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Summer Game Fest confirmed to return in 2025 with live showcase

Not-E3 season is set to continue

Marco Wutz

Summer Game Fest

Geoff Keighley confirmed that his Summer Game Fest will return in June 2025 with a live event in Los Angeles, California, including the industry-focused Play Days.

“We're thrilled to announce that Summer Game Fest will return to Los Angeles in June 2025, including Play Days from iam8bit and a livestreamed showcase event that fans can attend,” Keighley stated. “Together with the industry, we will continue to build what's next.”

Summer Game Fest thrust into the vacuum created by the struggles of E3, formerly the biggest video games convention in North America, immediately before and during the Corona pandemic. 

Offering publishers and developers a spot to show off their newest games to a large audience, Keighley’s event managed to attract ever more companies and viewers, eventually completely taking over E3’s spot as the premium summer gaming event. Now that the convention is gone officially, Keighley is dominating this area without much resistance.

Although not all showcases are held by him personally with companies like Microsoft and Ubisoft organizing their own events, all of them run under the common banner of Summer Game Fest.

Of course, fans won’t have to wait until 2025 for the next big gaming showcase: Keighley will be back on August 20, 2024, with Gamescom Opening Night Live and later in 2024 with The Game Awards.

Check out our Summer Game Fest 2024 recap to catch up with this year’s big announcements and find all confirmed publishers at Gamescom 2024 to get a sneak peek of what Opening Night Live might have to offer this time around.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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