Summer Game Fest 2022 game trailer round-up – Midnight Suns, Gotham Knights, and more

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GameCentral recaps all the biggest announcements from Thursday night’s Summer Game Fest, including Flashback 2, Saints Row, and Witchfire.

If Covid hadn’t happened we’d be looking forward to the start of E3 and associated press conferences from Microsoft, Nintendo, and (maybe) Sony right now. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened for three years now and while Microsoft is sticking to the same dates, with their Xbox & Bethesda Showcase on Sunday, the only other confirmed events are Capcom on Monday and Summer Game Fest.

As has happened for the last few years, The Games Awards host and organiser Geoff Keighley is trying to fill the preview vacuum and while Summer Game Fest is a multi-day affair, the main event was on Thursday evening, and was basically The Games Awards without the awards.

It went on for two hours and while there were a lot of interesting reveals, there was a distinct lack of major announcements. That’s not anybody’s fault and probably an indication that there won’t be a second Sony State of Play or Nintendo Direct this month. We don’t know that for a fact yet though and at least Summer Game Fest was a chance to focus on games that wouldn’t normally get much of the limelight.

The biggest reveals of the night were The Last Of Us remake and the Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay footage, although in both cases the publishers lost control of the narrative as Sony managed to leak The Last Of Us trailer hours ahead of time and the most interesting thing about Modern Warfare 2 is that it’s going to cost £70 even on last gen consoles.

Other notable reveals were the previously unannounced Aliens: Dark Descent, the first gameplay footage of Dead Space spiritual sequel The Callisto Protocol, and a release date and new