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Summer Game Fest 2025: A recap of the best announcements from this edition

Summer Game Fest 2025: A recap of the best announcements from this edition

That's it, the first act of the Summer Game Fest is officially launched. Since the beginning of the week, we've been treated to the first conferences. During this first act, no fewer than 16 conferences are scheduled, while waiting for the second act, at the end of August with Gamescom.

An intense and busy week, since the 16 conferences will be held over six days with no fewer than 13 conferences planned between June 6 and 9. Don't hesitate to discover our file with the list of all the conferences, the dates, times and the links to follow them live.

To not miss any of the main announcements of this 2025 edition of the Summer Game Fest, here is our summary file of the best revelations.

  • Creation of the file: June 5, 2025
  • Last update: June 10, 2025

The Witcher IV

  • Conference: State of Unreal (June 3, 2025 at 3:30 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: N.C.
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The Witcher IV was officially unveiled last December at The Game Awards 2024. Opening Summer Game Fest with the State of Unreal conference, organized by Epic Games to promote the new features of their Unreal Engine, CD Projekt Red gave us a new glimpse of its future game.

It's important to note that this preview is a technical demo in the universe of The Witcher IV and not a gameplay preview of the game. However, it's still quite impressive and allows us to get a taste of the possibilities of the Unreal Engine 5 and the things we could have in the game at the time of its release. CD Projekt Red has specified that the game is aiming for 60 FPS on PS5 Standard.

Pragmata

  • Conference: State of Play (June 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

Capcom's famous Pragmata is revealed again this week at Summer Game Fest, during Sony's State of Play. What's on the agenda? We don't know more, with a game that's still as enigmatic as ever, but which seems to offer a rather breathtaking universe. Capcom promises us a science fiction action and adventure game with a unique blend of action and strategy. The date is now set for 2026.

Silent Hill f

  • Conference: State of Play (June 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: No
  • Release Date: September 25, 2025
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

Konami took advantage of Sony's State of Play to give us a nice presentation of Silent Hill f with, as a bonus, a relatively close release date. Indeed, the game is expected for September 25th on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

However, we don't know much about the title. Konami is selling us a separate game in the Silent Hill license, which will therefore not take place in the famous city, but in Japan. This opus should be a new psychological survival-horror game (like Silent Hill 2). The new trailer with gameplay sequences shows us a game that seems to have a pretty crazy atmosphere and a strong emphasis on the horror side. This looks promising!

Nioh 3

  • Conference: State of Play (June 4, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: Early 2026
  • Supports: PS5

The famous Nioh franchise is back with a third installment expected on PS5 in early 2026! The first information about the game announces a title that will allow you to experience the rise of a heroic Shogun. This installment will allow you to fight using two distinct fighting styles: Samurai and Ninja. With the aim of facing formidable yokai in an open and intense environment.

Nioh 3 is the latest installment in the dark samurai action RPG series, a demo is already available on the PlayStation Store.

Swords of the Sea

  • Conference: State of Play (June 4, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: August 19, 2025
  • Supports: PS5

Giant Squid, the developers of Journey and Abzu, are looking forward to the release of their new game, Sword of the Sea, on August 19. Get ready to explore a mysterious and visually stunning world. An atmospheric adventure with fast-paced movements inspired by skateboarding games. Surf a surreal wave landscape with your Hoversword and discover a lost ocean teeming with life.

The game will be directly integrated into the PlayStation Plus catalog when it releases on August 19.

007: First Light

  • Conference: State of Play (June 4, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

More than four years after its announcement, IO Interactive's famous Project 007 has finally shown itself. A first glimpse of 007: First Light, which will arrive in 2026, reveals a game halfway between Uncharted 4 and Hitman, but under the James Bond license. This title will immerse us in the shoes of a young James Bond who is just beginning his spy career. A resourceful and sometimes reckless young recruit, within the MI6 training program, allowing us to discover the origin story of the world's most famous spy.

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

  • Conference: State of Play (June 4, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5

At the end of State of Play, PlayStation and Marvel announced the new game Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, a 4-on-4 team fighting game, which will arrive in 2026 on PC and PS5. The game should allow us to control many characters from the Marvel universe and have relatively rich content. The title is developed by the young PlayStation Studio: Arc System Works.

Code Vein II

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

During the main conference of the Summer Game Fest, Bandai Namco unveiled Code Vein II, which will arrive on PC and consoles in 2026. The title will immerse you in a future where humans and revenants coexist… With the sudden appearance of the Luna Rapacis, the revenants have transformed into demented monsters called “abominations”.

