Summer Game Fest 2025 is here, featuring 15 individual events from June 3-9. We have a team on the ground in LA and remote writers covering the livestreams. Expect game previews, interviews, and reactions over the coming days, with new trailers and release date announcements in between.
On Tuesday, June 3, Epic showcased updates on Fortnite and CD PROJEKT RED’s The Witcher IV at State of Unreal. The tech demo for Unreal Engine 5.6 showed a detailed world with Nanite Foliage rendering. Fortnite announced the ability for creators to add AI NPCs into the game later this year.
Wednesday, June 4 saw Sony’s State of Play stream with over 20 games and a surprise hardware announcement. Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, Silent Hill f, and Lumines were highlighted, along with release dates for upcoming games.
Thursday, June 5 had no scheduled events, possibly due to Arbor Day in New Zealand. Friday, June 6 featured Summer Game Fest Live with announcements like Resident Evil Requiem and Stranger Than Heaven. Despite some disappointments, the show was an improvement with fewer mobile game ads. Es principios de junio, lo que significa que es momento de una gran cantidad de eventos de videojuegos! Surgiendo de las cenizas de la E3, el Summer Game Fest de Geoff Keighley es ahora el evento de videojuegos premium del año, apenas por delante de… los Game Awards de Geoff Keighley en diciembre. A diferencia del programa que reemplazó, Summer Game Fest es un evento igualitario, destacando juegos de desarrolladores AAA y pequeños indies en una diversa serie de transmisiones en vivo. SGF 2025 incluye 15 eventos individuales que se llevarán a cabo del 3 al 9 de junio; puedes encontrar el cronograma completo del Summer Game Fest 2025 aquí, y estamos justo en mitad de esa programación en este momento.
Estamos cubriendo el SGF 2025 con un pequeño equipo en el lugar en Los Ángeles y un grupo mucho más grande de escritores sintonizando de forma remota las diversas transmisiones en vivo. Stay tuned for game previews, interviews, reactions, trailers, and release date announcements in the coming days (the show runs from Saturday to Monday). We’ll be compiling the biggest announcements here in chronological order, with links to more in-depth coverage when available.
On Tuesday, June 3, Epic’s State of Unreal event revealed updates on Epic’s Fortnite and CD PROJEKT RED’s The Witcher IV. The event showcased a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5.6, highlighting Nanite Foliage and a detailed world in The Witcher IV. Fortnite announced the ability for creators to add AI NPCs to the game later this year.
Wednesday, June 4, saw Sony’s PlayStation State of Play event featuring Marvel Tōkon, Silent Hill f, and Lumines Arise. Release dates were confirmed for Sword of the Sea, Baby Steps, Silent Hill f, and Final Fantasy Tactics remaster. Project Defiant, a wireless fight stick, was also announced for 2026.
Thursday, June 5, had no scheduled events as it was Arbor Day in New Zealand.
Friday, June 6, featured Summer Game Fest Live with announcements including Resident Evil Requiem and Stranger Than Heaven. The event showcased a tonal shift in Resident Evil Requiem and a jazzy new trailer for Stranger Than Heaven. It’s early June, which means it’s time for a ton of video game events! Rising from the ashes of E3, Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest is now the premium gaming event of the year, just inching ahead of… Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards in December. Unlike the show it replaced, Summer Game Fest is an egalitarian affair, spotlighting games from AAA developers and small indies across a diverse set of livestreams. SGF 2025 includes 15 individual events running from June 3-9 — you can find the full Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule here — and we’re smack dab in the middle of that programming right now.
We’re covering SGF 2025 with a small team on the ground in LA and a far larger group of writers tuning in remotely to the various livestreams. Expect game previews, interviews and reactions to arrive over the coming days (the show’s in-person component runs from Saturday-Monday), and a boatload of new trailers and release date announcements in between.
Through it all, we’re collating the biggest announcements right here, with links out to more in-depth coverage where we have it, in chronological order.
Tuesday, June 3
State of Unreal: The Witcher IV and Fortnite AI
Epic hitched its wagon to SGF this year, aligning its annual developer Unreal Fest conference, which last took place in the fall of 2024, with the consumer event. The conference was held in Orlando, Florida, from June 2-5, with well over a hundred developer sessions focused on Unreal Engine.
Outside of those big swings, there were sequels to a bunch of mid-sized games, like Atomic Heart, Code Vein, and Mortal Shell, and a spiritual sequel of sorts: Scott Pilgrim EX, a beat-em-up that takes the baton from the 2010 Ubisoft brawler Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game.
There were countless other announcements at the show, including:
Day of the Devs: Blighted, Snap & Grab, Blighted and Escape Academy II
As always, the kickoff show was followed by a Day of the Devs stream, which focused on smaller projects and indie games.
