The Summer Games Fest Demo Event will bring more than 60 games to Xbox One later this month. The lineup includes Skatebird, Cris Tales, and Hellpoint.
The Summer Games Fest Demo Event will bring more than 60 games to Xbox One later this month.
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The Summer Games Fest Demo Event will bring more than 60 games to Xbox One later this month.
The Summer Games Fest has, in some respects, been a bit of a snooze fest, but here’s a big announcement we can get behind. More than 60 games will get free playable demos on Xbox One between July 21 to July 27, 2020.
Similar to recent initiatives on Steam, the Summer Games Fest Demo Event will give every Xbox One owner the chance to experience some of the games we’d normally expect to play at the likes of E3, PAX, or The Mix. The demos will only be available for a week, so it might be an idea to clear some space in your diary now.
It’s worth noting that these experiences will not be like the traditional game demos we often get on console. As the Xbox team notes in its announcement, they are very much work-in-progress titles, rather pre-launch promos.
For those interested in game development, it will be fascinating to play these games at such an early stage and see how they evolve into a finished product. We’re sure that polite, considered feedback will also be welcomed by the studios involved.
More than 60 games are included at launch, with around 75 and 100 expected to be available in total. Look out for the Summer Game Fest Demo tile on the Xbox One dashboard.
The full lineup has yet to be confirmed, but here’s a teaser of the games we can expect.
That’s already an impressive selection of games. Bravo to Microsoft, Geoff Keighley, and the studios involved, for coming together and bring their games to the masses.
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NIS America has announced that the delayed PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch editions of RPG Maker MV will be released in September 2020.
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NIS America has announced that the delayed PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch editions of RPG Maker MV will be released in September 2020.
RPG Maker MV – a game-creation tool which lets players build and share their own role-playing adventures – will be released on Sept.8 in North America, Sept.11 in Europe, and Sept.18 in Oceania.
RPG Maker MV was first released on PC in 2015, with a console version initially planned for 2019 which was subsequently delayed. It’s not known if the Xbox One version is still in development.
For those not familiar with the series, RPG Maker lets users create role-playing games using a range of simple tools and ready-made assets. Although the game’s new trailer focusses on the fantasy genre, it also includes assets ranging from sci-fi and historical to high school and modern-day. The game features customisable dialogue, quest, and battle systems, and the ability to create buildings, towns, and overworld.
User-created games can also be shared online and downloaded by players who don’t own the game via the free RPG Maker MV Player app.
We played the slimmed-down Nintendo 3DS version – RPG Maker FES – and found it to be a robust game creation tool.
