Daily Times

There’ll be three confirmed titles and four unannounced games at the debut Nacon Connect, one of which is expected to be a new entry to the “Test Drive” street racing franchise.

The digital conference will go live at 7pm Central European Summer Time for the French company, with broadcasts to be made through twitch.tv/nacon, youtube.com/nacon, instagram.com/nacongaming, facebook.com/nacongaming, and twitter.com/nacon.

The start time equates to 10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 5pm UTC, 6pm UK, 7pm South Africa, 10.30pm India, then on July 8 at 1am in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Beijing, China, 2am in South Korea and Japan, and 3am in Sydney, Australia.

Three of the seven showcase titles have been named as “Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong” from Bordeaux team Big Bad Wolf, turn-based combat adventure “Rogue Lords” from Parisian studio Cyanide and nearby Leikir Studio, and “Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood” from Cyanide itself.

The four mystery announcements involve Italy’s RaceWard Studio, Paris studio Spiders (2019 hit “Greedfall”), another Paris studio in KT Racing (also known as Kylotonn of the “WRC” rally series), and Belgium’s Abrakam Studio (digital card game “Faeria”).

One of the mystery games is thought to be “Test Drive: Solar Crown,” developed under Kylotonn’s guidance.

Nacon registered a website domain and filed for a UK trademark for “Test Drive: Solar Crown” in April 2020.

Nacon is also involving its accessories division in the showcase. The company has impressed with its line of officially licensed, Xbox-style Revolution controllers for the PlayStation 4.

Formerly known as Bigben Interactive, it has been on something of an acquisition spree these last two years, bringing in four Parisian studios since May 2018: Cyanide, Kylotonn, Spiders and Eko Software.

When it was still operating as Bigben Interactive, Nacon took over the “Test Drive” brand name from Atari in 2016. It purchased a stake in RaceWard in September 2019.