How to watch the Xbox Games Showcase

We’re a few days into the nonstop livestreams of Summer Game Fest 2026, and still have a couple of shows left to close out the weekend. The Xbox Games Showcase takes today’s first slot, then a Gears of War: E-Day Direct follows up immediately after with a closer look at the Marcus Fenix origin story….

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CD Projekt Red’s mysterious Project Hadar will be an ’emotional, open-world experience’ similar to The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk

CD Projekt Red currently has more irons in the fire than Geralt of Rivia’s favourite blacksmith. There’s The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2, which on their own are enough to keep the studio busy for the next decade. But there’s also the mysterious Project Hadar, which we know very little about despite it being in…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Season 4 adds a mode that removes OmniMovement and a gun that aims for you—perfect for players who can’t be bothered to play anymore

While I generally dislike describing games as being lazily designed, since they are tremendously hard to make, laziness does seem to be a running theme with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Its single-player campaign felt decidedly slapped together when it launched in October last year, while the post-launch support for its unambitious multiplayer has…

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Satisfactory’s first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution

It’s been a long, dry year since Satisfactory last received a major update. Version 1.1 of Coffee Stain’s hugely popular factory sim launched almost exactly twelve months ago, bringing proper controller support, an improved photo mode, better resource transportation, and more. Yet outside of a few hotfixes, that’s been it for fans of building enormously…

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Vampire Survivors spin-offs are ‘Survivatons,’ its creator has decided, and another will be revealed soon

At the Future Games Show today, Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante talked about making more Vampire Survivors spin-offs—noting the success of Vampire Crawlers as a motivator—which he’s calling “Survivatons.” It’s a “stupid” name that is “short for survive-a-ton,” the masked Poncle head said in the interview. We can expect a Survivaton to be like Vampire…

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