Summer Game Fest 2026 has wrapped, and this year's run of showcases — Geoff Keighley's main SGF stream on June 5, bookended by the Xbox Games Showcase and a PlayStation State of Play — delivered one of the densest weeks the gaming calendar has seen in a while. If there was a single thread tying it all together, it was horror: the genre didn't just show up this year, it dominated.
The headline moment, and the night's biggest genuine surprise, was Until Dawn 2. Liverpool's Firesprite is following up the 2015 cult favourite with another branching teen-slasher, leaning hard into the campy, blood-soaked, choose-your-own-adventure tone that turned the original into a word-of-mouth hit. It's a PS5 title, and based on the reveal, your choices will once again decide exactly who survives the night and who doesn't.
Capcom kept its horror engine running too, confirming a full remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica for 2027. It's the entry longtime fans have spent years asking the studio to revisit — a fan favourite that never got the same spotlight as the RE2 and RE4 remakes — so seeing it finally locked in was a real moment for the series' faithful. On the same survival-horror wavelength, Alien: Isolation 2 broke cover with its first trailer, swapping the claustrophobic space station of the 2014 original for a colony planet while promising the same uncompromising, one-wrong-move tension that made Isolation a modern benchmark.
It wasn't all scares, though the spooky streak ran deep. Remedy revealed Control Resonant, a reality-bending sequel set in New York and dated for September 24 on PS5 and PC — and it'll share that exact release day with Silent Hill: Townfall, an atmospheric new entry set in 1990s Scotland. That's a stacked single day for horror fans, and a brutal one for anyone trying to manage a backlog.
There was plenty for the action and RPG crowd as well. Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword arrived with a demo you could jump into immediately — always a confident move — while God of War Laufey put the spotlight on Kratos's wife in a direction nobody quite predicted. And after what feels like a decade of rumours and leaks, Persona 6 was finally, officially confirmed, showing off a striking toxic-green, graveyard-tinged aesthetic that suggests Atlus is shaking up the series' famous colour-coded identity.
Rounding things out, Sega teased Virtua Fighter Crossroads for 2027, and Nintendo's own Direct dropped arguably the biggest bombshell of the week — a full Ocarina of Time remake — but that one deserves its own story.
For the trophy and platinum hunters who make up so much of the PIXELFORGE community, this was a showcase to get excited about. Branching narratives like Until Dawn 2 practically guarantee multiple playthroughs, horror remakes tend to ship with the collectible-heavy, difficulty-tiered trophy lists we love to dissect, and a wave of September releases means the back half of 2026 is going to be packed. We'll be putting together full guides and roadmaps as each of these lands — so keep an eye on the site.