Summer Game Fest 2026: Every Big Reveal, From Resident Evil Veronica to Final Fantasy VII Revelation

Geoff Keighley and Lucy James took the Dolby Theatre stage for a two-hour showcase packed with world premieres, franchise revivals, and one of the most surprising cameo appearances in SGF history. When the dust settled, we had 40+ announcements — including a new game from the creator of Ico, a long-awaited Wolf Among Us sequel, a Gundam game nobody predicted, and a Tupac Shakur feature that broke the internet.

Here's everything that mattered from Summer Game Fest 2026.

Resident Evil Veronica: Code Veronica Gets the Remake Treatment

Summer Game Fest 2026 kicked off right where 2025 left off — with Resident Evil. Resident Evil Veronica is a full remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, the Dreamcast-era entry that's been one of the most requested remakes in the series for over two decades.

Code Veronica is the weird one in the RE lineup — it's the only mainline entry that never got a numbered release, yet it's a direct continuation of Claire Redfield's story from RE2. It's also the game that introduced the Ashford twins and the Veronica virus, both of which have been quietly important to RE lore ever since. Opening the show with this tells you Capcom is treating it as a main-series event, not a side project.

No release date yet, but the reveal trailer had the same visual quality as the RE4 remake, which is encouraging.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation: The Trilogy Ends

The show closed with the one everybody was waiting for. Final Fantasy VII Revelation is the third and final chapter of the FF7 Remake trilogy, and the trailer gave us exactly what we needed to see: the Highwind taking flight, Cid in full form, and — finally — Vincent Valentine in a CG cutscene that confirms he's getting the playable-character treatment he always deserved.

The subtitle "Revelation" fits. This is where the 1997 original's final act gets the Remake treatment, and if Rebirth's open-world ambition is any indication, Revelation is going to be enormous. No release date, but Square Enix doesn't drop a CG reveal trailer this polished unless they're within 18 months of launch.

The Wolf Among Us 2: Eight Years Later, Bigby Is Back

Eight years after its original reveal trailer, The Wolf Among Us 2 re-emerged at SGF with actual footage and a 2027 release window. Bigby Wolf and Snow White are back, and Telltale's successor studio clearly hasn't been sitting still — the trailer looked substantially more ambitious than what we saw in 2018.

The surprise companion announcement: the original Wolf Among Us is getting a remaster this holiday season. If you've never played it, that's the easiest entry point into one of the best narrative adventure games ever made.

TMNT: The Last Ronin: Platinum Games + TMNT

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is the dark-future TMNT story adapted into a game by Platinum Games and Paramount. You play as Michelangelo — the last surviving turtle — after his brothers are killed by the Foot Clan. It's based on the IDW comic miniseries, and Platinum Games handling combat for a lone-turtle revenge story is a match made in heaven.

This has the potential to be the TMNT game that finally treats the franchise with the seriousness its best stories deserve. No release date yet.

Guild Wars 3: ArenaNet's MMO Moves to PS5

Guild Wars 3 is real, and it's coming to PC and PlayStation 5. ArenaNet's MMO sequel introduces a new world, momentum-based movement, and an overhauled combat system. The PS5 announcement is significant — it's the first time the franchise has appeared on consoles, and it signals ArenaNet's ambition to compete with the Final Fantasy XIVs of the world on their home turf.

The original Guild Wars (2005) and Guild Wars 2 (2012) both changed what people expected from MMO combat — the first by eliminating the holy trinity, the second by making every class self-sufficient. If ArenaNet holds that philosophy, Guild Wars 3 could shake up the MMO landscape again.

Stranger Than Heaven: Ryu Ga Gotoku Goes Multi-Era (With Tupac)

Like a Dragon studio's next narrative adventure is Stranger Than Heaven, and it spans five separate eras. The trailer showed feudal Japan, modern-day Kamurocho, and — in the most genuinely surprising moment of the entire SGF week — Tupac Shakur. Not a lookalike. Not an approximation. Tupac, in a Ryu Ga Gotoku game.

The inclusion of a real historical figure is a bold move for a series that's built its identity on fictionalized versions of real yakuza culture. But RGG Studio has earned the benefit of the doubt — their last three games (Yakuza 0, Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth) are among the best RPGs of the past decade. Launches January 15, 2027.

1666 Amsterdam: Patrice Desilets' 14-Year Odyssey

1666 Amsterdam is the first game from Panache, a studio headed by Patrice Desilets — the original creative director of Assassin's Creed. This game has been in development for 14 years. The prologue is available now on Steam and Epic Games Store, and the full game enters early access later this year.

Desilets built the foundation of Assassin's Creed before leaving Ubisoft in a messy dispute. 1666 is his vision for what a historical action game should be, unburdened by franchise expectations. The prologue being available today means we don't have to take anyone's word for it — you can play it yourself and decide if the wait was worth it.

Alien Isolation 2: The Xenomorph Returns

Alien Isolation 2 is real. Creative Assembly is back at the helm, and this time the Xenomorph is hunting you through a colony world — not a space station. The original Alien Isolation (2014) is still considered one of the best survival horror games ever made, and its AI-driven Xenomorph remains the gold standard for horror-game enemy design ten years later.

Moving the setting to a colony world opens up the design space considerably. The first game's space station setting was claustrophobic and perfect, but a colony means more environmental variety, more NPCs to get killed in front of you, and more opportunities for the kind of emergent horror that made the original so terrifying.

