Exciting Game Announcements and Reveals Planned for Bandai Namco's Summer Showcase

Bamco's turn to go

by Khayl Adam Tue 27th Jun 2023

Bandai Namco has announced it'll be holding its own Summer Showcase at the upcoming Anime Expo 2023, promising a "barrage of news and reveals". It seems the season of game reveals is not quite done and dusted, then. Specific IPs were cited, with Naruto, Sand Land, Sword Art Online, Baten Kaitos, and more being teased.

Running for an hour, Bandai Namco's Summer Showcase takes place on 1st July, from 4:30 pm PT/12.30 am BST, making this brave new era in which we celebrate "not-E3" a multi-month affair. Anime Expo itself is completely sold out, so if you were planning on attending in person at this bizarre, late stage, you're out of luck.

What do you think of Bandai Namco's Summer Showcase? Is there something particularly anime-esque you are hoping to see? Stare off into the horizon, then face off against a rival before Naruto-running into the comments section below.

[source gematsu.com]

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent of PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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naruball
Tue 27th Jun 2023

All I want is a new Naruto, even Boruto, game. I doubt it will happen, though.

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Sequel
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Most of my favourite games are Japanese. That's all I have to say really.

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Vivisapprentice
Tue 27th Jun 2023

@Sequel understandable when you look at the past couple of years as most of the games that have dominated are Japanese, Elden Ring, Zelda, FFXVI, Street Fighter VI, Resident Evil 4 etc etc.....

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straw-hat-crew
Tue 27th Jun 2023

It'd be cool to see a teaser for the next Tales of game.
Heck, I haven't played Scarlet Nexus yet so I don't know if there's space for a sequel, if so...then maybe a teaser for Scarlet Nexus 2?
More anime centric wise, perhaps a Jujutsu Kaisen game (that isn't an arena brawler)?

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AsterZero
Tue 27th Jun 2023

New Tales game, Xenosaga trilogy remaster or if there's something new that looks cool other than that I don't care. They usually just milk the same franchises

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OSTOwnage
Tue 27th Jun 2023

@Hylian-Likely yeah I really want a port/remaster/definitive edition of Tales of Graces F. Also, give me a trailer of a new Ni No Kuni 🤤

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DEMONLLAMA
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Absolutely anything to do with DBZ Tenkaichi 4

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redd214
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Tekken 8 release date and something, anything, Ridge Racer related hopefully!

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BusyOlf
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Ace Combat 8, please for the love of god give me Ace Combat 8 news!

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KAIRU
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Sand Land looks awesome! Excited to see more of it!

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Snake_V5
Tue 27th Jun 2023

DBZ Budokai please!!

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APM79
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Highly unlikely but give me a HD compilation of all the PS1 ridge racer games and I’m happy. That would be Ridge Racer, RR Revolution, Rage Racer and RR Type 4.

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starbuck2212
Tue 27th Jun 2023

Little Nightmares 3 would make my kids happy. 🤞

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Axelay71
Tue 27th Jun 2023

A new Ridge racer would be nice, but I hardly doubt it. I did read the devs of Little nightmares have something new so hopefully that might be revealed.