Kaser Focus: Prepping for Ragnarök

Well, look at that. Less than one week after I chastised the room at large for being unpleasant to the devs of God of War Ragnarök because they wanted to know the release date — we know the release date. The obvious conclusion here is: Let me yell at you, and positive changes happen. Of course, we also got a delay on Forspoken, which will no longer release in October. No, instead it’s gone from being released precisely between The Last of Us Part 1 and God of War to the relatively empty playing field of January 2023. Huh.

We also saw the resurrection of E3 this week, sort of. The ESA announced it was partnering with ReedPop, the PAX people, to make the event happen. I enjoy the subtle shade that ESA CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis threw at those other summer games shows by saying, “The past three years have confirmed that E3 convenes our industry like no other event.” I’m not saying I agree, but I’m seeing a lot of “Aw heck, I actually miss E3” sentiment cropping up. I have no dog in the hunt — I’ve never been to an in-person E3 event.