Escape Academy has been firmly on our best couch co-op games list for some time, and now it’s got a sequel on the way. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School takes the same basic co-op escape room fun and expands on it, moving away from a level-select map screen and towards a fully 3D school campus for players to explore. So long as the puzzles themselves are as fun as the original, it seems like a winner.
Semblance studio Nyamakop is back with a new jam called Relooted, a heist game with a unique twist. As in the real world, museums in the West are full of items plundered from African nations under colonialism. Unlike the real world, in Relooted the colonial powers have signed a treaty to return these items to their places of origin, but things aren’t going to plan, as many artifacts are finding their way into private collections. It’s your job to steal them back. The British Museum is quaking in its boots.
Here are some of the other games that caught our eye:
The rest: Ball x Pit, Hitman, and 007 First Light
After Day of the Devs came Devolver. Its Summer Game Fest show was a little more muted than usual, focusing on a single game: Ball x Pit. It’s the next game from Kenny Sun, an indie developer who previously made the sleeper hit Mr. Sun’s Hatbox. Ball x Pit is being made by a team of more than half a dozen devs, in contrast to Sun’s mostly solo prior works. It looks like an interesting mashup of Breakout and base-building mechanics, and there’s a demo on Steam available right now.
Then came IOI, the makers of Hitman, who put together a classic E3-style cringefest, full of awkward pauses, ill-paced demos, and repetitive trailers. Honestly, as someone who’s been watching game company presentations for two decades or so, it was a nice moment of nostalgia.
Away from the marvel of a presenter trying to cope with everything going wrong, the show did have some actual content, with an extended demo of the new James Bond-themed Hitman mission, an announcement that Hitman is coming to iOS and tabletops, and a presentation on MindsEye, a game from former GTA producer Leslie Benzies that IOI is publishing.
Saturday-Sunday: Xbox and much, much more
Now you’re all caught up. We’re expecting a lot of news this weekend, mostly from Xbox on Sunday. We’ll be updating this article through the weekend and beyond, but you can find the latest announcements from Summer Game Fest 2025 on our front page. The standout event of the Summer Game Fest was State of Unreal, the first event on the schedule. It featured impressive tech demos and updates on Epic’s Fortnite and CD PROJEKT RED’s The Witcher IV. The tech demo showcased Unreal Engine 5.6 running on a base PS5, highlighting Nanite Foliage and a bustling world filled with NPCs. Fortnite’s spotlight was less impressive, with the announcement of AI NPCs coming to the game.
At PlayStation State of Play, Sony revealed Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls and announced Project Defiant, along with release dates for various games. The show also featured a new Nioh game, Suda51’s Romeo is a Dead Man, and Lumines Arise.
Thursday had no scheduled events for Summer Game Fest, possibly due to Arbor Day in New Zealand. Friday’s Summer Game Fest Live featured big announcements like Resident Evil Requiem and Project Century, now called Stranger Than Heaven. Sequels to games like Atomic Heart, Code Vein, and Mortal Shell were also announced, along with Scott Pilgrim EX. The Day of the Devs stream followed, showcasing smaller indie projects and games. You can view the complete stream right here. Escape Academy has long been a staple on our list of best couch co-op games, and now a sequel is on the horizon. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School builds on the same cooperative escape room fun, transitioning from a level-select map screen to a fully immersive 3D school campus for players to navigate. If the puzzles are as enjoyable as the original, it looks like a surefire hit.
Semblance studio Nyamakop is back with a new title called Relooted, a heist game with a unique twist. In the game, museums in the West are filled with items looted from African nations during colonialism. However, in Relooted, the colonial powers have agreed to return these items to their places of origin, but things are not going according to plan as many artifacts are ending up in private collections. Your mission is to steal them back, leaving the British Museum trembling in its boots.
Other games that caught our attention include Ball x Pit, Hitman, and 007 First Light. After Day of the Devs came Devolver, whose Summer Game Fest showcase was more subdued than usual, focusing on the game Ball x Pit. This title, created by indie developer Kenny Sun, merges Breakout and base-building mechanics, with a demo currently available on Steam.
IOI, the creators of Hitman, also made an appearance with a classic E3-style presentation, complete with awkward pauses and repetitive trailers. Despite the mishaps, the show featured new content such as an extended demo of the James Bond-themed Hitman mission, news of Hitman coming to iOS and tabletop platforms, and a presentation on MindsEye, a game from former GTA producer Leslie Benzies that IOI is publishing.
Looking ahead, Xbox is expected to make major announcements this weekend. Stay tuned for updates as we cover the latest news from Summer Game Fest 2025 on our front page. Please rewrite this sentence. Please rewrite this sentence.
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