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Summer Game Fest 2026: Hands-on and more details on 11 upcoming PS5 games

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By Amanda Ripley 
| gamebastion.com
Summer Game Fest Play Days featured a ton of new titles this year, with developers and publishers giving lots of chances to see, and play, a variety of games coming to PS5. I visited SGF Play Days this year to see these upcoming titles in action, and go hands-on with many of them. Here’s everything I played and saw at Summer Game Fest. Publisher: Sega | Developer: Creative Assembly More than a decade after the original was released, Alien: Isolation 2 slithered through a vent to terrify at SGF.
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Alien: Isolation 2 Hands-on Preview

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By Amanda Ripley 
| gamebastion.com
12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its incredible level design, and even addressed that review score in my own glowing appraisal of gaming’s unique, unrivalled nightmare. So you can imagine that, as I picked up the controller in a dark room at developer Creative Assembly’s headquarters, my mind was awash with excitement spiked with anxiety.
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The Identified Patient

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By Amanda Ripley 
| Substack
In a dysfunctional family (or country), there’s often one person who creates all the drama. Family therapists call this the “identified patient.” Sometimes it’s a raging teenager, or a father who drinks too much. This person gets a lot of attention, understandably. But their antics tend to distract everyone (including the therapist) from other, deeper problems in the family. In my family, my mother was the identified patient. She was the one who dictated the mood of the household, up or down.
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