Summer Game Fest: News, Trailers and Everything Announced

Okay, I definitely didn't have this on my bingo card. A felt puppet boxing game, or as one of our coworkers called it, "Muppet Punch-Out", is coming called Felt That Boxing -- which has an admirably pretty real-time visual style to it, making it look like Avenue Q or Greg the Bunny (if you get that reference, take some aspirin for the back pain).

The grand revival of the Onimusha franchise is upon us with another trailer for Onimusha: Way of the Sword. This got the crowd roaring for sure, even though its been over a decade since the most recent main game Onimusha Soul in 2012. Onimusha: Way of the Sword comes out in 2026.

May thy knife chip and shatter.

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Developer Funcom's Dune Awakening is a massively multiplayer survival MMO that takes place in an alternate universe from the books and movies. Arrakis remains just as dangerous as ever -- and sandworms aren't the only threat in the game, as players will be able to pick factions in order to go to war with one another.

The Summer Game Fest trailer showcased a whole lot of firearms, which is a bit odd for Dune, but there will be plenty of hack-and-slash melee combat as well. Funcom will release Dune Awakening on June 10 -- that's this coming Tuesday.

You're not out of the atomic-era shooting woods yet -- Mundfish Studio, the developer of Atomic Heart and the upcoming Atomic Heart 2, has another game set in its universe: The Cube, a shifting-area massively multiplayer online shooter where players roam around the outer surface of a massive block that shifts around like a Rubiks Cube. 

Atomic Heart 2, the follow-up to 2023's atompunk first-person shooter Atomic Heart, got a trailer, though no release date.

Game of Thrones strategy fans, rejoice: War for Westeros is a strategy game from Australian developer PlaySide Studios where players take the reins of four factions -- Houses Stark, Lannister or Targaryen, as well as the Night King's undead forces -- with asymmetric armies and mechanics. War for Westeros is coming in 2026.

Code Vein 2, a sequel to the 2019 game from Bandai Namco, is coming next year.

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A new kart game, Sonic Racing CrossWorlds, is coming Sept. 26 -- and fans in the audience howled at bonus characters Hatsune Miku, Yakuza: Like a Dragon's Ichiban Kasuga and Persona 5's Joker. Sonic the Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka even showed up to throw a little shade on Mario Kart World -- at least Sonic Racing CrossWorlds will have crossplay.

A new game, Mortal Shell 2.

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Geoff Keighley kicked off The Game Awards with his buddy, Hideo Kojima, and a new look at Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, which is due out at the end of June.

At the YouTube Theater around SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

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We're at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles waiting for the showcase to start. Some folks have taken their seats already, but we expect this to get packed in the next 20 minutes before the event starts.

Summer Game Fest might be just getting started, but we've already had a lot of games shown off this week at the Sony's PlayStation State of Play showcase. While there was only a tease of the upcoming Ghost of Yotei, we got more looks at big-ticket games like Silent Hill f, Capcom's Pragmata and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. 

But the big news were the first reveals for Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls by Arc System Works (Guilty Gear), the James Bond origins game 007 First Light, Nioh 3 and a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster, among plenty of other games debuting. Summer Game Fest will only add more to the onslaught.