Summer Game Fest Live 2022: What to Expect, When and How to Watch the Gaming Event

E3 was canceled for 2022- – both online and in-person– yet the games industry hasn’t let that prevent it from holding summer gaming events. Among the first and generally expected of these is Summer Game Fest Live 2022, Geoff Keighley’s most recent digital show focused on forthcoming games from a variety of publishers. It starts off his more extensive Summer Game Fest celebration, and it’s promptly trailed by Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition.

With E3 2022 canceled, there’s a vacuum at the center of the video game marketing season. Many eyes are on Summer Game Fest for being both the lengthiest and the largest going presser on the horizon. In any case, the host, Geoff Keighley, as of late decided to treat assumptions in front of the show, saying that it won’t be flush with the “world premieres” for which his event has become known.

E3 2022 is canceled, however, the games industry is pushing ahead with its typical rhythm of summer gaming events. One of the greatest is Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, which he made as his own virtual show- – first as an option to the abandoned E3 in 2020, then, at that point, close by its virtual form in 2021. The focal point of this is Summer Game Fest Live 2022, an exceptional event to start the game coverage under its all umbrella. It’ll be trailed by Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition.

Presently in its third year, Summer Game Fest is both a particular event(a showcase featuring trailers from a wide scope of video game publishers) and a limited time device (a logo that gets put on all of the video marketing from Memorial Day through Labor Day). It’s a way for Keighley to cement his lifetime tenure as gaming’s lord of promotion. In any case, in every practical sense, — to some extent here — “Summer Game Fest” alludes to the showcase.

Keighley is most popular for hosting and producing the game awards each December, and he additionally heads up Gamescom’s Opening Night Live. So he’s no more bizarre than large stage shows, and Summer Game Fest is intended to be a celebration, everything being equal, which separates it from the platform and publisher showcases that we likewise hope to see.

When Is The Summer Game Fest Live 2022 Showcase

The Summer Game Fest Live 2022 happens Thursday, June 9. It starts at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET, and you can see more regional times below.

• Thursday, June 9
  • 11 AM PT
  • 1 PM CT
  • 2 PM ET
  • 6 PM GMT
• 3 AM JST (Friday, June 10)
• 4 AM AEST (Friday, June 10)

Where To Watch The Summer Game Fest Live 2022 Showcase

Summer Game Fest begins on Thursday, June 9, at 2:00 p.m. ET. What’s more, on the off chance that we can get a “RIP” to me and my peers, that’d be perfect: A schedule posting proposes it’ll run for three hours. (Last year’s event ran for three and a half, however, that likewise incorporated the hour-long “Day of the Devs” indie showcase.) You can transfer Summer Game Fest on YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter. Or on the other hand, if you truly want to see Kaiju Geoff, it’ll air at IMAX theaters in two or three dozen cities around the country.

How To Watch Summer Game Fest Live 2022

The Summer Game Fest Live 2022 show will air across the typical web-based platforms like YouTube and Twitch. This year, the show will likewise be broadcast in select IMAX theaters. Ticket deals for the live event will start on May 12. Keighley has additionally prodded that the IMAX association will go on for the game awards in the not-so-distant future.

• The Game Awards YouTube
• The Game Awards Twitch

What to Expect at the Summer Game Fest Live 2022

In the same way as other of these mid-year exhibits, we have close to zero familiarity with what’s in store from the Summer Game Fest Live 2022 presentation. Notwithstanding, Geoff Keighley’s productions are generally a combination of new game premieres and new looks at recently announced games.

It likewise is typical for a game company to officially announced game days or weeks before the event to prod a trailer premiere during Summer Game Fest or The Game Awards. So we might find out about the line-up as we approach the date in June. As a matter of fact, that has now occurred, as new footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is affirmed to show up during the event.

Keighley’s event additionally happens not long before the Xbox showcase on June 12. It wouldn’t be unbelievable for a publisher like Microsoft to design a two-section game uncover, first prodding a game during Summer Game Fest and afterward meticulously describing the situation at its event. This year, Microsoft is offering the stage to its most up-to-date (finalized) acquisition, Bethesda, and we expect to see Starfield make a big splash.

Not at all like productions from Microsoft or Ubisoft, this won’t be centered stringently around titles showing up on a specific hardware platform, or coming from a single publisher. All things considered, Summer Game Fest Live 2022 will include debuts from any games that consent to showcase their wares at Keighley’s event. In the past that has included heavy-hitters like Death Stranding, Elden Ring, Star Wars Eclipse, and Bayonetta 3.