You will take on the role of a hunter of revenants, and you will have to prevent an inevitable apocalypse by traveling to the past, accompanied by young Lou who has the power to manipulate time. Prepare to discover an epic adventure and explore a post-apocalyptic world with your partners, where you will fight merciless battles against formidable enemies and unveil a story that transcends time.

Atomic Heart II

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: N/A
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The sequel to Atomic Heart is official! However, it does not yet have a release date. This sequel will once again immerse you in an action-adventure role-playing game that plunges you into a retrofuturistic universe, full of new dangers. This sequel offers a living world rich in possibilities and places an emphasis on story, role-playing elements, and player freedom.

The story takes place in an alternate world, whose events now extend globally. Return to the fascinating world of science and technology and discover what the next chapter has in store for you!

The Cube

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: N/A
  • Devices: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

At the same conference, the Mundfish Games team presented Atomic Heart II and The Cube, an MMO-RPG set in the Atomic Heart universe. It's a multiplayer RPG shooter with unique world-building, a captivating story, thrilling quests, and constant progression that shakes the atomic universe. A giant levitating cube with rotating edges has appeared, hiding a deadly equation inside. Again, no release date has been announced.

Onimusha Way of the Sword

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

New presentation of the sequel to Onimusha: Way of the Sword, which we discovered at The Game Awards. With this second trailer, we discover "formidable enemies emerge" as well as new information, notably on new characters, like Sasaki Ganryu, who wields an Oni gauntlet. More information is coming soon with a first playable version of the game expected in August at Gamescom.

Mafia The Old Country

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: August 8, 2025
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

New preview of Mafia: The Old Country with a trailer to tell us a little more about Enzo and highlight loyalty within the family. The game is still expected on PC and consoles for August 8th, in just two short months!

Lies of P: Overture

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: June 6, 2025
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

Already revealed a few months ago, Lies of P: Overture has been given a new preview, and not just any preview. In fact, it's the launch trailer for the DLC that's available right away! Face formidable new bosses and carve your way through the shadows of Krat's history today!

Jurassic World Evolution 3

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: October 21, 2025
  • Devices: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The third installment of the management game Jurassic World Evolution was announced during the Summer Game Fest conference. The title is expected for the end of the year, starting October 21 on PC and consoles. The title will allow you to create and manage your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of impressive dinosaurs with the series' first juveniles, create and manage vast prehistoric parks across the globe, and unleash your imagination with powerful new creative options.

Dying Light: The Beast

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: No
  • Release Date: August 22, 2025
  • Devices: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

New gameplay preview for the upcoming Dying Light: The Beast. The title will arrive relatively soon since we learned that it will be released on August 22. As with the first two games, this new installment is a unique blend of open-world action, survival, and horror set in a new destination.

Stranger Than Haven (Project Century)

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: No
  • Release Date: N/A
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

Announced at The Game Awards 2024 under the codename “Project Century,” the next game from the Ruy Ga Gotoku (Like a Dragon) team has been revealed with its final title: Stranger Than Heaven. Very little information at the moment, except that the game will be set in 1943 and that it seems to offer players a dark story inspired by the best detective novels.

Resident Evil 9: Requiem

  • Conference: Summer Game Fest (June 6, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: February 27, 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

It's the final announcement of the official Summer Game Fest party. Capcom, once again at the top of its game with the reveal trailer for Resident Evil 9: Requiem, the highly anticipated installment since the release of Resident Evil Village in 2021. On the agenda? The return to Raccoon City. Prepare to escape death in an intense, blood-curdling experience. A new era of survival horror begins with this opus which marks the starting point of a new story in the franchise.

The Outer Worlds 2

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: October 29, 2025
  • Media: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The sequel to The Outer Worlds, released in 2019 and developed by Obsidian and a large part of the teams behind the Fallout series is dated! It will be on October 29th and from that day on, we will be able to embark on a new action-packed adventure with a new crew, new weapons and new enemies in a new colony!

In The Outer Worlds 2, we will play the role of a daring agent of the Earth Directorate. The objective will be to discover the source of devastating vulnerabilities threatening to destroy all of humanity. Your investigation will lead you to Arcadia, the birthplace of jump drive technology, where the fate of the colony, and ultimately the entire galaxy, rests on your decisions: your strengths, your weaknesses, your crew, and the factions you trust.

High on Life 2

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: Winter 2025
  • Devices: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The creators of Rick & Morty and studio Squanch Games are back to bring us High on Life 2 this winter! Get ready to embark on a wild adventure to uncover a new intergalactic conspiracy that threatens the fate of humanity! Team up with a team of talking aliens and shoot, stab, and skate your way through exotic locations to take down bad guys and save your favorite species (humans)!

