PC Gaming E3 Conference Break Down

PC Gaming E3 June 11th, 2018

Satisfactory

• By Coffee Stain Studios
• Gameplay trailer shown
• First person sci-fi factory building game
  • Gather resources from the world to build a self-sustaining factory on an alien planet
• Play as an engineer sent form Earth to an alien planet
• Use vehicles to explore for further resources
• Factories will grow to be enormous
• Singleplayer or co-op
• Closed alpha in the coming months (sing up now)

Neo Cab

• Gameplay trailer shown
• Play as a cab driver in the future
• Dialogue options with your various passengers

Mavericks Proving Grounds

• By Automaton Games
• Battle royale with 1,000 players
• Trailer shown
• More realistic setting (i.e. more like PUBG than Fortnite)
• First person
• Sign up for closed beta
• Made on Cryengine
• Persistent social hub in the world called The Capital (more of a full world than just a map)

The Forgotten City

• Gameplay trailer
• First person puzzle exploration game to solve a mystery of what is corrupting the city
• A re-imagining of the mod
• Coming 2019

Star Control Origins

• Trailer shown
• Sci-fi
• Explore thousands of planets that you can land on
• Focus on discovery and exploration using your spaceship
• Open universe action RPG
• A full story
• Ship to ship combat
• Fully open, simulated universe
• Create your own ships, planets, or adventures with mods
• Multiplayer Fleet Battles mode
  • Ship combat PvP
• Preorder and play the beta today
• September 20th release

The Hunt Showdown

• New trailer
• New weapons
  • Crossbow, throwing knives, handheld crossbow, sticky bombs

Archangel: Hellfire

• Multiplayer, off-rails mech combat
• 4 maps, 6 mechs, 13 weapons
• July 17th release (Early Access out already)
• Trailer
  • Destructible maps
  • Free roaming PvP
  • TDM

The Sinking City

• Third person, Lovecraftian open world action mystery game
• Gameplay demo shown in background
• Investigations are the focus of the game
  • No handholding, no objectives or markers
• Takes place in fictional Massachusetts city
• Sanity mechanic
  • Choices or seeing disturbing things will affect the player’s character’s sanity
  • Cause hallucinations, disturbing sounds, etc.
• Different monsters that the player must defend themselves from using weapons (scarce ammo), traps, etc.
  • Reiterated that investigations are still the core of the game, not combat

Warframe

• Trailer for The Sacrifice (story expansion)
  • Coming this week on PC
• Umbra Warframe being added
• Trailer for Tenno Live 2018 (Warframe convention)
  • July 7th
  • Already sold out, will be streamed on Twitch

Sega Games coming to PC (shown in compilation video)

• Shenmue I and II
• Shining Resonance Refrain
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Valkyria Chronicles 4
• Yakuza Zero
  • Releasing this August

Killing Floor 2

• 4 major updates this year
  • First came in March
  • Summer sideshow coming back
  • Weapons upgrade system
• Trailer for The Summer Sideshow Treacherous Skies
  • Steampunk style
  • New map is a steampunk airship
  • New robot enemies
  • New guns
  • New character (Ms. Foster)
  • Coming tomorrow with a free weekend coming up

Tripwire stepping into publishing

• Publishing Road Redemption

Man Eater

• Made by creator of the original Killing Floor mod
• Made by Blindisde and Tripwire
• Trailer shown
• Play as a shark
• Open world action RPG where you play as a shark who hunts humans
• Full single player campaign

Untitled Publisher (that is actually their name)

• Bravery Network Online
  • Trailer shown
  • Turn based fighting game
  • Cartoon art style
  • 2019 release
• Morningstar
  • Trailer shown
  • First person farming game with some sort of dark twist
• Overwhelm
  • Trailer shown
  • 2-D platformer shooter
  • Art style reminiscent of Downwell
  • Available now

Jurassic World Evolution

• Out tomorrow (June 12th)
• New trailer
• Jurassic Park building/management game

Stormland

• Made by Insomniac Games and Occulus Studios
• Trailer (same one that was released last week)
• First person shooter open world VR game
  • Play as an android
  • Ability to fly and climb
• Focus on fluid movement
• World is ever changing
  • Entity called the Tempest rearranges the world every week

Night Call

• Trailer
• Noir game set in Paris
• Play as a taxi driver who gets involved in a world of Crime
• Black and white drawn art style

Sable

• Open world narrative focused exploration game
  • Think Journey
• Trailer
• Unique shaded art style
• Pre-alpha gameplay shown

Star Citizen

• New trailer
• Alpha 3.2 coming soon

Acer came on stage to talk about their new monitors

Genesis Alpha One

• Randomly generated universe
• Build your ship out
• Explore planets in first person
• Splice alien DNA with your crew
• Fight off alien attacks
• September 4th

Don’t Starve Hamlet

• Trailer
• Looks like more Don’t Starve
• Coming this December

Just Cause 4

• New trailer showing off the new Apex Engine
  • HDR, Interactive weather, improved draw distances and lighting, Physics based aerodynamics, improved destruction systems
• Reworked combat model
  • New weapons, AI, guns, etc.
• Improved grapple system
  • Grapple is now customizable

Overkill’s The Walking Dead

• Set in Washington DC
• New gameplay trailer
• 4-player co-op shooter
• November 6th release

Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season

• Pre-release footage shown in background
• Unscripted combat being added
• Story starts after the time jump from the comics
• August 14th release

Noita

• Action roguelike where you play as a wizard
• Pixel art, but every pixel is physically simulated
  • Allows for mechanic interactions and full destruction

Two Point Hospital

• Gameplay shown in background
• Hospital building game
  • Comedic tone (certain diseases include Turtle Head)
• Cure patients
• Improve you doctors and nurses
• Investigate cures
• Releases this Fall

Realm Royale

• Battle Royale game with fantasy RPG elements
  • Different fantasy classes with different abilities
  • Forges can be used to craft gear, but will show the forge as being lit up, making it a target
• Its been out for a bit (Free to Play) (Currently in Alpha)

Ooblets

• New trailer
• Farming and building game where you also collect Pokemon style creatures
  • Inspired by Pokemon, Harvest Moon, and Animal crossing

Anno 1800

• Trailer
• RTS
• Looks like more Anno
• City building, economy, and naval warfare

Rapture Rejects

• Top down, cartoony battle royale by TinyBuild
• Trailer
• Cyanide and Happiness art style
• Sign up now for the alpha

Hitman 2

• New trailer
  • Shows mission set in Miami
• November 13th release
• Even bigger crowds than last game
  • Player can hide in crowd to evade pursuers
• Sniper briefcase is back and can hold more than just your sniper rifle now
• Elusive targets (limited time events) coming back
• Preorder for access to co-op sniper mode

Overall: A fun little conference that was completely free from bloated PR talks and only focused on games (except for the brief segment from Acer). Both of the hosts were great and took any slip ups in stride. Only complaint really is how long it was. And since it's the PC Gaming show, there aren't any massive title reveals, but that's to be expected.

Favorite Moments

• Good to hear more about The Sinking City. I really want a new Lovecraftian game.
• Man Eater; You play as a shark who eats people and its an open world RPG. It's crazy enough that it might work.
• Genesis Alpha One sounds really awesome. Definitely on my radar.
• Two Point Hospital looks like a fun twist on the building/management genre. Plus, the host perfectly handled the mic not working situation.
• Rapture Rejects; I'm a sucker for Cyanide and Happiness. The really funny trailer grabbed me.

Let me know if anything is missing/wrong and I will fix it.

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