Resident Evil, Game of Thrones and the Wu-Tang Clan: Five things from Summer Game Fest

So gaming’s biggest weekend for new announcements is here, with dozens of titles being shown off for the first time.

Summer Game Fest kicked off the annual preview marathon in the US last night as some of the industry’s major studios tried to grab attention with new reveals and glossy trailers.

Like previous years, some of the biggest stars from film and music were there to add some stardust too.

It’s all as lots of firms are cutting jobs, with people spending less on new games and instead playing long-running titles like Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto and Minecraft.

That means they need to work a lot harder to convince you to splash your cash on new games.

BBC Newsbeat has been through all the Summer Game Fest announcements that were hoping to get us doing just that.

Here are some of the highlights…

For years it was the TV show everyone was talking about.

Now Australian developer PlaySide is hoping we’ll do the same for its new game based on the popular Game of Thrones series.

War for Westeros is a real-time strategy game – or RTS – out next year, where players can control the armies of the Great Houses across some of the locations you might know from the show and books it’s based on.

We’ve been told you’ll be able to take over Westeros solo, or play against your mates online when it launches on PC next year.

What’s your favourite Bond film of all time? If the answer is Casino Royale, you’re in for a treat.

Mads Mikkelsen is reprising his role as villain Le Chiffre, albeit as a digital double based on his appearance.

But there’s a twist, this isn’t for a Bond game – instead he’ll be in an update for the popular Hitman series.

It all makes more sense now we know the studio behind that game, IO Interactive, is working on a brand new Bond game, called 007: First Light.

Players will unlock awards in that game if they take on this challenge in Hitman too.

It also gives us our strongest hint yet that Le Chiffre will make an appearance in 007: First Light.

Capcom’s zombie-horror Resident Evil series is almost 30 years old, and we now know it’ll celebrate that milestone with its new instalment.

An action packed trailer revealed Resident Evil 9 would be called Requiem, and showed off what looks like a destroyed version of the game’s iconic Racoon City.

It’s launching across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC next year.

No word on it coming to Nintendo’s new, more powerful Switch 2 console yet though