Summer Game Fest Conference Schedule 2024: Dates, How To Watch, Everything You Need To Know

Geoff is literally telling people to lower their expectations, that they're not going to see any "one more thing" reveals.

Imagine showing off your game here and the guy running it says that 😭

Don't waste your time watching Summer Games Fest. It's not E3, it will never be E3, it will be a bunch of press conferences and commercials wishing you spent your time watching paint dry instead. All the game announcements and reveals will be condensed in a 10 min read/watch after the shows on several gaming news sites. The Nintendo Direct is around the corner, stay strong for what really counts.

Not to discredit any of the criticisms from the previous comments here, but I will say that the Devolver Direct is usually worth the watch. The games are quality, and the presentation is pretty fun.

I'll happily let this blow over. Looks like no one, except Geoff Keighley cares about this event, anyway. I'll just look forward to the Nintendo Direct in June, and that will be my dose of new game info, besides this website, of course.

This feels like the world's saddest manifesto

I really do miss E3. The mid-2000s were a magical time with G4 coverage and all of the great anticipation surrounding the stage presentations of the Big 3. Man... It's so different now. At least Microsoft still puts on a decent show with Nintendo typically doing a Direct and TreeHouse Live. I've actually been digging Gamescom the last few years as well.

E3 replacement, my booty.

Ubisoft Forward June 10, 9pm CEST according to the SGF calendar. Also the event for the Opening Showcase in the calendar spans a little over 3hs, so it might be longer than just 2hs. I hope they keep a nice pace and it doesn't get boring after a while.

Summer Ads Fest

I'm extremely hyped for the promised new trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds, but I'm not watching the whole thing just for that. I'll just look for it later.

Other than that, I don't really have any expectations for this. I can't wait for the Nintendo Direct, though!

Bit surprised Capcom isn't doing their own show this year. Guess given how quiet their release schedule is they just don't have a huge amount to show.

Either way my plans are basically just to disconnect my Xbox from the Internet Wednesday evening to hope that it doesn't do that obnoxious full page ad nonsense when I turn it on on Thursday and otherwise just read up on everything later.

Thanks for the article. I just got back from a very busy 4 day vacation and needed to get caught up.👍

I really don't care for this event, no point in watching the actual thing, will just watch any trailers that interest me afterwards.

Glad there is a collection of trailers together for some of the hype of E3 that is not ONLY the biggest publishers. It is a real problem for the industry now that there are thousands of games a year and 100+ games that have a large monetary risk involved.

@rjejr What kind of vacation?

@aaronsullivan My, and our, first trip to Montreal, 2 days there, plus Lake George on the drive up, accidentally attending Trump fueled Americade 😝and Lake Placid waterfall on the way back home in High Valley Gorge or some such. 👍

Is it just me or has he said lower your expectations for 3+ years? at this point, my expectations are waking up and just skipping quickly to the end of the stream in 5 minutes, cus I'm expecting just a lot of fps games and a whole lot more ads.

i show up for the sega and atlus content, and i dont pay attention during the rest

I keep hearing "no big announcements" from people but I'm hyped for Doom and XBOX. It doesn't seem like Sony or Nintendo have much going on this year, so hopefully MS will show some exciting games. From all those studios they bought? Not sure what's going on over there.

I will not watch the presentation.
I will wait the article about the games announced from the presentation.
If I don't find any interesting games, I will find from play-asia for the upcoming kids games.

I think Mr. Keighley doesn't know how calendars work. Summer doesn't begin until the 20th, you silly goose! More like Late Spring Game Fest

Will there be ads? And ads in between the ads? I'm just worried Summer Games Fest might not include enough ads.

Nintendo direct still TBA but at least we know coming in June I reckon that week but we will see.

@rjejr
Lucky you! I adore Montreal. It's a lovely city.

The first time we went I was just starting the 8th month of pregnancy with our first. We walked down hill to site see and were going to ride the tram or whatever it was back up to the hotel. Well, it wasn't running. There were no cabs around.

We started back up and about half way there I sat down on the curb. Bill asked what I was doing and I told him to go home without me, that I was just going to sit there, have the baby and I'd catch up with him in a couple months.

I seem to remember he got me back to the hotel by luring me with a croissant.

You could have bothered to sync the time zone info...

Them having both an Ace Attorney-specific sale and suddenly releasing a bundle of 1-6 together yesterday is making me really hopeful suddenly that we're getting a 7 announcement today.

Wonder what netflix doing there, what games they got to show us?

@k8sMum Nice story, always appreciate a little LOL in the morning. 😂 The best part was the croissant, as in the worst part of our trip, for me, was the food. I keep joking that the only thing they eat for breakfast and lunch is coffee and croissants. Nothing against coffee and croissants, I enjoy them both, but I like options more. First thing I did when I got back to the states was go to your typical small family owned breakfast & lunch cafe called "Hungry Bear" and got a big ole plate of eggs & toast. Yummy. 😁

Second worst part was it was a bit too hot, mid 85ish, but that's what you get on summer vacation, I kept reminding my wife and kids. My wife and I barely survived walking up that mountainside as is, can't imagine doing it 8 months pregnant. Actually I cant' imagine being 8 months pregnant, so also that.

Just read your post to my wife, she works from home sitting behind me, and she also LOL'd and she was very impressed you tackled that mountain 8 months pregnant. No tram now, we walked up the east side and down the stairs towards Montreal. Originally we were going in the opposite direction but I changed my plans, very glad I did, nobody wanted to walk up all those stairs after walking up the 3 block long hill to get there. My wife's Fitbit and my phone each said we walked 10.8 miles that day. It was a long day. Next day we did half that, much better.

Just can't get hyped for this. A bunch of companies I barely care about drip feeding reveals for two months. All I need is to hear what Nintendo are bringing to Switch. If anything else interesting gets announced, I'm sure you guys will inform me.

@rjejr Oh, that's very nice. Never been to Montreal, but I've camped with family up at Lake George. I was pretty young, so my favorite part was the arcades. haha. I have a vivid memory of playing the arcade game, Trojan, there.

@k8sMum Oh no, haha. Not sure if it was wit or just an honest appraisal of your future that made you say that, but I lol'd too.

@rjejr The comforts of a good small diner can solve a lot. My only problem is that whenever I try a new one, I have to try their eggs Benedict. I don't even mind the made-from-a-mix kind, but every once in a while it's amazing. (Chef's kiss to the benny at Lindy's Diner in New Hampshire)

@aaronsullivan My go to is the western omelet. I've driven around the country a few times and that's always my go to. It's rarely great but it's hard to mess up. Though a lot of times I'll just go for the special w/ the stupid name, b/c I'm touristy like that. 😂

The main intersection at Lake George has an arcade on 3 of the 4 intersections. After walking through several of them to check them out, b/c that's what we do, we all agreed my sister should never take my 9 year old godson to Lake George, they'd never get him out of those.

There was a very cool looking Godzilla kaiju wars VR game in 2 of them I'd never seen before. Need to see if I can find 1 local, maybe at Dave & Busters.

Montreal was nice, I'd recommend for a day or 2 visit if you're into the city scene. Hearing everyone talking French then immediately switching to English when speaking to us was kinda cool, like they are dual lingual from birth up there kind of b/c they have to be. Exchange rate is nice too. 👍