5 Reveals We Want to See at Summer Game Fest 2023

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It’s summertime and school’s out, so kids (and their parents) are ready for exciting new video game reveals. This year, gaming’s future will once again be show Summer Game Fest(Opens in a new window). Internet personality Geoff Keighley(Opens in a new window) has assembled an impressive lineup of industry contributors both large and small to share news and first looks at titles coming in 2023 and beyond.

Summer Game Fest kicks off on June 8 at 3 p.m. EST. From there, other publishers and organizations, including Ubisoft and Tribeca Festival, will broadcast their own dedicated showcases.

If you like watching video game announcements, you probably enjoy video game predictions, too. And Summer Game Fest might feature announcements about Elden Ring DLC gameplay, a Persona 3 remake, or Silent Hill 2. We combed through wishes, rumors, and predictions to come up with these five reveals we’d like to see at Summer Game Fest 2023. 

We’re discussing Summer Game Fest only because of the death of E3. For decades, the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo was where gamers learned about that year’s biggest gaming news. But mismanagement and a global pandemic have left E3’s fate murkier than ever.

As exciting as Summer Game Fest has been in past years, it has yet to top E3’s hype as an event for press and players. We miss the show's hands-on time with major titles, the promise that every publisher would pull out its biggest guns, and the celebrity glamour that not even mainstream media could ignore. But with E3 gone, many expect Summer Game Fest to fill the void.

This summer is promising many high-profile releases. One is Final Fantasy XVI, an action-packed take on the classic role-playing series. FFXVI drops on June 22, so heavily