Russia is over. The end.
Bester
In a few years I'll be playing Bubornu on a PS4 emulator in glorious 4K 60fps.At this point a Bloodborne remake in few years is more likely. And it will come to PC few years after that.
In a few years I'll be playing Bubornu on a PS4 emulator in glorious 4K 60fps.At this point a Bloodborne remake in few years is more likely. And it will come to PC few years after that.
- Commander Keen - Bethesda Softworks / Bethesda Softworks (This is interesting in that developer is listed as Bethesda instead of id like the original on Steam store.)
So have they just given up on the FF7 Remake and just started the next one? But still, no Vagrant Story or Parasite Eve port in sight Also why Chrono Cross remaster, most expected a Chrono Trigger remake.
Also, Dragon Age 4 is listed but not Mass Effect 5
That's interesting, they recently did free 'anniversary' update on first game. Could be an attempt to slightly revitalise interests for hypothetical second game.
- Space Marine 2 - Focus Home Interactive / Saber Interactive RU (Are they making a sequel to the W40K action game?)
So have they just given up on the FF7 Remake and just started the next one? But still, no Vagrant Story or Parasite Eve port in sight Also why Chrono Cross remaster, most expected a Chrono Trigger remake.
I'd love a remastered port of Vagrant Story, but I don't think that game sold well enough in the West to warrant it.
And here is the list Ubisoft doesn't want you to see
https://archive.ph/6oIrt
A few aren't codenames, but they're just asscreed re-releases.
3942
GAME New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo
new_super_mario_bros.
new_super_mario_brothers_gfn_pc
GOG
GOG=12345678
If you think about it, it's one of their vintage titles that would be easiest to translate into a Souls-like if they did a remake or a sequel/successor.So have they just given up on the FF7 Remake and just started the next one? But still, no Vagrant Story or Parasite Eve port in sight Also why Chrono Cross remaster, most expected a Chrono Trigger remake.
I'd love a remastered port of Vagrant Story, but I don't think that game sold well enough in the West to warrant it.
Eh, I wouldn't give up hope for that one. It makes up for it by being enough of a cult classic that it has a decent chance to get one sooner or later.
And here is the list Ubisoft doesn't want you to see
https://archive.ph/6oIrt
A few aren't codenames, but they're just asscreed re-releases.
3942
GAME New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo
new_super_mario_bros.
new_super_mario_brothers_gfn_pc
GOG
GOG=12345678
What in the goddamn-
If you think about it, it's one of their vintage titles that would be easiest to translate into a Souls-like if they did a remake or a sequel/successor.So have they just given up on the FF7 Remake and just started the next one? But still, no Vagrant Story or Parasite Eve port in sight Also why Chrono Cross remaster, most expected a Chrono Trigger remake.
I'd love a remastered port of Vagrant Story, but I don't think that game sold well enough in the West to warrant it.
Eh, I wouldn't give up hope for that one. It makes up for it by being enough of a cult classic that it has a decent chance to get one sooner or later.
So that's one thing it has going for it with the current vogue for From-like dark, atmospheric, difficult action-exploration games.
There was already one Souls-like by the way - The Surge - whose combat turned around targeting different body parts and body part-specific damage. Didn't like the game that much nor did I play it for long but it wasn't due to combat.
- CONAN : Unchained - Funcom Oslo A/S (maybe this was title of the canceled singleplayer Conan game, since Age of Conan: Unchained has a separated listing.)
And here is the list Ubisoft doesn't want you to see
https://archive.ph/6oIrt
A few aren't codenames, but they're just asscreed re-releases.
3942
GAME New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo
new_super_mario_bros.
new_super_mario_brothers_gfn_pc
GOG
GOG=12345678
What in the goddamn-
There's also a banner that shows it was the Wii NSMB IIRC. The one guess I've seen is they were related to the NVIDIA Shield's Chinese release in 2017, which did officially include some Nintendo games (which are actually emulated, to the point a debug file in Twilight Princess can be forced to run on Dolphin with a tiny bit of file format fuckery), NSMB Wii among them. That would make the flow something like 1: Nintendo does the stuff with Shield in attempt to break into Chinese market 2: Tries one game to sees if it would work on GeForce Now as well 3: Doesn't really do well so they only ever try the one. 4: Shield doesn't do well in China so the whole thing goes away.
