On June 9, Geoff Keighley’s game reveal show looks to fill the void left behind by E3’s absence. Here’s everything we know, plus our expert analysis.
On June 9, Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest promises to give us all the exciting video game news and reveals we desperately need since E3 won’t be returning until 2023. Along with the main broadcast, Summer Game Fest more broadly refers to all the announcements publishers plan to drop over the next few days. If you need helping keep track of all the streams, here’s how to watch Summer Game Fest. We’re excited for the show, but we’re also tempering our expectations. Again, this isn’t E3, and the game industry (like all industries) is still slowly recovering from the effects of the pandemic. Plus, Keighley himself has said we should maybe tamp down on the hype. Many of the featured games will be titles that we already know about, not world premieres. Still, if gaming is your favorite hobby, of course you’ll want to see whatever Summer Game Fest has in store. Here’s what we expect to see at the show. What to Expect From 2K, Bandai Namco, Capcom, and Other Third Parties
Although press conferences for first-party platforms have historically dominated E3, the vast majority of Summer Game Fest partners are third-party companies. Just check out this list: 2K, Activision, Atlas, Bandai Namco, Bloober Team, Capcom, Coffee Stain, Deep Silver, Digital Extremes, DotEmu, EA, Epic Games, Focus Entertainment, Frost Giant, Humble Games, Level Infinite, Mediatonic, MiHoYo, Raw Fury, Samsung, Sega, Skybound Games, Studio MDHR, Square Enix, and Warner Bros. The main Summer Game Fest stream is June 9 at 2 p.m. EST, but that’s not the only show where third-party games will shine. Expect Devolver Digital to reveal offbeat indie games at its show on June 9 starting at 6 p.m. EST. The PC Gaming Show won’t mention consoles at all when it streams on June 12 at 3:30 p.m. EST. And Capcom will dive deep down into recently announced games, such as Resident Evil 4 Remake and Street Fighter 6, during its own live stream on June 13 at 6 p.m. EST. Beyond that, Keighley’s Twitter page already mentions other games we’ll see at the show, reiterating that these are games we already know about.
