The parade of 2024 summer gaming showcases has begun, and since no mortal gamer can hold this much news in their head at once, we're collecting all the big trailers and announcements here for you to peruse at your leisure.
(If you're wondering what the cool image above is, it's from the cinematic trailer for upcoming RTS Battle Aces.)
Sony State of Play
The big announcement: God of War Ragnarök on PC
The big news for PC gamers at May's Sony State of Play stream was no big surprise: God of War Ragnarök is on its way to Steam on September 19. Just make sure you have a PSN account...
More Sony State of Play news
- Infinity Nikki and Ballad of Antara are headed to PC
- A new hero shooter called Concord was revealed, and it looks interesting
- The Silent Hill 2 remake will release in October
- Dynasty Warriors: Origins is coming in 2025
- Monster Hunter Wilds is full of 'harsh and unforgiving' weather
Summer Game Fest
The big announcement: Civilization 7 is coming in 2025
The biggest news at this year's Summer Game Fest, at least for us older PC gaming practitioners, was the announcement that Civilization 7 is on the way next year. We already knew Firaxis was working on the next game in the legendary grand strategy series, but it's nice to have it confirmed. The bad news is that they didn't reveal much—details won't come until August.
More Summer Game Fest news
- There was lots for fighting game fans to chew on
- The Stanley Parable dev Davey Wreden's next game is Wanderstop
- Deckbuilding RTS Battle Aces was revealed—check out our hands-on preview
- The developer of Furi and Haven is making a mountain climbing game
- The maker of Choo-Choo Charles has a weird new game
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 got a new trailer
- The Finals season 3 was revealed
- Dark and Darker returned to Steam
- The new trailer for Renaissance soulslike Enotria was pretty sweet
- Skate is still in pre-pre-alpha, but we got a Tim Robinson sketch
- Roguelike hack-and-slasher Tears of Metal was revealed
- Monster Hunter Wilds got a second trailer that heavily features mounts
- There's a Power Rangers game coming, and it doesn't look bad
- Th Silent Hill creator's next game, Slitterhead, looks sorta sick
- We saw more of the Sekiro-like Phantom Blade Zero
Release date announcements
- Alan Wake 2 expansion: Out now
- Palworld update: June 27, 2024
- Black Myth: Wukong: August 20, 2024
- Quidditch Champions: September 3, 2024
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero: October 11, 2024
- No More Room in Hell 2: October 31, 2024
Indie showcases
The big story: It's been a great year for action roguelikes
Even putting aside Hades 2, it's been a strong year for the action roguelike genre. The Rogue Prince of Persia released in early access and is really cool, we recently previewed Windblown, and at this year's Devolver Direct, former lead Dead Cells designer Sébastien Benard announced Tenjutsu. (It's not a roguelike, but 2D platformer Possessors looks pretty sweet, too.)
Below, find more news from showcases like Day of the Devs, Devolver Direct, Wholesome Direct, and the Future Games Show:
- Access-Ability showcase featured innovations like a blindness-friendly city builder
- UFO 50, originally scheduled to release six years ago, is out soon
- We saw the first game from horror film producer Blumhouse
- The Talos Principle 2: Road to Elysium was revealed
- Cult of the Lamb is getting co-op
- The Hyper Light Drifter studio revealed a new game called Possessors
- Anger Foot got a July release date
- New froggy colony sim Croakwood looks adorable
- Digital Eclipse is making a Volgarr the Viking sequel
- A demo for survival game First Dwarf is out now, features a dwarf in a mech
- Bogdan's Cross is a game about a Templar knight/teddy bear 🐻
- The official Starship Troopers co-op shooter has a full release date
- We got a trailer for former Dragon Age lead Mike Laidlaw's Eternal Strands
- Caravan SandWitch looks like an emotional, contemplative road trip on a desert planet
Xbox Games Showcase
The big announcements: Doom: The Dark Ages and Gears of War: E-Day
The start and end of the show revealed two big shooter prequels: A medieval Doom (yes please) and the return of Gears:
Xbox Games Showcase reactions
Microsoft put on a packed show. Fable continues to look amusing, our first good look at Assassin's Creed: Shadows has us optimistic, and new games Mixtape and South of Midnight look pretty cool.
Ted and Rich were both impressed by a couple trailers they didn't expect to be:
- "I had less than zero expectations for the Perfect Dark reboot, but it looks like the 2020s answer to Deus Ex I've been waiting for" —Ted
- "I didn't want to get my hopes up about Metal Gear Solid Delta, but Konami's somehow done it" —Rich
But not everything landed like you'd hope:
- "Is it just me, or do the newly revealed companions of Dragon Age: The Veilguard look like they're in a hero shooter?" —Robin
- "Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's latest showcase almost makes it look like they forgot to put a game in there" —Rich
More Xbox Games Showcase trailers and announcements
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is out in October, and it has "Omnimovement"
- Elie likes the look of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Obsidian's next RPG Avowed got a trailer
- World of Warcraft: The War Within got a release date
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming in November
- Fallout 76 is expanding to Shenandoah, and playable ghouls are coming
- We got our first look at Starfield's Shattered Space DLC
- Age of Mythology: Retold will be out in September
PC Gaming Show
Check out our complete PC Gaming Show 2024 recap
Woo, we did it: 10 PC Gaming Shows! You'll find everything from this year's show at the link above. Here are just the world premiere reveal trailers:
Among The Wild
Starbirds
Ale Abbey
Sumerian Six
All Systems Dance
Phantom Line
Copa City
Tempopo
Crescent County
Generation Exile
Hotel Galactic
Streets of Fortuna
Worship
Gunboat God
Ubisoft Forward
The big reveal: Star Wars Outlaws
Ubisoft finally showed off extended gameplay from its open world Star Wars game, which is due out in August. Morgan also got to play a bit of Star Wars Outlaws: He liked aspects of it, but came away worried that it played things too safe.
The other big reveal: Assassin's Creed Shadows
After a trailer in the Xbox showcase, Ubisoft gave us the deep dive into its first Assassin's Creed set in Japan. Morgan didn't get to play it, but did get an hour-long look at the dual-protagonist adventure and was excited by what he saw: good-looking combat and some proper stealth.
More from Ubisoft Forward
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