If your life's been lacking a bit of colour lately, have no fear: developer Frozenbyte's acclaimed co-op platforming series Trine is back for a sixth outing, and once again it's the aesthetic equivalent of a Dulux catalogue. It's not too far off release either. Trine 6: Together in Time, in all its kaleidoscopic glory, comes to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 17th September.

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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie and Connor break the rules slightly, but it's okay because Bertie organises What We've Been Playing and Connor regularly contributes to it, so they both get a pass. Elsewhere, believes again that another game has been tailormade for them - I'm beginning to sense a pattern - and Hitman fan Kelsey rolls credits on Bond and gets a bit emotional.

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007 First Light is already racking up some pretty impressive sales figures for IO Interactive. Today, in a presentation given to the press after the Summer Game Fest 2026 showcase, IO studio director Hakan Abrak told Eurogamer that the game sold 2.7 million copies in its first week on sale - and is now 'closer to 3 million copies sold'.

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Summer Game Fest's glitzy flagship showcase might be over for another year, but that doesn't mean we're done just yet - far from it! There'll be more bluster to come on Sunday when Microsoft shares its wares during the Xbox Games Showcase, for instance (unless its new executive team has capitulated to internet fanboys once again, in which case there's a good chance it'll be called the LOLPLAYSTATIONSUX Showcase), but first - like the zen meat in a chaos sandwich - Day of the Devs has done its thing once more.

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It's finally happening, apparently. After a protracted and extremely tumultusous decade of development, The Wolf Among Us 2 is supposedly now launching next year. And there's a remaster of the much-loved original on the way to tide us over until then.

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Monster Hunter Wilds' first expansion, Ascendance, has finally been revealed. In a trailer at Summer Games Fest 2026, Capcom unveiled the future of the game with a massive new expansion called Ascendance.

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Clutch - the cinematic, open-world, action-driving game from the team at Maverick Games, and which is being headed up by former Forza Horizon creative director Mike Brown - just got itself a very slick new trailer at this evening's Summer Game Fest, showing of its rather lovely rendition of Monaco and the French Riviera.

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Square Enix has finally announced, as part of today's Summer Games Fest showcase, some more information about the third instalment of Final Fantasy 7 Remake series. It's called Final Fantasy 7 Revelation

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Hot Wheels Infinite Rush has just been announced at Summer Game Fest.

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There are, after a good few hours playing it, quite a few games like Control Resonant. It's an RPG with a kind of pseudo open-world - an "open-ended modern world" I believe was Remedy's way of putting it in its presentation to the press earlier this week - and it has skill trees and some light resource-gathering and item-upgrading. It has some light platforming with a double-jump and a dash, and melee combat with perfect dodges and aerial combos.

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Crossfire was revealed today during Summer Game Fest's opening ceremony. This is the debut title from That's No Moon, an independent studio featuring key talent behind the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot's campaign, and Naughty Dog before that.

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On Alien: Isolation's 10th anniversary a couple of years ago, director Al Hope shared some exciting news: a very long-awaited sequel was finally in development. Beyond that, we learned little else. Earlier this year, however, we got our first teaser trailer, and today, during Summer Game Fest's big showcase extravaganza, we've had our best look yet at Alien: Isolation 2.

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Some three years after it was announced an unnamed developer was taking the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a darker video game direction with a project inspired by the well-regarded TMNT graphic novel The Last Ronin, the game has finally - albeit vaguely - been unveiled. And it turns out the mysterious team behind it is none other than famed Bayonetta, Nier: Automata, and Ninja Gaiden 4 developer Platinum Games.

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Blood Message - the upcoming action adventure game by Netease - just got a stunning new trailer at Summer Game Fest.

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Fumito Ueda, the creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, revealed his next sci-fi project at tonight's Summer Game Fest - the first big information drop we've seen about the game since its reveal back at The Game Awards 2024.

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Resident Evil: Veronica has been announced at Summer Game Fest. The game will release in 2027 for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2.

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Newly-appointed Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, has now spent over 100 days in her new role. Speaking recently at Bloomberg Tech Live, the executive was asked yet again about the company's stance on exclusivity for first-party games, and whether or not this can even be managed when Microsoft is also one of the largest third-party publishers in the world.

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Some confusion around Marathon's Deluxe edition appears to be popping up, as a discounted deluxe edition version of the game bought by many PlayStation users does not actually include the full game.

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Capcom has said why it is using generative AI in its business, stating its policy is "to improve the efficiency of routine operations so that our developers can devote more time to essential value creation".

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The centre-piece show of Summer Game Fest - the literal Summer Game Fest showcase - takes place tonight at 10pm UK time (11pm CEST / 5pm EDT / 2pm PDT), and we'll be covering all the news and announcements from it, live, right here in this article. There may be a pre-show; it's unconfirmed.

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