Resonance – A Plague Tale Legacy

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: 2026
  • Devices: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

Surprise! A Plague Tale is back, but not with a third installment, but a prequel that will take place before Amicia and Hugo's story. In Resonance – A Plague Tale Legacy, you will play as and discover the story of young Sophia, fifteen years before her encounter in A Plague Tale Requiem. A young woman who yearns for independence by becoming a fierce raider in the ruthless world of the 14th century.

Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle – Order of Giants (DLC)

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: September 4, 2025
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

Indy will (already) be back, less than a year after the release of Indiana Jones and the Ancient Circle on Xbox and less than five months after its arrival on PS5. With Order of Giants, the game receives its first single-player expansion. What's in the program? A brand-new chapter that will allow you to uncover a breathtaking mystery, long buried in the depths of Rome. Indy travels to Italy, to the ancient streets of Rome, where forgotten catacombs are transformed into a much more sinister world. Indy must outwit a dangerous cult and solve puzzles designed by the emperors to reveal the dark legacy of the Nephilim giants.

Clockwork Revolution

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: No
  • Release date: N/A
  • Supports: PC, Xbox Series X/S

Already announced during a previous Showcase, Clockwork Revolution had a big presentation during this Summer Game Fest, but still no release date. It still allowed us to learn a little more about the game that will immerse us in the Tangle, the underworld of Avalon, where you, Morgan Vanette, and your gang, the Rotten Row Hooligans, are at home.

After discovering that the ruthless Lady Ironwood has altered history, using time travel to enrich herself while keeping the people of Avalon poor and powerless, you are thrust into a time-traveling adventure to turn back the clock and right Ironwood's wrongs, however you see fit.

Grounded 2

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: July 29, 2025
  • Media: PC, Xbox Series X/S

Obsidian never seems to stop and keeps on churning out hits! While Avowed was released just a few months ago, and The Outer Worlds 2 is expected for the end of the year, we learned that Grounded 2, the sequel to the famous cooperative survival game released in 2022, will arrive next month, on July 29th to be precise!

On the program? You will once again have to survive with microscopic characters and in an even larger environment! In this open-world survival adventure, solo or in cooperation, you can craft weapons and armor, build your base and travel the playground on your buggy. But something else awaits you, and it hasn't forgotten you. This sequel will arrive in Early Access initially.

Aphelion

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

The French studio Don’t Nod is back, very soon after the release of Lost Records a few months ago. Next year, the studio will meet us to discover Aphelion, a narrative science fiction adventure game. The story will allow you to take part in an expedition and the discovery of a ninth planet, Persephone, at the edge of the solar system, representing humanity's best hope.

The European Space Agency sends the Hope 01 scientific mission, composed of two accomplished astronauts, Ariane and Thomas. Their mission: to study the planet and determine if humanity can once again thrive there. Stranded on a frozen planet, astronaut Ariane must brave rugged landscapes and changing realities to save her injured partner, Thomas. This story-rich sci-fi adventure combines exploration, traversal, and intense stealth gameplay.

Planet of Lana 2 – Children of the Leaf

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.)
  • First announcement: Yes
  • Release date: 2026
  • Supports: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One

In May 2023, we discovered the very friendly Planet of Lana with the story of Lana and her little creature Mui. In 2026, the adventure will continue! After saving their home, the two companions must embark on a new quest, with an ambitious cinematic puzzle adventure game, twice the size and more ambitious than the original.

This highly anticipated sequel revisits the deep bond between Lana and Mui, as they navigate the transformed world of Novo after the robot invasion. Discover a deeper sci-fi story where Lana faces her own demons and a new threat tests their unbreakable bond.

Keeper

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: October 17, 2025
  • Media: PC, Xbox Series X/S

The Double Fine (Psychonauts) teams will be back with their new franchise this October. Keeper is an adventure game, without words. The title will see you discover a long-forgotten lighthouse awakening and, joined by a spirited seabird, embarking on a heartwarming tale of unlikely companionship and an unexpected journey into incomprehensible realms.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7

  • Conference: Xbox Games Showcase (June 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM)
  • First Announcement: Yes
  • Release Date: Late 2025 (unconfirmed)
  • Media: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S

At the end of the Xbox conference, we got a nice glimpse of the upcoming Call of Duty Black Ops 7, which will feature actor Milo Ventimiglia (This is Us, Gilmore Girls, Heroes). After the past of Black Ops 6, this new installment will propel you into the future, in 2035 in the shoes of David Mason, who leads the Black Ops team against a manipulative enemy who uses fear above all else.

For the moment, no more information or release date, although there is a good chance that the game will be expected in November 2025 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and, according to many rumors, on Nintendo Switch 2.

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