Summer Game Fest returned this year on Thursday, June 9th with a live streaming event where host Geoff Keighley showed off new game announcements, new trailers for upcoming games, and some surprising reveals.
If you haven’t watched the stream on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter or Facebook, we’ve gathered the biggest announcements and news below.
STREET FIGHTER 6
Just a week after the game’s official release, Capcom is already giving fans a new, extended look at Street Fighter 6, the company’s next-generation fighting game. On Thursday at Summer Game Fest, Capcom showed Guile in battle against his American rival Luke and veteran wrestler Ryu.
ALIENS: DARK DESCENT
Aliens: Dark Descent is a new third-person action game from Tindalos Interactive. The cinematic trailer for Dark Descent shows a small team of colonial marines working their way through a base of some sort. We see a team of four Marines using automatic weapons and a rocket launcher to slow – but not stop – a wave of creatures. Announced at Summer Game Fest, Aliens: Dark Descent arrives in 2023.
THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL
Striking Distance CEO Glen Schofield was on hand at Summer Game Fest to show off a new trailer and gameplay footage for The Callisto Protocol – a trailer that presenter Geoff Keighley called the “Schofield cut” – that shows just how dangerous space can be. The video premiered Thursday during Summer Game Fest, showing more of the game’s slimy menace than ever before.
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2
A new level for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was revealed at Summer Game Fest. The level, called Dark Water, is set on a massive cargo ship. The ship level trailer shows off some stunning visuals and gunplay from the game, but the most notable part might be its mobile coverage.
FLASHBACK 2
A cult classic platformer developed by Microids Studio Lyon is finally getting a sequel 30 years after the original game’s release date. Flashback 2 also has a launch window. Announced during Summer Game Fest, the game will launch in winter 2022.
FORT SOLIS
Two industry veterans: Troy Baker (The Last of Us) e Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption 2) have teamed up to work on a new thriller set on Mars called Fort Solis . The two announced the game on stage at Thursday’s Summer Game Fest.
The game’s debut trailer teased the concept: space colonists colonized Mars, but then something goes wrong. Frantic clips of the base in a state of emergency turn into a final clip of a man saying, “Something is happening here and I need to find out what it is.”
ROUTINE
The science fiction horror game Routine finally got an update after nearly a decade in development. The new trailer debuted during Summer Game Fest on Thursday. The game is heading to PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Game Pass, but does not yet have a release date.
Routine’s re-reveal trailerbrings players back to its dark and frightening futuristic setting, using all the in-game imagery. According to a press release from developer Lunar Software, the team has revived the game by rebuilding it from the ground up to better suit its original vision.
STORMGATE
Frost Giant Studios, a team made up of many former Blizzard Entertainment developers who worked on games like StarCraft 2 e Warcraft 3 revealed its debut game Thursday at Summer Game Fest. Stormgate is a new real-time strategy game that promises an “evolving story through thrilling campaign missions where science fiction and fantasy collide”.
HIGHWATER
Publisher Rogue Games and developer Demagog are asking players to venture into a dark world awash in Highwater the “isometric narrative-driven survival game” announced Thursday during Summer Game Fest.
GOAT SIMULATOR 3
Coffee Stain Studios got us once again. No, this was not a trailer for Dead Island 2 It is Goat Simulator 3 – once again riffs in a trailer for Dead Island . O trailer do Goat Simulator 3 premiered Thursday during Summer Game Fest.
Of course, there is noGoat Simulator 2and call itGoat Simulator 3it makes sense. Chaos. It’s coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PCs via the Epic Games Store in 2022.
MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS
Midnight Suns da Marvel, the upcoming turn-based game from the team behind XCOM, revealed a new – and unusual – turn-based feature on Thursday. You can see more in a new gameplay trailer released during Summer Game Fest.
CUPHEAD’S DELICIOUS LAST COURSE DLC
Ahead of the new DLC release date of Cuphead, Studio MDHR debuted a new trailer during Summer Game Fest on Thursday. The new DLC, called The Delicious Last Coursewill come to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC on June 30.
HONKAI: STAR RAIL
Honkai: Star Rail is a new sci-fi open world adventure from the creators of Genshin Impact . The game follows the story of a protagonist who embarked on an interstellar journey aboard the Astral Express. The game features a turn-based fighting system that makes you assemble a team of unique fighters, each with their own different combat skills.
ZENLESS ZONE ZERO
Zenless Zone Zero is HoYverse’s latest project. The eye-catching cinematic trailer was revealed during the Summer Game Fest live stream event.
Host Geoff Keighley kicked off the trailer with a touch of analysis, saying thatZZZoffers “the details ofGenshin Impactwith a fast-paced action style.” The “futuristic urban action game”, as he called it, takes place in a city called New Eridu, where a vast conspiracy of some sort is going haywire.
TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Shredder’s Revenge is getting a seventh playable character, Casey Jones, developer Tribute Games, and Dotemu revealed at Summer Game Fest on Thursday. Jones, the hockey-mask-wielding, stick-wielding vigilante, will join Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Splinter and April O’Neil in honoring Konami’s old Ninja Turtles games.
ONE PIECE ODYSSEY
Bandai Namco has unveiled a new visual for One Piece Odyssey, a new JRPG based on the anime and manga One Piece . The publisher revealed new information about the Straw Hats’ next big adventure at Summer Game Fest on Thursday.
SAINTS ROW BOSS FACTORY
Volition’s upcoming Saints Row reboot, titled simply Saints Row won’t be available until August 23 – but you can go ahead and design your character now. Saints Row Boss Factory is a pre-release download that is now available on all platforms.
NIGHTINGALE
Inflexion Games’ first-person fantasy survival game, Nightingale appeared Thursday at Summer Game Fest with a new trailer showing how its card system blends in with its 3D world.
Nightingaleis described as a shared-world, player-versus-environment game, in which players will fight and create the Victorian fantasy world and visit many different realms. (Cards, it seems, are very important for realm jumping.)
LAYERS OF FEARS
Bloober Team is taking another stab at its Layers of Fear psychological and psychedelic horror franchise. Layers of Fears officially announced at Summer Game Fest on Thursday, is scheduled to release on PlayStation 5, Windows PC Xbox Series X in early 2023.
Judging by the trailer, it certainly has that familiar, creepy vibe. The story will not focus on one character; rather, it will unfold across different generations.
GOTHAM KNIGHTS
Batman may be out of the picture in Gotham Knights, but there are still too many crime fighters to keep the city safe. The latest DC Universe game from WB Games Montreal received a new gameplay demo Thursday during Summer Game Fest, and this time the main focus was Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing.
The trailer lets Nightwing introduce himself a bit, before showing off some of his impressive moves in combat. He has two staffs, a grappling hook, a projectile-firing weapon, and some fantastic martial arts.
THE LAST OF US PART 1
A redone version of The Last of Us will be released on September 2 on PlayStation 5 and later on Windows PC. The remake has a new name, The Last of Us Part 1 to align with the title of the 2020 game’s sequel in PlayStation 4 , The Last of Us Part 2 .
Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann confirmed the remake de The Last of Us at Summer Game Fest on Thursday, calling the PlayStation 5 re-release the “definitive version” of the game.
This article is a translation of the writing by Jeffrey Parkin to the website Polygon.
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