Demon's Souls PC, Kingdom Hearts 4, and many more games from the Nvidia leak are looking more and more real
Several of the "speculative titles" from Nvidia's GeForce Now database have been announced in just the last two months.
In early September, a web developer tinkering around with Nvidia's GeForce Now client discovered a way to access a list of all the games in GFN's database—some 18,000. Among the database entries he found games that hadn't been announced for GeForce Now streaming support and what seemed to be a gold mine of games that hadn't been announced period. After the list began to spread, Nvidia told WCCFTech that it contained "both released and/or speculative titles, used only for internal tracking and testing," and that "inclusion on the list is neither confirmation nor an announcement of any game."
But since September, it has started to look more and more like those "speculative titles" are real games.
Actraiser Renaissance, a surprise remake announced and released on September 23. The GeForce Now list included an entry called "ActRaiser Remake." It's a real stretch to believe that someone at Nvidia decided to speculate that Square Enix would be releasing a new version of a 1990 Super Nintendo game on PC. Windows Central also wrote that multiple codenames on the list from Xbox Game Studios matched games they knew about: Project Holland is Fable, for example.
More confirmations followed. Destroy All Humans 2's remake was announced at a THQ Nordic event just days after the leak—and so was Outcast 2. Randy Pitchford publicly stated that Gearbox was working on a new Brothers in Arms. Square Enix announced Dungeon Encounters, which was listed as an "Unannounced Dungeon Tactics game." Rockstar announced the Grand Theft Auto remastered trilogy. Sony announced that God of War is coming to PC.
All were on Nvidia's list.
With so many examples, there's no way the unannounced games on the list were all speculative. And it's looking like more games will continue to be confirmed: The Helldivers Twitter account is teasing some sort of announcement, and Helldivers 2, sure enough, is on the Nvidia list.
This doesn't mean that every unreleased game on the list is currently in development, or is guaranteed to come out on PC. Bayonetta 3 and New Super Mario Bros are both on there, for example, and both are published by Nintendo. Nintendo might let Sega release Bayonetta 3 on PC despite funding its development, but Mario? Unlikely. There's an easy answer in this case, though: Nvidia had a partnership with Nintendo to put Wii games like New Super Mario Bros on the Shield in China.
There are also games on the list that have likely or definitely been canceled. Scalebound, for example, is on there, and that's been dead for years. Titanfall 3 became Apex Legends, as hinted at by its "shortName" in the database: "apex_legends_-_titanfall." But there are still dozens of games here that are quite possibly in the works. We may be looking at a treasure map for the next few years of PC gaming.
Here are the game names that stand out to me. The biggest I've organized by publisher, while others I've lumped together into a list at the end.
VALVE
This seems entirely plausible—Valve actually released a beta branch update for Half-Life 2 just last month, fixing bugs and adding Vulkan support. That makes sense as Valve preps for the launch of the Steam Deck. Will they call that update Half-Life 2 Remastered when it's finished, or is this a sign of a separate, bigger project?
- Half-Life 2 Remastered
SONY
So many big games from Sony here. I can see Demon's Souls, Gran Turismo 7 and Ghosts of Tsushima in particular absolutely crushing it on PC.
- Demon's Souls
- Ghosts of Tsushima
- God of War
- Gran Turismo 7
- Helldivers 2
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Ratchet & Clank
- Returnal
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Notably, Bloodborne is not on the list. It hurts.
SQUARE ENIX
There's wild stuff in here. Square Enix has been hyping up Tomb Raider's 25th this year, so a new remake or HD port of Tomb Raider Anniversary seems plausible. But Chrono Cross Remaster, Tactics Ogre Remaster and Final Fantasy 9 Remake are all incredibly tantalizing. It's ludicrous FFT wasn't on PC years ago, and Tactics Ogre would be the cherry on top. The fantastic 2010 remake never even got a mobile port the way FFT did, which means it's been marooned on the PlayStation Portable for a decade.
- Chrono Cross Remaster
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- Final Fantasy 9 Remake
- Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster
- Kingdom Hearts 4
- New strategy game
- Tactics Ogre Remaster
- Tomb Raider 25th Anniversary (2021)
- Unannounced Card Game 2
Chrono Cross absolutely deserves the same treatment as Square Enix's other "HD" ports of its PlayStation games—well, better treatment, really, because as we've seen with AI upscaling, Square's official releases can really be improved on. Final Fantasy 9 is the one closest to my heart and the one I would've assumed had no chance in hell of happening, except that Square Enix is also, extremely randomly, developing a FF9 animated series. Maybe the best Final Fantasy really is getting a ground-up remake.
