Blood Message received an all-new trailer during the Summer Game Fest showcase, and I was lucky enough to follow that up with a behind-closed-doors hands-on preview at Play Days in Los Angeles. I was welcomed by NetEase and 24 Entertainment and given a brief introduction before diving into an early segment of Blood Message.

The dreaded day has finally arrived, as Destiny 2 has received its final ever update, with the Monument of Triumph. Fans have turned up in droves to bid farewell to the game, and in doing so, they’ve already smashed Marathon’s peak player count, with the number still rapidly rising.

The leader of the X-Men was originally unveiled during the Season 8 trailers, but with Devil Dinosaur arriving as the first hero, fans have had to wait until the mid-season split for Cyclops to be added, and after plenty of speculating and theorising, his role has now been confirmed.

The showcase season has practically come to a close, with the likes of PlayStation, XBOX, and the all-encompassing Summer Game Fest all having had their times in the spotlight. However, there’s still one big name left, and that’s Nintendo, with today’s Direct bound to stir the pot even more.

“Announcing Senua, a new action-adventure set in the Hellblade universe. Senua, a Celtic warrior, is trapped between life and death in a fractured vision of purgatory. She must fight to reach the afterlife and reunite with those she loved and lost, battling forces that threaten everything she believes in,” the game description reads.

The reboot of Crazy Taxi has officially been announced. Since 2024, it has been known that a new Crazy Taxi game was in development. Sega previously stated that they were shifting from a single-player experience to an open-world format. Well, during the XBOX Showcase on June 7, the new Crazy Taxi finally received a name. Crazy Taxi: World Tour comes in 2027.

Valor Mortis Announced for Xbox Game Pass, Releases September 2026

Called the X25 Xbox Series X, the console will be a throwback to the classic transparent green Xbox, featuring both the console and a controller. You can watch the announcement trailer below: The console will release in November 2026.

Atlus has been tiding fans over with remakes of Persona 3 and Persona 4, with Persona 4 Revival currently in development. Thankfully, it’s looking like it’s time for a new story altogether, and judging by the trailer, it’s bound to be as stylish and slick as ever before.

The XBOX Games Showcase was the occasion on which id Software decided to reveal the new content for Doom: The Dark Ages, which is the “biggest launch” in the developer’s storied history. It seems the expansion features a whole lot for players to explore, and you can learn more about that below

After months of waiting, the highly anticipated showcase for XBOX and Gears fans has finally arrived, providing players with the much-awaited release date of the upcoming title, along with a new trailer. The developers have now provided pre-order and game edition details as well.

Called “A Realm Beyond,” the game was teased during the Showcase and will be the dragon’s first new Adventure on a console since 2008’s The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. The last overall Spyro game released was the 2018 Reignited Trilogy, which included remakes of all three original Spyro games for the Sony PlayStation.

Nintendo has officially confirmed it will launch a revised version of the Nintendo Switch 2 in the European Union specifically designed to allow users to easily swap out the internal battery. This hardware pivot ensures the gaming giant meets its strict obligations under a new EU regulation. Regulation 2023/1542 dictates that all portable consumer devices must feature power sources that are readily removable and replaceable by the general public starting February 18, 2027.

God of War Laufey was hinted at earlier in the year, and finally unveiled on Tuesday. 20 minutes of uncut footage of Santa Monica’s next God of War game closed out Sony’s State of Play stream and showed off Deborah Ann Woll’s Faye waking up in an afterlife for gods, meeting her new cube BFF, and air juggling some goons in ways Kratos and his centuries-old back only wish they still could.