Summer Game Fest 2025 live: All the announcements in real time
Grab your snacks, fill up your Stanley cup and get ready: The games are coming. Summer Game Fest 2025 kicks off at 2 pm Pacific, and we'll be covering all the announcements from the LA showcase as they happen.
How to watch Summer Game Fest
Summer Game Fest goes live on Friday, June 6 at 2 pm Pacific. That's 5 pm Eastern, and 10 pm in the UK. Use this time zone chart if you need to find the start time in your region. If you're able to tune in, you can watch on YouTube, Twitch, and Steam.
The annual (and wonderful) indie-focused Day of the Devs stream begins directly after Summer Game Fest, and there's way more to come over the weekend.
Here's a full schedule of Summer Game Fest events and related livestreams. Don't miss the PC Gaming Show on Sunday!
What should we expect at Summer Game Fest?
SGF's list of partners includes 2K Games, Bandai Namco, Capcom, CD Projekt, Embark, IO Interactive, Square Enix, Techland, Xbox, PlayStation, Epic Games, Sega, Valve, and more.
That's a lotta big names! But what are we actually expecting to see? If you believe the rumors mill, any of the below are possible:
- Resident Evil 9
- Jurassic World Evolution 3
- Arc Raiders' release date
- Could this be the year Hollow Knight Silksong finally appears?
Just don't get your hopes up too high. Steam being a partner doesn't mean Gabe's going to come on stage and announce Half-Life 3. Or does it??? (No). We can at least always count on a few surprises and *announcer voice* World Premieres.
I'll be collecting all the announcements in this live blog during the show, so either follow along or pop back in for a nice clean summary of all the good stuff when SGF wraps up.
Thanks for joining me, PC gamers. We've got about an hour and a half before showtime, which means you've got a generous window to go buy some chips—and then read our SGF 2025 preview for everything we know about this year's show.
There's quite a lengthy list of developers partnered up for this event, but if I had to pick out one name to be excited about, it's probably Coffee Stain, the developer behind my beloved Satisfactory. Coffee Stain recently spun out from under the Embracer umbrella. I wonder what it's got cooking up?
What did you think of 007: First Light's reveal at Sony's State of Play on Wednesday? We might see a bit more of it during Summer Game Fest, since IO Interactive is a partner.
PC Gamer's Rich Stanton is a life-long Bond fan and argues that James Bond doesn't need an origin story, even though he's sure IO Interactive's game will be great. Bond should just be perpetually middle aged!
One hour to go!
The Summer Game Fest livestream kicks off at 2 pm Pacific. It'll start with a preshow, but Geoff usually packs a few announcements in there, too.
Anyone know what's up with that chicken?
As you can see from the photo above, there is at least one chicken in attendance at Summer Game Fest. Here's what Geoff Keighley had to say about it earlier today:
"Here's a rooster looking forward to #SummerGameFest"
... yeah, that doesn't really clear anything up at all. Except perhaps that Geoff Keighley so passionately believes in the power of videogames that he thinks this rooster knows what's going on and is excited for some trailers.
The Summer Game Fest theater is filling up
PC Gamer's Evan Lahti is live on the scene, and the audience is filtering in ahead of showtime, which kicks off in about 20 minutes.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the Summer Game Fest lozenge on the screen there looks really tasty? That's cherry candy right? I'd eat it.
10 minutes to go. Last-minute predictions?
Here's my wild one: Hideo Kojima shows up, but not to promote Death Stranding 2, which has its own dedicated event on Sunday. He's actually going to offer an early look at OD, the horror game he's supposedly been making with Jordan Peele.
When the Summer Game Fest announcements start flowing in, I'll be concentrating on summing up each bit of news rather than blasting out a second-by-second play-by-play.
Here we go!
Summer Game Fest begins!
"This show has a little bit of everything," says host Geoff Keighley.
But you know what it has the most of? Goo. As previously established, I love and would eat the goo.
Keighley is highlighting some of the biggest games of the year using the top games on Steam, from indie hit Schedule I to RPG his Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. PC gaming really is the leader now, eh?
Mortal Shell 2 is metal af, coming to Steam in 2026
The first game announced at SGF 2025 from Swedish studio Cold Symmetry looks absolutely grisly. The trailer went hard with a metal track that I bet got a few folks in the crowd pumped the hell up.
And lookie here: Mortal Shell 2's already got a Steam page.
Death Stranding 2's exclusive SGF clip
Nothing too shocking here, as we know Death Stranding 2 is right around the corner. But let me treat you to the PC Gamer team's guesses at the star of this clip's name, before they found out it's Neil:
- Bob Tiredman
- Wrong Chairman
- Denied Smokeman
- Tom Mumbleman
- Steve Hugwoman
Now back to Geoff Keighleyman and Hideo Kojiman...
Chronicles: Medieval hits early access in 2026
"I sought no war, but war found me." Actor Tom Hardy narrated this trailer for Chronicles: Medieval from Raw Power Games, which is seemingly all about old school knights and horsies warfare. There's only a tiny snippet of gameplay at the very end; the rest is shiny CG.
