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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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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Stellar Blade Blood Rain has just been revealed at Summer Game Fest, with an action-packed new gameplay trailer.

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Gundam Rogue Orbit has been revealed with an exciting new gameplay trailer at Summer Game Fest.

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Tonight during the Summer Game Fest showcase, developer Aurogon Shanghai unveiled a brand new trailer for the upcoming action-adventure RPG Swords of Legends.

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At this evening's Summer Game Fest showcase, Panache Digital Games and Patrice Désilets gave us all a trailer for 1666: Amsterdam.

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

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A new hand-animated Cuphead game is in development from Studio MDHR. The news was shared with a short segment during this evening's Summer Game Fest showcase. This upcoming game will take Cuphead's characters on a "fresh, exciting adventure".

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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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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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Sony has successfully made its State of Play showcase series into a brand that brings in millions of views with each episode. The most recent showcase, which took place 2nd June ahead of Summer Game Fest 2026, was apparently its biggest-ever, no matter which way you measure it.

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For a while after it launched, I never felt like the PlayStation 5 Pro ever actually came out. You could argue Sony hasn't been promoting it well. The initial Ghost of Yotei reveal took place in a September 2024 State of Play, yet its trailer didn't include Pro footage, and the accompanying PS Blog post makes no mention of whether or not the game would support it. At that point, the Pro was mere days old - but you'd think the first major first-party title to be announced after the Pro's reveal would, you know, reference it?

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Pearl Abyss is on quite the Crimson Desert patch roll, and has just released another update for its popular single player RPG spin-off from hit Korean MMO Black Desert. Just last week, the developer added the ability to remap your controller, and now it is gone and added new minigames and more.

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