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Nacon has announced the full schedule for Nacon Connect, its first digital conference, which will take place on July 7 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET.

The showcase will feature 10 titles, including four unannounced, from a range of genres including racing, RPGs, and roguelikes.

The schedule is as follows:

1. Introduction by Benoit Clerc, head of publishing at Nacon.
2. Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong with Eliott Hipeau from Big Bad Wolf Studio.
3. New unannounced game with Marco Ponte from Raceward Studio.
4. Rogue Lords story trailer with Camille Lisoir from Cyanide Studio.
5. Nacon accessories with Yannick Allaert from Nacon.
6. New unannounced game with Jehanne Rousseau from Spiders Studio. (Teaser image here.)
7. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood gameplay reveal.
8. New unannounced game with Alain Jarniou from KT Racing Studio. (New Test Drive title.)
9. New unannounced game with Jean-Michel Vilain from Abrakam Studio and an unannounced guest.

You will be able to watch Nacon Connect live on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter.
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[cash_longfellow]

Looking forward to what Spiders is going to announce.

 

[Lupin3]

Nacon accessories is where it's at. Gonna be interesting to see if they say anything about PS5, but maybe it's too soon.

 

[01011001]

Nacon accessories is where it's at.

their controllers are the fucking worst. many models have unfixable input latency, their triggers are atrocious and the ergonomics are questionable at best

 

[Lupin3]

their controllers are the fucking worst. many models have unfixable input latency, their triggers are atrocious and the ergonomics are questionable at best

Really? I've heard plenty great things about them, but always held off because of the price. Was contemplating biting the bullet on the Revolution Unlimited if there would be PS5 support as well. Now I'm not so sure though...

 

[MiguelItUp]

Awesome! Excited to see that this week is slowly filling with more exciting game details, reveals, and news!

 

[ShaikhCroft]

So 9 hours left till the Nacon Connect!

 

[Mista]

their controllers are the fucking worst. many models have unfixable input latency, their triggers are atrocious and the ergonomics are questionable at best

I have to agree there. Tried two different controllers and they sucked ass

 

[martino]

 

[CamHostage]

So, this happened... Kind of.



This has been a very talky, talky show. Needed way more gameplay.

• Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is the Big Bad Wolf RPG, and they showed a teaser trailer, no gameplay. 2021.
• RIMS Racing is a new motorbike racing game from a new studio Race Ward (using the Kylotonn KT engine), and they showed a bike render while talking about how it's a bike racing game like no other. Summer 2021.
• Rogue Lords is a Cyanide RPG that is inspired by Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (but more importantly, the character designs are Burtonesque.) Animated trailer, but also a few seconds of some turnbased battles were shown. 2021, PS4/Xbox One,Switch,PC.
• RIG, an accessories company Nacon bought (maybe they're a name? I'm not too familiar with if RIG products are good or not, I saw on I think this thread that the Nacon products aren't so loved,) and they have some new gaming hardware coming out. There's some smartphone controller stuff coming out, but also there will be peripherals for Xbox Series X/Xbox One/PC coming out.
• Steelrising is a new Spiders action-RPG, they showed some character customization and art design. Historical fiction about battling robots on the command of Queen Marie Antoinette to defeat King Louis XVI in a steampunk Paris. CG teaser.
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood shown in gameplay trailer (hey, gameplay?!) Feb 4 2021 on PS5/4 Series X/One, Epic Games PC
• Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown was revealed. By KT Racing (makers of the current WRC and a few other BigBen racers.) Has a big island to race and real cars you can buy. They showed a teaser, and also some footage of their racing engine that probably has little to do with TDU.
• Roguebook is a new card-battle RPG by the makers of Faeries, and they spent a lot of time talking about how fun it is to play with cards.
• Tennis World Tour 2, THAT they showed a gameplay trailer of.
• Warhammer Chaosbane is coming to PS5/Series X.
• WRC 9 is a game and they showed a full race of that. Sept 3 for platforms already announced.

And, that's the show.

 

[ShaikhCroft]

Another show without anything apparently! :/

 

[Deleted member 471617]

Steel Rising from Spiders is really the only game that I have legitimate interest in. Loved GreedFall so im definitely looking forward to seeing and knowing more about Steel Rising.

 

[CamHostage]

Nacon also released trailers after the show ended. Prepare to have wanted more...

 

[Pantz]

The guy who worked on TDU1 made this new one sound promising. A 1 to 1 scale island, cool! Yeah gameplay would have been nice but it sounds a long way off anyway it wouldn't be ready. Just warms my heart to hear it officially announced. Will be hanging out in their discord server a lot.

 

[CamHostage]

The guy who worked on TDU1 made this new one sound promising. A 1 to 1 scale island, cool! Yeah gameplay would have been nice but it sounds a long way off anyway it wouldn't be ready. Just warms my heart to hear it officially announced. Will be hanging out in their discord server a lot.

They actually did show some footage of something in the TDU Solar Crown reveal (they showed some of the development engine and then a rally course), but I'm guessing that's WRC trailer footage instead of TDU? They didn't label it, but I'm assuming you won't have a co-driver (or even helmets) in Test Drive Unlimited...

I am excited for TDU coming back, at least, and am crossing my fingers that it turns out well.

 

[R6Rider]

As a motorcyclist and a fan of racing games, both RiMs Racing and TDU Solar Crown have me interested.

Steelrising setting and premise seems really cool.

Vampire: TM - Swansong has me interested but confused. Is it a standalone expansion to the first game? I'm assuming 2 will take place after it and be completely separate.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I was excited to hear more about Werewolf and Vampire. But I guess I didn't really get a great amount of either. At least one showed gameplay, albeit I don't really know how to feel about it.

Vampire: TM - Swansong has me interested but confused. Is it a standalone expansion to the first game? I'm assuming 2 will take place after it and be completely separate.

That's what I'm trying to figure out. They don't provide any good details at all.

 

[CrysisFreak]

They actually did show some footage of something in the TDU Solar Crown reveal (they showed some of the development engine and then a rally course), but I'm guessing that's WRC trailer footage instead of TDU? They didn't label it, but I'm assuming you won't have a co-driver (or even helmets) in Test Drive Unlimited...

I am excited for TDU coming back, at least, and am crossing my fingers that it turns out well.

Yeah the gameplay is from WRC, not from TDU.
Very disappointed that TDU is far away still. I hope it will be good at least.

 

[Rikkori]

When they start showing the girl in Steelrising the song reminds me of

 

[CamHostage]

Vampire: TM - Swansong has me interested but confused. Is it a standalone expansion to the first game? I'm assuming 2 will take place after it and be completely separate.

I'm not too familiar with the franchise, but I'm kind of confused which specific Vampire TM games we're mentioning here? There are the old games Redemption and Bloodlines, and of those Bloodlines is finally getting a sequel, but it's unconnected to Swansong; different developer/publisher, different gameplay. Then there's Vampire: The Masquerade: Coteries of New York the card RPG, and that is also getting its own follow-up this year, a stand-alone expansion called Vampire: The Masquerade: Shadows of New York (but again, different publisher/developer.) And then there's Swansong, which we're only being teased on but I think is some kind of next-gen adventure game like the team's previous work The Council?

So as I understand it, there's 3 totally different gamelines are going with the franchise currently: the RPG Bloodlines, the narrative Swansong, and the cardbattler New York.

 

[AutisticWonton]

Why was TDU rated an 18? That’s weird for a racing game...

 

[martino]

trailer + blablabla
worst format imo.
no gameplay.
i feel they will never learn

 

[sublimit]

I'm mostly curious to see some gameplay from Spiders new game Steelrising.