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Xbox finally cracks the Summer Game Fest special - the cost is them owning everything
The not-E3 showcases are over and Xbox offered a perfect antidote to the Summer Game Fest Opening Showcase carnival of grot.
We opened with a grim fantasy knight doing a truly incredible amount of graphic shanking, in a game I've been reliably told is not actually called Stab Man, per Tom Orry in our live feed, but Mortal Shell 2. There was the weirdly snarky interlude from the head of Splitgate 2 developer 1047 games, Ian Proulx, who strode out in a custom "Dark MAGA" style hat reading MAKE FPS GREAT AGAIN and threw a few tired jibes at the shooter establishment. A grim framing to this is that while Proulx and his specific choice of hat were on stage glibly lobbing heaters at Activision and EA in a spot of cheap-laugh "remember the good old days" marketing, around the corner Los Angeles locals found themselves tear gassed and shot at with less lethal munitions, in a frantic, escalating standoff with ICE agents attempting to deport their fellow Angelinos.
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