After 20 years, this iconic saga returns to its best level and to the cinema!

2021 was somewhat of a special year for publisher Bethesda, which previously went it alone at E3 with its own conference to announce its lineup of upcoming titles. Bought by Microsoft for $7.5 billion, the publisher logically presented the line in 2021 and 2022 with the Xbox maker. Meanwhile, Microsoft also absorbed Activision – Blizzard for $75.4 billion.

It shows the appetite of the Redmond giant, which came out yesterday during the high-profile Xbox Games Showcase and for almost 2 hours released a veritable wave of upcoming titles, be it from Microsoft-flagged studios, but also from third-party publishers.

Due to the avalanche of presented titles, it is not a question of listing everything, especially since it would be difficult from the editorial point of view to mention a certain title. Selected parts, then.

Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle

In January 2021, publisher Bethesda, well known to gamers behind the Elder Scrolls and Fallout role-playing game licenses, surprisingly announced the development of a new Indiana Jones game commissioned by the Scandinavian studio Machine. The games we owe the very successful resurrection of the iconic Wolfenstein license.

The studio was able (thankfully!) to reproduce Harrison Ford’s facial features, but his voice, in the original version, is that of Troy Baker, known especially for his role as Joel in the game. The last among them. Fortunately, it is the French voice of Richard Darboy who will be behind the indies.

Developed in partnership with Lucasfilm Games, this cinematic first-person action-adventure title takes place between Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade. New pictures have been revealed.

The story takes place in 1937, when evil forces are searching for an ancient power. Indy is assisted by Gina, an investigative journalist pursuing her own goals, which leads her to a mutually beneficial partnership with Dr. Jones.

The duo travels to places like Egypt, the Vatican, the peaks of the Himalayas, and the sunken temples of Sukhothai to visit various tombs filled with puzzles that Machine Games believe have multiple solutions.

Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle Announced for Xbox and PC consoles by the end of 2024, if not delayed.

Doom: Dark Ages

We stay at Bethesda with a new Doom opus. Four years after a fantastic reboot, the iconic video game license Doom is back from hell Doom EternalReleased in 2020. We also told you all the good things we thought about the game here.

Obviously, there is no question that such a famous license will become too cold. with Doom: Dark AgesAs a prequel to the reboot game released in 2016, we’re looking directly at Dark Fantasy. and this time The killer of the doomed He carries a shield, staff and even a dragon in his arsenal!

The trailer is truly shocking, with its frenzied soundtrack depicting the regular slaughter of hordes of demons. In short, it’s Doom and we love it! Doom: Dark Ages Expected in 2025.

Gears of War: E-Day

When it comes to the very famous video game license, Gears of War is. After slipping through the cracks for years, the theatrical adaptation of this license is finally set to take place under the auspices of Netflix, which has a film but also an animated series.

On the video game side, since Gears 5, which was released in 2019, Gears of War: E-Day (“E” Emergency-Day”) will not be a sequel, but a prequel to the first opus of the saga, which takes place 14 years earlier. The license remains in the hands of the studio The Coalition, which has done an excellent job. In the latest iteration, the opportunity to find two very emblematic characters in this From TPS Shooter Saga: Marcus Fenix ​​and Dom Santiago.

So, of course, the trailer is just a scene for now (great nonetheless) and no release date has been announced, other than to imagine Horizon 2025. Let’s hope so…

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

While the adaptation of the Metal Gear license still errs on the cinematic side, we still have to turn to the video game side to be patient. In May 2023, publisher Konami announced a remake of the third installment of the iconic franchise, originally released on the PS2 console in 2002.

New generations of players and early fans will be able to (re)discover the story of the famous Big Boss and how his legend was created during Operation Snake Eater. The remake includes the original sounds, story, and combat and survival mechanics in a hostile environment, apparently completely redone.

The choice to offer a remake of part 3 rather than the previous opus is obviously not trivial, as part 3 is often considered the best of the saga.

Unlike last year, where the announcement was accompanied by a CGI trailer, this time it was the gameplay that took center stage. Visually beautiful! The release date has not been announced yet. It’s safe to say that until the screen adaptation of Kojima’s game, it will be…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Activision’s multi-billion dollar brand, Call of Duty, was certainly there. “Truth is just an illusion” boldly unleashes this new opus of the indestructible saga. Developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, Code: Black Ops 6 Sets its campaign after the events of Black Ops Cold War and ties back to Black Ops 2’s 1980s flashbacks (it’s okay, are you following this far?). Thus, this opus takes place in the early 1990s, a period of transition and upheaval in world politics characterized by the end of the Cold War.

On the menu: regular travel to the four corners of the world, from the Russian tundra to the vast deserts of the Middle East, Southern Europe and the United States in a race against time. Featuring the return of iconic characters Frank Woods and Russell Adler, as well as new allies such as Troy Marshall and Jane Harrow.

Supporting its non-stop multiplayer mode, COD Black Ops 6 also includes its equally essential Zombies mode per round, a mode that is hugely popular with fans, in which players must face increasingly dangerous waves of the undead.

The game is scheduled for October 25.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl

Announced years ago, it was more or less canceled much to the dismay of fans before being resurrected, delayed a few times, it’s not to say that the development Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl It was done with very, very great pain.

But its developer, Ukrainian studio GSC GameWorld, has extenuating circumstances. It was created in Ukraine and became a victim of the dramatic events taking place in the country, which greatly affected its development. Although some members of the development team were mobilized to the front to fight Russia, the studio had to move its production so that it could finish the development of the game.

The game is now expected to take place on September 4, 2024, unless postponed until then. Here are the latest pictures…

This license requires a small explanatory step back. Bitter, demanding, difficult, but knows how to be a hundred times generous to those who agreed to immerse themselves in his world and its extraordinary atmosphere, in the game. Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl Released in 2007, it left its mark on the small world of FPS RPGs. A PC-exclusive franchise, it was rewarded with the prequel Clear Sky and especially the sequel Call of Prypiat, which was unanimously praised by the specialist press.

For the uninitiated and/or movie buff, STALKER actually has a close but distant connection to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, itself adapted from the works of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The game has retained only a few elements of the film’s world, such as a wish-granting, vast wasteland full of dangers and crossed by stalkers, smugglers or guides who wish to make the area inhospitable.

In the first part of the trilogy, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, players took control of one of these smugglers, nicknamed “The Tattooed One”. Amnesiac, he roamed the area, a vast area that was destroyed first by the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, then by a second explosion twenty years later.

Nature, completely turned upside down, saw the birth of monsters and other mutated animals, deadly anomalies and valuables, which were especially the stakes of real wars between survivors, robbers and other adventurers. So it’s a special franchise that closed with a bang with its February 2010 release. Stalker: The Call of Pripyat.