7 Overdue Game Reveals That Skipped Summer Game Fest, Including Xbox And PlayStation’s Events
Topics: Hogwarts Legacy, Marvel, Star Wars, The Elder Scrolls 6
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Topics: Hogwarts Legacy, Marvel, Star Wars, The Elder Scrolls 6
The dust is finally settling from a wild week of game release updates, and PlayStation, Xbox, and Geoff Keighley ushered world premieres to our screens.
With massive new announcements, from Persona 6 to God of War: Laufey and many more, fans were treated to more content than ever before.
But there were some big omissions.
Here are the seven biggest games that we expected to see at Summer Game Fest, or Xbox and PlayStation's showcases, that continue to evade us.
Lightsabers were in plentiful supply this week, with Anakin Skywalker making a surprise return in the Clone Wars-adjacent Zero Company. But while we were traversing the Galaxy far, far away, it could have been the perfect time to add some updates on Star Wars: Eclipse.
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The game, set to be a dual-protagonist title cut from the same cloth as The Last of Us, hasn't had much in the way of updates since being announced at The Game Awards in 2021, and fears are now ramping up that it has been canned amid a new Jedi trilogy title and the KOTOR remake.
Raise your wands to pay your respects to Hogwarts Legacy 2, as the successor to the magical first title was as visible as James Potter's cloak at this year's Summer Game Fest.
Still to be revealed at all, most fans expected to see the wizarding world to be cast onto our screens, but alas, it's destined to be stuck in Devil's Snare for another release window.
The Xbox Showcase was packed with content, with some huge franchises making new instalments. But one title that has started to become a forgotten commodity is Judas.
Made by BioShock creator Ken Levine, the narrative FPS promised to push the limits of a player-driven game to new heights, ensuring that 'no two playthroughs are ever likely to be the same.' But another year on the bench pushes Judas further towards the 'shelved' category than an exciting upcoming release.
Another year, another disappointment for The Elder Scrolls fans. It's nearing 3,000 days since the Skyrim successor was first announced, and Bethesda continues its stance of releasing very limited information on the highly anticipated RPG.
The developers, now a part of the wider Microsoft team, only dropped a Thieves Guild questline for The Elder Scrolls: Online and a new update for Fallout 76 in their time on stage during the showcase week, leaving us bitterly upset at questioning the existence of The Elder Scrolls VI.
As a long shot, I hoped that Hideo Kojima would steal the show this year in the midst of an RPG-heavy lineup. OD, a horror story that has faced issues during the Hollywood strikes, was at the top of my list for a shock spot on the Xbox Game Showcase, having featured at last year's festival with Hunter Schafer leading the cast in a cinematic reveal.
Still, Resident Evil is kicking up a fuss again in 2026, so there's still enough spooks to carry us through.
Almost forgotten by superhero fans as the MCU revives itself at the Box Office in 2026, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra was another huge omission from Summer Game Fest. In fact, the game was so absent that it was confirmed not to be releasing at all in 2026, despite already being delayed until this year.
Unlike Fable, though, which showcased new trailers in the midst of its own delays, Captain America and Black Panther were sidelined completely this year.
Finally, one of the more ambitious hopes was to get another glimpse of action at Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock, which could have been the blockbuster show-stopper for State of Play.
The game was only announced last year, so it was possibly overly presumptuous of me to hope we'd see more, but with dark, Souls-like RPGs at every turn of the head this week, the action-adventure title would have been a nice change of pace. D&D fans need not panic, though, with development still plowing on.
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