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Jamie and Marsh discuss the highlights, or rather the extensive mid-range tones, of the E3 week that wasn’t, delight in Next Fest’s demos for Old Skies and Agent 64: Spies Never Die, and usher in the doom of humankind in Shadows of Forbidden Gods.

• Geoff Keighley’s twitching automaton presents Summer GameFest aka Keigh-3. Enjoy it to the exact degree that Keighley permits, and no more.
• Warhammer 40,000: Dark Tide is a promising firstperson cultist-squisher from the Vermintide devs.
• Jamie’s also been enjoying the turnbased tactics game in the same universe: Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is the first CRPG in the 40K setting.
• The Callisto Protocol is an incredibly violent sci-fi horror game which is probably unplayably scary for us, but has great mince animation.
• Aliens: Dark Descent is a turnbased tactics game.
• Routine is another space horror game – 10 years in development so far!
• Fort Solis: another spooky space game.
• Shoot guns transgressively in the future from the past in the future again in The Last of Us remake and its multiplayer spin-off.
• Flashback 2 is a sequel to the rotoscoped platformer classic.
• American Arcadia is a cinematic platformer in a Jetsons-y fake future.
• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Overwatch 2. In the immortal words of that character who you love: “Boom, baby.”
• Vin Diesel is in Ark 2, or at least his non-verbal vocalisations are.
• Excellent hammers in Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn.
• Minecraft: Legends is an RTS from the very cool folks at Blackbird Interactive.
• Gimme the blood sausage, Diablo 4!
• BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG
• Fine, apparently it’s called Cocoon.
• Mine ore to pay off your mortgage in Starfield.
• Pentiment is a Name of the Rose-style murder mystery that looks like an illuminated manuscript.
• Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a cool coffee table book that does what it says on the tin.
• Old Skies is a cracking point-n-click from Wadjet Eye.
• Agent 64: Spies Never Die is retro throwback FPS in