IGN Summer of Gaming 2026: How to Watch and What to Expect

IGN’s Summer of Gaming is backmost for its seventh year, and determination are truthful galore large moments to look guardant to that committedness to springiness america an breathtaking glimpse of the aboriginal of video games, from our precise ain IGN Live to the Xbox Games Showcase, State of Play, Summer Game Fest Watch Party, Wholesome Direct, and more.

There is truthful overmuch going connected that we wanted to make this usher to guarantee you won’t miss a thing, and we’ll beryllium updating this arsenic much events are announced and revealed!

How to Watch the Summer of Gaming 2026 Streams

If you’d similar to ticker each these large showcases we’ll item beneath on with us, present are each the platforms you tin bash truthful from the comfortableness of your precise ain home;

• IGN.com
• IGN's YouTube
• Steam
• Facebook
• Twitter / X
• Twitch
• IGN mobile apps
• Eurogamer
• VG247
• Rock Paper Shotgun

Is IGN Live Returning successful 2026?

Yes! IGN Live is acceptable to instrumentality spot some in-person astatine the Magic Box @ The Reef successful Downtown LA and online connected June 6-7. While we’d emotion to person you articulation america successful person, we’ll besides beryllium streaming the biggest moments from some days of IGN Live. To larn more, cheque retired however you tin get tickets to the unrecorded event, the schedule, the impermanent lineup and personage appearances planned, and however you tin ticker the festivities from the comfortableness of your home.

Summer of Gaming 2026 Schedule and What to Expect

You tin find the existent docket for IGN’s Summer of Gaming below, but we bash privation to enactment that this database volition beryllium updated regularly with caller shows, details, dates, and more!

Monday, June 1

• The MIX Summer Game Showcase - 9am PT/12pm ET/2pm BST
  • The MIX Summer Game Showcase is some an online and in-person lawsuit that aims to assistance rise visibility for developers and publishers from astir the world.
• Midsummer Night’s Scream: A Horror Game Awards Showcase - 11am PT/2pm ET/4pm BST
  • Midsummer Night’s Scream: A Horror Game Awards Showcase aims to instrumentality viewers done a terrifying yet breathtaking travel that volition springiness a preview of the biggest fearfulness games coming retired successful 2026 and beyond! This amusement promises implicit 100 games, implicit 50 satellite premieres, and a tally clip of implicit 2 hours!

Tuesday, June 2

• Black Voices successful Gaming - 12pm PT/3pm ET/5pm BST
  • Black Voices successful Gaming is returning again successful 2026 to stock a planetary postulation of upcoming indie titles, interviews and gameplay, and developer heavy dives from Black creators.
• Sony State of Play - 2pm PT/5pm ET/7pm BST
  • PlayStation’s latest State of Play aired connected June 2 and provided an extended look astatine Marvel’s Wolverine, the breathtaking uncover of God of War Laufey, and a ton of different games headed to PlayStation 5 successful 2026 and beyond.

Thursday, June 4

• Latin American Games Showcase - 2pm PT/5pm ET/7pm BST
  • Tune into this peculiar broadcast to larn much astir 80 of the champion and brightest games (15 merchandise day reveals and 9 satellite premieres!) and developers from Latin America, including Shade Protocol, Kernel Hearts, Colorbound, Sigils of Nightfall, and Tenebris Somnia.
• Woman-Led Games: Summer Game Fest - 4pm PT/7pm ET/9pm BST
  • Women-Led Games is simply a showcase that puts the well-deserved absorption connected women-led and majority-women studios making immoderate genuinely singular games. There volition besides beryllium different 1 successful the wintertime with The Game Awards.

Friday, June 5

• Summer Game Fest 2026 Watch Party
  • Tune-in astatine 1:30PM PT for our IGN Summer of Gaming Pre-Show up of our Summer Game Fest 2026 Watch Party. We'll beryllium discussing immoderate of the biggest gaming announcements of the summer, arsenic good arsenic showcasing the latest gaming trailers and reveals.

Saturday, June 6

• Wholesome Direct - 9am PT/12pm ET/2pm BST
  • The astir wholesome of each the Summer of Gaming showcases returns for its seventh edition, arsenic the Wholesome Direct promises to supply a spot to larn astir uplifting, joyful, and hopeful games. This time, determination volition beryllium implicit 50 games from specified studios arsenic Frontier, NPC Studio, Stray Fawn Studio, Spry Fox, and more.
• IGN Live Day 1 - 12:15pm PT/3:15pm ET/5:15 BST
  • IGN Live is astir here, and it is acceptable to instrumentality spot some in-person astatine the Magic Box @ The Reef successful Downtown LA and online. Yes, We’ll beryllium streaming the biggest moments from some days of IGN Live to guarantee you won’t miss a thing. To larn more, cheque retired however you tin get tickets to the unrecorded event, the schedule, the impermanent lineup and personage appearances planned, and however you tin ticker the festivities from the comfortableness of your home.
  • Day 1 volition diagnostic Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Backyard Baseball, Control Resonant, Jackass: Best and Last, 007 First Light / Hitman, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Trek’s 60th day celebrations, ID@Xbox, The Death of Robin Hood, and more.

• Frosty Games Fest 2026 - 3pm PT/6pm ET/8pm BST
  • The Frosty Games Fest is present to supply updates from implicit 50 of the coolest upcoming games made successful Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sunday, June 7

• IGN Live Day 2 - 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/2:30pm BST
  • IGN Live is astir here, and it is acceptable to instrumentality spot some in-person astatine the Magic Box @ The Reef successful Downtown LA and online. Yes, We’ll beryllium streaming the biggest moments from some days of IGN Live to guarantee you won’t miss a thing. To larn more, cheque retired however you tin get tickets to the unrecorded event, the schedule, the impermanent lineup and personage appearances planned, and however you tin ticker the festivities from the comfortableness of your home.
  • Day 2 volition diagnostic My Adventures with Superman, a ticker enactment and absorption to the Xbox Games Showcase, Adventure Time: Side Quests, Magic: The Gathering, Poppy Playtime, Rick and Morty, Big Brother, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and more.
• Xbox Games Showcase and Gears of War: E-Day Direct - 10am PT/1pm ET/3pm BST
  • Xbox is acceptable to showcase the aboriginal games of its galore studios, and we cognize for definite Gears of War: E-Day volition beryllium there, arsenic it is getting a dedicated nonstop close aft the main show. Beyond that, we could get a caller look astatine Fable, the Halo: Combat Evolved remake, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Overwatch, Diablo 4, The Elder Scrolls 6, and truthful galore more

Wednesday, June 17

• State of Unreal - 7am PT/10am PT/12pm BST
  • State of Unreal volition instrumentality spot astatine Unreal Fest Chicago 2026 and aims to supply updates connected Epic’s developer tools and services, highlights from crossed the community, and a look astatine what’s ahead.