More from Summer Game Fest 2026: All the news from gaming’s busiest week
It will feature “story-rich indie games” — which are my jam, so I’m excited. Tune in on YouTube.
Super Yooka-Laylee Kart looks like a love letter to an older generation of the karting genre. But it also has some modern upgrades, like eight-player local splitscreen and rollback netcode for online racing. There will be a “deep” story campaign, too — maybe it will rival Diddy Kong Racing?
Yes, and he wasn’t the only deceased figure to make an appearance in the “Tupac & Cast Reveal Trailer,” at last night’s event. It also featured the likeness of Bunta Sugawara, a legendary Japanese actor who died in 2014.
Stranger Than Heaven, from Yakuza developer RGG Studio, highlighted Snoop Dogg as a cast member in a trailer last month, and there’s plenty of time for more reveals before its scheduled release in 2027.
Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered will include updated versions of Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, and Hitman: Contracts for modern platforms. It’s set to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC in 2027, and will add “enhanced visuals, improved performance, Photo Mode, and the ability to switch between classic and remastered presentations at any time.”
No details yet on when it will be released, but it will join a growing list of other big Capcom games on the platform like Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, and next year’s Resident Evil Veronica.
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.
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.
The mind-bending game comes out on September 10th. A free demo is available now.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After blowing up in early access in early 2024, Palworld’s 1.0 release is coming soon: July 10th.
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.
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.
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.
The already quite large Monster Hunter Wilds is getting even bigger with a new expansion called Ascendance, which will drop in 2027.
It’ll feature more of Lenny Kravitz’s character, Bawma. Sign me up, 007 First Light ruled.
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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