Summer Game Fest revealed and its first event is next week

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Geoff Keighley announces an event for game events

The Summer Game Fest will bring the industry together from May through August for four coordinated months of news, reveals, and announcements.

Along with the announcement, Keighley revealed the "Phase 1" lineup for Summer Game Fest participants. The list includes PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, CD Projekt Red, though it's not clear who is planning their own discrete event and who will be included in larger presentations. Keighley confirmed that Microsoft is planning a playable game festival that will also be part of Summer Game Fest.

Keighley said the events are set to begin next week, with the debut of upcoming Xbox Series X games from global developers set to be part of the Summer Game Fest.  He mentioned that "it's been a busy quarantine" in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, and he's spent a lot of time listening to both game developers and fans in planning out Summer Game Fest.

"Everyone's going to do their own digital events, but how do you find a place that is a central repository of everything that's happening this summer in games?" Keighley said. "We're not trying to compete with anyone, but really trying to be this signpost directory to all the things that are happening."

We'll be hosting our own summer festivities with a virtual show in June - get ready for the Future Games Show.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.