AxgetSummer Game Fest 2024
Join Axget live from LA for Summer Game Fest 2024! Expect a week of game updates, release dates, hands-on previews and plenty of surprises.
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Take a behind-the-scenes tour of Summer Game Fest Play Days 2024
After E3 collapsed on itself like a sad soufflé, Summer Game Fest has emerged as the home of mid-year video game goodness, offering a little more room for smaller studios and plenty of space to grow.
Tales of the Shire is a cozy village sim where you can’t run, but you can skip
The march of big-budget Tolkien fantasy has hit gaming yet again. While ignoring Gollum’s misadventures, another game, Tales of the Shire, offers a gentler, low-stakes way to play in the universe of Bagginses, lembas bread, and Gandalf.
Black Myth: Wukong is pretty, intriguing and as challenging as it looks
Black Myth: Wukong is gorgeous. It’s built up a lot of momentum, feeding trailer after gorgeous trailer, and at Summer Game Fest this year, We finally got to play it. Is it just a gorgeous tech demo with a heavy dose of Chinese mythology or your next gaming challenge?
Metaphor: ReFantazio feels like a JRPG free from restraint and sanity
Atlus' giant fantasy RPG 'Metaphor: ReFantazio' has been a long time in the making. After rolling through a demo at Summer Game Fest last weekend, I’m dying to play it.
Neva hands-on: A grand achievement in emotional game design
Neva is going to make me cry.
Skate Story hands-on: Kick, push, shatter
Skate Story encourages you to enter a peak state early on, only so you can chase that feeling the rest of the game.
Astro Bot is a supremely silly and incredibly smooth platformer
Astro Bot is as precise as it is ridiculous, and this is exactly what makes it so damn delightful.
Lego Horizon Adventures might be Sony’s most important game of the year
Lego Horizon Adventures might not have generated the Summer Game Fest headlines that the new Doom and Assassin’s Creed games did, but in many ways its legacy may be more interesting.
The biggest threat to Marvel Rivals is all the other rival team shooters
Marvel Rivals pits its greatest heroes against each other and it’s a lot of fun. It’s also a familiar kind of fun if you’ve ever played Overwatch.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess feels as luscious as it looks
After playing for nearly an hour at Summer Game Fest, it’s clear that Kunitsu-Gami is much more than a beautiful screenshot.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a fantasy epic filled with big decisions
For fans of Dragon Age, the latest installment is aimed at expanding the world you probably already love. And once again, there are big decisions to make in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a tale of two very different assassins
Instead of choosing a single character to play the entirety of Assassin's Creed Shadows, you can switch between the characters for assassination runs and exploration segments. They have two very different playstyles, too.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is still happening and it's coming out 2026
After all the delays, studio switches and confusion, Ubisoft says its troubled Sands of Time remake is coming in 2026.
Microsoft’s Xbox refresh can't compete with its leaked roadmap
Microsoft showed off three new Xbox models yesterday, but anyone following the mass of leaks last year may have been surprised at how little changed for this mid-cycle refresh.
Empire of the Ants will let you explore a photorealistic bug’s life this November
Empire of the Ants, a real-time strategy game with dazzlingly photorealistic insects and other critters, arrives on November 7. Although the game isn’t exactly a remake, it comes from the same publisher as the 2000 RTS game of the same name.
We’re officially getting another Life is Strange game this fall
Life is Strange: Double Exposure sees the return of the series' original protagonist Max Caulfield. It will be released on October 29 for Xbox Series X/S, PC and PlayStation 5. A Nintendo Switch release will follow.
An all-digital Xbox Series X is coming this holiday season
Microsoft revealed three new Xbox variants, including an Xbox Series X with no disc drive.
Gears of War: E-Day is the origin story of the Gears franchise
As the grand finale of Xbox’s Summer Game Fest showcase, we were treated to the exclusive premiere of the latest addition to the Gears series.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 kicks it back to the '90s on October 25
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox on October 25, 2024.