We actually wrote about it earlier this week:
Sonic CrossWorlds Racing gets a Minecraft collab, fits in a little Mario Kart diss
Sega's longtime Sonic developer Takashi Iizuka got on stage to talk about the upcoming Sonic racer, which is out on September. "Unlike another kart racing game, this game will have online crossplatform matchmaking," he quipped. "So you can race against all your friends across all the platforms."
Then he showed a surprise crossover witth Minecraft. CrossWorlds, indeed.
Bandai Namco announces Code Vein 2, out 2026
The anime soulsike combat game is getting a follow-up! Neat.
End of Abyss is coming next year from former Little Nightmares devs
Published by Epic, End of Abyss is the next game from former developers who worked at Tarsier Studios, makers of Little Nightmares.
You know nothing, Jon Snow (except War)
There's a new Game of Thrones-based strategy game on the way, and the trailer reinforces how you'll be the one deciding how things play out. It did so by showing Jon Snow getting totally stabbed. But not in the way he gets stabbed in the show. Different stabbing!
War For Westeros will hit PC next year.
Atomic Heart 2 is in development!
Quite a surprising trailer for a somewhat unexpected sequel. The alternate history Soviet BioShock-like is clearly jumping into the future here, with more cyberpunk flair to it. I can't hate any trailer set to Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. Also, props for this trailer being chock full of gameplay despite no release date. It's in "active development" says Keighley. "This time there's a greater emphasis on RPG elements and player freedom."
Developer Mundfish also announced The Cube, "an MMORPG shooter set in the Atomic universe on a massive levitating cube, where the edges are constnatly rotating to create unique gameplay combinations that are ever-evolving" says Keighley.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword looks killer
I still think it's kinda awesome that Capcom is using the face of late, legendary actor Toshiro Mifune for the new character in this rebooted Onimusha. Here's a new trailer for the game, out next year.
Felt That: Boxing is foul, despite its innocent-looking puppets
"All right you little sack of fuzzy shit, show me what you got," says the grizzled coach in the trailer for this puppet... boxing game? This may be a bit more Dodgeball than Rocky, but with puppets.
Everything's better with puppets, tbh.
Killer Inn is a 24-player social deduction game from Square Enix
This ain't no Final Fantasy. Here's a pretty different game from publisher Square Enix: a multiplayer social deduction game (think Mafia or the popular d TV series) but as a multiplayer game.
Arc Raiders has a release date: October 30
Sorry folks, no surprise release for Arc Raiders during Summer Game Fest today. There were some rumors it would be shadow dropped, but you've got a few months to wait.
After PC Gamer's Morgan Park got hands-on with Arc Raiders in April, it shot up to one of our most-anticipated games of the year.
Chrono Odyssey has a Steam playtest starting June 20
This "next-generation action MMORPG" has already been announced, but the news here is you'll be able to play it real soon. Check out the Steam page to join its upcoming playtest.
Wuthering Waves update 2.4 launches June 12
Another small update here: gacha game Wuthering Waves has a trailer-worthy update landing on June 12. That's just six days!
Metroidvania Mio: Memories in Orbit has a demo out now
Man, this one's really pretty. The 2D platformer is out in 2025, and has a Steam demo live now ahead of the next Steam Next Fest bonanza.
Puzzle platformer Out of Words is coming in 2026
A two-player co-op platformer with beautiful stop-motion-esque art? Josef Fares, eat your heart out.
Lego continue to look very nice with ray tracing
Like the last game, this one's also a co-op platformer. Lego Voyagers from publisher Annapurna is "a new 2-player co-op adventure that’s all about building spaceships, excitement and friendships."
Spongebob plays D&D?
Nickelodeon's making a game called Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny which looks like a sort of crossover beat 'em up. The official YouTube description gives us more:
"Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny is a vibrant, universe-spanning mashup that brings iconic Nickelodeon heroes into a world of fantasy-style tropes and real-time RPG action. Roll the dice and dive into a wild, action-packed adventure with SpongeBob and more Nickelodeon characters!"
It's out in fall 2025.
Shadow drop: Lies of P's DLC is available right now
The Overture DLC for Lies of P is out right now. It's live on the Steam page!
Here's what to expect from the DLC, as we wrote earlier this week.
"Doki Doki Literature Club meets Silent Hill"
Well that's a hell of a pitch for a farming slash horror game, just announced at SGF. Fractured Blooms definitely looks like a weird one, and publisher Serenty Forge has a strong track record of unique projects.
Anyone else have trouble keeping up with the SGF anime block?
Summer Game Fest just ran a bunch of anime game trailers back-to-back, making it tough to tell all of htem apart. Here's what we just saw:
- Blade & Soul Neo - New Warlock class "coming soon"
- Blade & Soul Heroes - Out in September
- Crystal of Atlan - One Punch Man crossover from June 26 - July 26
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin - An open world action RPG, coming in 2025
Jurassic World Evolution 3 is out October 21
The next Jurassic World management game now has a date! Maybe the new Jurassic World movie will have people hyped to build some dino parks. What could go wrong, right?
