Summer Game Fest

Summer Game Fest started in 2020 as a new way for fans to get updates and announcements . Every June, the industry unites for a weekend of game reveals, announcements and events, streamed live and free to fans around the world.

Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake hands-on preview — Using a Chimera Wing to return to the distant past

Remaking a classic game is a tricky proposition. When it’s a game with eleven entries spanning over 37 years, it gets even more tricky. What do you change? What

By Ron Burke

/ 18 Jun 2024

Dragon Quest III HD 2D Remake hands-on preview — Using a Chimera Wing to return to the distant past

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn hands-on preview — Striking flint

Soulsy games are all the rage, eh? It feels like every game that looks neat is one, and most of them revel in killing me. Finding something unique and less…

By David Burdette

/ 17 Jun 2024

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn hands-on preview — Striking flint

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble hands-on preview – Rolling into a new adventure!

I remember playing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz on the Nintendo Wii back in 2006, then played Step & Roll when the Wii Balance Board was gaining popularity. Then, we

By Lyra Moreno

/ 17 Jun 2024

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble hands-on preview – Rolling into a new adventure!

We Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!

XDefiant is finally here, but the team isn’t slowing down. We posted our initial impressions of the pre-season, but Season 1 is right around the corner. We had

By David Burdette

/ 16 Jun 2024

We Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!

Checking out a 98 inch TV and 55 inch curved monitor at the Samsung booth at Summer Game Fest!

We recently attended Summer Game Fest, and our old friends from Samsung were there. Literally, as Isaac gave us a demo the last time we came through! We took a

By David Burdette

/ 15 Jun 2024

Checking out a 98 inch TV and 55 inch curved monitor at the Samsung booth at Summer Game Fest!

Hyper Light Breaker hands-on preview — extraction roguelike and real-life achievements

You need to take your wins where you can get them. Over the course of 22 years of playing video games as a member of the press and tackling unbalanced

By Ron Burke

/ 14 Jun 2024

Hyper Light Breaker hands-on preview — extraction roguelike and real-life achievements

Monster Hunter Wilds — a world alive with promise, and a few deadly monsters as well

I don’t know why, but I bounced off Monster Hunter: World. Perhaps it was the obtuse way you had to engage with your friends if you hadn’t already

By Ron Burke

/ 13 Jun 2024

Monster Hunter Wilds — a world alive with promise, and a few deadly monsters as well

Path of Exile II raises the dead — we go hands on with the new Witch class

When your game starts with every character you might pick being hung from the neck in the gallows, and everyone you don’t pick having their neck snapped after a

By Ron Burke

/ 13 Jun 2024

Path of Exile II raises the dead — we go hands on with the new Witch class

I saw Assassin’s Creed Shadows played three ways, and I can’t be more excited about it

We all got to see the incredible gameplay walkthrough for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but I got to see that same slice of content divvied up two more times. What

By Ron Burke

/ 13 Jun 2024

I saw Assassin’s Creed Shadows played three ways, and I can’t be more excited about it

I saw the first hour of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and we’ve got a lot to be excited about

By now, you’ve probably seen the incredible 20 minutes of opening gameplay for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In it, we are re-introduced to fan favorite returning characters like

By Ron Burke

/ 13 Jun 2024

I saw the first hour of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and we’ve got a lot to be excited about

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is very strange, and I’m here for it

I wasn’t sure what to make of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess when I saw the trailer. Is this a soulslike game? Is this a strategy game? What

By Ron Burke

/ 13 Jun 2024

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is very strange, and I’m here for it

Zoochosis hands-on preview – The scariest night at the Zoo ever!

I went into my preview for Zoochosis with no previous knowledge of the game past the interesting albeit horrifying art on the top of the Clapperheads area of the Summer

By Lyra Moreno

/ 13 Jun 2024

Zoochosis hands-on preview – The scariest night at the Zoo ever!