Best Summer of Gaming Ever Predictions

ign.com:

Despite the slow-motion train wreck that led to the ultimate demise of video games preview-athon E3 this year, the 2023 summer season – and especially the month of June – is turning out to be a uniquely spectacular time for games. The groundswell of excellence building up to this crescendo included both Jedi Survivor and Tears of the Kingdom, two of the best games in recent memory. They were soon followed by the similarly epic Street Fighter 6 and Diablo IV, with Final Fantasy XVI right on the horizon.

There have been very few years with this kind of density of excellence in such a short period, and even fewer summers. For those of us that require mundane things like work, sleep, and time with tolerant loved-ones there already aren’t enough hours in the day to possibly enjoy all of these games to their fullest. I have a tendency to be a serial monogamist with games, but I’m also easily distracted by shiny new things – so my journey since Jedi shipped in April has just been a series of disappointing incompletions culminating in an insatiable Diablo habit.

Unbelievably, there’s still more to come. Since E3 first went off the rails in 2020 we’ve been wrapping all of the big summer livestreams and preview events into our Summer of Gaming schedule. This year it kicked off on May 24 with the PlayStation Showcase that delivered 35 trailers capped off with a spectacular demo of Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 that hinted at the sequel’s expanded game world. This was followed by the Meta Quest Gaming Showcase on June 1 with its acknowledgment of Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR, and glimpses of Samba de Amigo: Party Central, Stranger Things VR, and the VR reboot of 90s classic The 7th Guest.

The next couple of weeks will be the real meat of what