Hands-On

Sonic Frontiers pits the Blue Blur against an open world with plenty of platforming challenges, but it’s an unusual genre for a Sonic game.

Metal: Hellsinger is a rhythmic FPS with an original heavy metal soundtrack. Tower of Fantasy is an expansive, colorful MMORPG. They both look pretty good.

I went hands-on with WrestleQuest and Vice NDRCVR at Summer Game Fest, and they demonstrated that publisher Skybound Games is willing to take chances on unconventional ideas.

Outriders Worldslayer has a streamlined campaign, but lots of endgame content

Lego Brawls is a family-friendly competitive brawler, where you can customize your own minifig and duke it out with characters from a variety of Lego properties.

Star Trek: Resurgence feels just like an episode of the TV show, letting players experience the moral dilemmas and character drama inherent to the setting.

At Summer Game Fest, Day of the Devs let you play as a fly, a frog, a bear and more

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course pulls absolutely zero punches in terms of difficulty, but it’s worth the challenge to witness the gorgeous animation and inspired enemy design.

Street Fighter 6 offers both Modern and Classic controls, depending on how complicated you want your controls to be. Either way, the combos look great.

Innovation and luxury combine to make the new Genesis GV60 one of the most interesting EVs you’ll see this year.