This is early June, which means it’s time to have a lot of video game activities! Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Festival Rises from E3’s Ashes this The year’s advanced gaming event is the lead in the game awards of Geoff Keighley in December alone. Unlike the shows that the show replaced, the Summer Competition Festival is an equal event focusing on a variety of live streams in the games of AAA developers and small Indian Islands. SGF 2025 includes 15 separate events from June 3-9 – you can find the full Summer Competition 2025 schedule here – we are now doing DAB in the middle of the show.
We will cover SGF 2025 on the ground in Los Angeles and make adjustments to writers of various live streaming remotely. Game previews, interviews and reactions are expected to arrive in the next few days (the show’s in-person components run from Saturday – Sunday), as well as a series of new trailers and release date announcements.
Through all this, we’ve put together the biggest announcements here and link to the deeper coverage we have in chronological order.
Tuesday, June 3
Unreal State: The Wizard IV and Fortnite Ai
Epic paired its van to SGF this year and aligned its annual developer Unreal Fest meeting, which was aligned with consumer events in the fall of 2024. The conference was held in Orlando, Florida from June 2-5, with more than a hundred developers meetings focused on Unreal Engine. The highlight is the illusory state, which is the first event of the official summer competition festival. We got some meaningful updates ourselves in a bunch of really cool tech demos and announcements Fortnite and CD Projekt Red are coming The Wizard IV.
The Wizard IV It was first unveiled at the Game Awards last year and we have hardly heard of it since. In an unreal state, we get a technical demo of Unreal Engine 5.6, which is played in real time on the base PS5. About 10 minutes of slot machines combine gameplay and movies and showcase a detailed and bustling world. Perhaps the highlight of the technology is Nanite Leaf, an extension of the UE5’s nanogeometric system, which makes the leaves present without the level of detail pop-up, which is perhaps the most extensive number of graphic anomalies today that still plagues the game. On the gaming side, we see hundreds of NPCs running business in a town. The town itself is not very large Wizard IIINovigrad City, but despite this, anything achieved in the last game was beyond everything.
It’s fair to say FortniteThe moment in the spotlight is…impressive. Epic Epic Man announces the heels of profane Darth Vader AI, and Epic announces that creators will be able to push their AI NPCs later this year.
Wednesday, June 4
PlayStation’s match status: Return of Marvel Tōkon, Silent Hill F and Lumines
Another company at Sony is the summary of the proceedings, and he puts his best game form of the year into the summer game festival days before the opening night race. By Sony’s standards, it’s a crowded, with over 20 games, and even a surprising hardware announcement.
The most time Marvel Tōkon: Battle Soula new PlayStation Studios tagged fighter that blends Marvel superheroes with anime visuals. It’s also 4-on-4, which is wild. It was developed by Arc System Works, a team that may be known for its guilty equipment lineup. It will arrive on PS5 and PC in 2026. Sony also announced Project Defiant, a wireless combat stick that will support PS5 and PC and arrive in …2026.
Elsewhere we conducted a parade on release dates, with specific dates sw (August 19) Baby steps (September 8) and Silent mountain f (September 25). We’ve also been confirmed Final Fantasy Strategy Remake (September 30 will be on September 30) pragmataif you want to keep your score, you will be advertised within the PS5 release range. Great, Capcom!
The show ended with a bunch of smaller announcements. We’ve heard of a new Nioh game, Nioh 3in 2026; Suda51’s new weirdness Romeo is a dead man;and Appear transparentlythe long-awaited developer from the developer behind the Lumines series Russian effects.
Thursday, June 5
Diddly squat
There are absolutely no plans for the summer competition festival event on Thursday. We assume this is out of respect for anti-plant trees, as June 5 is Arbor Day in New Zealand. (This is probably because everyone is playing the Nintendo Switch2.)
Friday, June 6
Live broadcast of Summer Game Festival: “Resident Evil Requiem”, stranger than heaven, sequels abound
It is fair to say that the opening night of the previous summer competition festival has been…at best. This year’s performance is definitely an improvement, especially since the mobile game has a smaller index and MMO ads spread out presentations. Yes, people who track Gabe Newell’s yachts are disappointed Half-life 3 Nothing appears, silk The crowd was still sad, alone, but there were still some huge announcements.
Perhaps the biggest one is the ninth (zero and Code Veronica Erase is real) Resident Evil Game. Resident Evil Requiem It is said to be a tone change compared to the previous game Heritage Evil Village. Hope it revitalizes the series in the same way Resident Evil Vii Follow the disappointing 6.
We also heard more about Project Century from Sega Studio Ryu Ga Gotoku, which seems to be the 1943 Yakuza series. Now called Stranger than heavenand there is a (literally) new trailer for jazz for your consideration.
Beyond these big fluctuations, there are a series of sequels to mid-size games, such as Atomic Heart,,,,, Code vein and Deadly enclosureand a sequel to a spirit: Scott Pilgrima blow, took the relay baton from 2010 Ubisoft Brawler Scott Pilgrim and the World: Game.
There are numerous other announcements on the show, including:
Developer Days: Withering, Robbery and Robbery, Withering and Escape Academy II
As always, the kickoff show is followed by a day at Devs Stream, which focuses on smaller projects and indie games. You can watch the full stream here.
Escape Academy We’ve been firmly putting the sequel on our list of the best sofa co-op games for some time. Escape Academy 2: Post 2 School Get the same basic cooperative escape room fun and expand on it, transferring from level-selected map screen to a fully 3D school campus for players to explore. As long as the puzzle itself is as interesting as the original content, it seems to be the winner.
Appearance Nyamakop Studio Nyamakop is back Restarta heist game with a unique twist. Just like in the real world, Western museums are filled with objects that plunder African countries from colonialism. Unlike the real world, Restart Colonial power has signed a treaty to return the items to their origin, but things are not planned as many artifacts are entering private collections. It’s your job to steal them back. The British Museum is wearing boots.
Here are some other games that caught our attention:
The rest: Ball X pit, Killer and 007 first light
A day later, the developer arrived at Devolver. Its summer game show is softer than usual, with the focus on one game: Ball X pit. This is Kenny Sun’s next game, an independent developer Mr. Sun’s Hatbox. Ball X pit Compared to Sun’s main previous work, it was produced by a team of more than six developers. Looks like a fun mix breakthrough and infrastructure mechanisms, now available for demonstration of steam.
Then there is the killer’s maker IOI, who brings together classic E3-style Cringefest, full of awkward pauses, poorly paced demonstrations and repetitive trailers. Honestly, as someone who has watched the game company talk for about twenty years, it was a wonderful moment of nostalgia.
The Speaker’s Miracle tries to deal with everything wrong, the show does have some actual content and has a new demo of the killer mission themed by James Bond, announcing the killer coming on iOS and desktop, and giving a speech. MindseyeThis is a game by former GTA producer Leslie Benzies, IOI published.
Saturday to Sunday: Xbox and more
Now you are all caught up. We are looking forward to a lot of news this weekend, mainly from the Xbox on Sunday. We will update this article on the weekend and beyond, but you can find the latest announcements for the 2025 Summer Game Festival on our front page.
