2025 has been a year full of great video gamesBut 2026 is already shaping up to be a great year if we take a look at what we know is coming. Some dates are already confirmed; others have been delayed and are now expected in the coming months. There are also titles announced with very little information released, but they all have in common that they have generated a lot of excitement among millions of players worldwide. Let's review the most anticipated video games of this year.

In a scene from Thunderbolts* Red Guardian (David Harbour) fantasizes aloud about one day creating figurines of his newly formed anti-hero group. But his daughter, the spy and murderer with a guilty conscience, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), silences him: "I'm not a marketing tool!" The exchange summarizes the usual tension between Marvel's corporate strategy and the efforts of some of its creators to give the studio's films soul and personality. The good news is that Thunderbolts* is that, unlike some of the studio's latest products, it doesn't seem to be directed by an AI: Jake Schreier (A friend for Frank) does not have a curriculum to write home about, but he manages to provide consistency and poise to the adventure of these second-rate antiheroes and reformed villains, a narrative of overcoming and redemption that superhero cinema has been milking hard in recent years thanks to James Gunn and his Guardians of the Galaxy or theSuicide Squad.

Let's imagine a person who has in Captain America: Brave New World his first contact with the Marvel universe. He enters the cinema without knowing that this is the 35th film of the MCU, in the middle of phase 5, the fourth installment of the Captain America saga, the continuation of the miniseries Falcon and the Winter Soldier and a work before which, to finish placing yourself in its place, it is good to have seen all of the others. The Avengers, Hulk and maybe even Black Panther. Blow! Do you mean that a neophyte spectator will understand something if he gets on that moving train? To scare away the feeling of "Oh my God, where am I?" Captain America: Brave New World It offers very little, but with good eyes (although the film is generally ugly) you can always get something out of it: a plot of thriller a conspiracy theorist politician about the danger of an angry US president, a Harrison Ford who acts a bit Chinese-Xano but who is still Harrison Ford, an Anthony Mackie who really believes in his role as a hero and sometimes even seems to have charisma, a couple of action sequences that hint at that, a Marvel fan who knows all the 's and 's? Well, maybe you'll come out worse off than the virgin viewer, you see. The feeling of déjà vu It's absolute. The lack of new ideas (every creative decision seems to be made in a backroom) can plunge you into a deep nihilism: does it seem like the mother of superhero movies is one?, two?, three titles? away from stopping flowing?