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June 18, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-23: Our TOP 5 Games from Summer Game Fest + Showcases
GAMES GAMES GAMES! We give our top 5 games from all of the announcements from All the showcases from Summer Game Fest, then grade and rank them! All this and more on Gamer’s Digest!
Gaming News:
Summer Game Fest Wrap up!
Nintendo Direct June 2026: Every Game Announcement | IGN
Everything Announced at Xbox Games Showcase 2026 | IGN
Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive | VGC
Everything Announced at Summer Gaame Fest 2026 | IGN
PlayStation State of Play June 2026 roundup | Eurogamer.net
Overall impressions
DJ top 5
God of War Laufey
Blood Message
Kingdom Hearts 4
Dragons Dogma 2 Dark Arisen
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Sean top 5
God of War Laufey
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Stranger Than Heaven
Kingdom Hearts 4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
Savion top 5
God of War Laufey
Control Resonant
Wolverine
phantom blade zero
silent hill: townfall
Grade the shows
Rank the showcases?
Subscriber plug

What We Been Playing:
Sean - 007
Dj - Crimson Desert
Savion - CD ( just doing side quests), Mixtape (pretty much done but didn’t finish) paused lego batman and chapter 10 missions for 007
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52min
June 18, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-22: June Playstation State of Play went CRAZY!
On our plate for this week:
New God of War Laufey revealed at Playstation’s State of Play plus alot more, and call of duty is back with modern warfare 4 Kpop solider hunters

Gaming News:
PlayStation State of Play June 2026 roundup | Eurogamer.net
Marathon adds PvE-focused mode tomorrow alongside free-to-play season 2 launch – Destructoid
First gods we see are Mongolian (Buddhist), the purple light is S
New Modern Warfare 4 Map is 'Crazy' and Has Over 500 Possible Combinations - Insider Gaming
Quick Hits
Dragon Age series producer says more games should be funded by product placement instead of live service | VGC
Microsoft Announces Fable Delay, Now Launches 2027 | IGN
Activision Files Trademark For Crash Bandicoot Motion Pictures - Insider Gaming
A US Bill to Keep Games Playable After They Shut Down Has Passed Its First Vote | Insider Gaming
007 First Light is already IO’s fastest-selling game ever | VGC
Sold 1.5 million in 24 hours
What We Been Playing:
Sean - 007
Dj - 007
Savion - CD ( just doing side quests), Mixtape (pretty much done but didn’t finish) paused lego batman and chapter 5 missions for 007
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1h 55min
June 18, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-21: BIG Surprises at next State of Play?
On our plate for this week:
State of Play is coming around the corner and its looking like a big one. Rumors swirling around a “Newish” game called Break-in and Media molecule making a open-world game??

Gaming News:
State of Play returns Tuesday, June 2 – PlayStation.Blog
Sony Trademarks New Game Called 'Break In' Ahead of PlayStation State of Play | Insider Gaming
Report: LittleBigPlanet and Dreams Developer Media Molecule Working on New IP With 'Open-World Content' | MP1st
007 First Light - 88 Opencritic | 87 Metacritic
The End Of ‘Destiny 2’: All Expansions Canceled, Maintenance Mode Incoming | Forbes
Bungie Plans Layoffs After Ending ‘Destiny 2’ Development | Bloomberg
The first, cinematic look at Marathon season 2 paints it as the horror game it always should have been | Rock Paper Shotgun
Major Xbox hires expand leadership team to strengthen console brand | VGC
Xbox Reportedly Canceled The Family Game Pass Plan Because Of Pressure From Electronic Arts | Game Observer
Quick Hits
Hasbro is spending $1bn making video games, and none of them are games-as-a-service | The Game Business
Take-Two CEO says it out loud: "The big tech companies who laid off thousands of people and said it was because of AI were not telling the truth" | GamesRadar+
Baki's Yujiro Hanma is the perfect fit for the Tekken franchise | Polygon
Forza Horizon 6 sells 4.9 million copies despite Xbox Game Pass "cannibalizing" revenue, says analyst | GamesRadar
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Saros (Platinum)
Dj - Crimson Desert, getting Hyped for 007
Savion - CD ( just doing side quests), Mixtape (pretty much done but didn’t finish) on chapter 1? 2? of lego batman and prologue mission for 007
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1h 5min
May 23, 2026 Gamer's Digest 2026-20: The GTA6 Leaks were WRONG!
Did you really think GTA6 pre-orders were gonna drop today? Comment below! What we do know is no one getting GTA6 early to review.. NO ONE! And Xbox has rebranded to…… XBOX!!! All this and more on this episode of Press X to Start Gamer’s Digest
Gaming News:
r/GTA6 on Reddit: Take-Two/Rockstar's patents for GTA VI are unreal. How is ANY of this running on a PS5? GTA 5 was made for 2005 consoles, and by a company with a much smaller budget and development time frame than they have now. We are not ready for GTA 6. This will be vastly beyond our wildest expectations.
GTA 6 Review Copies Won't Be Distributed, It's Claimed - Insider Gaming
Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access | GamesRadar+
After a fan poll, Microsoft’s new games boss is rebranding Xbox, to ‘XBOX’ | VGC
- Subscriber plug
Marathon Reveals New PVE Mode and Big Plans for the Future | IGN
Sony Sued by Gamers Over Allegedly Pocketing Millions in Illegal Tariff Windfall
Sony Seems to Be Testing a New Feature That Reveals PS5 Player Counts to the Public
PlayStation Plus Price Increase Announced - Insider Gaming
Quick Hits:
Subnautica 2 Is Already Making Waves, Selling 2 Million Copies in Just 12 Hours
Krafton Will Likely Have to Pay $250 Million Bonus for Subnautica 2 That It Tried to Avoid
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Saros (beat)*
Dj - Crimson Desert
Savion - CD ( just doing side quests), Mixtape (pretty much done) preordered lego batman and 007
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1h 17min
May 23, 2026 Gamer's Digest 2026-19: Are there multiple Steam Machines?
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1h 9min
May 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-18: Bank of America tells us how much GTA6 should COST!?
Bank of America has thoughts on how much GTA6 should cost…. Who ask them.. Gamestop plans to buy Ebay.. with what money… Playstation have to payout to gamers… what in the upside down news?

