Excited for SummerGameFest? We've got a rundown of the 2022 schedule, so you won't miss a thing.
Summer Game Fest has officially returned, seemingly a replacement for the canceled E3 2022 as the overarching brand for many of the games industry's numerous showcases. June has long been a month filled with new game announcements, trailers, and gameplay demonstrations, usually consolidated into roughly three days for the E3 Expo.
2022's outing marks just the third Summer Game Fest, heralded by Geoff Keighley, annual host of The Game Awards. Summer Game Fest hasn't yet filled E3's absence, but SGF's 2021 opening night livestream proved the season-long celebration of video games can generate nearly as much excitement. Elden Ring re-emerged after a long silence by FromSoftware, and Gearbox Software revealed Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, among many other featured games.
Summer Game Fest 2022 Presentation Schedule There are four showcases currently on the official Summer Game Fest schedule, with Devolver Digital's also carrying the SGF logo in its trailer: Details On The Summer Game Fest Live Show Geoff Keighley has attempted to temper expectations for Summer Game Fest, telling fans not to get unreasonably excited, but the event's live opening show will still have a runtime of roughly two hours, most of which will be filled with trailers, sneak peaks,...
Details On The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase Microsoft will be hosting its annual conference on the same day it normally would if E3 hadn't been canceled - the second Sunday in June. It will similarly be streaming on a variety of platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. The lineup has been kept under tighter wraps, but expectations for the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase include gameplay for Starfield and Redfall, both of which were recently delayed into 2023.