamous predecessor Bubsy 3D. The jokes in the trailer are amusi...
When it comes to the Game Awards, there’s an unspoken understanding of how events will progress and how we inevitably will respond. It goes something like this: everyone get hyped up to see their favourite games get a nod (or pissed as hell because something they loved was snubbed), the speculation runs rampant as to who or what takes the prizes for any number of reasons, and then on Award Night we all get worn down by the slow pace of the show itself, the abundance of product placement and advertising, and the growing realization that a lot of awards are destined for the normiest of normie titles that best posture as outsider art. Credit where it’s due, host/showrunner Geoff Keighley and company have this down practically to a science. But if we must engage with the Awards – and barring anything else compelling happening during this mostly frigid, empty, and miserable time of year – then we can at least have some fun attempting to pre-game the show itself. Yes, I’ve decided to partake...