Bandai Namco premiered a handful of new titles during Summer Game Fest 2025, including a new, anime-inspired roguelike called Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree, which is coming to all major platforms this September.

Described as "a game drawing from classic Japanese art with a whimsical spin on Eastern mysticism," Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree pits players in the role of the titular priestess, who embarks on a journey alongside one of eight other guardians to defeat the evil Magatsu.

This is Towa, a new rogue-lite from @BandaiNamcoUS and developer Brownies! #SummerGameFest pic.twitter.com/wz3tFuomfe

— Summer Game Fest (@summergamefest) June 6, 2025

Towa and another guardian work cooperatively as a duo, delving into dungeons and battling Magatsu's minions together. According to Bandai Namco, "Each guardian has its own abilities and set of swords, making each combat style and guardian pair unique."

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The Summer Game Fest presentation introduced a new party game featuring Lego bricks, appropriately called Lego Party. The trailer showed a wide variety of party games, promising 60 in all, featuring a wide array of Lego brick styles from across the brickiverse.

Lego styles shown include Space, Pirates, and Ninjago, with settings and styles to match those through the various minigames. Like any good party game, you're always challenged with something new, so that meant different perspectives and types of games, from racing around a track to avoiding monsters, to painting the floor and more.

The announcement promises both Challenge Zones and minigames, cross-platform online play, and tons of minifigure customization. In fact, given all the permutations, you could make more than 1 billion minifig configurations. You compete for Golden Bricks, and like any good party game, you can sabotage your opponents with traps.

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IO Interactive has announced the next elusive target for Hitman: World of Assassination, and it's none other than Mads Mikkelsen's LeChiffre from the movie Casino Royale. You don't have to wait to play, as the new elusive target, called The Banker, is being added to the game today, June 6, the developer announced at Summer Game Fest.

Mikkelsen himself returns for this new DLC, and he appeared on stage at Summer Game Fest to hype it up. The new elusive target comes with in-game items to acquire, including a new "King of Cards" suit, silenced pistol, rope, and casino chip. The elusive target is available now through July 6.

HITMAN and 007 are coming together in a very unexpected way… yep Agent 47’s next target is Le Chiffre! @007GameIOI #SummerGameFest pic.twitter.com/5wmRnPztRZ

— Summer Game Fest (@summergamefest) June 6, 2025

"LeChiffre is a character I have always enjoyed--he's calculating, cold, and ruthless," Mikkelsen said. "Bringing him into the world of Hitman makes for a thrilling collaboration. Players can expect mind games, high stakes, and twists that only this character could orchestrate. To succeed, they'll need to play their hand wisely."

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Summer Game Fest had plenty of big reveals, but perhaps the most surprising one was a brand-new Deadpool virtual reality game. Announced for Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets, this new game will see players control the merc with a mouth--voiced by actor Neil Patrick Harris--as he takes on classic villains like X-Men villains like Mojo and Lady Deathstrike.

Developer Twisted Pixel, known for a few other funny games, like 'Splosion Man, announced the game with a trailer that captures a lot of Deadpool's ridiculous banter, as well as a bunch of the flippy-shooty mayhem you'll get up to in the game. Watch it right here.

The game features an all-new, original Deadpool story that finds the quippy hero sucked through a portal to Mojoworld, where he's tasked with traveling across the Marvel universe to take on a bunch of villains. Gameplay combines shooting, stabbing, and parkour, and also looks to let you to leverage Deadpool's regenerative superpowers so you can get blown up and dismembered yourself, if that's what it takes to get the job done.

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Today, during Summer Game Fest Live with Geoff Keighley, Tribute Games--the developers behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and the upcoming Marvel: Cosmic Invasion--announced its next project: Scott Pilgrim EX. It's the first Scott Pilgrim video game since Ubisoft's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World in 2010, and one which many of Tribute Games's developers worked on.

Scott Pilgrim EX is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game that features seven playable characters--each with their own unique special attacks--and up to four-player offline and online co-op. This new Scott Pilgrim adventure will also feature non-linear exploration, which will allow players to discover the in-game version of Toronto however they wish.

The game is being developed and published by Tribute Games, in what the studio describes as a "creative partnership" with Scott Pilgrim creator Brian Lee O'Malley. Scott Pilgrim EX will feature new pixel art from famed artist Paul Robertson, as well as new music from Anamanaguchi, who provided the soundtrack to the previous game. BenDavid Grabinski, director of the recent Scott Pilgrim Takes Off movie on Netflix, is also part of this new project as a creative advisor.

