Summer Game Fest Announced for May to August 2020

<p>The Summer Game Fest has been announced today and serves as a replacement to the now-canceled E3 2020&period; The circumstances regarding <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;E3&sol;status&sol;1237769050123534336&quest;s&equals;20">E3&&num;8217&semi;s cancellation<&sol;a> have come from the world issues regarding the coronavirus outbreak&period; However&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s not going to be a lack of gaming information this summer&comma; thankfully&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Summer Game Fest&comma; in essence&comma; is exactly what E3 would have been if that were still happening&period; From the creator of The Game Awards&comma; Geoff Keighley&comma; comes this new event series to make up for canceled conventions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-157785" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;05&sol;01170044&sol;CY77&lowbar;Screenshot&lowbar;For&lowbar;game&lowbar;box-1920x1080-1400x788-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Summer Games Fest" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">What It Is and What It Does<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The upcoming event series has also had a host of information given&comma; alongside its announcement&period; The event series has gotten a timeframe from sometime in May until the Gamescom&colon; Opening Night Live digital event &lpar;Aug&period; 24th&rpar;&period; All in all&comma; it appears to be in a similar vein to the Game Developers Carnival that we&&num;8217&semi;ve covered <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;game-developers-carnival-a-viable-alternative-to-e3&sol;">previously<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; several major companies already have buy-ins&comma; such as Activision&comma; 2K&comma; Electronic Arts&comma; Digital Extremes&comma; Bethesda&comma; Valve&comma; Square Enix&comma; Sony Interactive Entertainment&comma; and more&period; These companies will be hosting their own digital events under the Summer Game Fest brand&comma; broadcasting to Twitch&comma; Facebook&comma; Mixer&comma; Twitter&comma; YouTube&comma; and publishers&&num;8217&semi; own channels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The extent of their participation has not been detailed as of this time&period; However&comma; in another news release&comma; Summer Games Fest organizers noted that Steam and Xbox will offer &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;playable&comma; limited time demonstrations and trials of select game content”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This feature is included with the program&comma; and the Valve and Keighley-organized Steam Game Festival&colon; Summer Edition&comma; running June 9-14&period; If you remember before its cancelation&comma; that was the week E3 2020 was planned to run&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And to top it all off&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s a trailer that was released today as well&comma; which you can watch below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"igp5BHoYZYE" title&equals;"Summer Game Fest&colon; Tune In For A Season of Video Game News"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;igp5BHoYZYE"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;igp5BHoYZYE&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Summer Game Fest&colon; Tune In For A Season of Video Game News"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think of the Summer Game Fest announcement&quest; Do you want to follow the series of events&quest; Or are you planning to wait for more information to be revealed&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;