The best, worst and most WTF moments

One of the earliest major revelations in the live show also provided one of the biggest surprises. A cinematic trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros Unveiled a first look at the new real -time strategy game that takes place in the world of a song of ice and fire. It contains a shocking realistic version of Jon Snow (Kit Harrington, reprising his role from the show) with the Night King in the midst of a fiery battlefield that is reminiscent of the penultimate episode of the series. A voice -over starts and says: “You may think that you know how the game is played, but this is not the game you know.”

With that, the Night King Snow kills with a spear through the chest, followed by a stage of one of Daenerys’s dragons that are shot from the sky by a ballista bolt. That is definitely not how the story goes, right? In Playsside Studios’ Game of ThronesPlayers can play different scenarios that rewrite the story of the show in solo and multiplayer -modes -and perhaps they have made up the Canon fans that deviate from the controversial end of the TV show.

In the typical showcase mode of video games, Summer Game Fest revealed a big name IP to huge applause before the rug, revealing that it is exclusively in VR. This time the scene was somewhat reversed when host Geoff Keighley a little comical bite with reading a personal note of an unnamed Goofball that becomes a Deadpool. (The letter is signed with a “wet on the lips” from Wade.)

Exclusively for the Meta Quest 3 and developed by Twisted Pixel, Marvel’s Deadpool VR A bloody action game is packed on the edge with dry jokes and visual gags and uber violence, which could be nice if it was not something that the death of the character of the character had been done in recent years. And although you would expect that the trailer at least has some energy, the voice work of actor Neil Patrick Harris (an ok Ryan Reynolds impression) is just as sleepy as the gameplay looks out.

In one of the strangest trailers of the show, Felt that: boxing showed what a Rocky-Styled -Story would look if it was fully acted by Muppets. From new developers Sans Strings Studio, follows the game Ezra “Fuzz-e” Wright, an apparently unacceptable point that makes its way through the tournament of a million bumps to save everything he likes.

A wild surrealistic parody of boxing film tropics, the visuals of the game seem to have been completely made with the help of digital puppet play and seems to play as a Gonzo version of Bump From the perspective of a felt pop that takes huge strokes. The music also comes to Flying Lotus, which contributes to the bizarre mature swimming vibe.

After he has already announced new characters Rocket Raccoon and She-Hulk for the upcoming Beat-Em-Up Marvel Cosmic InvasionRetro Studio Tribute Games brought down the house in the YouTube theater with unexpected unveiling of Scott Pilgrim exat the beginning of 2026. The company made their name with the beloved Old School Arcade Pastiche Scott Pilgrim vs. the world: the game back in 2010, and EX It seems like an even bigger, crazier continuation with seven playable characters and made a completely new story with the involvement of series maker Bryan Lee O’Malley. To be honest, it was the first of very few big surprises of the night.

Between the cozy cute games and colorful anime rate was an absolutely grotesque representation of body horror from developers team clout called Ill. A first-person survival horror game with photo realistic visuals, Ill looks Resident Evil On meth, players saw through shade -like cellars and corridors crawl as seeping, smoothly mutated bodies sneaking around and walking on the screen.

HyperReism drives home a number of deeply disturbing sights, such as the skin blows of the head of a monster dangling with entrails after a shotgun, but the kicker is a bodycam style order of a mutilated, spicy baby sprint maniacal before the player kicks it in a file cabin. It is impossible not to see.

In periodic taste buds of the horror outings, Summer Game Fest showed multiple Feel-good teasers for cooperative games that follow the trend of last year’s breakout Split fiction and 2023s It takes two With Cozy it takes a mystery about two players.

Lego Voyagers is a 2.5D isometric adventure game with two players who embody small one-eyed LEGO bricks, who make their way around the world with a relaxing soundtrack of the area. Like last year Lego Horizon Adventures” Voyagers Has lush visuals that perfectly reinforce the obstinacy of an imaginary LEGO world, but leans heavier on the physics-based puzzle solution than total action. Another called Out of words is a fully handmade stop-motion animated game that works as a 2D platformer for two players locally or online.

For the first time unveiled at Summer Game Fest, Wu-Tang: Rise of the deciver is the first game with the hip-hop clan of the same name since 1999 Wu-Tang Shaolin style. A spiritual successor, Rise of the cheaper See a new generation of warriors take up the cloak in search of the missing Wu-Tang members. A co-op game with three players, it is an Action RPG with fully adjustable characters and equipment.

With an anime-inspired aesthetics and a surrealist stop-motion-like style, Rise of the cheaper Is visually impressive, even only from the short glimpses that are seen in the trailer. Music will clearly be a huge aspect of the game, with a dynamic experience that uses and remix classic Wu-Tang tracks and a soundtrack compiled by producer Just Blaze.

Although the show was for the most part a guy, it would hardly be printed to say it was offensive bad. Except for this guy.

In a non-sequitur after the silence of the previous teaser, Ian Proulx, CEO and co-founder of 1047 competitions appeared, was on stage and attracted a hat that made everyone do a double take. It said, “Make FPS great again.” To hype the release of the game of his studio Splitgate 2Proulx focused on easy goals such as Call of Duty While he demonstrates his Capital-G-Gamer references such as old school Halo player. The developer leaned on a gigantic baseball bat and explained that courageously Splitgate 2Now, “damn great” is with the kind of conviction that is usually reserved for overvalued guys at the bar that you desperately try to ignore.

In an evening filled with everyday, this moment served as the only copy of genuine collapse.

With only a handful of groundbreaking announcements, many of the best range of the show of major updates to games were currently available. In a confusing live-action-teaser with wrestler Kenny Omega in various forms of cosplay, Capcom showed the next wave of DLC characters for his flagship Vechtspel Street Fighter 6Including Sagat, C. Viper, Alex and Ingrid – all come individually between summer 2025 and spring 2026.

In an equally weird but also much more uncomfortable stage presentation, IO interactive’s CEO Hakan Abrak revealed that, on top of the coming game of the studio 007 First lightThe world of James Bond will come to his Stealth game Hitman World of Assassination With the recording of Mads Mikkelsen’s villain -like banker Lechiffre from 2006 Casino Royale. Mikkelsen himself appeared on stage to discuss his love for the character in a screened chatter that did not play as smoothly as his poker expert -character from the film.

Halfway through the live show, fans were very happy to see a video appearance by Maggie Robsterson, voice actor for Resident Evil Village‘s Schurk Alcina Dimitrescu. This would certainly mean that the recently rumors Resident Evil 9 would be announced. But excitement changed into deflation when Robertson transferred the presentation Resident Evil Director Jun Takeuchi who brutally announced that the announcement The next game would come soon. It was a huge disappointment.

And then it wasn’t. The showcase ended with a bait and switch unveiling of the sequel, called Resident Evil: Requiembecause of 27 February 2026. Although it was great to finally get a glimpse of the next entry into the franchise, the entire SCHTick felt like a random trick to inject some life in the procedure. The trailer alone would be enough.