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After almost a year of beta testing, Indonesian developer Fajrul FN dropped a new trailer for their new indie beat-'em-up Acts of Blood during Summer Game Fest 2025.

Set in a hazy southeast Asian dystopia, the game focuses on a young man attempting to avenge his dead father against a seemingly infinite number of hard-hitting criminals. Our hero, however, looks like he hits harder. The combat appears to be very much influenced by the recent slate of absolutely brutal Indonesian martial arts flicks, such as Gareth Evans' The Raid, or Timo Tjahjanto's The Night Comes For Us.

Gameplay-wise, though, Acts of Blood appears to be taking its cues from the free-flowing mechanics of Sloclap's Sifu, another unique take on beat-'em-ups pitting a lone fighter against a keen-to-kill swarm of enemies, except Acts of Blood's hero apparently isn't above laying waste to his enemies with the nearest baseball bat, crowbar, or shotgun.

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A release date for Dying Light: The Beast was officially revealed during Summer Game Fest 2025, and this new chapter in Techland's open-world zombie series will arrive on August 22 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

The standalone adventure sees the return of Kyle Crane, Dying Light's original protagonist, and is set in the rural location of Castor Woods. After escaping from a decade in captivity and the horrific experiments performed on him by the Baron, Crane makes his way to the once-bustling tourist destination in search of vengeance and finds it overrun with zombies.

Like previous games, the infected people stalking the streets during the day will be the least of your worries, because once the sun sets, the worst of the zombie horde comes out to play. Fortunately, Crane has parkour skills and an off-road vehicle to help him outrun enemies, and when push comes to shove, the zombie DNA in his blood gives him an edge in combat.

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Today, during Summer Game Fest Live with Geoff Keighley, Yacht Club Games announced that Mina The Hollower, its first new in-house IP since introducing Shovel Knight to the world in 2019, will launch on Halloween--and there's a free limited-time demo available on Steam right now.

Mina The Hollower is an action-adventure game made in the style of Game Boy Color-era games like The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages. Players control the titular Mina, a mouse who's handy with a whip, as she travels through a spooky island in an attempt to save it from a dreadful curse.

The demo was released on Steam in conjunction with the release-date announcement, and it is part of the annual Steam Next Fest celebration, which ends on June 16th. The demo contains the game's opening stage and first major boss fight, and all progress made in the demo will carry over to the main game when it launches in the fall.

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Street Fighter 6's next roster update has been revealed, with four more fighters announced for Year 3. During Summer Game Fest 2025, a new trailer starring AEW's Kenny Omega, who also happens to be a huge gamer himself, showed off the roster update by having the wrestling legend dress up like each of them.

The next season of Street Fighter 6 adds Sagat, C. Viper, Ingrid, and Alex. See it unfold in the new trailer below.

Street Fighter 6 is out now on Xbox, PS5, PC, and Switch 2.

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As part of Summer Game Fest, Frontier Developments announced the next Jurassic World Evolution game. Jurassic World Evolution 3 is coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on October 21, 2025, and like the games that came before it, players will manage dinosaur species and the park experience for guests.

Jurassic World Evolution 3 has more than 80 dinosaur species, and players will be able to breed and nurture them "across entire generations." That's right: We're getting baby dinos.

"Rear them from playful juveniles into awe-inspiring adults, each with distinct female, male, and juvenile variants," the developer said.

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Ahead of its launch in August, a new trailer for Mafia: The Old Country debuted at Summer Game Fest 2025. Teased earlier this week, the new look at the game showed off protagonist Enzo Favara in a spot of trouble as he braced himself for some violence at his door.

The trailer is titled "Loyalty is Everything," and it focuses on the importance of "family" (in the organized crime sense, of course) to Favara's fortunes. While centered on cinematics and storytelling, the trailer gives a sense of what it's like in Sicily in the early 20th century. The narrative overview we get suggests that Favara will have to navigate betrayal, retribution, and extortion in pursuit of wealth. It also emphasizes the extensive and brutal process of joining the Torrisi crime family, and how the connections between "family" members can go sour if trust is undermined.

Mafia: The Old Country is looking to be a budget-friendly dive back into the franchise, as developer Hangar 13 is aiming to deliver a "linear highly-polished narrative experience" that doesn't require significant time commitments. Because of this direction, the game is priced at $50 for its standard edition, but there is a $60 Deluxe Edition that bundles in bonus items, like special guns, outfits, and accessories.

