D23 Expo Wrap-Up: Secretly The Best Gaming Showcase Of The Year
You’d be excused if last weekend’s D23 Expo fell off your radar. The biannual Disney convention isn’t exactly known for big gaming news, and having been sandwiched between Gamescom, PAX West, a Nintendo Direct, and a Sony State of Play, all while airing at the same time as Ubisoft Forward didn’t help either. But if you didn’t catch the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase, you missed one of the most exciting reveal streams of the year. Disney may have backed out of video game publishing more than six years ago, but now it’s making a big push by partnering with well established studios and pairing each of them with films and characters that match their strengths and style. Here’s a rundown of all the games revealed at D23 Expo along with links to our coverage of each.
The showcase opened with a reveal of Tron: Identity, a visual novel detective game in development at Bithell Games. Mike Bithell’s studio, best known for games like Subsurface Circular, Volume, and Thomas Was Alone, is no stranger to contemplative, emotionally gripping stories about artificial intelligence and futuristic technology. In an interview after the reveal, Bithell says Tron: Identity is Subsurface Circular taken to the next level: “That kind of choice-based and character-led story stuff just felt like something I wanted to see a Tron game do.”
Tron: Identity is coming to PC and console next year. Check out our full interview with creative director Mike Bithell here.
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