Summer Game Fest 2022 Schedule: Every Showcase's Date & Time
screenrant.comSummer Game Fest has officially returned, seemingly a replacement for the canceled E3 2022 as the overarching brand for many of the games industry's numerous showcases. June has long been a month filled with new game announcements, trailers, and gameplay demonstrations, usually consolidated into roughly three days for the E3 Expo. After a cancelation in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, E3 has continued to go by the wayside and Summer Game Fest has become the de facto replacement, stepping in with a looser affiliation between the various showcases, but forming a singular marketing identity nonetheless.
2022's outing marks just the third Summer Game Fest, heralded by Geoff Keighley, annual host of The Game Awards. Summer Game Fest hasn't yet filled E3's absence, but SGF's 2021 opening night livestream proved the season-long celebration of video games can generate nearly as much excitement. Elden Ring re-emerged after a long silence by FromSoftware, and Gearbox Software revealed Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, among many other featured games. Keighley will once again host a SGF presentation, which promises announcements and game footage from across the industry.
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Summer Game Fest 2022 has already kicked off with PlayStation's State of Play on June 2. The presentations from Sony are rather frequent, but this most recent specifically bore the SGF logo. Final Fantasy 16, Street Fighter 6, and the remake of Resident Evil 4 were standout reveals from the June 2022 State of Play, which also had an emphasis on games coming to PlayStation VR 2, such as Horizon Call of the Mountain and Resident Evil Village. With so many presentations still on the way, the schedule
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