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At the 2025 Summer Game Fest, Serenity Forge brought back the spirit of Doki Doki Literature Club in its upcoming psychological life sim, Fractured Blooms. Like the studio's popular visual novel, it features cozy themes like home-building and cooking that could be straight out of Stardew Valley, but turns into something more sinister with contorted footage and lots of blood.

You play as Angie, a girl participating in what seems like an innocent home-renovation project. She's actually stuck in a time loop with a dark end and forced to live through the same day over and over. In Fractured Blooms, you prioritize your most important tasks to make the most out of your loop while solving the mystery about your haunted home. That involves gardening, cooking, and other tasks that help fix up the house and take care of its inhabitants. Small differences appear in each cycle. You'll start to remember details, but so will the cycle, apparently.

Even Geoff Keighley wouldn't eat these tomatoes.

Right now, it's unclear if the story takes a turn for the worse. We only have the trailer to go on, which showcases a road of reddening grass, plumes of miasma, and who knows what as the vibe goes from cozy to gory. Fractured Blooms also features a personal story behind the madness, but Serenity Forge has yet to reveal the details behind Angie's life and friends.

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Epic Games Publishing announced Wiredfly and Kong Orange's Out of Words during Summer Game Fest, a co-op side-scrolling action-adventure game. The characters have lost their mouths--and the ability to speak--and must work together during their colorful journey as they engage with a variety of challenges. A distinguishing feature is that all of the characters and environments have been crafted and animated using traditional, physical stop-motion animation, with the trailer showing part of the creation process for characters.

The game is based on an original concept by Danish poet Morten Søndergaard. The two leads, Kurt and Karla, find themselves in the fantastical realm of Vokabulantis, where they must work together to overcome the various challenges in their way. While the two are described as "friends," there are hints that the game will see their relationship blossom in a more romantic way.

The game features both online and local co-op play. Despite the leads' wordless nature in-game, you'll need to communicate with your co-op partner in order to solve puzzles. Puzzles shown in the trailer include elements like shifting gravity and using a grappling device to traverse the side-scrolling landscapes.

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The studio behind Lego Builder's Journey debuted its next game at Summer Game Fest, and it's an adorable co-op adventure starring--you guessed it--a pair of little Lego bricks. The brief trailer showed a blooming friendship between blue and orange 1x1 bricks as they worked together to solve puzzling challenges.

The game is built around two-player co-op--locally, or you can invite your friends to play for free with a Friend's Pass. Like Builder's Journey, the narrative is delivered without words. The world looks entirely built out of bricks, so you can snap and join your way through obstacles together.

The art style looks very similar to Builder's Journey, with a similar isometric perspective through some segments. But the two also find themselves floating down-river, navigating highways and trains, and joining themselves with other bricks to carry them. They seem to be making their way towards a rocket through most of the trailer, which ends with them watching it take off.

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At Summer Game Fest 2025, Bandai Namco revealed a teaser for Code Vein 2, a sequel to its 2019 action-RPG that many described as an anime Dark Souls. This sequel has an updated aesthetic while still retaining anime character designs.

While its predecessor was set in a post-apocalyptic future, this one seems to have a dark and gothic medieval fantasy setting (some Bloodborne vibes, perhaps). But the twist appears to be that it will also be crossing different timelines.

According to the official Code Vein 2 Twitter, you'll still be playing as Revenants--vampiric immortals from the previous game--and the description of being "bound by blood" would suggest that the two main characters pictured are siblings. There's also going to be plenty of more formidable boss fights, though judging by your character's transformations, powerful abilities, and also being able to get around on a motorcycle, this could also be a more action-packed sequel while being less influenced by Souls-likes.

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Chrono Odyssey is an action-focused, open-world, multiplayer RPG with shades of Warframe. A new trailer dropped as part of Summer Game Fest, showing various players fighting eldritch monstrosities and ancient warriors. Players will be able to get their hands on the MMORPG later this month via a limited playtest on PC from June 20-22.

Chrono Odyssey was first announced back in 2020. The game gets its name from the protagonists' time-manipulation abilities and their travel into the past to combat an eldritch invading force called The Void. The trailer depicts player-characters freezing enemies in place, allowing them to attack them without interference. Players will also be able to rewind time, gaining combat advantages or exploring older versions of areas in the game's open world. Those are not the only powers available; the trailers shows characters slashing with lightning-infused attacks and floating in the air a la Breath of the Wild's hang-glider.

