Summer Game Fest ‘largely focused’ on announced games coming this year

The Summer Game Fest live showcase will be “largely focused” on previously announced games scheduled for release this year.

That’s according to event producer and host Geoff Keighley, who discussed plans for Friday’s event during a recent Q&A stream on Twitch.

The show will begin on June 7 at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm GMT and run for about two hours, he said.

“One of the things you’ll see with the show this week is we really tried to programme some unexpected things, from smaller teams and independent studios, into the show as well, alongside some big blockbuster games and franchises that you will see in the show as well,” Keighley said.

“I think it’s going to be, generally, a little bit quieter this summer in terms of crazy new announcements and shocking surprises and things like that.”

“There will definitely be new announcements, but the show is largely focused on, I think, existing games that have new updates for fans, just in terms of level setting,” he added later in the stream.

“[The] Game Awards has a lot of usually big surprises and big, new reveals. This show is very much, it’s largely focused on announced stuff. There are absolutely new game announcements throughout the show, but just to level set, it’s not all brand new stuff. It tends to be things that are coming out later this year.

“And there are things that we’ll announce that will come out later this year that haven’t been announced yet, but this is not a show that has a lot of like, you know, coming in 2026 or 2027, or teasers for games that are years and years out. I’m trying to think, every time is different, but that’s generally what I would say just in terms of expectation setting.”

Keighley said fans will get a big update on what’s coming next for Palworld. Atlus will also take to the stage to discuss Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Capcom will show off Monster Hunter Wilds.

Keighley said there won’t be a new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer and that people who are speculating about Kingdom Hearts 4 “are setting themselves up for failure”. The Wolf Among Us 2 won’t be on show, and despite recent speculation, there are “no plans” for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

On the subject of how many games will be on show, he said: “It’s always hard when we get into numbers because then people start to guess about how many announcements there are, how many games.

“It’s hard to say. There’s a lot of games. In this show there are kind of shorter moments on a bunch of games, there’s not like one game we show for 15 minutes or something like that. It’s really a sampling of a bunch of different games across the industry, so that probably means more games as opposed to fewer, but it’s a really eclectic mix of games across the whole industry.”