Stellar Blade Blood Rain: Shift Up Follows Up

Stellar Blade Blood Rain is the follow-up to Shift Up's 2024 action hit, and the trailer followed a cybernetic girl fighting body horror monsters in a cyberpunk city. If the first Stellar Blade was Shift Up proving it could make a visually stunning action game, Blood Rain looks like it's proving they can go darker and weirder.

The original Stellar Eagle had gorgeous combat but a thin story. If Blood Rain leans into the body-horror-meets-cyberpunk aesthetic the trailer promises, it could be the game that elevates the franchise from "impressive debut" to "must-play sequel."

The Other Reveals Worth Knowing

A wave of smaller but still significant announcements from the show:

  • Mighty Cuphead Adventure — Studio MDHR's pixel-art spin-off hearkening back to the Sega Master System. "Early stages," but Cuphead fans should be excited that the studio is expanding its world.
  • Blood Message — Netease/24 Entertainment's feudal-era third-person action game. Uncharted-style set pieces in feudal Japan. Confirmed in our SGF preview.
  • Hex — Debut title from Swedish studio Dead Astronauts. Procedural first-person adventure with supernatural monsters. First-person procedural is a bold genre choice — could be the sleeper hit of the show.
  • Mortal Shell 2 — Open beta is live right now. The sequel to one of the better Souls-likes outside the FromSoftware catalog.
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Resynced — Edward Kenway's pirate adventure returns July 9. "Resynced" suggests more than a remaster — expect modernized combat and quality-of-life improvements.
  • Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 "Runners" — Sprites born from the nearly reconstructed Zero Point. Like clockwork, Fortnite drops a new season alongside every major gaming event.
  • Gundam: Rogue Orbit — Bandai Namco's new Gundam game, 2027. The debut trailer showed both cinematics and gameplay, which is more than most mecha reveals offer.
  • An Eggstremely Hard Game — Co-op where two ducks protect their egg from obstacles. Launches July 24. This is the kind of silly co-op gem that sells 2 million copies and baffles everyone.
  • Crossfire — That's No Moon (Naughty Dog and Infinity Ward veterans) is taking another swing at making Crossfire work in the West. A supernatural twist on the Smilegate franchise. Starring Claudia Doumit (The Boys).
  • Star Wars Galactic Racer — Podracing returns October 6 on consoles and PC. If it captures even a fraction of Episode I Racer's magic, it's a day-one purchase.
  • End of Abyss — Section 9 Interactive's isometric horror launches October 1. Isometric horror is an underserved niche.
  • Virtua Fighter: Crossroads — Sega's fighting franchise returns in 2027. Pai Chan confirmed. The VF community has been waiting a long time.
  • Runescape: Dragonwilds — The survival offshoot of Jagex's MMO hits 1.0 on September 15. If you've been waiting for Runescape meets Ark, here it is.
  • Grounded 2: Into The Abyss — Obsidian's pint-sized survival game continues August 11 with a new content update.
  • Mafia: The Old Country — A story update in August features Don Salieri from the original Mafia. That's the connective tissue the series needs.
  • Saw Genesis — Bloober Team is making an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game in the Saw universe. Three survivors vs. one Jigsaw player. Dead by Daylight meets Saw is an obvious combination that nobody has executed well yet.
  • The Lords of the Fallen 2 — CI Games' souls-like sequel moves to a Japanese-inspired setting. Souls-likes with Japanese aesthetics are a crowded space, but the first game had solid fundamentals.
  • The Blood of Dawnwalker — Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves' vampire-themed adventure launches September 3. The time-hopping mechanic is the most interesting part — jumping between time periods to solve puzzles and affect the world.
  • Among Us Story: On Guard — Innersloth's standalone Among Us game. Also: the Among Us animated series is streaming now on Paramount Plus with all 10 episodes available.
  • 007: First Light — New story mission featuring Lenny Kravitz's character Bawma coming later this year. The game launched last month to critical acclaim — see 007: First Light on GameMinr.
  • Swords of Legends — Aurugon Shanghai's debut game. Raw boss-fight gameplay against Kong Kong Zi, Master of Cantrip. The game looked fast and flashy.
  • Hot Wheels Infinite Rush — Open-world driving across a city made of toys. Orange ramps confirmed.
  • Sonic 35th — New DLC for last year's Sonic racer adds Godzilla and Evangelion in year two. Also announced: Sonic Pico Park, a pixel-art co-op multiplayer game.
  • Attack on Titan 3 — Koei Tecmo takes on the full AoT story from start to finish. If they can capture the spectacle of the anime's best moments, this could be the AoT game fans have wanted.
  • Clutch — Maverick Games (ex-Forza devs) is making a narrative driving game. 2027. The studio pedigree is strong — ex-Forza people making a driving game with a story is a promising pitch.
  • Chronicles Medieval — Raw Power Games' medieval strategy game with full-scale battle gameplay and massive armies.
  • Sea of Remnants — NetEase's seafaring pirate game showed ship exploration and faction vs. faction naval combat.
  • Hitman: World of Assassination — The next Elusive Target is Wiz Khalifa, in a cage fighting setting. This franchise keeps finding ways to surprise.
  • Palworld 1.0 — Pocketpair's survival-crafting phenomenon officially hits 1.0 on July 10.

How to Watch the Full Show

The full SGF 2026 main show is on YouTube (The Game Awards Channel). It runs just over three hours with the pre-show, so make sure you grab a snack!