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Hundreds of games were shown during the Summer Game Fest. The Besties spotlight titles that have potential, while discussing the strange and messy state of the video game industry in 2024. Is SGF the E3 replacement of our dreams? How should we feel about Xbox’s big moment? Are small games the future? We attempt to provide some answers!
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Lego Horizon Adventures, Killer Bean, Civilization 7, Black Myth Wukong, Metaphor Refantazio, Alan Wake 2 DLC 1: Night Springs, Wanderstop, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Gears of War E-Day, Perfect Dark, Fable, Metal Gear Solid Delta, Dragon Age Veilguard, Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Shadows, UFO 50, Mixtape, Fallen Aces, Citizen Sleeper 2, Destiny 2: The Final Shape
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Steam Next Fest runs until June 17 and features dozens of cool games. Grab demos while they’re available and let us know some of your favorites. Plante and Frushtick will discuss their picks on the next episode of The Resties!
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The "Perfect Dark" trailer is set in Cairo but the people are speaking Modern Standard Arabic instead of an Egyptian Dialect. It's like having New Yorkers speak in received pronunciation. No native Arabic speaker talks in MSA unless it's a formal setting or they are bridging a dialect divide. If you're going to set your game in Cairo you should at least get the dialect of the natives right I would think.
Edit: What makes it even weirder is that I think the actors they had speak speak MSA with an Egyptian accent so I assume they had Egyptians do the voice work but gave them a script in MSA.
Some context for Metal Gear Solid Delta: delta, specifically "capital" delta like we have in the title of the game, is also the symbol for "change" in physics. It was a symbol chosen both to reflect it being MGS3 but also that it's a remake. Knowing the series, change itself may also be a central theme of this game, with differences between this anx the original being narratively important (like how Twin Snakes being different than MGS1 was because TS was actually the simulator being used to train Raiden)