The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on basically every industry in the world, and video games are no exception. The pandemic has caused E3 2020 to be canceled, with game companies now looking for alternative ways to showcase all of their upcoming titles. The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has attempted to collect all these different presentations into what he calls the Summer Game Fest.
The Summer Game Fest kicked off with the recent Inside Xbox presentation, which saw the announcement of some Xbox Series X console exclusives and showed some brief snippets of Xbox Series X gameplay for the first time. The next Summer Game Fest event actually takes place in a few hours from the time of this writing, but now the SGF schedule has been updated to include what comes after today's surprise game reveal.
It's been confirmed that the Summer Game Fest's next event is a special showcase taking place on Wednesday, May 13 at 8am PT. No other details about what the event will entail have been revealed at the time of this writing, beyond the fact that it will feature an interview with Summer Game Fest organizer Geoff Keighley.
Looking ahead, there should be plenty more for Summer Game Fest enthusiasts to look forward to. June will include a special Cyberpunk 2077 presentation, along with the annual EA Play event. Summer Game Fest will be concluding on August 24 at Gamescom, and it will definitely be exciting to see exactly what SGF will choose to end with.
There are also gaming events that will be taking place in the coming months that aren't necessarily a part of Summer Game Fest (or if they are, it has yet to be clarified). One such event is the Ubisoft Forward showcase in July, which will serve as the company's replacement for its E3 press conference. It's unclear exactly what Ubisoft will be revealing at that event, but one has to imagine that gamers will get a closer look at Assassin's Creed Valhalla at the very least.
More information on future Summer Game Fest events will come to light in the coming weeks. In the meantime, fans can tune in to the Summer Game Fest May 12 reveal.
Source: Summer Game Fest Schedule