Gameplay showcase announced for Space Marine 2 and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Focus Entertainment will reveal an extended showcase next week, featuring a new Warhammer title and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden.
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Focus Entertainment, best known for publishing titles like Atomic Heart and Aliens: Dark Descent, has just announced an extended gameplay showcase for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden.

The showcase is slated for August 30th, 2023, and you’ll be able to watch it on the official Focus Entertainment YouTube channel. According to today’s announcement post, the showcase will be available at 9 AM pacific time.

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, developer DON’T NOD’s action RPG with gothic elements and ghost hunters, recently announced a release date for November 7th, 2023. It will be available on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.

The game also revealed its first preview earlier today for Gamescom 2023, which has already explored quite a lot of the basic loop. You can watch it on IGN’s YouTube channel here:

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Although casual viewers appear hesitant about Banishers, there are some terrific creature designs and interesting ideas at work. Hopefully Banishers makes the most of its ghostly approach, exploring its underlying tragedy and establishing more creative supernatural abilities. Otherwise, it likely risks feeling too generic in its primary gameplay.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is also an action RPG, developed by Saber Interactive, which focuses on the Emperor’s warriors battling Tyranid hordes. The Warhammer franchise continues to expand in perpetuity, with Shadows of Change coming next week for Total War: Warhammer III, alongside Update 4.0.

Space Marine 2 is a more concentrated story for the Warhammer universe, and an anticipated sequel. But the game has already revealed lots of gameplay for Gamescom too, which really compromises Focus Entertainment’s separate showcase.

It’s unclear just how much content is left to tease, when many fans will already be making up their minds based on today’s footage. It may have been more beneficial to simply fold the upcoming footage into the Gamescom features. But there could still be further updates about plans for the future and smaller details.

You can read more about the Warhammer franchise, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, and other new titles by following our news section.

Anthony Fertino

Anthony Fertino

Anthony Fertino is a novelist and lifelong gamer, born and raised in Southern California. He's been a content writer for over 10 years, and studied film at SMC for 4 years. When he isn't playing shooters, RPGs, or indies, he's reading SFF novels and trying the latest tabletop games.

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