The French publisher Nakon is now increasingly present on the international scene, and now organizes its own programs with its Nacon Connect, which allow you to review all of its future games. The publisher has chosen to organize its summer conference a little after the Summer Game Fest festivities, just to have its own highlight without being overshadowed by other market players, and we were able to discover this evening more 15 titles, with some games announced for the very first time. Here is everything you need to remember from Nacon Connect on July 7.
A busy end of the year
Given that it comes out in a little less than two months, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum infiltrated this Nacon Connect.
After several CGI trailers and others that didn’t show much, the title finally offers a trailer with in-game images, allowing us to see several sets as well as the threats that will stalk the worshiper of the ring, who will have to remain very discreet. As a reminder, the release date of the title is set for September 1st.
Steelrising also coming out shortly, and that’s why the publisher gave us a new gameplay trailer that centered around boss battles, called the Titans.
The French Souls-like plans to be released on September 8, but those who have pre-ordered the game will be able to access a beta from August 25.
Another game of 2022, Session Skate Sim has reconfirmed its release date for September 22 with a never-before-seen trailer, as has WRC Generations which has focused on its hybrid cars, which are at the heart of this new installment.
We could say that there is no longer any need to present Blood Bowl 3 We’ve known it for a long time, but Nacon and Cyniade still decided to give us a wake-up call with a “Blood Bowl for Dummies” video, which teaches us all the rules in an offbeat way. No more information on its release unfortunately.
The new accessories
Nacon obliges, this show also focused on the gaming accessories offered by the publisher, starting with the presentation of the Daija Arcade Stickwhich was put forward with the help of Kayane and Mr Crimson.
This new version of the arcade stick will return at the end of 2022 and will be compatible on Xbox, PlayStation and PC consoles, with some new features that should appeal to fans of fighting games.
We were also able to discover that Nacon was going to launch its Pro-Series in Europe, with the RIG Pro Series helmets. Finally, the Pro Contact controller was presented during the pre-show, with a transparent shell and customizable LEDs.
2023, the year of Nacon?
Something unusual for the publisher, we were treated to a game rather oriented towards horror with ad infinitumwhich we had briefly glimpsed last year.
This new trailer therefore literally plunges us into the horror of war and the trenches, with nightmares and reality intertwining. This gameplay trailer allows us to have a more precise idea of the game, while waiting for its release set for April 20, 2023 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series.
To stay within the domain of war, Nacon has highlighted War Hospital with a new commented gameplay video, in which we can see that we will have to manage a military hospital during the Great War, with moral choices to be made and resource management that will be crucial for the lives of your patients.
Still no release date for the game, except in 2023 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series.
Among the titles that we had already seen in the past, Clash: Artifacts of Chaos came to show us some more gameplay. This action game presented its fights to us with a hand-held camera view, with different settings that we can discover throughout the adventure. Released February 9, 2023 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator was also there to show us how to manage a restaurant with a master hand, in order to hope to appear in the Michelin guide. You will therefore be able to open your own establishment on February 2 on all platforms.
We would have liked to see a lot more about him, but hell is us only presented a developer diary with Jonathan Jacques-Belletête, the game’s creative director, who came to present the origins of the project to us, as well as some details on the story with new concept art.
It’s almost the same for the highly anticipated Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Reviewwhich was only treated to a very small, very conceptual video with characters from the game’s two gangs, which didn’t tell us much, which was to be expected given that the game was pushed back to the end. ‘next year.
Fortunately, Nacon has been a bit more generous with RoboCop Rogue Citywhich unveiled its first in-game images with a gameplay trailer, where we could see the most dangerous policeman in the world cleaning up the city of Detroit.
The game will therefore be an action-packed FPS, but it will also have multiple-choice dialogue phases, with crucial decisions to be made. An ambitious title which should therefore arrive in June 2023, on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series.
Five new titles to discover
After successfully adapting the Naheulbeuk Dungeon in video games, Artefacts Studio is tackling a completely different challenge. We were able to discover the first images of Crown Wars: The Black Princea new strategy game that will immerse us in the heart of the Hundred Years War.
The trailer presented us with some gameplay images of this new title, which is currently scheduled to be released in 2023 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Switch.
We were also able to discover Gangs of Sherwoodwhich will revisit the legend of Robin Hood in a dystopia way by allowing us to embody one of the Merry Companions in an action game that will bet everything on cooperation, with PvE missions.
We could see a little gameplay and we see that we will have to fight the sheriff and his troops in action phases in third person view, but that’s all we know for the moment. The Rebellion will begin in 2023 on PC and next-gen consoles.
Among the publisher’s new projects, Paradize Project pulls out of the game with a survival-oriented hack’n slash developed by Eko Software, where it will certainly be necessary to fight zombies, but the particularity of the title will also lie in the fact that it will be possible to control the living dead.
You can then take advantage of the specificities of each of the zombies to help you survive, whether in confrontations or in the construction of your camp. A rather wacky title that will not see the light of day before 2023.
You have loved Curse of the Dead Gods ? Then you will certainly be delighted to know that Passtech Games is already at work on a new roguelike type action game, which is called Ravenswatch.
We will go here to explore very famous tales like Beowulf or Little Red Riding Hood, whose worlds have been corrupted, and this in the company of the heroes of each story who will all have their own gameplay.
The game promises cooperation, and we will be able to test all of this when it releases early access in 2023, before it finally arrives on PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch.
One of the big surprises of this Nacon Connect was the formalization of the new game from the Milanese studio of Nacon, namely a title taking place in the universe of the saga terminator.
The game will integrate an open world with an original story, in a post-apocalyptic universe where we embody the last survivors before the creation of John Connor’s resistance. Not much other info about it, knowing that the game does not yet have a release date, or even a definitive title.
In short, a conference that was still busy, even if we would have liked some titles to show us more images. It was also to be expected that Greed Fall 2 is not present, since it is still very far from its release, and that the development has just started. At least we were able to discover new games, and the Robocop game should probably be talked about a lot.