Andrew Webster
A cozy interruption.
If you need a change of pace from the bombast of last night’s SGF Live, the Wholesome Direct, an indie-focused showcase, is streaming at 12PM ET. It’s always full of cute things to play.
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The YouTube star has gone from reviewing synths to taking on the surveillance state.
Terrence O'Brien
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Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Get your knives out for this one.
The team behind Duck Detective announced what they describe as a Knives Out-inspired mystery, which is really all I need to hear to be curious about Apple Crumble. It’s launching on PC at some point this year.
Jay Peters
Screenbound, a game that can be both a 2D and 3D platformer simultaneously, launches in September.
The mind-bending game comes out on September 10th. A free demo is available now.
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Sean Hollister
I know Threads of Time isn’t newly announced, but it looks so cool.
I just introduced my 9-year-old to Chrono Trigger, possibly my favorite game of all time, and this love letter to it (and other JRPGs of the era) hits me just right. I might be as excited for this one as FFVII Revelation.
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Jay Peters
Fortnite’s next season tests the extraction waters.
In Fortnite: Runners, you can seek out cute little sprites that give you powers, and if you extract them before a match is over, you can spend a special currency to start the next match with a sprite equipped. Not super surprising that Fortnite is trying extraction out, given the rise of games like Arc Raiders and Marathon.
Runners, which is expected to be playable later tonight, will also feature a comic book-style John Wick.
Andrew Webster
A bloody good announcement.
The studio behind cult classics Nidhogg and Wheel World is back with Blood Dungeon, a game described as a “2D platforming autoshooter with a killer soundtrack.” Even better, it’ll be out pretty soon, launching in the summer.
Andrew Webster
Tifa can kick Ryu’s ass, and now you can prove it.
Street Fighter 6’s next batch of characters includes a Final Fantasy VII favorite. The four new fighters will be released in stages, with Tifa dropping early next year.
Jay Peters
The Wolf Among Us 2 isn’t dead yet.
It’s had a long development, but it’s apparently going to finally come out in 2027. The Wolf Among Us Remastered is also set to launch this holiday season.
Kallie Plagge
For those following along at home…
By my math, we’re at four (4) puppet or puppet-adjacent appearances so far in the show: Studio MDHR, Billy the Puppet from Saw, the Among Us mascots, and then Capcom action figures. We’ve known Geoff likes puppets, but I’m excited at just how much he’s committed to it this year.
Jay Peters
Palworld 1.0 launches in July.
After blowing up in early access in early 2024, Palworld’s 1.0 release is coming soon: July 10th.
Kallie Plagge
Attack on Titan in its entirety.
If you liked Omega Force and Koei Tecmo’s 2016 hack-and-slash take on season 1 of Attack on Titan (or Attack on Titan 2, which adapted the first two seasons), good news! They’re back with Attack on Titan 3, and this time the game covers the anime in its entirety. It’s coming out July 1st on the PS5, Xbox Series X / S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2.
Andrew Webster
Another look at Clutch.
Maverick Games revealed its first project, the Forza-like Clutch, earlier in the week. But the latest trailer really shows how much emphasis the racer will have on story.
Jay Peters
Gotta go a little fast.
Sonic and friends appear to be getting their own, adorable Pico Park game. There are a bunch of new crossovers coming to Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, too, including TMNT and Godzilla.
Andrew Webster
A wild expansion has appeared.
The already quite large Monster Hunter Wilds is getting even bigger with a new expansion called Ascendance, which will drop in 2027.
Jay Peters
007 First Light is getting a new story mission later this year.
It’ll feature more of Lenny Kravitz’s character, Bawma. Sign me up, 007 First Light ruled.
Andrew Webster
There’s a surprise drop among us.
If you were wondering what happened to the Among Us animated series that was announced way back in 2023, wonder no more: All 10 episodes of the show are available to stream right now on Paramount Plus. Another surprise: developer Innersloth announced a spinoff called Among Us Story: On Guard.
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Andrew Webster
A new hope.
Star Wars may be having a tough time at the box office right now, but maybe it’ll have some better luck in the world of strategy games. The XCOM-like Star Wars Zero Company is launching on August 27th on the PS5, Xbox, and PC.
Jay Peters
Assassin’s cat.
1666 Amsterdam, the next game from Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets, is launching in early access later this year, and a free demo will be available today on PC and Steam. It looks pretty eerie, but at one point, there’s a playable cat!
Jay Peters
Virtua Fighter Crossroads is the next Virtua Fighter game.
It’s set to launch in 2027. If you want to see more than what was shown at Summer Game Fest Live, there will be a dedicated Crossroads showcase later today at 8PM ET.
Jay Peters
It’s the Sebulba game!
Sorry, I mean Star Wars: Galactic Racer. A new trailer shows off what appears to be the game’s story mode. The conversations look a little stilted, but who cares — all I care about is the podracing. It’s coming out on October 6th.
Kallie Plagge
Titled Goose Game.
An Eggstremely Hard Game casts you as one of two (or four) goose parents trying to carry their egg home without breaking it. Imagine the fights you could get into with your friends or partner! Just like Overcooked, except you really shouldn’t be cooking this egg.
Andrew Webster
Who doesn’t love a good cube?
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on in this co-op survival game, which is called Haex, but I’m down for the vibes — and the cubes. It launches in 2027.
Jay Peters
PlatinumGames is making another TMNT game.
Following its work on 2016’s Mutants in Manhattan, PlatinumGames will be developing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, a new AAA action-adventure game based on the graphic novels. The Last Ronin will be published by the newly announced Paramount Games Studio.
Jay Peters
Stranger Than Heaven is coming out in January — and features Tupac?
The next game from RGG Studio will be released on January 15th, 2027, and Tupac is in the game. Didn’t expect that casting.
Jay Peters
Fumito Ueda’s next game is Gen Atlas.
Ueda, behind games like Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian, showed off his new title, a sci-fi shooter. There’s no details on when it will come out, but it will be available on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and the Epic Games Store (Epic is publishing it).
Andrew Webster
Uh oh, the xenomorph is back.
The sequel to one of the scariest games I’ve ever played has been officially unveiled with a brief teaser for Alien Isolation 2. It’s coming to the PS5, Xbox, PC, and even the Switch 2, though there’s no release date yet.
Andrew Webster
Cuphead returns.
Studio MDHR confirmed that it’s working on a follow-up to Cuphead, though it’s still early in development. Also in the works: an 8-bit platformer set in the same classic animation-inspired universe, which will even be released as Sega Master System cartridge, in addition to modern platforms.
Jay Peters
Capcom is remaking Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
Resident Evil: Veronica launches in 2027, and it’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X / S, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2.
Jay Peters
No Highguard-esque ending today.
After the fiasco surrounding everything Highguard, Geoff Keighley promises that the last Summer Game Fest Live announcement today will be a “single player, narrative game.” The show starts at 5PM ET, so we won’t have to wait too much longer for the big reveal.
Andrew Webster
TGI(SG)F.
What better way to spend a Friday night than with a deluge of video game trailers and reveals. Summer Game Fest Live kicks off at 5PM ET, and you can watch along live right here.
Jay Peters
Minecraft Dungeons II could launch this September.
The Nintendo eShop listing for the game shows a September 29th release date and a price tag of $29.99, as shared by Wario64.
Perhaps this is a Summer Game Fest Live announcement that got pushed a little early; that event is set to kick off at 5PM ET. (We’ll be watching and covering the show, stay tuned!)
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