Summer Game Fest is back this June!
More than 30 publishers, developers and platforms are joining forces with Geoff Keighley to celebrate the second Summer Game Fest starting June 10.
The festivities will start at 1 p.m. CST on June 10 with Kick Off Live! that includes a performance by Weezer and a new segment called Days of Dev produced by iam8bit and Double Fine Productions.
“The Day of the Devs team handpicked the best of the games and performances from hundreds of submissions from all around the world. What they’ve put together is, for the ninth year in a row, an incredibly inspiring celebration of gaming’s creative spirit,” said Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine Productions and co-founder of Day of the Devs.
Confirmed attendees for Summer Game Fest 2021 include 2K, Activision, Amazon Games, Annapurna Interactive, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Battlestate Games, Blizzard Entertainment, CAPCOM, Devolver Digital, Dotemu, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Finji, Frontier, Gearbox Publishing, Hi-Rez Studios, Inner Sloth, Koch Media, Mediatonic, MiHoYo, PlayStation, Psyonix, Raw Fury, Riot Games, Saber Interactive, SEGA, Steam, SQUARE ENIX, Tribeca Festival, Tencent Games, Warner Bros. Games, Ubisoft, Wizards of the Coast, and Xbox.
“As a free, fan-first, global experience, Summer Game Fest will bring the entire video game community together for a memorable month of announcements and updates,” said Geoff Keighley, curator, Summer Game Fest.
Summer Game Fest came to fruition last year following two separate announcements: 1) That Keighley would not be joining the show and 2) E3 was totally canceled.
Geoff Keighley is a video game journalist and host who was involved with E3 from the jump more than two decades ago and hosted the E3 Coliseum since 2017. His announcement in Feb. 2020 that he would be skipping E3 that year was a shock, but less than a month later the show was canceled all together leaving a huge void to be filled. Chances are, Keighley had laid the plans for Summer Game Fest or something similar in advance of his announcement, and having no E3 to compete with made the transition all the easier.
That’s not to say we can’t have one show with the other; there are multiple confirmed guests for both shows like Square Enix, Sega and Gearbox, and others. Perhaps this is the start of a more consumer-focused era of shows rather than a media trade expo.
