The Biggest Trailers of Summer of Gaming

The summertime is simply a large play for games, but besides kinda weird erstwhile you deliberation astir it: it’s a fewer weeks wherever we’re each much excited astir watching trailers for games, alternatively than playing them. It’s each for a bully reason, of people – the aggregate large presentations, erstwhile the model that held up E3, showcase the astir breathtaking caller games successful improvement and often uncover caller projects for the precise archetypal time. They’re our archetypal sensation of what we’ll beryllium playing time and beyond, and truthful people they garner a immense magnitude of interest.

To spot what’s truly caught players’ attention, we’ve combed done each video posted to IGN implicit the past mates of weeks and picked retired the 10 most-viewed trailers from the Summer of Gaming. There are immoderate wide standouts, clocking up millions of views, arsenic good arsenic a premix of highly-anticipated returns and marque caller surprises. You tin spot the biggest and champion trailers below.

1. Resident Evil Requiem

View count: 2.1 million

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Resident Evil 9 was the large deed of Summer of Gaming 2025. Resi fans person been waiting a agelong clip for this one, with Requiem’s predecessor – Resident Evil Village – having been released backmost successful 2021. And with Ethan Winters’ communicative present over, the position is switching to a caller character. This archetypal trailer provides a coagulated instauration to FBI expert Grace Ashcroft, and we couldn’t beryllium much excited due to the fact that it appears she’ll beryllium heading to a bombed-out Raccoon City. While overmuch of the trailer is acceptable successful Ashcroft’s office, the last conception goes hard connected the acheronian and gnarly endurance fearfulness code established successful Resident Evil 7 – making it wide that developer Capcom is looking to scare america each silly. We can’t wait.

2. Invincible VS

View count: 2.1 million

Prime Video’s animated mentation of Robert Kirkman’s Invincible comics has proven exceptionally popular, truthful people an Invincible video crippled has captured the imaginativeness of galore gamers this week. Invincible VS is simply a 3v3 tag warring crippled that truly does look to seizure the bone-crunching, bloody unit of the TV amusement – much than wide during the changeable wherever Invincible causes Bulletproof’s caput to detonate. While the committedness of a city-destroying Invincible vs Omni-Man showdown is capable to merchantability america connected the idea, seeing different characters crook up for the tag-style matches – including Atom Eve and Rex Plode – truly has america anxious to larn more.

3. Game of Thrones: War for Westeros

View count: 1.5 million

People whitethorn grumble astir Game of Thrones’ last play to this day, but that doesn’t mean the phantasy bid has mislaid immoderate popularity. That’s proven by the monolithic fig of views connected the War for Westeros trailer, which acts arsenic thing of a “what if?” scenario. The cinematic trailer sees Jon Snow look disconnected against the Night King successful a one-on-one duel, a thrilling lawsuit that ne'er happened successful the HBO show. As the combat continues, we spot different breathtaking but likewise non-canon moments play out, specified arsenic Daenerys and Drogon being changeable retired of the entity by a immense ballista, and Jaime Lannister warring successful what appears to beryllium a four-way conflict betwixt his army, Stark bannermen, the Unsullied, and the White Walkers (the archetypal hint of this being a real-time strategy alternatively than an enactment game). The large surprise, though, is seeing Jon killed and turned into a wight. As galore successful the trailer’s comments person said, this is the large finale play 8 could person been.

4. ILL

View count: 1.3 million

Resident Evil understandably got the astir emotion of immoderate fearfulness uncover this year, but we’re delighted to spot the grotesque gameplay trailer for ILL besides struck a chord. This terrifying, rusty-looking endurance fearfulness is afloat of immoderate of the freakiest enemies we’ve seen recently, including multi-limbed monstrosities, bobble-headed babies, and zombies with a hopeless request to spot a dentist. All of them tin beryllium torn isolated acknowledgment to an "advanced dismemberment system". Despite each that grossness, ILL knows however to ace a bully joke: implicit successful the arsenic engaging SGF trailer, the full series ends with a zombie toddler being kicked successful the look and punted into a heap of barrels. A small acheronian humour to brighten up your Summer of Gaming, there.

5. The Expanse: Osiris Reborn

View count: 1.2 million

RPG experts Owlcat Games is backmost with a caller project, acceptable successful the satellite of The Expanse. But Osiris Reborn is precise antithetic from Owlcat’s erstwhile projects – wherever the workplace usually develops isometric RPGs that instrumentality inspiration from some games similar the archetypal Baldur’s Gate and tabletop adventures, this caller Expanse crippled looks a batch similar a modern-day Mass Effect. And considering however agelong it’s been since we had a bully Mass Effect, it’s nary wonderment the net has gone chaotic for this lengthy trailer, which combines breathtaking cinematics involving flying grenades and look crystals with a steadfast gameplay montage demonstrating immoderate bully cover-shooting mechanics.

6. 007 First Light

View count: 835,000

IO Interactive’s Bond crippled was announced years ago, but we yet got to spot it successful enactment arsenic portion of PlayStation’s State of Play stream. The coolest happening astir this trailer is however it treats First Light arsenic if it were a marque caller 007 film, introducing america to the caller formed playing the likes of M, Q, and – of people – James Bond. Our ace spy leader is overmuch younger and greener than we’re utilized to, but it’s wide that IOI knows everything that’s required for a deed Bond mission. There’s exotic locations, costly watches, a vintage Aston Martin, and much high-stakes enactment than the full Hitman trilogy combined. It seems similar IOI truly does person a licence to thrill.

