8 years after the last game, 18 years after the last original game and I was brushing my teeth for Night Shift. The noise I made scrambling down the stairs, toothbrush in mouth, would be the the thing of urban myth. It finally happened, a brand new Spyro game was revealed.

It’s not just the big releases that grab my attention, if anything it’s the smaller stuff that get’s me more interested. Here’s my most anticipated games, some yet to be released and some awaiting ports to Console.

We’re roughly a month away from Summer Games Fest and the general ‘Not E3’ season and it looks like we’ll be due shows from the big 3 as well as Geoff with an all rounder show. These are a random assortment of predictions on what announcements we might see.

A little while ago there was a massive leak revealing a huge amount of Pokemon projects and the future of the franchise. This leak was the real deal as it showed our first look at Project Gaia, what was revealed at Pokemon Day to be Wind and Waves. There’s two projects I want to look at primarily.

It's incredible how much Geoff Keighley has. I don't doubt he's a gamer, but he’s also a hype man, a business man, and isthe defacto face of the Games Industry - Hosting Summer Games Fest (the new E3), Gamescom and The Game Awards. Love him or hate him, he here’s to stay. He’s not without his faults - ‘Wrap it up please’, condemning crunch culture in one breath while promoting the next Call of Duty in the next breath, excessive celebrity appearances and a few too many adverts. He also has a knack for dooming Games.

Another year of Games has passed and to me, it’s been an alright one. People are lauding it as one of the best in recent memory but I just can’t agree. That’s not to say I didn’t have fun with the games I did play, because I absolutely did enjoy what I got around to this year.

This is the third version of this list; the original list had 30 odd entries which later blossomed into 50. While I’m certainly interested in 50+ games, I can’t say they’re all my most anticipated. So now, a do-over. My most anticipated games, from Indies to AAAA, set to release in 2026 (at the time of writing)

It’s been a little while since I last played Nightreign, putting the game down somewhere post release of Everdark Gladius and definitely pre Deep of Night, so i was excited to get back to the game for the new content – Two new Nightlords, 3 raids, a new shifting Earth. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played but I can’t help but feel like, despite the content introduced in the DLC, it’s too little too late. 

If you watched Geoff Keighley’s annual Video Game Awards, you’ll have seen the brief teaser for a new Star Wars game (Not Galactic Racer, more on that later), that game was Fate of the Old Republic, a new Star Wars RPG from Casey Hudson of Mass Effect fame. Your excitment would have been palpable until the reports came out that the game was fresh in development and probably wouldn’t see the light of day until 2030. Ah, Poodoo. 

It happens to Men, Women and thems, no matter their age. A worldwide scourge, no race is unaffected. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, it can happen to anybody – Sometimes you just can’t finish a Video Game.

Having just finished the Mass Effect trilogy through the Legendary Edition collection, I wanted to do some kind of ranking. A Planet ranking was out of the question (for now) so the next idea was to do a ranking of the 11 story based DLC’s released across the trilogy.

I’m generally quite interested in the gaming leaks and rumours side of things which can be a slippery slope – projects might be years away or not exist at all. Late last year, a rumour went out that there was some sort of Rayman Remake in the works under the title ‘Project: Steambot’. Completely uncharacteristically, Ubisoft put out a statement saying they were indeed working on ‘The Future of Rayman’. It was easy to see this as corporate speak but a year on it seems like things may actually be happening. Nothing confirmed but where there’s smoke there’s fire…

Xbox are making their games multiplatform, this is a known fact. 4 games became no red lines and given recent high profile cancellations and titles MIA, they need all the extra revenue they can get. Rather annoyingly though, I can’t put my finger on what the gameplan is.

While we know Nightreign will receive DLC, the information on said DLC at present remains incredibly vague, promising “New Bosses” and “New Nightfarers”. The community seems to latched onto the idea of two of each, which I suppose makes sense given the relatively low price of the DLC and that it satisfies the plural. So, I’ll spitball ideas for two Nightfarers, Two Nightlords and as a bonus, two returning bosses from each of the previous Souls games.

It’s July 1st so we are officially in the second half of the year. It’s been a good one for games so far and I’m happy to say the forecast for the rest of the year looks to continue a great thing.

Nearly 6 years after the story originally broke, WB’s Project Sabbath is back in the news with more concept art of the Damian Wayne Batman Beyond game that never was. I thought I had made my peace with it – for a while I really had, but man. I just want a new Batman game.

FromSoftware’s 2015 smash hit ‘Bloodborne’ features a system called Insight. Perhaps most directly comparable to the Humanity or Rune Arcs of the Souls series or Elden Ring but functionally a bit different. In my eyes, this cool mechanic was wasted with its current implementation. I think this would be a good way to change it.

The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal event was today (Yesterday) and with it, the official release date, price and all the wonderful details you want. Here are my scattered thoughts followed by more structured opinions on the games that tickled my fancy

Just one week to go until we find out what kind of games we’ll be playing on our brand new Nintendo Switch 2. Before that though, here are some games I want to see on the system.

Last month I did my list of some of the games I was looking forward to releasing this year. Now I want to set my sights further, to 2026 and beyond – to the games I’m intrigued about in the years to come, even ones that technically don’t even exist in public knowledge yet.