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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Aion 2 - the sequel to legendary Korean MMORPG Aion - has had its global release date revealed at Summer Game Fest.

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Guild Wars 3 has been announced at Summer Game Fest. It will be playable through a beta come fall 2027.

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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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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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Dune Awakening developer Funcom has responded to the news crossplay won't be included in the game's upcoming console release, telling Eurogamer, "We know players want it. WE want it."

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Dune Awakening is coming to consoles at long last, and is getting a dedicated single-player mode. Unfortunately, there'll be no crossplay between most platforms.

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Fallout 76 has had quite the evolution over the years, slowly but steadily going from a "broken mess" to becoming what is essentially seen as 'Fallout Online', complete with proper questlines and wandering friendly NPCs. Despite all the new content and improvements, however, players were still waiting for proper PS5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrades, and finally, they're almost ready to go.

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Crimson Desert continues to grow and evolve following both financial success and player feedback, simultaneously squashing issues and adding more content to a game that was already dense at launch. Now, Pearl Abyss has confirmed the plans for this summer and beyond, including an actual piece of DLC.

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As player numbers leap alongside Path of Exile 2's final early access update, and the game's prospective 1.0 release later this year, a question arises about the future of Path of Exile 1. Will it be elbowed out? In short: no. Grinding Gear Games intends to support the older action role-playing game "as long as there are players" playing it and believes it's capable of running both games smoothly side by side.

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An ESRB rating for Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch 2 has appeared just a few days ahead of Summer Game Fest.

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Crimson Desert will be fully voiced by humans, Pearl Abyss's marketing director has assured in a recent interview.

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Soulframe, the upcoming fantasy action RPG by Digital Extremes, has totally overhauled its progression system as part of the latest Preludes alpha update. Whereas before player progress involved a more traditional skilling system, a more intuitive alternative has been integrated.

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Crimson Desert has slowly but steadily become one of 2026's open world games to watch out for, and with a March release date now locked, lots of people are seriously starting to consider making a trip to Pywel soon. At the same time, veterans might have reservations about jumping in at launch based on Black Desert Online's MTX-heavy model.

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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 plays a classic but finds himself getting a bit bored; Marie adopts a black cat called Salem; Tom can't get out of the menus; Victoria makes a young child cry; Dom Platinums a game and feels very smug about it; and Connor finds an inventive way to play two MMOs at once.

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Hello and Happy New Year - is it okay to say that now? I'm not sure where the cut-off point is. Some people still have their Christmas trees up. We had ours out before New Year. Welcome back to What We've Been Playing! Or as I like to call this particular edition of it: What We Played Over Christmas, because it's been a couple of weeks since we've talked.

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Eve Online - the sci-fi MMO space-faring epic - saw a surge in players at the tail end of 2025. The game had over a million players take to the stars in 2025, and it has benefited from the largest influx of new and returning players in years.

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We've been hearing rumblings of a full-blown remake of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag for the longest time now. After Skull & Bones' troubled development, those current-gen assets could boost the production of such a project, so the idea never sounded too far-fetched. We've yet to receive official news on it though. Now, a new Raid: Shadow Legends event has got hungry Assassin's Creed fans all hot under the collar.

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The top five games played on the PlayStation in 2025 by US players were exactly the same as in 2024, according to Circana's Player Engagement Tracker.

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Final Fantasy 14 has released its latest Savage-tier raid today, pushing the game's best and brightest to race through this new challenge group content to earn powerful loot and see which region can take it down first. However, for Americans, this is proving difficult due to ongoing DDOS attacks and server outages.

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