IGN AU’s Top 5 Games from Summer of Gaming 2026

The 2026 Summer of Gaming is upon us, and that people means wallet symptom - successful a bully way. So what should you beryllium earning your bucks for implicit the adjacent 12 months?

Thankfully, this year’s crippled announcements and reveals person delivered big-time for each large platfom. Friends, we’re eating good. This is our prime of the biggest and champion titles coming to PS5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2.

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Final Fantasy VII Revelation

It’s hard to judge that the 3rd and last installment of Square Enix’s brilliantly remastered Final Fantasy VII bid is astir here. Anticipation for this uncover (or Revelation, arsenic it were) was understandably high, but adjacent the astir ardent instrumentality couldn’t beryllium disappointed with Final Fantasy VII: Revelation.

Revelation volition yet let players to traverse the full satellite representation successful Cid’s Highwind, creating the interconnected satellite that has been teasing america since Rebirth.

The monolithic and monstrous roaming brag battles from the PS1 classical known arsenic Weapons – specifically Diamond, Ruby and Emerald varieties – besides marque a return. This is the cleanable high-level extremity crippled contented that volition guarantee this introduction has further staying power.

The improvement squad has besides teased however subordinate choices and enactment moments volition subtly alteration the communicative flow. While determination volition beryllium 1 definite ending, we’re funny to spot conscionable however acold we tin propulsion definite directions. Final Fantasy VII: Revelation is slotted for Spring 2027 merchandise successful the US, which translates to betwixt March and May 2027 for Aussies.

Gears of War: E-Day

We’re truthful back. After years of fans begging Xbox to halt dancing astir the past and springiness america the gritty, chainsaw revving fearfulness that made Gears a phenomenon, The Coalition has yet done precisely that.

Gears of War: E-Day takes america backmost to Emergence Day itself, 14 years earlier the archetypal game, arsenic Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago witnesser the Locust Horde tearing done Sera for the precise archetypal time. The latest gameplay uncover shows a instrumentality to the darker code and fearfulness successful a mode that feels overmuch person to the archetypal trilogy – possibly adjacent the archetypal introduction – than Gears 5.

Unreal Engine 5 powers environments that are denser, with levels of demolition cranked up during scripted moments. The caller Horde Siege mode besides looks similar an implicit clip descend for co-op diehards. Gears of War: E-Day launches connected October 6, 2026 successful Australia and it already feels similar the easiest time 1 Game Pass download of the year.

Stuntman Hollywood

Remember erstwhile games were allowed to conscionable beryllium games? An accent connected amusive implicit realism and logic? Well, Stuntman Hollywood looks similar a glorious throwback to that era, reviving the chaotic moviemaking premise of the cult classical bid and modernising it with current-gen exertion and gameplay refinement.

Instead of simply pursuing scripted sequences, players are present encouraged to improvise and concatenation unneurotic unsafe stunts for higher scores and bigger paydays. The uncover trailer featured everything from leaping betwixt speeding musculus cars to crashing helicopters done elephantine billboards and, frankly, we’re present for it. It mightiness conscionable scratch that Burnout itch.

There is thing profoundly appealing astir a crippled that knows precisely what it wants to be. Stuntman Hollywood looks similar the benignant of crippled that is made by radical who are arsenic arsenic bare for game-games. Sometimes games should simply beryllium amusive and that’s wherefore Stuntman Hollywood makes the list.

God of War: Laufey

For years, fans person wanted to cognize much astir Laufey the Just. Apparently Santa Monica Studio was listening, due to the fact that God of War: Laufey shifts the absorption distant from Kratos and Atreus. The uncover suggested a much agile and magical combat system, with elemental attacks and traversal mechanics that consciousness much nimble and kinetic than the heavy, deliberate benignant of the caller God of War entries. We deliberation there’s country for some styles, but we’re loving the alteration for now. It feels refreshing.

Perhaps astir breathtaking is the accidental to research a broadside of Norse mythology we person lone ever heard astir done stories and memories. Laufey has ever been presented arsenic idiosyncratic susceptible of reshaping destinies and lasting toe-to-toe with the gods. Finally getting to spot those feats for ourselves feels similar a earthy adjacent measurement for the series. If this uncover is thing to spell by, God of War's aboriginal remains successful precise harmless hands.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Nintendo genuinely delivered a showstopper with their teaser of a afloat “reborn” The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Often astatine the tip-top of galore gamers’ lists of their favourite games of all-time, Nintendo intelligibly knows however important it is.

Thankfully, adjacent with conscionable a glimpse of the attack Nintendo are taking, we are assured that this reimagined Ocarina of Time is being treated with the utmost respect. So what bash we cognize for definite astir this reveal? Not a full lot. But we tin spot a caller motor with razor-sharp texture work, a realistic but stylised Young Link sleeping successful his histrion canopy bed.

We besides spot the instrumentality of voiceover narration, a stirring, symphonic people that returns to the beloved melodies of the N64 game, and a subtle reworking of the game’s logo, fraying the edges of the Zelda typography on the aforesaid lines of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom astir recently.

It mightiness person been the worst-kept concealed of the showcase, but adjacent aboriginal rumours couldn’t sour our delight. The champion part? A 2026 merchandise day means we won’t person to hold agelong for much accusation from The Big N. We’re ready.

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