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Geoff Keighley’s annual June celebration of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the big live show that will feature a whole bunch of gaming news and announcements, begins at 5PM ET and is set to run for two hours. The event itself will take place in person at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, but it will also be streaming live on YouTube.
Summer Game Fest Live sits squarely in the middle of a big run of video game showcases; PlayStation hosted a State of Play on Tuesday, and the Xbox Games Showcase takes place on Sunday. That doesn’t mean there won’t be some big surprises, though. Last year, for example, Capcom used the show to announce Resident Evil Requiem. According to this year’s livestream’s description, expect a “live look at what’s next in video games, with new game announcements, surprise special guests and more,” and while that’s not very specific, Keighley probably has some flashy news in store.
Read on for our coverage of the biggest updates from the show.
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.
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.
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.
Control Resonant is a sequel — and also a starting point
Image: Remedy Entertainment
Chronologically, Control Resonant is a sequel to 2019’s Control. But in most other ways, the games aren’t directly connected. To developer Remedy, they’re more like two sides of the same coin.
When Resonant was first revealed last year, creative director Mikael Kasurinen said you can play the games in any order. The world of Control is reality-bending in lots of ways, but the general linear progression of time isn’t really one of them — how would someone start with the sequel?
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.
PlatinumGames is making another TMNT game.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Minecraft Dungeons II could launch this September.
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!)
Image: Nintendo
Paramount is making a unified games studio.
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.
