Alright, settle down everyone -- it's time to throw another rumour onto the trash pile. Over the last few days, numerous websites have been reporting that a sixth instalment in a major series (read: The Elder Scrolls VI, SoulCalibur VI, Halo 6) will be revealed at The Game Awards this Thursday. However, the story has been shot down completely following investigation from Kotaku's Jason Schreier.
The original rumour all stems from the publication's latest podcast -- hosted by Schreier -- on which The Game Awards boss Geoff Keighley was a guest. On said podcast, Keighley jokingly mentions "insane franchise sequel number six", and unsurprisingly, some sites jumped on this comment as if it confirms the existence of such a thing. One site copied another, and so we ended up with the "story" spreading across the 'net.
Obviously The Game Awards will feature some reveals -- Keighley has confirmed as much -- but this clearly wasn't a tease of any kind. It just goes to show how quickly things can snowball when no one bothers to check sources.
[source kotaku.com]
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Still wouldn't be surprised if we saw Halo 6 or SoulCalibur 6, but I recommend clicking on that original Kotaku article — it's hilarious how the rumour being reported on by dozens of sites gets utterly destroyed.
With Hideo and Guillermo present at the show, I bet it's Death Stranding VI
Just give me Jumping Flash 3 already!
So, can DMC 5 still happen?
It’s actually surprising these kind of flub-ups don’t happen more often with all the people involved in these productions. Of course, you’d expect the host to not be the one to produce the leaks, or the fake leaks, or the fake leaks that end up being real leaks ... whichever this one ends up being.
Can they rename KH3 into KH7 to follow up the 6 games on the disc? Or maybe KH8 after 2.8?
When is this on again, I keep confusing it with PSX? They aren't on the same night are they?
@rjejr PSX is happening Dec 9 and 10, while The Game Awards is happening Dec 7.
The 6th from software game blamo
Armored Core 6
I know MS need big 'exclusives' but I still can't see them revealing Halo 6 at a Game Awards - more likely to reveal it themselves at E3 or some big event
@BAMozzy yeah i was thinking that, but it would be a good place for a publisher to reveal a game
"read: The Elder Scrolls VI, SoulCalibur VI, Halo 6"
Huh.... that's a curious number of 6's Could the person spreading these rumors, by any chance, be SATAN?
Street fighter6! Sweet.
Soul Calibur 6
So the host of the podcast had the host of the awards show on, made an off-hand comment, and then waited days to debunk it? Sounds like a collaborated publicity stunt to garner more attention to them.
@DLB3 Don’t confuse everyone with your logic.
Final Fantasy XV-7?
GTA VI
@ToddlerNaruto "PSX is happening Dec 9 and 10, while The Game Awards is happening Dec 7."
Thanks, hence my confusion.
Oh, and by the way, to make things more confusing, the live stream event is actually on Dec 8th for me, Friday night at 11PM. (I finally looked it up when I saw your reply.) So I have back to back nights watching videogame stuff, which may be a bit much for me, we'll see.
https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/12/01/playstation-experience-2017-everything-you-need-to-know/
@rjejr That's correct, Dec 8 night they have a select screening for certain lucky people officially.
Though I'm sure that will get leaked somehow .
@ToddlerNaruto Though I'm sure that will get leaked somehow .
Leaked? So no live stream? If they don't live stream the big kick-off live presentation I'm probably going to skip the rest out of spite. I'm a spiteful guy. Though I'm sure it will all be on Youtube later at some point. thx
Pretty bummed I didn't hear this rumor. I love rumors.
@rjejr You misunderstand, I'm saying the news from the Dec 8 livestream will be leaked shortly after it's officially revealed/happens on December 8th.
I never said we'd be getting info leaked before the livestream?
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