Oh, and Kingdom Hearts 4? Sure, we'll see that in a decade or two.
TAKE TWO
There's no GTA 6 on the list, but the BioShocks are interesting. We've known about an upcoming BioShock for quite some time, but the RTX remaster is new. Take Two announced the studio working on the next BioShock in late 2019, which does make 2022 sound like an optimistic target. My guess is it doesn't arrive until at least 2023.
- Bioshock 2022
- BioShock RTX Remaster
- XCOM 3
As for XCOM 3, is that actually Midnight Suns, or is it a proper sequel? If the latter, hopefully it wasn't canceled to make room for Midnight Suns instead.
SEGA
No surprise that another mainline Total War is coming, and Endless Legend 2 seems possible, though it may have been scrapped in favor of Amplitude's Humankind. The real items of interest here are Judgment, the Yakuza spin-off, and Shin Megami Tensei 5. With Persona 4 on PC, it feels like a matter of when, not if, the rest of Atlus's RPGs make it over. It's a bit disappointing not to see Persona 5 or any other Atlus games on here, though.
- Endless Legend 2
- Judgment
- Shin Megami Tensei 5
- Total War 9
EA
We know Respawn is working on a new game or two, and a ray traced version of Mirror's Edge? Sure, why not.
- Mirror's Edge RTX Remaster
- Untitled Respawn Game
WARNER BROS
Arkham Knight had an infamously broken launch on PC, but it was a stunner when it worked. Good ray tracing candidate. And both of these fighting games from Nether Realm seem likely—the question is more which one is in development right now.
- Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster
- Injustice 3: Gods Will Fall
- Mortal Kombat XII
CAPCOM
These were already named in Capcom's massive data breach last year, but I just wanted an excuse to write DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 in all-caps.
- Dragon's Dogma 2
- Monster Hunter 6
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Street Fighter 6
MICROSOFT
There are also a whole lot of game codenames, but Gears 6 feels like close to outright confirmation that the next Gears game is on the way. Not exactly a shocker. Meanwhile, 343 Industries has stated once again that nothing's happening with Halo 5 on PC right now.
- Gears 6
- Halo 5: Guardians
BANDAI NAMCO
Tekken 7 has been around since 2015 and is still really popular, so it seems like it's about time for a sequel.
- Tekken 8
KONAMI
VGC reported in October that Konami's planning big comebacks for Metal Gear and Castlevania, and remasters of MGS2/3 are part of that plan. This seems likely and it'd be great to finally have MGS3 on PC.
- Metal Gear Solid 2 HD
- Metal Gear Solid 3 HD
THE REST
- Cities Skylines 2
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Crysis 4
- Earth Defense Force 6
- Metro "Next"
- The Talos Principle 2
- Timesplitters 2 (Remastered)
- Titan Quest 2 (working title)
- Wreckfest sequel
Also this has already been confirmed by the Valve News Network guy as being a port of the HL2 collection to the CS:GO version of Source 1 with workshop support by Filip Victor, the creator of HL2:Update. Valve is just sanctioning it for a Steam release just like Black Mesa and HL2:Update.This seems entirely plausible—Valve actually released a beta branch update for Half-Life 2 just last month, fixing bugs and adding Vulkan support. That makes sense as Valve preps for the launch of the Steam Deck. Will they call that update Half-Life 2 Remastered when it's finished, or is this a sign of a separate, bigger project?
2 years later, that Nvidia leak just keeps delivering—and I'm expecting even more in 2024
Metal Gear Solid, Cities Skylines 2, and Monster Hunter 6 were among the big names that finally appeared in 2023.
Two years ago, a web developer found a way to access a list of every game in Nvidia's GeForce Now database, and as the internet feasted on that massive list, they discovered literally dozens of unreleased and unannounced games. Nvidia claimed the unannounced games were purely speculative—but then the announcements started happening, and kept happening. Sony put God of War on PC. Square Enix remastered Chrono Cross and Tactics Ogre. Capcom announced Dragon's Dogma 2. Some of the biggest and seemingly least likely names on the Nvidia leak list came true.
