Just as the name suggests, Perfect Dark has successfully kept audiences in the dark, ever since the game was announced many years ago. However, after years of relative silence, it appears that Microsoft is finally ready to reveal the Perfect Dark reboot at E3 2022.
In a recent The Xbox Era podcast, Gamesbeat's Jeff Grubb enumerated the Microsoft projects that he believes will be at E3 2022. According to Grubb, Microsoft could showcase Perfect Dark at E3 2022 and give it a 2023 or 2024 release date, as the game "will have had close to five full years of development" by then. In addition to Perfect Dark, Grubb also mentioned that Avowed will be part of the showcase as well as Starfield, Redfall, and Forza Motorsport 8.
What's interesting here is that Grubb's statement assumes that E3 2022's digital event will happen less than two months after mentioning that ESA could drop E3 2022 entirely. So far, the ESA hasn't confirmed anything after canceling this year's physical event. But, if the Perfect Dark reveal doesn't happen at E3 2022, we're not ruling out Grubb's statement just yet. E3 is no longer the only premiere game-centric event with Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest seeing a lot of success as an "alternative" to E3.