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Dying Light: The Beast is out in August
Announced last year, this Dying Light installment that started as DLC but grew into a bigger game has a date, and it’s just a couple months out.
Let’s just pretend Deadpooll VR isn’t happening
Do you really wanna play a Deadpool game on Meta Quest? Listen to those quips in your ear all day? I really don’t. Let’s just move on.
The next game from Shovel Knight’s dev team has a demo now, out October 31
I’ve been waiting for Mina the Hollower for what feels like ages: the Kickstarter for this Game Boy Zelda-like adventure was successfully funded in 2022, with an anticipated 2023 release. That’s about right for game development, eh? But hey, it looks great. And you can play the demo now!
Jurassic World Evolution 3 is out October 21
The next Jurassic World management game now has a date! Maybe the new Jurassic World movie will have people hyped to build some dino parks. What could go wrong, right?
Anyone else have trouble keeping up with the SGF anime block?
Summer Game Fest just ran a bunch of anime game trailers back-to-back, making it tough to tell all of htem apart. Here’s what we just saw:
- Blade & Soul Neo – New Warlock class “coming soon”
- Blade & Soul Heroes – Out in September
- Crystal of Atlan – One Punch Man crossover from June 26 – July 26
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin – An open world action RPG, coming in 2025
“Doki Doki Literature Club meets Silent Hill”
Well that’s a hell of a pitch for a farming slash horror game, just announced at SGF. Fractured Blooms definitely looks like a weird one, and publisher Serenty Forge has a strong track record of unique projects.
Shadow drop: Lies of P’s DLC is available right now
The Overture DLC for Lies of P is out right now. It’s live on the Steam page!
Here’s what to expect from the DLC, as we wrote earlier this week.
Spongebob plays D&D?
Nickelodeon’s making a game called Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny which looks like a sort of crossover beat ’em up. The official YouTube description gives us more:
“Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny is a vibrant, universe-spanning mashup that brings iconic Nickelodeon heroes into a world of fantasy-style tropes and real-time RPG action. Roll the dice and dive into a wild, action-packed adventure with SpongeBob and more Nickelodeon characters!”
It’s out in fall 2025.
Lego continue to look very nice with ray tracing
Like the last game, this one’s also a co-op platformer. Lego Voyagers from publisher Annapurna is “a new 2-player co-op adventure that’s all about building spaceships, excitement and friendships.”
Puzzle platformer Out of Words is coming in 2026
A two-player co-op platformer with beautiful stop-motion-esque art? Josef Fares, eat your heart out.
Metroidvania Mio: Memories in Orbit has a demo out now
Man, this one’s really pretty. The 2D platformer is out in 2025, and has a Steam demo live now ahead of the next Steam Next Fest bonanza.
Wuthering Waves update 2.4 launches June 12
Another small update here: gacha game Wuthering Waves has a trailer-worthy update landing on June 12. That’s just six days!
Chrono Odyssey has a Steam playtest starting June 20
This “next-generation action MMORPG” has already been announced, but the news here is you’ll be able to play it real soon. Check out the Steam page to join its upcoming playtest.
Arc Raiders has a release date: October 30
Sorry folks, no surprise release for Arc Raiders during Summer Game Fest today. There were some rumors it would be shadow dropped, but you’ve got a few months to wait.
After PC Gamer’s Morgan Park got hands-on with Arc Raiders in April, it shot up to one of our most-anticipated games of the year.
Killer Inn is a 24-player social deduction game from Square Enix
This ain’t no Final Fantasy. Here’s a pretty different game from publisher Square Enix: a multiplayer social deduction game (think Mafia or the popular d TV series) but as a multiplayer game.
Felt That: Boxing is foul, despite its innocent-looking puppets
“All right you little sack of fuzzy shit, show me what you got,” says the grizzled coach in the trailer for this puppet… boxing game? This may be a bit more Dodgeball than Rocky, but with puppets.
Everything’s better with puppets, tbh.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword looks killer
I still think it’s kinda awesome that Capcom is using the face of late, legendary actor Toshiro Mifune for the new character in this rebooted Onimusha. Here’s a new trailer for the game, out next year.
Atomic Heart 2 is in development!
Quite a surprising trailer for a somewhat unexpected sequel. The alternate history Soviet BioShock-like is clearly jumping into the future here, with more cyberpunk flair to it. I can’t hate any trailer set to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. Also, props for this trailer being chock full of gameplay despite no release date. It’s in “active development” says Keighley. “This time there’s a greater emphasis on RPG elements and player freedom.”
