It's early June, which means it's time for a ton of video game events! Rising from the ashes of E3, Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest is now premium gaming event of the year, just inching ahead of… Geoff Keighley's Game Awards in December.Unlike the show it replaced, Summer Game Fest is an egalitarian affair, spotlighting games from AAA developers and small indies across a diverse set of livestreams.SGF 2025 includes 15 individual events running from June 3-9 — you can find the full Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule here — and we're smack dab in the middle of that programming right now.We're covering SGF 2025 with a small team on the ground in LA and a far larger group of writers tuning in remotely to the various livestreams.
Expect game previews, interviews and reactions to arrive over the coming days (the show's in-person component runs from Saturday-Monday), and a boatload of new trailers and release date announcements in between.Through it all, we're collating the biggest announcements right here, with links out to more in-depth coverage where we have it, in chronological order.Tuesday, June 3State of Unreal: The Witcher IV and Fortnite AIEpic hitched its wagon to SGF this year, aligning its annual developer Unreal Fest conference, which last took place in the fall of 2024, with the consumer event.The conference was held in Orlando, Florida, from June 2-5, with well over a hundred developer sessions focused on Unreal Engine.The highlight was State of Unreal, which was the first event on the official Summer Game Fest schedule.
Amid a bunch of very cool tech demos and announcements, we got some meaningful updates on Epic's own and CD PROJEKT RED's upcoming .was first unveiled at The Game Awards last year, and we've heard very little about it since.At State of Unreal, we got a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5.6, played in real time on a base PS5.
The roughly 10-minute slot featured a mix of gameplay and cinematics, and showed off a detailed, bustling world.Perhaps the technical highlight was Nanite Foliage, an extension of UE5's Nanite system for geometry that renders foliage without the level of detail pop-in that is perhaps the most widespread graphical aberration still plaguing games today.On the game side, we saw a town filled with hundreds of NPCs going about their business.
The town itself wasn't quite on the scale of 's Novigrad City, but nonetheless felt alive in a way beyond anything the last game achieved.It's fair to say that 's moment in the spotlight was… less impressive.Hot on the heels of smooshing a profane Darth Vader AI into the game, Epic announced that creators will be able to roll their own AI NPCs into the game later this year.Wednesday, June 4PlayStation State of Play: Marvel Tōkon, Silent Hill f and the return of LuminesAnother company getting a headstart on proceedings was Sony, who threw its third State of Play of the year onto the Summer Game Fest schedule a couple days ahead of the opening night event.It was a packed stream by Sony's standards, with over 20 games and even a surprise hardware announcement.The most time was given to , a new PlayStation Studios tag fighter that fuses Marvel Superheroes with anime visuals.
It's also 4 versus 4, which is wild.It's being developed by Arc System Works, the team perhaps best known for the Guilty Gear series.It's coming to PS5 and PC in 2026.
Not-so-coincidentally, Sony also announced Project Defiant, a wireless fight stick that'll support PS5 and PC and arrive in… 2026.Elsewhere, we got a parade of release dates, with concrete dates for (August 19) (September 8) and (September 25).We also got confirmation of that remaster (coming September 30), an an all-new...let's call it aspirational "2026" date for , which, if you're keeping score, was advertised alongside the launch of the PS5.
Great going, Capcom!Rounding out the show was a bunch of smaller announcements.We heard about a new Nioh game, , coming in 2026; Suda51's new weirdness ; and , a long-awaited return to the Lumines series from the developer behind .Thursday, June 5Diddly squatThere were absolutely no Summer Game Fest events scheduled on Thursday.We assume that's out of respect for antipodean trees, as June 5 was Arbor Day in New Zealand.
(It's probably because everyone was playing Nintendo Switch 2.)Friday, June 6Summer Game Fest Live: Resident Evil Requiem, Stranger Than Heaven and sequels aboundIt's fair to say that previous Summer Game Fest opening night streams have been… whelming at best.This year's showing was certainly an improvement, not least because there were exponentially fewer mobile game and MMO ads littering the presentation.Yes, folks tracking Gabe Newell's yacht were disappointed that didn't show up, and the crowd remains sad, alone and unloved, but there were nonetheless some huge announcements.Perhaps the biggest of all was the "ninth" (and erasure is real) Resident Evil game.
is said to be a tonal shift compared to the last game, .Here's hoping it reinvigorates the series in the same way did following the disappointing .We also heard more from Sega studio Ryu Ga Gotoku about Project Century, which seems to be a 1943 take on the Yakuza series.It's now called , and there's a (literally) jazzy new trailer for your consideration.Outside of those big swings, there were sequels to a bunch of mid-sized games, like , and , and a spiritual sequel of sorts: , a beat-em-up that takes the baton from the 2010 Ubisoft brawler .There were countless other announcements at the show, including:Troy Baker is the big cheese in Mouse: P.I.
for HireHere's a silly puppet boxing game you never knew you neededKiller Inn turns Werewolf into a multiplayer action gameOut of Words is a cozy stop-motion co-op adventure from Epic GamesLego Voyagers is a co-op puzzle game from the studio behind Builder's JourneyMina the Hollower, from the makers of Shovel Knight, arrives on HalloweenWu-Tang Clan's new game blends anime with Afro-surrealismDay of the Devs: Blighted, Snap & Grab, Blighted and Escape Academy IIAs always, the kickoff show was followed by a Day of the Devs stream, which focused on smaller projects and indie games.You can watch the full stream here.has been firmly on our best couch co-op games list for some time, and now it's got a sequel on the way.
takes the same basic co-op escape room fun and expands on it, moving away from a level-select map screen and towards a fully 3D school campus for players to explore.So long as the puzzles themselves are as fun as the original, it seems like a winner.studio Nyamakop is back with new jam called , a heist game with a unique twist.
As in the real world, museums in the West are full of items plundered from African nations under colonialism.Unlike the real world, in the colonial powers have signed a treaty to return these items to their places of origin, but things aren't going to plan, as many artifacts are finding their way into private collections.It's your job to steal them back.
The British Museum is quaking in its boots.Here are some of the other games that caught our eye:Snap & Grab is No Goblin's campy, photography-based heist gamePlease, Watch the Artwork is a puzzle game with eerie paintings and a sad clownBask in the grotesque pixel-art beauty of NeverwayPocket Boss turns corporate data manipulation into a puzzle gameTire Boy is a wacky open-world adventure game you can tread all overThe rest: Ball x Pit, Hitman and 007 First LightAfter Day of the Devs came Devolver.Its Summer Game Fest show was a little more muted than usual, focusing on a single game: .It's the next game from Kenny Sun, an indie developer who previously made the sleeper hit .
is being made by a team of more than half a dozen devs, in contrast to Sun's mostly solo prior works.It looks like an interesting mashup of and base-building mechanics, and there's a demo on Steam available right now.Then came IOI, the makers of Hitman, who put together a classic E3-style cringefest, full of awkward pauses, ill-paced demos and repetitive trailers.Honestly, as someone who's been watching game company presentations for two decades or so, it was a nice moment of nostalgia.Away from the marvel of a presenter trying to cope with everything going wrong, the show did have some actual content, with an extended demo of the new James Bond-themed Hitman mission, an announcement that Hitman is coming to iOS and table tops, and a presentation on , a game from former GTA producer Leslie Benzies that IOI is publishing.Saturday-Sunday: Xbox and much, much moreNow you're all caught up.
We're expecting a lot of news this weekend, mostly from Xbox on Sunday.We'll be updating this article through the weekend and beyond, but you can find the latest announcements from Summer Game Fest 2025 on our front page.
