SUMMER GAME FEST 2022. The summer video game season continues today with the Summer Game Fest 2022 edition. Three hours of American-style show for what could well be the event of the year.
Despite the cancellation of E3 this year, the summer video game season is in full swing at the start of June. De facto, the Summer Game Fest 2022 becomes the biggest event dedicated to the video game industry this year, enough to make its creator Geoff Keighley smile. This Thursday, the Summer Game Fest offers us its own live show, more than three hours of gameplay sequences, trailers, announcements of all kinds, and above all something to make gamers around the world dream. The event will be broadcast live tonight at 8 p.m. on the Game Awards YouTube page, but you can follow it live with us.
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17:00 – What is the program of the conference?
The Summer Game Fest 2022 begins tonight with Kickoff Live, the official opening of the festival presented by Geoff Keighley, renowned animator and organizer of the event. The Kickoff Live will last 3 hours and will be followed an hour later by a conference Devolver Digital, the publisher of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Serious Sam, among others. You will therefore find Kickoff Live tonight from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. (French time), and the Devolver conference at 12 a.m.
16:48 – What is Summer Game Fest?
Created in 2020 by Geoff Keighley, the Summer Game Fest is defined as a multi-week festival dedicated to the video game industry. 100% digital since its creation during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, the event quickly became unmissable, thanks to its many and prestigious partners (Xbox, EA…), but also by filling the void left by the E3, canceled in 2020 and this year. Today, the Summer Game Fest is well on its way to establishing itself in the video game landscape, and tonight’s event is probably the biggest event of the year for gamers.
4:31 p.m. – The Summer Game Fest live tonight at 8 p.m.
If you also want to follow the Summer Game Fest 2022 conference, know that you can find the live broadcast of the event live on the Game Awards YouTube page from 8 p.m. (French time) this evening. You can also watch the event directly from our page, above. The event should last about three hours and will bring together several dozen publishers and partner developers.
16:17 – Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Summer Game Fest 2022
Today marks the start of serious things for the Summer Game Fest. After an impressive State of Play last week, Geoff Keighley’s event offers us its own conference tonight. More than three hours of American-style show dedicated to the future of the video game industry, dozens of exhibitors from the biggest game publishers in the world, trailers as if it were raining… Today promises to be busy, and to help you grasp the essential information of the event, we invite you to follow it live with us this Thursday.
The Summer Game Fest talk, presented by Geoff Keighley and streamed on The Game Awards Youtube and Twitch channel, airs Thursdays June 9, 2022 from 8 p.m., French time. On the program, a farandole of game presentations by many partners of the event, including publishers 2K, Capcom, EA, Activision Blizzard, Xbox and Bethesda.
The Summer Game Fest will be streamed live on the Game Awards event Youtube page. It will also be co-streamed on thegameawards Twitch channel. To not miss it, we advise you to subscribe to one of the two channels on your favorite platform. Anyway, you can also watch it live in the embedded video block below.
The Summer Game Fest conference is scheduled to be broadcast live on Twitch and Youtube on Thursday, June 9, 2022. The event schedule promises us that the show should last 3 hours, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. , French time. With dozens of partners announced, the conference should therefore be full of video game trailers and presentations for the coming year!
Beyond the “Kick-off” conference on June 9, the Summer Game Fest is a festival of conferences over several days or even weeks that will allow the various players in the video game industry to present, at their own pace, their productions for the coming months or years. The schedule is therefore impressive and the dates are numerous. Below is a list of important dates for Summer Game Fest 2022.
The Summer Game Fest conference program:
- 9 juin – 20h : Summer Game Fest
- June 9 – 11:59 p.m.: Devolver Digital conference
- June 10 – 7 p.m.: Netflix gaming conference
- 10 juin – 21h: Tribeca Games Spotlight
- June 12 – 7 p.m.: Xbox + Bethesda conference
- 12 juin – 21h30 : PC Gaming Show
- June 14 – midnight: Capcom conference
- June 14 – 7 p.m.: “extended” Xbox + Bethesda conference
- June 21 – 6 p.m.: presentation of the Multiversus game
This year again, the Summer Game Fest has been full of partners from the video game world who will be there to present their various games for the coming months and for the year 2023. The Xbox brand has also planned to broadcast not one but two conferences to take the time to show its entire catalog of games but also its cloud and subscription services. Let’s also mention the PC Gaming Show which, like every year, will give pride of place to games intended for computers, but also at the Capcom conference which should present the remake of Resident Evil 4 in more detail.
For years, video game enthusiasts had an appointment every year in June with E3, a show presented as the “high mass” of video games during which the various manufacturers and publishers presented their new products to come. For some time now, E3 has not been able to take place due to the health situation, so its direct competitor the Summer Game Fest has taken over. The Summer Game Fest is a festival organized on the internet to amplify the influence of conferences organized by various video game publishers. This is a period of several days or even weeks during which many events are organized for the marketing departments of different video game brands to communicate about their future productions. Each year, a major conference called “Summer Game Fest Kick Off” launches hostilities and then other conferences, also affiliated with the Summer Game Fest festival, are broadcast online.
What can we expect from the Summer Game Fest?
And many things. Although Geoff Keighley clarified that we should not expect everything and anything tonight, we already know that the event has some big announcements in store for us. We know in particular that Activision will participate in the event and will present to us the first images of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (the new, not the old). In addition, we can also wait for news from The Callisto Protocol, the original creation of Dead Space’s “dad”: Glen Schofield. There will therefore be what it takes for fans of shooters and for those of horror games, but also for those of comics, since Warner Bros Games has confirmed its participation in the SGF, and could show us images of Gotham Knights tonight. In addition to these large projects, other more modest announcements will obviously be on display, since around thirty partners should take part in the event.
A new presentation of Marvel : Midnight Suns, the tactical RPG from Firaxis that promises an XCOM-like Marvel superhero sauce, will also be there during the live Summer Game Fest. The official Twitter account for the event also hinted that One Piece Odyssey, the role-playing game adapted from the hit manga saga, would also be present during the live announcements. Something to please fans of the license, no doubt. Also note that it is during the Sumer Game Fest that Frost Giant, a studio created by former Starcraft 2 developers, will present its next real-time strategy game.
What won’t we see at Summer Game Fest?
Even easier than speculating on what we might see there, knowing what we are almost sure not to see at Summer Game Fest tonight. Because Geoff Keighley himself specified that one should not hope to see everything and anything during the three hours of the event. For example, it’s hard to imagine seeing images of Starfield, since the Xbox and Bethesda projects will undoubtedly be reserved for the Xbox presentation evening this Sunday. Nor should we expect much from Nintendo or Sony, who traditionally reserve their announcements for their own events.