Summer Game Fest 2024 officially concluded on June 10, after a long weekend of game trailers, developer interviews, and unlimited cold beer, but we just published our final stories from the show this week (under embargo, of course). Those were Mat Smith's impressions of Black Myth: Wukong and Tales of the regionand they closed a month of juicy news about video games in the most important program of the summer.
No, silk song He did not appear.
However, there were plenty of brilliant games at the show, and many of them were available to play for the first time. Our hands-on, first-look stories include Assassin's Creed Shadows, Astrobot, Dragon Age: Veil Guard, Kunitsu-Gami: The Path of the Goddess, lego horizon adventures, Marvel Rivals, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Neva and history of skating.
In addition to the playable trailers, Day of the Devs, Devolver, Xbox, and Ubisoft all held their own presentations packed with new information and game reveals, and the big Summer Game Fest kickoff event was equally packed. Just to name a few of the hits: there's a new Doom with a medieval style (and flail), Civilization VII will be out in 2025, severed head landing on November 8th, Heart Machine is building a gorgeous looking platformer called Owner(s)and the fable The reboot is due out in 2025. There will also be new Xbox Series consoles coming out this fall and it turns out that Microsoft's mid-cycle refresh says a lot about Xbox's hardware business as a whole, especially compared to the roadmap. internal to the company. which was leaked in October 2022.
After E3 collapsed on itself like a sad soufflé, Summer Game Fest has become the home of mid-year gaming, offering a little more space for smaller studios and plenty of room to grow. It's been four years of digital and physical Summer Game Fest events up to this point, and the show just keeps getting better.
Catch up on all the news from Summer Game Fest 2024 right here!