Developer Mundfish also announced The Cube, “an MMORPG shooter set in the Atomic universe on a massive levitating cube, where the edges are constnatly rotating to create unique gameplay combinations that are ever-evolving” says Keighley.
You know nothing, Jon Snow (except War)
There’s a new Game of Thrones-based strategy game on the way, and the trailer reinforces how you’ll be the one deciding how things play out. It did so by showing Jon Snow getting totally stabbed. But not in the way he gets stabbed in the show. Different stabbing!
War For Westeros will hit PC next year.
End of Abyss is coming next year from former Little Nightmares devs
Published by Epic, End of Abyss is the next game from former developers who worked at Tarsier Studios, makers of Little Nightmares.
Bandai Namco announces Code Vein 2, out 2026
The anime soulsike combat game is getting a follow-up! Neat.
Sonic CrossWorlds Racing gets a Minecraft collab, fits in a little Mario Kart diss
Sega’s longtime Sonic developer Takashi Iizuka got on stage to talk about the upcoming Sonic racer, which is out on September. “Unlike another kart racing game, this game will have online crossplatform matchmaking,” he quipped. “So you can race against all your friends across all the platforms.”
Then he showed a surprise crossover witth Minecraft. CrossWorlds, indeed.
Chronicles: Medieval hits early access in 2026
“I sought no war, but war found me.” Actor Tom Hardy narrated this trailer for Chronicles: Medieval from Raw Power Games, which is seemingly all about old school knights and horsies warfare. There’s only a tiny snippet of gameplay at the very end; the rest is shiny CG.
We actually wrote about it earlier this week:
Death Stranding 2’s exclusive SGF clip
Nothing too shocking here, as we know Death Stranding 2 is right around the corner. But let me treat you to the PC Gamer team’s guesses at the star of this clip’s name, before they found out it’s Neil:
- Bob Tiredman
- Wrong Chairman
- Denied Smokeman
- Tom Mumbleman
- Steve Hugwoman
Now back to Geoff Keighleyman and Hideo Kojiman…
The first game announced at SGF 2025 from Swedish studio Cold Symmetry looks absolutely grisly. The trailer went hard with a metal track that I bet got a few folks in the crowd pumped the hell up.
And lookie here: Mortal Shell 2’s already got a Steam page.
Summer Game Fest begins!
“This show has a little bit of everything,” says host Geoff Keighley.
But you know what it has the most of? Goo. As previously established, I love and would eat the goo.
Keighley is highlighting some of the biggest games of the year using the top games on Steam, from indie hit Schedule I to RPG his Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. PC gaming really is the leader now, eh?
When the Summer Game Fest announcements start flowing in, I’ll be concentrating on summing up each bit of news rather than blasting out a second-by-second play-by-play.
Here we go!
10 minutes to go. Last-minute predictions?
Here’s my wild one: Hideo Kojima shows up, but not to promote Death Stranding 2, which has its own dedicated event on Sunday. He’s actually going to offer an early look at OD, the horror game he’s supposedly been making with Jordan Peele.
The Summer Game Fest theater is filling up
PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti is live on the scene, and the audience is filtering in ahead of showtime, which kicks off in about 20 minutes.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the Summer Game Fest lozenge on the screen there looks really tasty? That’s cherry candy right? I’d eat it.
Anyone know what’s up with that chicken?
As you can see from the photo above, there is at least one chicken in attendance at Summer Game Fest. Here’s what Geoff Keighley had to say about it earlier today:
“Here’s a rooster looking forward to #SummerGameFest”
… yeah, that doesn’t really clear anything up at all. Except perhaps that Geoff Keighley so passionately believes in the power of videogames that he thinks this rooster knows what’s going on and is excited for some trailers.
One hour to go!
The Summer Game Fest livestream kicks off at 2 pm Pacific. It’ll start with a preshow, but Geoff usually packs a few announcements in there, too.
What did you think of 007: First Light’s reveal at Sony’s State of Play on Wednesday? We might see a bit more of it during Summer Game Fest, since IO Interactive is a partner.
PC Gamer’s Rich Stanton is a life-long Bond fan and argues that James Bond doesn’t need an origin story, even though he’s sure IO Interactive’s game will be great. Bond should just be perpetually middle aged!
Thanks for joining me, PC gamers. We’ve got about an hour and a half before showtime, which means you’ve got a generous window to go buy some chips—and then read our SGF 2025 preview for everything we know about this year’s show.
There’s quite a lengthy list of developers partnered up for this event, but if I had to pick out one name to be excited about, it’s probably Coffee Stain, the developer behind my beloved Satisfactory. Coffee Stain recently spun out from under the Embracer umbrella. I wonder what it’s got cooking up?
