The Summer Game Fest returned this year on Thursday, June 9th with a live event featuring host Geoff Keighley showcasing new game announcements, new upcoming game trailers and some amazing revelations.
If you haven’t seen the playback on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, or Facebook, here are the most important announcements and news.
Street Fighter 6
Just one week after the game was officially unveiled, Capcom is now offering fans a new, expanded look at Street Fighter 6, the company’s next-generation fighting game. On Thursday at the Summer Game Fest, Capcom featured Guile in the 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 Dark Descent movie trailer shows a small team of colonial Marines working to move around a base of some sort. We see a team of four Marines using automatic weapons and a rocket launcher to stop, but not stop, a wave of invading creatures. Announced at the Summer Game Fest, Aliens: Dark Descent will arrive in 2023.
Calisto’s protocol
Striking Distance CEO Glen Schofield was present at the Summer Game Fest to show a new trailer and gameplay footage of The Callisto Protocol, a trailer featuring Geoff Keighley called “Schofield cut,” which shows how dangerous it can be. the space. The video debuted on Thursday during the Summer Game Fest, showing more than ever the viscous threat of the game.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
A new level for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was revealed at the Summer Game Fest. The level, called Dark Water, is on a massive cargo ship. The ship-level trailer shows some stunning images and fire fighting from the game, but the most notable part could be its mobile cover.
Flashback 2
A cult classic platformer game, developed by Microids Studio Lyon, finally has a sequel 30 years after the original game’s release date. Flashback 2 also has a launch window. Announced during the Summer Game Fest, the game will be released in the winter of 2022.
Fort Solís
Two industry veterans: Troy Baker (The Last of Us) and Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption 2) have teamed up to work on a new Mars-based thriller game called Fort Solis. They both announced the game on stage at the Thursday Game Fest on Thursday.
The game’s debut trailer showed the concept: Space settlers have colonized Mars, but then something goes wrong. The frantic clips of the base in an emergency state pile up to the final clip of a man saying, “Something’s going on here and I need to find out what it is.”
Routine
The sci-fi horror game Routine finally has an update after nearly a decade in development. The new trailer premiered Thursday during the Summer Game Fest. The game is aimed at PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Game Pass, but has no release date yet.
Routine’s revelation trailer takes players back to their dark, creepy futuristic environment, using all of the game’s footage. According to a press release from developer Lunar Software, the team revived the game by rebuilding it from scratch to better fit its original vision.
Stormgate
Frost Giant Studios, a team of many former Blizzard Entertainment developers who worked on games like StarCraft 2 and Warcraft 3, unveiled their debut game on Thursday at the Summer Game Fest. Stormgate is a new real-time strategy game that promises a “constantly evolving story through exciting campaign missions where science fiction and fantasy collide.”
High waters
Publisher Rogue Games and developer Demagog urge gamers to venture into a bleak, flooded world in Highwater, the “narrative-based isometric survival game,” it announced Thursday during the Summer Game Fest.
Goat Simulator 3
Coffee Stain Studios got us once again. No, it’s not a Dead Island 2 trailer, it’s Goat Simulator 3, again in a Dead Island trailer. The Goat Simulator 3 trailer debuted on Thursday during the Summer Game Fest.
Of course, there is no Goat Simulator 2, and calling it Goat Simulator 3 makes sense. Chaos. It will arrive on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Windows computers through the Epic Games Store in 2022.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Marvel’s Midnight Suns, the team’s next turn-based game behind XCOM, revealed a new and unusual turn-based feature on Thursday. You can see more in a new game trailer released during the Summer Game Fest.
Cuphead’s Delicious Last Course DLC
Ahead of the new release of the Cuphead DLC, Studio MDHR released a new trailer during the Summer Game Fest on Thursday. The new DLC, called The Delicious Last Course, will hit Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Windows PC on June 30th.
Honkai: Star Rail
Honkai: Star Rail is a new sci-fi adventure in the open world by the creators of Genshin Impact. The game follows the story of a protagonist who has embarked on an interstellar journey aboard the Astral Express. The game includes a turn-based fighting system that allows you to assemble a team of unique fighters, each with their own different combat skills.
Zenless Zero Zone
Zenless Zone Zero is the latest HoYoverse project. The lavish movie trailer was unveiled during the Summer Game Fest live event.
Presenter Geoff Keighley began the trailer with a touch of analysis, saying that ZZZ offers “the detail of Genshin Impact with a fast-paced action style.” The “futuristic urban action game,” as he called it, takes place in a city called New Eridu where a major conspiracy of some sort is being wiped out.
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge will host a seventh playable character, Casey Jones, developer Tribute Games and Dotemu, which were revealed on Thursday at the Summer Game Fest. Jones, the hockey-masked and stick-watchman, will join Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Splinter, and April O’Neil in paying homage to Konami’s pre-game Ninja Turtles.
One Piece Odyssey
Bandai Namco unveiled a new look at One Piece Odyssey, a new JRPG based on the One Piece long-running anime and manga. The publisher revealed new information about the next big straw hat adventure at the Summer Game Fest on Thursday.
Saints Row Boss Factory
Volition’s upcoming Saints Row remake, simply titled Saints Row, won’t be available until August 23, but you can go ahead and design your character right now. Saints Row Boss Factory is a pre-release download that is now available on all platforms.
Rossinyol
Inflection Games’ first-person fantasy survival game, Nightingale, appeared Thursday at the Summer Game Fest with a new trailer showing how its card system blends in with its 3D world.
Nightingale is described as a shared world game, player versus environment, in which players will fight and create themselves through the Victorian fantasy world and visit many different realms. (It seems that the cards are very important to jump the kingdom).
Layers of fear
Bloober Team is taking another stab at its Layers of Fear psychological and psychedelic horror franchise. Layers of Fears, officially announced at the Thursday Game Fest on Thursday, is scheduled to launch 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; instead, it will be shelled through different generations.
Knights of Gotham
Batman may be out of the picture at Gotham Knights, but there are still many crime fighters to keep the city safe. WB Games Montreal’s latest game in the DC universe received a new game show on Thursday during the Summer Game Fest, and this time the main focus was Dick Grayson, also known as Nightwing.
The trailer allows Nightwing to introduce itself a bit, before showing off some of its impressive moves in combat. He has double clubs, a hook, a projectile weapon and some fantastic martial arts.
The Last of Us Part 1
A remake 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 sequel to PlayStation 4, The Last of Us Part 2.
Naughty Dog co-chair Neil Druckmann confirmed the remake of The Last of Us at the Summer Game Fest on Thursday, saying the PlayStation 5 re-release was the “definitive version” of the game.