With 2025 coming to close and The Game Awards 2025 looming, Geoff Keighley wants us to keep one eye on what is shaping up to be an incredible 2026 in gaming.
Keighley’s other show, Summer Games Fest kicks off the summer season of gaming reveals and announcements and traditionally takes place in early-June, just before the other key summer showcases including those traditionally offered from Xbox and PlayStation.
Now, we have a date for the start of the summer of gaming.
Summer Games Fest 2026 date
As confirmed via X (Twitter), Summer Games Fest 2026 will take place across the weekend of 5 – 7 June 2026, with the opening showcase taking place on 5 June:
There is a new venue for the 2026 showcase, which moves to the Dolby Theatre in LA. Summer Games Fest will be a public event and tickets will be available early next year.
It’ll likely be a very busy summer of games reveals in 2026, around Summer Games Fest 2025 there were 28 showcases. News Editor, Adam wrote about the abundance of showcases and how they’re beginning to become exhausting and counterproductive. If only E3 was still around and kept everything together, ay?
When are The Game Awards 2025?
The Game Awards 2025 takes place on Thursday December 11 2025, at LA’s Peacock Theatre. The show will feature the biggest reveals, awards and almost certainly some live music – the Alan Wake 2 Herald of Darkness performance is something all fans of the series must see.
The nominees for TGA are yet to be revealed but early expectations that the year’s highest scoring releases – including Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Blue Prince – will all be in the running.
Gamer Social Club will be bringing you all the news from The Game Awards 2025 and Summer Games Fest 2026. GSC will also be launching it’s own Game of the Year series in December.
What are you hopes for 2026 in gaming? Do you feel the showcase fatigue too? Let us know in the comments below and stick with GSC for all your showcase news.