Gaming News:
Rockstar should raise GTA 6’s price for good of ‘the entire industry’, says Bank of America | VGC
GTA 6 Needs To Sell Staggering Amount Of Copies To Meet Expectations | ScreenRant
Rockstar games like GTA release on console before PC because that’s the ‘core consumer’, Take-Two CEO Zelnick says | VGC
GameStop's Absurd Bid To Buy eBay For $56 Billion Sounds Bad | Kotaku
Sony PlayStation Lawsuit Refund: How To Check Eligibility and Claim Your Money - Insider Gaming
Sony Responds to PlayStation DRM Fears With Official Statement - Insider Gaming
Subscriber plug
Saros Is At The Center Of A Misinformation Campaign | Kotaku
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls leadership team | CNBC
Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days | The Verge
Quick Hits
Open-world anime RPG Neverness to Everness hits $14 million globally on day one, led by Japan and US - AUTOMATON WEST
Halo Studios is ‘actively developing’ remakes of Halo 2 and Halo 3, it’s claimed | VGC
Injustice 3 in the Works at NetherRealm Studios, It's Claimed - Insider Gaming
Reggie Fils-Aimé Says Nintendo Stopped Selling To Amazon After Being Asked To Break The Law | Kotaku
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Saros
Dj - NTE, Crimson Desert (Got to the actual Crimson Desert)
Savion - CD (finally got the kuku pack, starting faction quests), Mixtape
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1h 5min
May 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-17: Is Saros the Return to Returnal?
On our plate for this week: Housemarque makes its returnal to the spot light with Saros, Ubisoft brings back the best of Assassin Creed with Black Flag REsynced, and is the Playstation DRM story a big deal?

Gaming News:
Saros Reviews Round Up | OpenCritic
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Showcase Confirms Lack of DLC And Multiplayer - Insider Gaming
Assassin's Creed Hexe Loses 50 Developers as Game Targets 2027 Release | Insider Gaming
PS5 and PS4 Digital Games May Require 30-Day DRM Check-In or Risk Losing Access | MP1st
Subscriber plug
The new vampire RPG from ex-Witcher developers finally has a confirmed release date | Polygon
‘Their favourite games were already built with AI’: Google exec says almost every big studio uses AI, but not all disclose it | VGC
"Xbox will be where the world plays": Microsoft confirms Xbox is once again looking into acquisitions, huge manifesto for the future detailed | Windows Central
Quick Hits
Crimson Desert Has Sold So Well Developer Pearl Abyss Has Reportedly Given Every Employee a $3,400 Bonus | IGN
Marathon Was One Of March's Best-Selling Games In The U.S. | Kotaku
Resident Evil Requiem was already the fastest-selling game in the series, so for 7 million copies sold in under 2 months, Capcom had to break out the cake
Final Fantasy 14 Is Coming To Switch 2, But With An Annoying Caveat | GameSpot
Troy Baker Is Ready to Swap Voice Acting for Game Development | IGN

What We Been Playing:
Sean - Pragmata (Finished)
Dj - Crimson Desert (Got to the actual Crimson Desert)
Savion - CD (finally got the kuku pack)
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1h 8min
May 23, 2026 Gamer's Digest 2026-16: Xbox GamePass Price is Dropping, But...
On our plate for this week:
GamePass is finally coming down in price but with a catch? Are you ready for the new God of War? And Ubisoft is bringing back the best Assassin Creed…

