Jeff Grubb: Perfect Dark, Gears 6, and id Software updates (2024)

Friend of the site Jeff Grubb has just posted a video to his Game Mess channel with a lot of insider updates, including ones for Perfect Dark, Gears 6, and the potential next id Software game.

Jeff Grubb’s Game Mess channel’s latest video has a number of gaming news items. You can find the video HERE:

Perfect Dark is not in development hell. After talking with more people who have knowledge of the game they said that while it may be rough in some areas it looks great in others.
Perfect Dark may be at the June showcase
Gears 6 is still planned to be at the June Showcase though he’s not sure in what form as Xbox is determining “how aggressive” they want to be in presenting it.
id Software’s new game may be there. He’s unsure if it is DOOM or Quake though he would personally lean towards DOOM. This matches up with the teasing of Tom Warren who capitalized the word DOOM in his report about the recent studio closures.
A Sony PlayStation showcase should be happening later this month.
Ghost of Tsushima 2 is “taking longer than expected” because Sucker Punch is working on something else, he hopes it is a Sly Cooper title.
PlayStation should have Concord and a new Astrobot game at their show.
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, the 4th title in the series, is looking good and due to release later in 2024.

This Perfect Dark news matches up with a recent leak from noted insider NateTheHate:

” According to respected insider “NateTheHate.” On hisDirect Xboxpodcast, where he discussed the week of news for the Microsoft subsidiary, he suggests that he had been hearing that not only was Perfect Dark not in trouble, but that he expected the game to be shown off at Xbox’s upcoming showcase.

His exact quote on the matter is, “At this point, I fully expect that we will see Perfect Dark next month, and that some of the more recent rumors may have been outdated information perhaps… I have been hearing things this week that Perfect Dark is not in that bad of a state.”

What are you hoping to see at the Xbox Games Showcase? Sound off in the comments below and let us know.

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Not suprised at all for the somewhat backtracking here. So much over reacting on the Xbox side of things . Some warranted some not .
A lot of things seems to come down to the cause of someone read or heard it with emotions to fit their desires or simple comprehension issues with “was in” / “had” versus “is” / “has”.
“Update” aka “backpedal because people with better info contradicted me.”
Even insiders with a “good rep” can blow hot air when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
It’s all good with me. I’ll take any good news now, especially when I was already expecting PD to be one to forget about. Clearly way too quickly on my part, but hey.
Perfect Dark being shown during the showcase would most likely depend on if Crystal Dynamics/The Initiative have something ready to show but if they do, im hoping that it’s a gameplay teaser trailer.
I’m 100% expecting Gears of War 6 to be revealed similar to Gears of War 5 back at E3 2018 where it’s a great reveal trailer and says the following year at the end which in this case would be 2025. Fall 2025 is my guess for when it actually releases.
I’m also 100% expecting the next Doom game to get revealed by Id Software since it’s been four years since Eternal released. As someone who’s not into Doom, was hoping for something else but oh well, no biggie. I don’t believe for a minute that it releases in the second half of 2024. More like Spring 2025 unless it’s actually ready AND one or two games are getting delayed to 2025.
It would be great if PD is there. Of the announced game in the last few years that’s the one I’m most interested in because I am curious how they will update that game.
I am still holding out hope that they draw more inspiration from the og N64 Perfect Dark rather than Zero. Open ended missions that can be completed in any number of ways like in the original , as well as multiple objectives per mission that changed based on difficulty. Don’t see too many games today mad the way PD was. (even in It’s day) I would love it it continued to separate itself from other FPS the way the original did. It’s been too long since we had “Post-Cyberpunk 007”.
It doesn’t need to play 1.1 like the OG game just look at what made it great and update it. Kind of like what was done with Doom 2016.
im most excited for doom. I loved 2016 and eternal. I wonder if it will be exclusive
No offence to anyone, but if you’re in the business of farming clicks and views, posting anything people will watch or click on …Is the job.
I would’ve loved something new from ID but mainly because it seemed like Eternal and especially the DLC wrapped up the story arch. But of course if they’ve got some fresh ideas for where to take things i definitely wouldn’t say no to more Doom as there’s nothing else like it on the market.
Gears 6 is a weird one for me personally. On one hand i love the series and Marcus Fenix…but i’m just not fully into the new characters and story arch from Gears 4 and 5. If nothing else i’m excited to see how the game looks and how much they’ve shaken up the formula.
Perfect Dark is one i’m very curious about. Potentially Xbox could have another face for the brand in Joanna Dark if they market the game well and it turns out to be a good game. I agree with Joe Sinister in that it would be great if they took some inspiration from what made the original so highly regarded. We all know the realities of how expensive games are now and the time they take so i’m trying not to get my hopes up too much, but there’s definitely potential for Perfect Dark to be FPS that stands out today if it does bring over some of the things the N64 PD did back in the game.