The Summer Game Fest and ‘not-E3’ 2023 schedule

polygon.com:

This year’s E3 has been canceled, but that won’t stop game publishers like Sony, Microsoft, and Ubisoft from holding their own digital showcases throughout the summer — or Geoff Keighley’s ever-expanding Summer Game Fest event from providing a good alternative to the video game announcement blowout one would have expected from E3 2023.

While Nintendo has not yet announced any kind of Nintendo Direct around the usual E3 timing, and Sony has already held its PlayStation Showcase, there’s plenty more to come. Here’s a quick look at the “not-E3” and Summer Game Fest 2023 schedule through August. More details on when, where, and what publishers plan to show this summer are below.

On Thursday, June 8, host Geoff Keighley will present his fourth annual Summer Game Fest. This year’s SGF promises the expected game reveals and first looks, including debut gameplay from Mortal Kombat 1 and a new look at Alan Wake 2. Given Keighley’s history of game reveals, it wouldn’t be surprising if Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2 and FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree also made appearances. The event will feature games from more than 40 publishers and developers, Keighley says.

Summer Game Fest 2023 streams live from Los Angeles at 12 p.m. PDT/3 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CEST, and can be watched on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and Steam.

Immediately following Summer Game Fest, Double Fine Productions and iam8bit will present their Day of the Devs livestream. Day of the Devs: SGF Edition promises games from more than a dozen indie game developers, including AdHoc Studio, Die Gute Fabrik, Evil Licorice, Geometric Interactive, Heart Machine, iam8bit Presents, Impossible, Land & Sea,