Gaming News: Time code: 00:00
Game Pass Gets Price Drop, New Call Of Duty Games No Longer Included - GameSpot
God of War Faye Spin-Off Claimed to Feature Tyr and Multiple Mythologies | MP1st
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced Releases July 9, 2026 - Insider Gaming
Subscriber plug
Arc Raiders studio contacted by crime scientist "intrigued by how players are interacting," dev says only 30% of players focus on PvP: "It kind of blew the whole extraction shooter open" | Games Radar
‘Elden Ring’: Alex Garland’s A24 Video Game Movie Reveals Full Cast, 2028 Release Date and It’s Being Shot for Imax | Variety
‘Call of Duty’ Movie Gets Mission Ready With Summer 2028 Release Date Variety
Quick Hits
#CrimsonDesert has sold through over 5 million copies worldwide! | Pearl Abyss YT channel
All-New IP PRAGMATA Surpasses One Million Units Sold in Two Days!– Highly innovative and original gameplay earns strong reception from players around the globe – | Press Release | CAPCOM
Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' | PC Gamer
Shuhei Yoshida Says Jim Ryan Fired Him From PlayStation Studios "Because I Didn’t Listen to Him" | This Week in Video Games
PlayStation Starts Following UK Laws On Age Verification | Gameranx
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Pragmata
Dj - Crimson Desert (Oh..this is Game of Thrones)
Savion - CD
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1h 9min
May 23, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-15: Disney is Making an Extraction Shooter?
Who’s excited to get griefed by a dude in a mickey mouse helmet while your trying to extract clubhouse tokens.. Epic and Disney are, Marathon is adding more to their extraction formula, and Xbox Game Pass may be changing….again
Gaming News
Epic Games is working on an Arc Raiders-like Disney extraction shooter slated to release by the end of the year | GamesIndustry.biz
Marathon Gets New Experimental Mode | IGN
Marathon Reportedly Had a Budget of Over $200 Million — and While the Pressure Is on Bungie to Gain More Players, It Is Not Facing an Imminent, Concord-Style Shutdown | IGN
Subscriber plug
Xbox Game Pass ‘has become too expensive,’ says Microsoft’s new gaming chief in leaked memo | TheVerge
Xbox Is Reportedly Considering a Return To Exclusive Games: "There Are Very, Very Big Discussions Internally," Insider Says | WccfTech
Pete Hines says he quit Bethesda post-Xbox because ‘it’s part of something not genuine’ | VGC
‘Bloodborne’ Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation From Sony | Variety
Filming has wrapped with Legend of Zelda
Quick Hits
GTA Leak Raises Take-Two Interactive Stock Value By Over $1 Billion | Insider Gaming
007 First Light is Delayed on the Nintendo Switch 2 | Insider Gaming
No Man's Sky's adds Pokémon-inspired battles in major game update | Polygon
The FAA wants gamers to apply for air traffic control jobs | BBC
What We Been Playing
Dj -Crimson Desert (Oh..this is Game of Thrones), Pokopia (playing Bob the Builder)
Savion - Crimson Desert
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1h 10min
April 13, 2026Gamer's Digest 2026-14: Is Playstation Teasing Uncharted 5?
Lenovo Legion Go 2 is 2 High 2 Buy, or is it? Did we just get an Uncharted 5 tease, and Playstation 6 may unfortunately be sooner than we expected. All this and more on this episode of Press X to Start Gamer’s Digest!
Gaming News
Best Buy Lists Lenovo Legion Go 2 at Twice the Price of the ROG Xbox Ally X | Windows Report
Uncharted 5? Fans Believe Cryptic Naughty Dog Dev Post Is Teasing The Game | GameSpot
'PlayStation 6 Is Not Many Years Away': Leaks Suggest Sony Is Working On Imminent Generational Transition With Handheld Support and 'PlayGo' Smart Delivery | WccfTech
AMD Wouldn't Waste Resources Doing Validation If They Thought The PlayStation 6 Could Be Delayed, Leaker Claims | WccfTech
Last Of Us Online Was ‘80 Percent’ Done When It Was Canceled | Kotaku
Subscriber plug
Super Mario becomes the only animated movie series to open globally at more than $350 million twice | VGC
EXCLUSIVE: Eidos Montreal Cancels 7+ Year In-Development Title That Cost Hundreds of Millions | Insider Gaming
US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC
PlayStation Games on PC Took 3 Years to Earn $300M | Insider Gaming
PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites | Game Observer
Quick Hits
The Google Pixel 10 can now play Steam games, thanks to the latest GameNative release | Android Police
What We Been Playing:
Sean - Bayonetta 3
Dj -Crimson Desert, Pokemon Pokopia
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