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PC Gamer's E3 2021 predictions

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E3 is closely upon us, which means our minds are dangerously about shattering from the strain of containing so many possibilities. What will be proclaimed? What won't? Leave Geoff Keighley bring Alf back to talk more or less Hatsune Miku at Summertime Game Fest? These are the important questions causing us dangerous levels of psychic load.

Here are the PC Gamer team's predictions for E3 2021, from storm tattoos to Sony exclusives to whatsoever Hideo Kojima's cooking up incoming. Consider happening at to the lowest degree ace* of them future day true. *ᴾᵒᵗᵉⁿᵗᶦᵃˡˡʸ ˡᵉˢˢ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᵒⁿᵉ

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This is a longshot. We totally know The Older Scrolls 6 is still years away. Starfield is the priority for Bethesda and it's already been teased aside Microsoft that it'll be at the show. The only ground we even got the initial Elder Scrolls 6 tease back in 2018 was that people were miffed that Fallout 76 was a multiplayer game and Bethesda wanted to exhibit us it's still into singleplayer RPGs.

Merely let's articulate you're Microsoft. You've just spent $9 billion purchasing Zenimax. You want to show how cool your new purchase is to everyone. Yeah, a trailer for Starfield is a good agency to get people excited. But if you require to bring down the business firm, you gotta prove extraordinary Elderberry bush Scrolls 6. You have to! It's been three full years since a 10 second video recording of a unreal mountain made the herd get violent. You barely wealthy person to make an effort. All you need is a bit bit more scenery, some music, an actual title of respect, and a publish year.

You spent $9 billion so you might as comfortably win E3 with a 15 second teaser. Just consecrate us a taste. It'll throw us over for other 3 years. —Christopher Livingston

Read more about what to expect from Microsoft + Bethesda's press conference .

Poem and Sony annunciate exclusive partnership for PlayStation games on PC

Bit of a no-brainer this one. Sony likes cash, and IT certainly likes what it's seen so farthermost of its games along PC, and PC players clearly want these games. Epic has cash, much hard currency that even Tim Sweeney bottom't face buying some other golden yacht. If information technology wants to use that hard cash to drive players to the Epic store with big exclusives, here's a ready-ready-made slate of genuinely great games. —Rich Stanton

Phil Herbert Spencer will reveal a Halo Infinite tattoo, Peter Moore style

Probably non, but I can ambition. Instead, Microsoft volition in all likelihood just bear witness us a new and cleared Halo Infinite trailer, with less bleary-looking textures and wacky-looking shots of gawping Covenant guys. My judge: Last year's ridicule of Anulus Infinite is supplanted by the idea that it's a cheap-ass Annulus game for people WHO truly understand the serial publication. And that idea might be right. Phil, though, do the tattoo thing, seriously. Big applause. Well, virtual applause. —John Tyler Wilde

CDPR formally cancels Cyber-terrorist 2077 multiplayer, makes all DLC free, and announces the Witcher 4

CDPR desperately needs a win, something to start repairing its fractured relationship with consumers and the promise of a brighter next. IT should be open-and-shut to everyone now that Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer, always something of a dream, should bu live abandoned. If this goes hand-in-hand with the anticipat of current Cyberpunk development, and some sort of bait in the form of free DLC for players who bought the stake, say, in the first year, then that would personify a start.

The obvious ace improving the studio apartment's sleeve is The Witcher 4. This series is why everyone loved CDPR and had much high hopes for Cyberpunk 2077, and just the knowledge it's returning to that humankind would go a long way to reassuring those players who still feel burnt-out. —Rich Stanton

Psychonauts 2 will storm tone ending at E3 connected Xbox Game Extend to

You arse feel information technology too, rightist—how very doable this feels? Double Fine has been happy to take its time on Psychonauts 2's ultimate development years since the studio apartment was acquired aside Microsoft in 2019. We know the game is aiming for 2021 and recent Mettlesome Informer reporting suggests it's near the finishing line. What if I told you Psychonauts 2 is even more than through with than Microsoft wants us to think and actually plans to surprise release the game during its E3 showcase? The thought of it makes me grin, so evidence of an August sack date be damned, I'm staying hopeful for this one. —Morgan Park

It's been v years since Firaxis Games' very fortunate turn-based scheme game. Last yr's XCOM: Chimera Squad may possess given a glimpse of new systems and mechanics that could be enlarged along, from a bite-dog-sized alien Special Weapons and Tactics team game into a sci-fi epic of procedurally generated hijinks with custom soldiers tiring hot pants. I need it. —Jorge Jimenez

Death Stranding — (Image credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment)

"Following the events of the introductory game," says Mr Kojima, "Sam and BB have returned to a earthly concern that is now flooded and, much wish the classical Kevin Costner movie Waterworld, we moldiness find our sense of profession erst more through bartering from rafts."

Shortly after the proclamation is made in that location's a run on boats, the US government desperately commits to a review of flood defences, and the well-worn market panics as an NFT featuring Kojima eating a sausage and looking wistfully at the sea sells for over a hundred million. Geoff Keighley says this looks like the future of videogames, wow man, hey what did you guys believe, as the waves begin to lap at his delicately expensive sneakers and the feed cuts to colorful. —Rich Stanton

Sony wish announce a PS5 update for Bloodborne and I still won't be able to play information technology on my damn PC

In that location possess long been rumors about a Bloodborne PC porthole, but hitherto they've amounted to absolutely nothing. I expect that to cover, and for Sony to pelt salty in the wound by announcing an updated 4K, 60 fps adaptation of the game for the PS5 even though they don't bear an E3 outcome. It will look away fabulous, and they'll be doing it specifically to trauma United States. —Wes Fenlon

Geoff Keighley gets Alf to finally show us what it looks like-minded when he chow a cat

We'ray waiting, Geoff. — James Davenport

Ea says information technology's acquiring a bit bored of making FIFA now

"I've been working happening ball physics for 15 long time" croaks a bearded man as the hoopla video for the latest FIFA begins to roll… just No! EA Chief executive officer Andrew Harriet Wilson appears, his habitual frozen toothpaste smiling now a grimace. "Flavor, truth is, we kind of got information technology word-perfect old age ago and consume just been fiddling with the edges ever since. I thought we could make love forever merely now I've got leash Lamborghinis, all of our quondam senior leads are in cushiony cells grumbling near projectile limb fundamental interaction, and every you do anyway is play the damn cards. FIFA 22 is a ball. That's right, it's a explicit branded football for $70. Trip out your asses huh." —Racy Stanton

Beyond Good & Evil 2 reemerges with a comically short demo

Waiting for this long-awaited sequel is starting to experience like a lost cause (congrats if you've kept the faith for this long). Ubisoft recently confirmed that the game is placid in development, but it sounds like it's still years away. Its lofty open universe pitch drew ill at ease comparisons to the exaggerated hype of pre-release No Man's Sky, so much that I'm questioning of how much the final product (if it happens) bequeath resemble that busy animated prevue from E3 2017. —Morgan Park

Read more some what to carry from Ubisoft's E3 press group discussion .

Looking at, I'm just resigned to it by now alright. —Rich Stanton

I still believe, Rich. —Jorge Jimenez