2024-06

The First Descendant, the highly anticipated free-to-play shooter, has a release date. The game will be available on July 2 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam. The Summer Game Fest trailer announcing the release date showcased lots of gameplay and used the secret weapon of any quality trailer: an M83 song. For a whole lot more, head here to watch our interview/documentary for the game based on our trip to South Korea to see and play the game, and talk with the team behind it....

The Game Bakers, the developers behind 2020's Haven, have revealed Cairn, a climbing game all about exploring (and surviving on) a mountain. Revealed during today's Summer Game Fest 2024 showcase, Cairn appears to be about a woman attempting to climb a very high (and difficult) mountain, only to die several times in the process.  However, if the reveal trailer is any indication, dying isn't the end of her climb – just a part of the process. Though not confirmed, this premise seems to point toward Cairn being a roguelite, or at least a game where dying is part of the process. Rockclimbing treachery aside, the game looks beautiful.  Check it out for yourself in the Cairn reveal trailer below:  "Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber game," the game's description reads. "Climb anywhere and plan your route...

We learned Kingdom Come: Deliverance II would be coming soon earlier this year, but Summer Game Fest offered us our first substantial look at the game and its story. It will follow a pair of chaotic brothers as the cause shenanigans in the medieval era. The trailer showed a surprising amount of comedy. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is coming to PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, but developer Warhorse Studios has not offered a release date yet....

Summer Game Fest 2024 gave us the first look at the new Power Rangers game, and it’s looking like a blast from the past. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind comes to us via studio Digital Eclipse, and the project appears to be a sidescrolling brawler beat-‘em-up at its heart, with multiple players working together to beat up baddies as they move right across the screen, echoing other favorites of the genre like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or X-Men. But the game also appears to feature other vehicle sequences, including what looks like first-person Zord punching sequences. The game features online and offline co-op for up to five players. If you’re looking to pull on your preferred colored ranger suit, you can watch for release on PC and consoles later in 2024. ...

Summer Game Fest 2024 gave us the first look at the new Power Rangers game, and it’s looking like a blast from the past. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind comes to us via studio Digital Eclipse, and the project appears to be a sidescrolling brawler beat-‘em-up at its heart, with multiple players working together to beat up baddies as they move right across the screen, echoing other favorites of the genre like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or X-Men. But the game also appears to feature other vehicle sequences, including what looks like first-person Zord punching sequences. The game features online and offline co-op for up to five players. If you’re looking to pull on your preferred colored ranger suit, you can watch for release on PC and consoles later in 2024. ...

Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama founded Bokeh Game Studio back in 2020 to work on a new horror game that we later learned is called Slitterhead. After a teaser trailer and a behind-the-scenes look at the game's development, we finally have our first look at gameplay. Plus, the studio announced Slitterhead launches on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PC on November 8. Revealed in a new trailer during the 2024 Summer Game Fest showcase, Slitterhead's debut gameplay trailer starts in a Chinese city, with a police detective searching through a trashed ally. He finds what appears to be a mangled body in a trash can before the trailer shows more of the neon-lit Chinese metropolis, with shots of (presumably) our playable protagonist jumping from high above to the ground below while using some spectral power that allows them to...

Street Fighter 6’s next DLC fighters were revealed during Summer Game Fest. Series villain M. Bison and Elena are on the way and are joined by special guests in the form of The King of Fighters' Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui.  An animated trailer shows off the Fatal Fury guest characters – a first for Street Fighter – while in-game cinematic reveals a rather disheveled M.Bison who looks as maniacal as ever. These four will kick off a new Year of add-on fighters now that Akuma has wrapped up the Year 1 offerings. They'll arrive in the following order: M. Bison - Summer 2024 Terry - Autumn 2024 Mai - Winter 2025  Elena - Spring 2025 Street Fighter 6 is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. You can read our review here. ...

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, the next game in the Budokai Tenkaichi series, officially has a release date. The game will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 11. A premium collector's edition of the game will also be available and will include a giant Goku versus Broly statue. You can check out the new trailer below. For more on the game, including details about Fusion Fighters, head here....

Today’s Summer Game Fest presentation saw the stage appearance of Atlus art director Katsura Hashino and artistic designer Shigenori Soejima, who came to offer some early gameplay glimpses of Metaphor: ReFantazio. The role-playing game is the new franchise and story from the same creative team responsible for the recent Persona games, including Persona 5. The main focus of their presentation was on Archetypes, the game’s approach to classes. The characters of the game transform into various Archetypes, and within the storyline, these Archetypes represent the  manifestion of will to face one’s fears. Archetypes include the likes of Ninja, Merchant, Warrior, Destroyer, Gunner, Assassin, or Knight. In total, there are more than 40 distinct Archetypes. The subsequent trailer showed off how some of these Archetypes function in gameplay. If you’re excited to see the Persona team’s talents translate over into a...

Last month Oculus Studios and developer Camoflaj announced a new entry in the Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Shadow. The teaser implied Batman would be tussling with the Rat King (not to be confused with Ratcatcher, we think) in VR, and it would be canon to the Arkham universe that Rocksteady created, but little else was revealed beyond that. Today, we received another pre-rendered trailer, so while we're still not sure how the game will look and play, we at least have a better idea of the game's tone and characters. The dramatic cover of a popular song chosen for this cinematic trailer? "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by the Smashing Pumpkins A.K.A. the rat in a cage song. The trailer shows Gordon, The Rat King, seemingly in a prison cell, and what appears to be a still-sane version of Harley...