The Most Anticipated Games From Summer of Gaming

All the large studios and publishers person present revealed their biggest announcements done the galore summertime showcases. But IGN’s Summer of Gaming continues! We’ve already tally down the biggest and champion trailers of the season, but present we determination connected to bigger issues. Which games person america the astir excited and counting down the days until they’re yet released?

That’s wherefore we’re present contiguous to item our astir anticipated games… and determine which 1 we’re hyped for the most. Our apical prime has been chosen from a excavation that includes each uncover from crossed the assorted shows we’ve seen, arsenic good arsenic the games that we’ve been capable to spell hands-ons with. We’ve besides considered the enthusiasm that you, our readers and viewers, person shown for the galore newly-announced titles – and truthful we’ve weighed up comments and trailer viewcounts on with our ain idiosyncratic excitement.

But earlier we get to our apical pick, let’s instrumentality a spot of clip to bespeak connected immoderate of the different astonishing games we’ve seen and played implicit the past mates of weeks. Here are immoderate of our different favourites:

5. Ninja Gaiden 4

Soulslikes whitethorn person dominated the past decennary of action-RPGs but the hack-and-slash renaissance is successful afloat plaything acknowledgment to games similar Ninja Gaiden 4. Team Ninja and PlatinumGames, 2 of the champion quality enactment developers successful Japan, are teaming up for this nonstop sequel to 2012’s Ninja Gaiden 3.

The high-speed actioner jumped onto the country successful benignant acknowledgment to a stylish caller trailer, but our 25-minute hands-on with the crippled near america wanting to play much, overmuch more. Super-fast and hyper-bloody, it volition marque you consciousness similar the eventual sidesplitting machine, provided you person the dexterity to juggle your enemies and propulsion disconnected the close combos, of course. Luckily, we won’t person to hold excessively long, arsenic Ninja Gaiden 4 volition beryllium retired connected each platforms connected October 21, 2025.

4. Silent Hill Remake

It whitethorn person been conscionable a logo and a small spot of nostalgic euphony astatine the extremity of Konami’s Press Start livestream, but the announcement that the Silent Hill 2 remake’s developer Bloober Team volition beryllium tackling the archetypal Silent Hill arsenic its adjacent collaboration with Konami was capable to nonstop each of our heads spinning.

The archetypal Silent Hill kicked disconnected 1 of the astir horrifying and beloved video crippled franchises successful history, but portion it was up of its clip successful galore respects erstwhile it came retired successful 1998, it surely hasn’t kept up with the times. A remake crafted with the aforesaid attraction and information Bloober gave to its sequel is surely an breathtaking prospect.

3. Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

Move speech Marvel vs. Capcom, there’s a caller superhero warring crippled successful town. The large astonishment of PlayStation’s latest State of Play was Arc System Works’ Marvel Tokon, a 4v4 tag squad warring crippled featuring Marvel heroes similar Iron Man and Captain America reimagined done a Japanese lens. Arc System Works is already lauded for their visually striking and profoundly competitory warring games similar Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball FighterZ, but Marvel Tokon could instrumentality this beloved-but-niche developer to caller heights acknowledgment to the powerfulness of Disney. The item and extent of mechanics showcased successful the lengthy uncover means Marvel Tokon conscionable inches past our excitement for different superheroic warring crippled announced implicit the Summer of Gaming - Invincible VS. Plus, Fighting Souls is 4v4 alternatively than 3v3, truthful that other mates of heroes lone helps propulsion our anticipation up further.

2. 007 First Light

IO Interactive yet unveiled its long-awaited 007 crippled and – surprise! – it looks amusive arsenic hell. While the developer’s accustomed suited assassin, Agent 47, mightiness beryllium an emotionless sidesplitting machine, young James Bond present successful 007 First Light looks to beryllium having the clip of his beingness arsenic helium sets retired connected the way to go 1 of the astir celebrated concealed agents successful the satellite (a ngo that, admittedly, seems thing of a contradiction).

The trailer has everything a bully James Bond crippled should have: exotic locales, sports cars, laser wrist watches, a small airy flirting, and plentifulness of explosions. Pair that with the cognition that IOI has said we should expect the aforesaid level of state arsenic disposable successful the Hitman: World of Assassination trilogy, and 007 First Light is 1 crippled we conscionable can’t hold for (plus, with a 2026 merchandise window, this is apt going to beryllium our archetypal large Bond outing since Daniel Craig bowed out). Perhaps the lone crushed it’s not our wide astir anticipated crippled of the lawsuit is that we sadly haven’t had a accidental to play it yet, and truthful can’t definitively talk to its quality. We’ll support our fingers crossed for gamescom 2025…

So, that’s 4 reveals of varying sizes that person america hyped for aboriginal games. But the large 1 – our astir anticipated crippled – is thing coming beauteous soon, and thing we’ve already been capable to play. And, based connected however overmuch we emotion its predecessors, we’re hoping it continues the series’ bequest and offers up 1 of the finest endurance fearfulness experiences of the generation. Our astir anticipated crippled from the Summer of Gaming is…

1. Resident Evil Requiem

Capcom delivered an epic bait-and-switch during Summer Game Fest 2025, suggesting that determination would beryllium nary authoritative Resident Evil 9 announcement arsenic portion of the show, lone to formally uncover Resident Evil Requiem a fewer minutes later. I conjecture delayed leap scares are portion of the Resi recipe, aft all.

The adjacent mainline introduction successful the fashionable endurance fearfulness franchise is acceptable to prima a caller hero, Grace Ashcroft, who has a adjacent narration to a quality from a forgotten Resident Evil game. More excitingly, though, Capcom revealed that Resident Evil Requiem volition beryllium playable successful some first- and third-person astatine launch, combining the champion of some worlds erstwhile it comes to modern Resident Evil games. We got a accidental to play a abbreviated preview physique of Resident Evil Requiem and came distant impressed with however first-person focuses connected axenic horror, portion playing successful third-person delivers immoderate added enactment thrills.

Grace seems similar a compelling caller character, too, fixed her inheritance arsenic an FBI expert who’s much comfy down a machine than with a gun. This’ll marque her (and us) adjacent much acrophobic erstwhile we travel look to look with Requiem’s caller stalker monster, a hulking fig whose grotesque framework fills up full hallways.

All this, positive Capcom’s ongoing winning streak of large games, means we’re incredibly excited to play the adjacent mainline Resi crippled erstwhile Resident Evil Requiem is released connected consoles and PC connected February 27, 2026.

Resident Evil Requiem is our astir anticipated crippled from the Summer of Gaming, but what’s yours? You tin fto america cognize successful the comments below, oregon articulation america time erstwhile we’ll beryllium ranking the biggest announcements successful an IGN assemblage tier list.