Yeah, it’s Keighley o’clock again. I won’t do the whole spiel about Geoff Keighley or the games presentations associated with him - they’re vapid, bloated productions run by gaming PR’s favourite host, but you know that already (OR you know that now). Other folks have better, more entertaining material poking fun at the whole farce of the thing, whereas my aim is simply to find the potential gems amid the middling fare. This year’s Summer Game Fest was definitely among the more underwhelming and anemic in my experience, but I still managed to find some noteworthy titles, my reactions to which I have presented below. Have a look and see if anything strikes your fancy. Star Wars: Zero Company Developed by Bit Company and Respawn Entertainment Published by Electronic Arts Releasing August 27, 2026 for Windows PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The initial reveal for this game gave a strong impression that the central idea for this game was “What if XCOM, but with Star Wars stuff?” What they sh...
I am not the world’s biggest Mega Man fan. Far from it; it took this past year and pain-staking effort on my part to even complete Mega Man 2, much less truly “get” the appeal. I grasp the fundamentals, I can appreciate the retro-futuristic aesthetic at play and the chiptune soundtracks are genuinely delightful. By all counts, I should have been onboard with the series AGES ago. And yet, it’s taken more than twelve months to become appreciative of the tense joys and thrills that Mega Man has to offer. Maybe it was the extreme difficulty that was typical of the era. Maybe it was the lack of in-game documentation on which Master Weapons affected which bosses. Or maybe it was that bullshit Yellow Devil boss in the first game. Nevertheless, here I am, having played through 2-and-three-quarters of the original 3 Mega Man games, ready to at last express my thoughts and feelings on them. (For reference: I played the 3DS version of the Mega Man Legacy Collection, which combines...