I thought by the time 2023 rolled around that we'd likely run through all the yet-to-be-announced games that hadn't been canceled, but I was wrong. The list proved just as reliable a crystal ball this year as it did in 2022.
Here's a quick overview of what games from the leak were revealed this year, and what's left still to come.
Games from the Nvidia leak announced in 2023
Returnal - Sony actually announced this one late in 2022, but it dropped on PC in February this year, bringing one of the PS5's most acclaimed exclusives to Steam.
Cities: Skylines 2 - The sequel to the beloved Cities: Skylines was announced this spring and released in October, though unfortunately it still needs some work to live up to the original.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - Another big Sony series finally made the jump this year, announced in late May and released just two months later.
Helldivers 2 - Teasers for this sequel were floating around for a year or two, but it was finally announced in May. It's out in February.
Mortal Kombat XII - This turned out to be Mortal Kombat 1, which presents itself as a reboot but does actually continue from the story of Mortal Kombat 11, so the leak was definitely legit.
Total War: Pharaoh - The Nvidia leak contained the game "Total War 9," which I think we can safely say was this year's Pharaoh. (Even setting aside the Warhammer series there are already more than nine Total Wars, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.)
Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3 HD - After rumors swirled around a Metal Gear Solid re-release for ages, Konami finally announced the Master Collection earlier this year and released it in October. They weren't up to the quality bar we hoped for, though modders have gone to work improving them.
Monster Hunter 6 - Squeaking in just before the end of the year, Capcom announced the next Monster Hunter, Wilds, for 2025.
Horizon Forbidden West - PC players can catch up with the Horizon series early next year, based on Sony's announcement from September.
Titan Quest 2 - I'm going to be honest, I don't remember Titan Quest and also didn't remember that Titan Quest 2 was announced back in August, but it was! It doesn't have a release date yet.
Earth Defense Force 6 - The EDF returned to action on Japanese consoles last year, but it took until October of this year for the news that it'd be coming west. It's out on PC next spring.
Nvidia leaked games still yet to be announced
Final Fantasy 9 Remake - A few industry folks have stated with confidence that this is coming, though Square Enix obviously hasn't commented. One supporting bit of evidence, though, is that an FF9 animated series was announced in 2021 and is presumably still in the works.
Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster - Tactics papa Yasumi Matsuno denying he knows anything about a Tactics Remaster by tweeting "even if I did know, do you think I would divulge that information?" is as much evidence as I need to be sure that this remaster is absolutely still coming.
Sony's Demon's Souls, Ghosts of Tsushima, and Gran Turismo 7 all seem like just a matter of time. (It's my mournful duty to remind you that Bloodborne was not on the list).
BioShock 2022, BioShock RTX Remaster, and XCOM 3 from 2K are all still no-shows, which I imagine speaks to some troubled developments or changes in direction at the studios since 2021.
Sega still hasn't announced Endless Legend 2 or a PC port of Shin Megami Tensei 5, but I think it's safe to say the latter is coming after Persona has finally fully migrated to PC. This is probably a matter of timing—Persona 3 Reload drops in February, so an SMT5 announcement will likely wait till later in 2024.
Mirror's Edge RTX Remaster - I would play this.
Untitled Respawn Game - Respawn released Jedi Survivor this year, but also has several unnamed games in the works; no telling what this one was.
Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster - Not announced yet, but the Arkham trilogy was just released on the Nintendo Switch this month, so I bet it's still coming.
Injustice 3: Gods Will Fall - I imagine this will be Netherrealm's follow-up to MK1. Will it actually have this subtitle?
Gears 6 - Microsoft hasn't announced the next Gears yet, but it has a whole studio devoted to the series, soooo…
Timesplitters 2 (Remastered) - This is presumably dead with the closure of Free Radical. Thanks for being profoundly irresponsible with billions of dollars, Embracer!
Mopping up the last of the list, there's Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and Halo 5: Guardians, two maybe-once-upon-a-time-planned PC ports that I suspect aren't coming anymore; Tomb Raider 25th Anniversary, which was likely canceled since it's coming up on three years late; and an untitled Wreckfest sequel and Metro "Next," two games that I could imagine popping up next year along with quite a few of the entries above.
I've been waiting for that Final Fantasy 9 Remake announcement for a year and a half already, Square Enix—don't make me wait another 18 months!