With Summer Game Fest over, it's time to take a look back at some of the stand-out hits of the show. I don't mean the most exciting reveals, but the best games I actually got to play. The SGF space was full of interesting games, some from high-profile studios and others from indie outfits. And there were some games that were surprisingly fun that I only discovered by just picking up a controller and playing.

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

Though I've seen trailers for Capcom's sumptuous-looking game, I was never quite sure what it was about. I thought it was a generic hack-and-slash game dressed up in the richness of Japanese mythology, b …

Read the full story at The Verge.

One would think after spending a summer screaming about kissing bears in Baldur's Gate or gods in Hades 2 that my primary concern for Dragon Age: The Veilguard - a game from a studio known for its robust character writing and romanceable companions - would be who I'm picking to smooch. But after three games spanning almost two decades, all I really wanted out of the next Dragon Age was a skin tone that matched mine and didn't look like I'd never seen a bottle of moisturizer.

So I know there is a Maker who loves me when one of the very first features that game director Corinne Busche showed me was all the different skin tones in Veilguard's …

Read the full story at The Verge.

The reveal of Assassin's Creed Shadows mostly focused on its story, characters, and setting. But a new trailer gives a better idea of how the game will actually play. The lengthy gameplay overview, which clocks in at around 12 minutes long, shows off the game's sprawling rendition of Japan, while also detailing the different skills and approaches of its two playable leads. It's also very bloody.

This is the game's second gameplay trailer in as many days. Ubisoft also released a shorter clip during the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday:

Shadows is the latest entry in the series to have dual protagonists (see: Assassin's Creed Syndicate), as pla …

Read the full story at The Verge.

It's a mad world once again. At its Xbox Games Showcase at Summer Game Fest, Microsoft revealed the latest entry in the sci-fi shooter series: Gears of War E-Day. It's being developed by The Coalition, Xbox's internal studio dedicated to all things Gears. The game doesn't currently have a release date, but it being built on Unreal Engine 5.

The announcement trailer harkens back to the classic "Mad World" commercial for the original Gears. Fittingly, E-Day is set 14 years before the first Gears, and "tells the story of the first Locust emergence on Sera." It once again stars Marcus Fenix and is being billed as an origin story.

This will be …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft is making the white version of the Xbox Series X official today. The new console option won't include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it's identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99.

Xbox president Sarah Bond revealed the new white Xbox Series X during the Xbox Games Showcase today, alongside a 2TB "Galaxy Black" version of the original Xbox Series X. There's also a $349.99 1TB Xbox Series S coming in white, too.

The white coating on the exterior of this new Xbox Series X mat …

Read the full story at The Verge.