Six classes will be available to play at launch. The trailer shows off a few of them, showcasing characters wielding small double axes, a wizard's staff, and a bow. The combat appears fast-paced, taking cues from action RPGs like Soulframe and Elden Ring. But Chrono Odyssey isn't medieval fantasy, exactly. Some portions of the trailer depict dungeons that look like spaceships from Alien or the wasted ruins of a horror game like Scorn. One boss, or what appears to be one, shoots out writhing, bloody tentacles.

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Dotemu's upcoming beat-'em-up, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, has revealed two popular comic book characters for its ever-growing roster. Fans will be able to play as Rocket Raccoon and She-Hulk, easily switching between the two as they shoot and smash their way through hordes of enemies. At least, that's the way it looks via a new trailer showcased during the Summer Game Fest 2025 show.

Joining the cast of 15 Marvel characters--alongside the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, and Storm--She-Hulk and Raccoon will offer their own brand of beatdown when facing Annihilus' forces. And considering Dotemu's work on Streets of Rage 4, one can only image the creative combos players will be able to come up with when playing as these heroes.

Unfortunately, we didn't get a release date for Marvel Cosmic Invasion. We know that some of Marvel's best are going to wage war with Annihilus as he pulls strings from the Negative Zone. We just don't know when it's all going down. That said, it's apparent that when the "annihilation wave" hits the fan, players will have enough firepower (and in She-Hulk's case, muscle) to win when the game is released on Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Switch, and PC later this year.

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Importing Switch saves to Nintendo Switch 2 is something you should automatically be able to do when you first set the system up. However, if you skip the transfer or don't have your original Switch with you, there is another way. It just takes a bit longer.

Our guide for how to transfer save data to Switch 2 explains each step of the process.

How to import save data during Switch 2 setupSave data is included in your system transfer.

If you transfer your user data from the original Switch during the initial Switch 2 system transfer process, it imports your saves automatically. Once you have access to the main menu, you'll see your game library all queued up for download. You can cancel the downloads and prioritize what gets added to the system first, but whenever a game with save data associated with it finishes downloading, it'll have the latest save data from your user account with it.

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Dune: Awakening's official launch date is June 10, but if you're impatient to play the game, you can currently grab the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition to play early. Stats from Steam suggest that a lot of people can't wait for the full launch day and have taken that early access option: Well over 70,000 players are online in the game at the time of this writing, and concurrent players peaked at over 90,000 soon after the premium editions were made available.

According to SteamDB, Dune: Awakening is off to a remarkably hot start considering the premium charge that players currently must pay to get access. To put its player base into perspective, Dune: Awakening is currently sitting at 17th on the Steam concurrent player charts, sandwiched between chart mainstays War Thunder and Stardew Valley (Its 24-hour peak comes in at 15th on the charts).

It is quite unusual for games to do this well during windows of premium-only access, but Dune fans seem quite willing to shell out the extra money to access the multiplayer survival game. While the normal edition of the game costs $50, you need to pay $70 for the Deluxe Edition or $90 for the Ultimate Edition to jump in right now. In addition to getting access to the game in advance of its full release, purchases of the two premium editions also get a season pass to DLC and additional in-game items.

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Lego One Piece Collection

Seven building sets release August 1

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Netflix's live-action One Piece adaptation returns for season two in 2026, but if you're looking to indulge in some high-seas adventures in the meantime, Lego will release a bunch of One Piece building sets on August 1. The collaboration was announced earlier this year, but the actual sets weren't revealed until June 5. There are seven Lego One Piece sets, including big displays based on the iconic Going Merry Pirate Ship and memorable locations like The Baratie Floating Restaurant, as well as buildable figures based on Luffy D. Monkey and Buggy the Clown. All of the Lego One Piece sets are available to preorder now on the Lego Store, though you can preorder a few of them at major retailers such as Amazon, Target, and Best Buy.

Lego One Piece Collection:

• The Going Merry Pirate Ship (1,376 pieces) -- $140
• The Baratie Floating Restaurant (3,402 pieces) -- $330
• Battle at Arlong Park (926 pieces) -- $80
• Buggy the Clown's Circus (573 pieces) -- $55
• Windmill Village Hut (299 pieces) -- $30
• Monkey D. Luffy BrickHeadz Figure (136 pieces) -- $10
• Buggy the Clown BrickHeadz Figure (176 pieces) -- $10

While the collection is based on Netflix's live-action adaptation of the series, fans of the manga and anime will likely enjoy these new sets, too.

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