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In my opinion, this year's Summer Game Fest was very disappointing. To back up this view, I’ve identified two issues with the event.

The first: games we’ve seen time and time again. Many of the announced titles relied on stale concepts and felt like déjà vu like that game shown at the start of the presentation that looked eerily similar to Ghost of Tsushima (I’ve forgotten the exact title). We’ve seen that kind of game a dozen times before. The second issue:

We were expecting numerous titles, such as Intergalactic Heretics of the Prophets (or Prophets of the Heretics (the exact name escapes me), Hogwarts Legacy 2, Jurassic Park: Survival, and so on. These games have been waiting in the wings for a long time, but unfortunately, their moment still hasn't arrived. Anyway, this was just a quick rant to express my dissatisfaction with this year's Summer Game Fest. In any case, Summer Game Fest never should have happened; E3 should have lived on, but unfortunately, that demon Joe Keely decided otherwise (I hate you, Joe Keely, with your dead-fish stare).

Regardless, feel free to share your thoughts on Summer Game Fest 2026, and sorry if I’ve annoyed anyone.

At the end of the game, Amanda manages to leave Sevastopol Station and reach the Torrens. However, a Xenomorph bursts through a door on the Torrens implying it killed Verlaine and explaining why she had gone silent upon Amanda's return so Amanda decides to eject herself from the ship along with the creature.

As she drifts through space, a faint light reflects off her helmet visor, suggesting she has been rescued by another vessel. Nevertheless, Creative Assembly has confirmed that Amanda will not be the protagonist of the next installment; instead, the lead character will be someone named Blake.

Amanda could potentially be the focus of a spin-off continuing her story after the first game or perhaps DLC that might revive interest in the original title ahead of the sequel's release.

I know it’s unlikely, but extra content would be cool; we already had the two DLCs where you had to trap the Alien in a section of the Nostromo, and another where you played as Ellen during the finale of the first movie.) Anyway, did you like the ending of Alien: Isolation?

There was immense potential to expand upon Amanda Ripley's story. That said, the game's trailer contains a subtle nod to the original title: the section of the ship visible in the Summer Game Fest trailer comes from the part of Sevastopol that Waitts jettisoned with Amanda on board an act intended to expel the Xenomorph from the station while simultaneously using her as bait. Instead of Amanda Ripley, as in the first installment, we will now have a new protagonist named Blake.