More from Summer Game Fest 2026: All the news from gaming’s busiest week
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The next game from RGG Studio will be released on January 15th, 2027, and Tupac is in the game. Didn’t expect that casting.
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).
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.
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.
Resident Evil: Veronica launches in 2027, and it’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X / S, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2.
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.
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.
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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Paramount Games Studio puts all of Paramount and Skydance’s development teams under one brand. Weirdly, it will still be making two titles set in Disney universes: Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra and an untitled Star Wars game, Variety reports.
There will also be a new AAA title announced at Summer Game Fest Live later today.
The delayed Switch 2 port of fantasy epic Elden Ring is now launching on August 28th. For those playing on other platforms, FromSoftware says that the extras from the Switch version will be available as DLC on the same day.
According to the Steam page for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis:
AI-assisted tools were used during development to support some early exploration and temporary development content. Any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team.
Crystal Dynamics tells Eurogamer that “we leverage AI tools to help our teams iterate on ideas faster and more efficiently, while ensuring that all finished content in the final product is human-crafted.”
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The slasher movie-turned-game series is back with a full-on sequel that launches in 2027. It has a new setting and characters, but the same interactive film format.
The second season of Marathon, Bungie’s highly stylized extraction shooter, starts today. It’s called Nightfall and will be available for everyone to play for free from June 2nd to June 9th, so now’s the time to see if Bungie’s doing enough to keep Marathon alive in the long run. Bungie has the best gunplay in gaming, so here’s hoping.
The franchise has been on quite a run between the SH2 remake and the excellent F, and Townfall looks like it’ll add a new flavor to the horror. It launches on September 24th.
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