7. ROG Xbox Ally X

View count: 822,000

New hardware is ever going to gully important interest, and truthful it's nary astonishment to spot a handheld Xbox among the most-watched trailers. Of course, the ROG Xbox Ally X isn’t quite a existent handheld Xbox – this portable PC is developed by Asus alternatively than Microsoft itself, and is an hold of its existing enactment of ROG Ally devices. However, it’s inactive the adjacent measurement successful Microsoft’s “This is an Xbox” project, which aims to let you to play Xbox games anyplace from your console to your computer, TV, phone, and (presumably, 1 day) your fridge. And a almighty handheld PC that tin straight interface with Xbox Game Pass and the Xbox unreality services is surely thing to beryllium sniffed at.

8. Atomic Heart 2

View count: 796,000

The archetypal trailers for the archetypal Atomic Heart were large hits with the IGN audience, but a sequel was ne'er a definite happening – reception of the archetypal crippled was mixed, and it wasn’t rather the BioShock spiritual successor that the trailers suggested. Nevertheless, Atomic Heart 2 seems to beryllium doing it each implicit again. This clip astir things look importantly much expansive; there’s abstraction stations, wall-running, hang-gliding, mechs, and much vehicles, positive what looks similar a overmuch much progressive satellite with a larger array of characters. It’s each rendered successful Atomic Heart’s signature, retro-futuristic Sovietpunk creation style, which truly is dissimilar thing other retired there. Well, isolated from The Cube, a multiplayer crippled acceptable successful the Atomic Heart beingness that was besides announced astatine Summer Game Fest this year.

9. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

View count: 720,000

You’d deliberation that the lone kart racing crippled anyone would attraction astir successful June 2025 would beryllium Mario Kart World, but the latest trailer for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has genuinely popped off. That whitethorn beryllium down to Sonic going done what is undoubtedly his astir important popularity spike successful galore years (no uncertainty acknowledgment to the movies), but it besides helps that this caller trailer shows disconnected immoderate breathtaking impermanent additions to the quality roster: Hatsune Miku, Like a Dragon's Ichiban Kasuga, Persona 5's Joker, and Minecraft's Steve. There’s adjacent Minecraft-themed courses, which hints to adjacent larger ambitions erstwhile it comes to cross-dimensional races.

10. Chronicles: Medieval

View count: 708,000

There’s precise small gameplay successful the trailer for Chronicles: Medieval, but those little fewer seconds uncover that we’ll beryllium starring an full service from horseback. That promises an epic scale, possibly 1 akin to that explored by the Mount & Blade series. The CGI cinematic proceeding that glimpse of gameplay showcases the beingness experiences of a medieval warrior, from elemental colony life, to forging weapons, to bracing against cavalry charges. If Chronicles: Medieval tin seizure each that, past each the excitement astir this trailer volition beryllium well-rewarded.

Honourable Mentions

There are besides a fewer different trailers that request honourable mentions. Naturally, much-demanded sequels and remakes ever bash good successful trailer showcases, and truthful it hasn’t been astonishing to spot some Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and High connected Life 2 timepiece up implicit fractional a cardinal views each. It’s been acold excessively agelong since we had a caller MGS game, and portion Delta isn’t a marque caller entry, it is astatine slightest a shiny remake of arguably the champion crippled successful Kojima’s backmost catalogue. High connected Life, meanwhile, was a breakout deed for Squanch Games backmost successful 2022, and intelligibly radical are excited astir wielding adjacent weirder weapons with faces successful a sequel.

Marvel has besides had its just stock of success, but it wasn't ambitious PlayStation 4v4 tag squad crippled Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls that drew successful the crowds. Instead it was Deadpool VR and its kinetic, convulsive action. It truly seems similar an authentic Deadpool experience, from hacking a guy's caput disconnected with a katana and past bowling it astatine different enemy, to forcing someone’s look into a propeller. And due to the fact that it’s VR, you cognize this is each player-controlled worldly alternatively than canned animations. We can’t hold to spot the horrible possibilities.

But returning favourites are possibly not arsenic breathtaking arsenic the genuinely new, and joining MGS, High connected Life 2, and Deadpool successful the “over half-a-million club” is Blood of the Dawnwalker and Clockwork Revolution. The erstwhile is simply a caller RPG from erstwhile CD Projekt Red developers, and looks a small similar a caller instrumentality connected The Witcher's look with bloodthirsty vampires. The latter, meanwhile, is from the RPG longbeards astatine InXile, and the five-minute-plus trailer dives heavy into its steampunk world, roleplaying mechanics, and time-travel systems.

IGN is, of course, not the lone spot radical spell to for trailers connected the internet. We’ve besides taken a look astatine the authoritative YouTube channels for PlayStation and Xbox, and you’ll spot akin stats there. 007 First Light was the large victor astatine PlayStation, with astir 3 cardinal views, intimately followed by Resident Evil Requiem. ILL and Silent Hill f besides pulled successful implicit a cardinal views each, and Gears of War: Reloaded – which marks the series’ accomplishment connected a Sony console for the precise archetypal clip – saw successful excess of fractional a cardinal views. As for Xbox, the marque caller ROG Xbox Ally X handheld PC was the person with implicit a cardinal views, portion Persona 4 Revival, Super Meat Boy 3D, and Beast of Reincarnation each clocked up hundreds of thousands of views.

But what was your idiosyncratic favourite trailer of the event? Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon ballot successful the canvass below.