The next game from Shovel Knight's dev team has a demo now, out October 31
I've been waiting for Mina the Hollower for what feels like ages: the Kickstarter for this Game Boy Zelda-like adventure was successfully funded in 2022, with an anticipated 2023 release. That's about right for game development, eh? But hey, it looks great. And you can play the demo now!
Let's just pretend Deadpooll VR isn't happening
Do you really wanna play a Deadpool game on Meta Quest? Listen to those quips in your ear all day? I really don't. Let's just move on.
Dying Light: The Beast is out in August
Announced last year, this Dying Light installment that started as DLC but grew into a bigger game has a date, and it's just a couple months out.
A classic coming of age movie in game form?
"On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation," describes the Steam page for Mixtape. This one was announced almost a year ago during a PlayStation showcase. The art's gorgeous, but it feels like we kinda just did this with Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.
Props for the developer's name Beethoven and Dinosaur, though. Real fun.
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree is a roguelike from the developer behind the Mana games
You may not have heard of Japanese developer Brownies, but the studio behind this roguelike was founded by Kameoka Shinichi, best known as one of the chief creatives behind Secret of Mana and many more games in that series. More recently they worked on Doraemon Story of Seasons for Bandai Namco, which is also publishing Towa.
It's coming out on September 18 and already has a Steam page.
Acts of Blood looks pretty amazing for a solo developed game
Okay, so not really solo: developer Fajrul Fn has contracted out work on music, animation and more for this Indonedian-set beat 'em up. But if you loved Sifu or The Raid, this might be your jam. It looks quite technical in how it controls, but with some exquisitely punchy animations. It's due in summer 2026.
Holy crap, a new (or at least updated!) Scott Pilgrim beat 'em up
Never thought I'd see the day. Tribute Games is back, with pixel art god Paul Robertson and input from Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O'Malley.
"Join Scott Pilgrim & Ramona Flowers in a brand-new brawling adventure through space, time, and the streets of Toronto!" says Tribute.
It includes 4-player drop-in, drop-out co-op and seven playable characters. After the smoke clears from SGF we're going to have to figure out if this is some kind of expansion on the original game that Tribute made in partnership with Ubisoft, or if it's wholly separate.
It's coming in 2026.
The First Descendant: Breakthrough is coming in August
A "mega update" for The First Descendant including "hoverbikes, 8-player field colossus raids, and a brand-new Descendant" is coming in August.
I have to admit I'm not completely sold on the quality of this expansion given the developer's pitch: "experience the content you’ve only dreamed of!"
Mmmm, I love dreaming of content.
You can't just use Mad World in a game trailer in the year 2025
I'm sorry, MindsEye. That song belongs to Donnie Darko and Gears of War. Also, the 2000s. I judge you TASTELESS for this choice.
MindsEye is out next week, but more exciting is publisher IO Interactive's news that it's putting Mads Mikkelsen in Hitman, returning to his Casino Royale role as Le Chiffre as the next Hitman Elusive Target.
20-player "Sea of Thieves in space" game Wildgate is out on July 24
This "space shenanigans" extraction game from Blizzard founder Mike Morhaime's new studio seems quite promising. Lovely art, silly, lots of potential for hijinks. And the news: it's out soon!
WORLD PREMIERE: Blighted, from Guacamelee studio Drinkbox
I haven't typed "World Premiere" in a couple hours, so I got excited, sorry.
Looks like an action roguelike? Hades-esque? Here's the description from the Steam page, which is live now:
"Battle your way through a psychedelic western nightmare to reclaim the memories of your people in this action RPG from the creators of Guacamelee! Harness the power of the deadly, reality-altering Blight and unravel the mysteries of a twisted world."
It's not out till 2026.
Ill made me feel ill
That's ILL, to be clear.
You don't need me to tell you this one's a horror game, on account of the horrifically messed up babies, severed fingers, and naked bodies being blown in half by shotguns. When the guy comes crawling out of the muddy hole... I did not care for it.
No release date, but it's nice to see someone following up on RE7's claustrophobic first-person survival horror. Well, not "nice" but you know.
Mecha Break launches July 1
We thought Mecha Break was pretty rad when we played it in February, though it already had clear problems with its monetization. Last we heard, beta feedback had the developers considering unlocking more stuff in the game to make people happier.
Honey, I Shrunk the Aliens
Infintesimals, coming in 2026, is the latest in the proud tradition of "everything's cooler when you're a tiny guy in the normal-sized world." See also: Grounded, Pikmin, etc. This one was just revealed at SGF and stars some extraterrestrials looking for their friends on Earth, where they happen to be a bit teensy tiny.
Capcom confirms a new Resident Evil is coming...
... but that's all we get for now. Next year will be Resident Evil's 30th anniversary, and series producer Jun Takeuchi asks us be patient.
"Now, about the latest Resident Evil game you've all been waiting for, bear with us a little longer, just a blink of an eye more, and it'll be ready."