Summer Game Fest 2024
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![Metaphor: ReFantazio](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/589CR8QU2yF8yTjPVRD5iR-320-80.jpg)
"It's not like we wanted to distance ourselves from Persona": How Metaphor ReFantazio turned years of work on JRPG icons into what's now my most-wanted game of 2024
By Austin Wood published
Feature Interview | Director Katsura Hashino and character designer Shigenori Soejima, both Persona 5 veterans, dive deep on Metaphor: ReFantazio
![Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KPry35UwpvWDoRfNNWN2s8-320-80.jpg)
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero lets you witness Goku's death in first-person: "That's a special experience"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "We really want people to immerse themselves into the character that they're playing"
![Dune Awakening](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FrhXp9TQTyUsH8NkNKPXsk-320-80.jpg)
Dune Awakening is a truly massive survival MMO, and it manages to make sandworms the terror they should be
By Dustin Bailey published
Preview Summer Preview | Dune Awakening still has a lot to prove, but I was blown away by its massive scope at Summer Game Fest
![Gears of War: E-Day](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mJHAihAbwxoJLNV3CafgQf-320-80.jpg)
Born out of a pandemic, refined through reflection: Gears of War: E-Day is a chance for The Coalition to recapture the spirit of Gears and "tear a lot of s*** up"
By Josh West published
Feature Summer Preview | The Coalition on the return of Marcus and Dom, telling the origin of the Lancer, and more
![Life is Strange: Double Exposure](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yZdu2zMtBs753RAmqgr9vQ-320-80.jpg)
Here's how the Life is Strange comics could provide context for Max’s parallel worlds in Double Exposure
By Alicia Haddick published
Opinion Opinion | Wondering what's up with Max Caulfield's new Shift ability? The Life is Strange comic books shed some light
![Tales of the Shire](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Dk3DoUjy4USXxZ2rySCZWn-320-80.jpg)
Tales of the Shire is more than Lord of the Rings-branded Stardew Valley, and it fixes one of the genre's biggest problems
By Dustin Bailey published
Preview Summer Preview | The way to a Hobbit's heart is still through their stomach
![Plucky Squire](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bm7cGyTj2ZDhRqABsf2kJZ-320-80.jpg)
The Plucky Squire is a charming, dimension-bending picturebook platformer that's going toe-to-toe with Mario's attempts to change up the genre
By Ali Jones published
Preview The complete opposite of a one-dimensional experience
![Perfect Dark (2024)](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/68Jsu6QTFmQxjwK9a9sRN7-320-80.jpg)
Perfect Dark looks way better than I was expecting it to, and I'm excited to see how Crystal Dynamics gives Joanna the Lara Croft treatment
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published
Opinion Opinion | Joanna Dark's new adventure continues CD's flair for bringing classic video game heroines to modern audiences
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