Rumour: Elden Ring Won't Be At Xbox's Showcase, Or Maybe Even E3

The fact he says he's certain it's not going to show but then says there's a chance just shows we can't listen to a thing this guys says, he's just throwing maybes out there

Time will tell when we get to E3 very soon.
I just hope Xbox having something to show that is AAA quality for release this fall, that also showcases a bit the reason we purchased a series x and game pass. Especially after the initial release and still nothing six months later.
By the time we get November it will be one whole year since series x release.

I Am Going To Scream.

Give me a Starfield trailer instead and I’ll be happy

Is it fair to say that Jeff Grubb is a MS insider the same way that Mike Zeroh is a Star Wars insider? Unless at least 85% of what he's been "leaking" is validated at E3, the gaming community needs to hold his feet to the fire.

What on earth are they doing with Hellblade 2?

Hellblade had a 3 year development cycle with a lot less resources. It’s hard to understand why they wouldn’t have something to show in terms of gameplay 2 years into its development.

@FatalBubbles Studio troubles maybe? I'm curious as well as to me that's a big exclusive game for MS to have, specially when HB1 originally came out on PS first and has a big following.

Beyond the original game being awesome and I want to play it more then anything else rumored this year.

@FatalBubbles I don't think it has anything to do with not having gameplay to show. I think it has to do with how the gaming community reacted to recent heavy-hitters such as Halo Infinite and Cyberpunk 2077. People complained about the poor graphics of Halo, which made 343 delay the game for a year and their creative director had to step down as a result. Not to mention the disaster surrounding Cyberpunk. I think companies are just trying to make sure that their games come out as perfectly as possible. I certainly think there's a correlation between the Halo Infinite incident and the lack of gameplay footage from Microsoft's first-party titles since then. It's forced the studios to think twice now before showing anything concrete.

@LtSarge The cinematic trailer they put in 2019 was awesome. I’m just disappointed if it’s true and they have nothing to show.

I think you’re right though, MS is probably gun shy after Halo.

I'm bored of hearing about this game already and they haven't even shown anything of it yet haha

At least we've come a long way since Sony's Year of Dreams stadium BS-fest where they presented the next 7 years worth of games as though they were all year 2 content. It made PS4 look utterly amazing in year 2 without making clear that the latter content of what they showed would be released around the time you preorder a PS5. Amazing show...but devious marketing.

@FatalBubbles Yeah I get where you're coming from. It does feel weird that they had a trailer ready back in 2019 and since then we haven't seen anything else for the game. Ninja Theory didn't even show anything new at the Games showcase event Microsoft held last year. So maybe it's also as @Arcnail said that the studio is having troubles. I remember a recent article about why Halo Infinite has taken so long to be developed and the primary reason was that the director had way too ambitious plans for the game, e.g. making it open world. Perhaps Ninja Theory is also suffering from having too ambitious ideas that are taking too long to implement, on top of having to be careful about making the game look and run as good as possible before showing it off.

One thing is for sure though, there's a lot more pressure on Microsoft's studios now compared to before.

It’s a complete scatter gun approach, just say lots of things about games and some of them will be right. Get enough right and you’re an insider.

@TheOGChemperor He has a lot riding on him for this E3, that’s for sure!

@LtSarge I hope they don’t try to make Hellblade a big open game. I feel like that would take away a lot from what made the first one good. I could see them maybe trying to go towards what God of War did with a semi open map. Ambition is good as long as they don’t bite off more than they can chew. 😬

@SegataSanshiro You raise a good point, and yeah I can definitely see the developer aiming to make a more ambitious game compared to the first one. Hopefully we'll get a new update within the coming year or at least at next year's E3.

@FatalBubbles I really like the structure that God of War had so I wouldn't mind it at all if they went that route with Hellblade 2. In fact, some of the areas in the first Hellblade already felt like they were semi open since you're constantly going back and forth between them. It's definitely going to be interesting to find out which approach they went with for this game.

Hellbade 2 was announced WAY too early.

Hellblade 2 is disappointing if true. With how early it was announced, you would've expected it to be released this year or at least show some gameplay. But, I know they seemed very enamored with the potential of Unreal Engine 5 that they made the move to it. So, I'm sure that set them back a year or 2. Loved the first one, the atmosphere and storytelling was amazing. I hope they open the combat up a little more in this one. With the extra dev time, I hope they can make this a fully fleshed out, AAA caliber game that could compete with some of Sony's big 3rd person IPs.

In two days it’ll he confirmed as showing up.

Stop listening to Grubb as gospel. Get another insider.

Whatever is shown, I hope it's post-alpha gameplay footage, followed by a solid release date. Tired of "just the title" or cgi trailer, followed by "coming soon". Multiplats if they could score some exclusivity perk, ala spiderman for the avengers game.

Sony paid for console exclusivity again. Or they just bought From Software. 🥴

Wasn't expecting Hellblade 2 to appear to be honest. Microsoft are infamous for announcing games way too far in advance to hide the fact the near future is rather barren. Like Halo Infinite should've been announced in 2020, not 2018.