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Summer Game Fest 2026 Live Coverage – All the news as it happens
Summer Game Fest 2026 is here and we're covering all the announcements, world premieres, and trailer drops live as they happen
June has always been an important time in the gaming calendar, and Summer Game Fest 2026 is keeping that tradition alive. The event kicks off with new trailers and announcements for the biggest new games of 2026, and we'll be keeping track of it all as it happens, collecting together everything you need to know below as our Summer Preview season truly begins.
If everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play June 2026 wasn't enough, the Summer Game Fest tradition of hosting some of gaming's most anticipated world premieres and reveals is set to continue, from upcoming PS5 games to upcoming Series X and Games Pass games and beyond. Will GTA 6 make an appearance? Could FromSoftware have a reveal? Final Fantasy? The Summer Game Fest schedule is packed, with the Xbox Showcase to follow on Sunday. But, stay tuned below as Summer Game Fest begins with its spectacular showcase, and we jot down everything you need to keep on your radar.
When is Summer Game Fest and where can I watch it?
Summer Game Fest kicks off at the following times, and will be airing on its official YouTube and Twitch channels, but you can also watch it right on this page while keeping up with all the key highlights! Handy!
- 2pm PT
- 5pm ET
- 10pm UK
- 11pm CET
Even though Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 was announced at the end of May, instead of saving it as an Xbox Games Showcase surprise, that doesn't mean we won't see it at Summer Game Fest. In fact, with the reveal itself out of the way, we're primed and ready to get a more detailed look at what to expect, from its ambitious campaign to a closer look at how this year's release will evolve its multiplayer offering. If nothing else, perhaps Hydrobot will be on-hand to share the secrets of Captain Price's increasingly impressive facial hair fidelity.
A man can dream.
It's no secret that Summer Game Fest mastermind Geoff Keighley and Hideo Kojima are on good terms, with the former having a cameo in Death Stranding, and several key Kojima Productions titles having reveals across the showcase and end-of-year The Game Awards. With Death Stranding 2 in the rear-view mirror, the Metal Gear Solid creator has plenty more cooking.
Namely, OD, his upcoming horror game co-written with Jordan Peele and published by Xbox Game Studios. Revealed in 2022, it went silent until a second teaser in 2025. Given the timeframe, this is likely to be the next Kojima Productions project we hear about. Though it could feature in the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, it wouldn't be the first time a Summer Game Fest trailer teases a deeper dive at a later date.
Hideo Kojima is also working on Physint, a more direct spiritual successor to Metal Gear's espionage action. Announced in 2024 as a PlayStation production, this appears to not be as far along as OD. Typically, I'd expect that to mean we'll hear much less about it until OD is out the door, but with both projects atypically being backed by rival publishers that might not be the case. When it comes to Kojima and Keighley, anything could happen, though I'm trying to keep my expectations in check as a lifelong Kojima fan. It'll be ready when it's ready.
With the live stream now only a few hours away, it's worth running through some of the Summer Game Fest predictions that we can expect to see throughout the show.
For starters, we're expecting to see something around Alien Isolation 2 very soon given that Sega and Creative Assembly recently revealed a striking Alien Isolation sequel teaser across social media, including on the original game's official accounts. Entitled 'False Sense of Security', it shows a metal door opening to reveal an emergency telephone several meters away in a dark and stormy night. It's not a lot to go on yet, but paints a scene of lingering dread – can we really trust this solitary source of hope? The setting of this teaser does plenty, though. Will we actually be touching down on a planet, on which we'll be stalked by xenomorphs? And, with that grisly storm, will weather mechanics feature as an additional consideration when it comes to creeping about undetected? Hopefully we'll find out more imminently.
