Ahead of the annual Summer Game Fest occasion, creator Geoff Keighley has introduced the total record of companions anticipated to showcase their titles. The record contains 43 publishers and builders, together with heavy hitters like PlayStation, which nonetheless hasn’t confirmed any precise dates or occasions for its summer season months. The writer, alongside Xbox, beforehand pulled out of the E3 2023 occasion, finally resulting in the cancellation of the online game extravaganza. Summer Game Fest is slated to kick off June 9 at 12:30am IST in India/ June 8 at 12pm PT within the US, dwell from the YouTube Theatre in Los Angeles. The occasion can be up for streaming on all main livestream platforms together with YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and TikTok.
Xbox can be a part of the associate lineup, internet hosting a Games Showcase on June 11, specializing in first appears to be like from its inner and third-party studios, adopted by a Starfield Direct occasion, airing instantly after. Ubisoft is one other main writer to have a hard and fast date for its video games showcase — set for June 12, which might probably characteristic updates on the long-delayed naval fight recreation Skull and Bones. From CD Projekt Red, we are able to count on some information on Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty enlargement, whereas Disney has been cooking up some Black Panther x Captain America team-up recreation.
This 12 months’s Summer Game Fest may also be attended in particular person, with tickets obtainable from the official web site (Ticketmaster is the portal). It is price mentioning that the occasion is merely meant as a platform for builders to point out upcoming video games and trailers, along with particular friends who may pop up on stage. There aren’t any hands-on gameplay/ demo periods for customers. That stated, there’s a particular invite-only preview occasion for media and influencers — referred to as PlayDays — which is able to happen after the present, permitting them to check out video games.
We can count on to see a extra detailed schedule as we close to Summer Game Fest, however for now, this is the whole record of confirmed builders and publishers attending the occasion, thus far:
- Activision
- Amazon
- Annapurna Interactive
- Bandai Namco
- Behaviour Interactive
- Capcom
- CD Projekt Red
- Devolver Digital
- Digital Extremes
- Disney
- Electronic Arts
- Epic Games
- Focus Entertainment
- Gearbox Entertainment
- Grinding Gear Games
- Hoyoverse
- Kabam Entertainment
- Larian Studios
- Level Infinite
- Magic: The Gathering
- Neowiz
- Netflix
- Nexon
- Niantic
- North Beach
- Paradox Interactive
- Pearl Abyss
- Phoenix Labs
- Plaion
- PlayStation
- Pocket Pair
- Razer
- Samsung Gaming Hub
- Second Dinner
- Sega
- Smilegate Entertainment
- Square Enix
- Steam
- Techland
- Tribeca Festival
- Ubisoft
- Warner Bros Games
- Xbox
Keighley launched Summer Game Fest in 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, in response to all main occasions getting cancelled as a part of lockdown protocol. The on-line digital-only competition opened room for publishers — each AAA and indie — to showcase their video games with out paying a significant payment for a bodily sales space, as seen in E3. Back then, it was a four-month-long competition — a format that the majority avid gamers did not respect since there could be lengthy durations of nothingness earlier than a brand new announcement happened.
Summer Game Fest kicks off June 9 at 12:30am IST/ June 8 at 12pm PT within the US.
