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1047 Games CEO Ian Proulx took the stage at Summer Game Fest today to reveal a surprise for Splitgate 2 that players have been accurately guessing for a week now: Yes, Splitgate 2 has a battle royale mode, and it’s out now. Sporting a questionable “MAKE FPS GREAT AGAIN” hat, Proulx lamented the current state…

It’s not often that a game’s name really and fully nails down the vibe, especially when it’s only three characters. But a new trailer for the survival-horror shooter ILL showed up at the Summer Game Fest tonight, and yes indeed, that is what I am now feeling. First and foremost, we’re doing it all-caps—ILL—because otherwise…

Today at Summer Game Fest, Capcom brought a surprise gift for everyone: An announcement of a new Resident Evil, featuring a hell of a lot of unsettling hallways and what seems like the aftermath of a nuclear strike. You know, normal Resident Evil stuff. Resident Evil Requiem looks fascinatingly confusing and as upsetting as you’d…

If there’s one thing everyone loves, it’s crewing a pirate ship and causing chaos with your friends. Putting that ship in space can only improve things—until you’re vented into the vacuum at least. That’s the logic behind Wildgate, the match-based space piracy game from ex-Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime’s game company Dreamhaven, which revealed at today’s…

We were all comfortable with Hitman going dark while IO Interactive puts the finishing touches on 007: First Light, but Agent 47 has a bit more gas in the tank. In a surprise collaboration with 007, Mads Mikkelsen has reprised his role as Casino Royale’s LeChiffre to become the next elusive target. As announced at…

Life finds a way, and so does Frontier Developments: at Summer Game Fest today, strategy sim Jurassic World Evolution 3 was unveiled with a trailer you can see above. And it wasn’t just a dino-tease: an release date was announced, too. Jurassic World Evolution 3 is coming on October 21, 2025. Once again you can…

Capture the flag is my favorite shooter mode—shoutout to Quake 2 CTF—and who knew that I’d find kindred spirits in Mac and Dan Reynolds, respectively the manager and lead singer of pop rock band Imagine Dragons? At Summer Game Fest today, the Reynolds (who are brothers) and their new studio Night Street Games announced Last…

As a lifelong genre aficionado, I am downright giddy at the resurgence of the side-scrolling brawler, which wouldn’t be happening without the likes of Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game kicking things off many moons ago. But time is a flat circle, so new Castle Crashers DLC is coming and we’re…

There’s no party like an apocalypse, and though Atomic Heart might not have been a perfect game, it certainly held a zany lens up to the world’s end with what reviewer Rich Stanton identified as “Russian Westworld” vibes. If you weren’t taken with its BioShocky aesthetic palette, though, you might want to take a peek…

It took longer than anyone likely expected, but Dying Light: The Beast—no, no, calm down, it’s not actually here, but it does finally have a release date. Developer Techland revealed during today’s Summer Game Fest showcase that the new addition to its popular series of zombie-stompers will be out on August 22. Dying Light: The…