However games are a secret, we do have a list of affirmed participants:

• 2K Games
• Activision
• Atlus
• Bandai Namco
• Bloober Team
• Capcom
• Coffee Stain
• Deep Silver
• Devolver Digital
• Digital Extremes
• Dotemu
• EA
• Epic Games
• Focus Entertainment
• Frost Giant Studios
• Humble Games
• Level Infinite
• Mediatonic
• MiHoYo
• Netflix
• PlayStation
• Raw Fury
• Samsung
• Sega
• Square Enix
• Skybound Games
• Steam
• Studio MDHR
• Tribeca Festival
• Warner Bros. Games
• Xbox

What to Expect from The Summer Game Fest Live 2022

During a Twitter Spaces held throughout the end of the week, per a VGC transcription, Keighley went into full assumption the management mode, saying that the show will essentially focus on games that have previously been uncovered. “We’re doing some good stuff for you, but manage your expectations in terms of the megaton shocks that you’re expecting,” he said. “We’ve got lots of good stuff to show you but buyer beware of some of the crazy rumors I’m seeing out there in terms of things people expect to get announced.”

A promotional sizzle reel — set to a true to a cinematic remix of Halsey’s “Young God” — showed a brief look at a large number of games, both impending and as of late show-up, that will appear in some limit. Furthermore, a modest bunch of publishers has previously spread the word about it which of their titles will show up. Among different games, you can hope to see:

• Forspoken, Square Enix’s activity RPG slated for a PS5 and PC discharge in October.
• Sonic Frontiers, which indicates to be Sonic via Breath of the Wild however simply seems to be an Unreal tech demo.
• Horizon Forbidden West. The open-world game has been out for months on PlayStation and has seen a few sizable updates, so maybe this envoys insight about a development?
• The Limbo-inspired Planet of Lana will have a gameplay reveal.
• The strategies game Marvel’s Midnight Suns, which was at first slated for a spring 2022 release however has since been pushed to the fall. It doesn’t as of now have a release date.
• Developer Infinity Ward will show the main level from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s campaign.
• More gameplay from The Callisto Protocol, which had a concise spot during Sony’s not-E3 State of Play event.
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, an experience game made arrangements for September 1, precisely one day in front of the Amazon LotR show’s premiere.
• Gotham Knights. Last month, developer WB Games released a 13-minute gameplay video close by an announcement that it had axed out the prior-gen versions.
• The sizzle reel showed a split-second clip of Starfield, however, I envision Microsoft will save the meat of Bethesda’s role-playing game for Xbox’s marquee event on Sunday.
• Additionally, obviously, some games referred to Dwayne as “The Rock” Johnson will be there? No hint what’s going on with it, yet that wouldn’t shock me the slightest bit if interactivity includes lifting weights at the crack of dawn, co-producing roughly half of Hollywood’s blockbuster output, and utilizing America’s wide political separation for an expected run at president sometime in the not so distant future.

Day of the Devs 2022

As indicated above, Day of the Devs will return and is occurring following the finish of Summer Game Fest Live. It’s produced by Double Fine and iam8bit and keeping in mind that we don’t realize a lot, it’s frequently been a platform to showcase a few energizing non-indie games. This year points to the 10th anniversary of the event.

What to hope (but not hold your breath) for

Indeed, everybody in the world needs news about God of War Ragnarök, the spin-off of Santa Monica Studio’s 2018 reboot of the action series. For a certain something, Sony previously had its large PlayStation event of the time (focused on outsider games, still). For another, lately, Sony has gone toward uncovering data about its first-party yield through devoted live streams with briefer runtimes. So certain, it could spring up, however, try not to let your imagination run out of control excessively.

That Starfield, Bethesda’s first sprawling role-playing game in 10,000 years, is among the prods for Summer Game Fest is interesting. However, it was planned for a November 11, 2022 release date, Bethesda as of late deferred Starfield to the first part of 2023. You’d think Microsoft would clutch its first-party blockbusters for its all-own enormous presser, scheduled for Sunday afternoon.

In any case, assume with multiple dozen first-party studios under its umbrella, Xbox has a lot of other stuff — potentially even a few unannounced games — to flaunt, so it could allow its greatest known amount to go to Summer Game Fest with little to lose.

EA is one of the partnered publishers with Summer Game Fest, so a portion of the games pipeline—like Skate 4—could potentially make an appearance. Prominently, a few huge publishers who regularly have a major appearance during the E3 season, including Nintendo and Ubisoft, are not among the list of partners. A delegate for Ubisoft told Axios it’ll shun Summer Game Fest for something “later this year.” Nintendo, meanwhile, has been radio silent.

Summer Game Fest can be streamed on major platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and Facebook. The showcase will also stream in Imax theaters in the U.S. and Canada.