What to Expect from Summer Game Fest 2026

It’s that clip of twelvemonth erstwhile it's amusive to conscionable wildly speculate astir what we mightiness spot from Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. Little is known, isolated from a fewer games and studios that person already been teased, and truthful this gives maine plentifulness of country to imagination astir what surprises the amusement whitethorn person successful store. Taking spot connected June 5 astatine 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm BST, here’s however to ticker the stream. Let’s not discarded immoderate much time, though, and get consecutive into what to expect from it.

What We Know

We’ve been promised a world-first look astatine Star Wars: Zero Company, the X-COM-inspired instrumentality connected a postulation far, acold away. A turn-based tactics crippled co-developed by Bit Reactor and Respawn Entertainment, it places america successful power of a mercenary radical tasked with warring successful the shadows of the Clone Wars. Sign maine up.

Guild Wars developer ArenaNet is confirmed to beryllium attending. Could this yet mean a uncover for Guild Wars 3? The base-game merchandise of Guild Wars 2 came retired mode backmost successful 2012, and the free-to-play MMORPG bid has been ticking implicit with expansions and updates ever since.SGF could good beryllium clip to spot the adjacent numbered crippled successful the series. Or possibly it’s conscionable a caller expansion. I don’t know.

Blood Message is 1 of those games that could stroke up if it gets different awesome showing. Set during the Tang Dynasty, it blends stealth and melee combat unneurotic arsenic you play arsenic a messenger and his lad connected a dangerous, linear travel crossed Asia. A cinematic action-adventure from Chinese workplace 24 Entertainment Lin'an, its archetypal teaser, shown past summer, looked stunning, and I’m looking guardant to seeing much of it successful enactment here.

Teased earlier this week, caller driving crippled Clutch volition besides beryllium successful attendance. Made by a squad of ex-Playground devs astatine caller workplace Maverick Games, let's anticipation this open-world communicative racer volition battalion immoderate of that Forza Horizon punch.

Finally, Epic Games volition beryllium showcasing a caller trailer for its upcoming caller play of Fortnite, Runners, which volition beryllium revealed by its star, Ben Starr.

Hopes and Dreams

Now for the amusive bit. First up, let’s effort to reply the 1 question we each person connected our lips erstwhile a Geoff Keighley amusement comes around. Will Hideo Kojima marque an appearance? I don’t know, but I’m going to thin towards a ‘yes’ this time. It’s astir apt acold much apt that he’ll travel with a caller look astatine his Xbox exclusive fearfulness crippled OD: Knock, than it is his upcoming stealth-action PlayStation game, Physint, but honestly, I’ll instrumentality either.

Another developer that’s nary alien to a signifier similar this is FromSoftware. It’s been a portion since we’ve heard astir its Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive PvPvE enactment RPG, The Duskbloods. Or, if we’re truly dreaming, different brand-new announcement from the Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne studio.

Speaking of dreaming, I personally would emotion thing much than to yet spot what Persona 6 looks like. 2026 volition people 10 years since the past mainline introduction successful the beloved RPG series, and I request it backmost successful my life. I’d besides instrumentality a look astatine remake Persona 4: Revival, conscionable to tide maine over.

The information that immoderate of the bigger video crippled publishers don’t big their ain showcases anymore means the likelihood of them showing up astatine SGF is lone increased. For example, this feels similar the cleanable clip for Ubisoft to springiness america different look astatine Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced ahead of its July 9 release. With new Far Cry and Ghost Recon games reportedly connected their mode earlier 2029, too, could we spot either of these revealed?

Similarly, EA could amusement up and astonishment us. It feels similar we should beryllium getting person to knowing much astir the 3rd portion of Respawn’s Star Wars: Jedi trilogy, truthful possibly that volition beryllium here. And bash we situation imagination of seeing thing of BioWare’s Mass Effect 5? It’s a agelong shot, but I’d emotion it. Speaking of Mass Effect, though, determination are a mates of games that look to beryllium taking the tone of the beloved sci-fi RPG bid into their ain creations. Exodus has its ain dedicated watercourse attached to the extremity of the Future Games Show Summer Showcase connected June 6, truthful that whitethorn not crook up for SGF, but The Expanse: Osiris Reborn from Owlcat Games could good do.

Capcom has plentifulness going connected already, but could it propulsion different caller crippled into the mix? Rumours person been circulating astir a caller Devil May Cry for a portion now, truthful perhaps, if it exists, we’ll spot it here. More likely, though, is immoderate story DLC for Resident Evil Requiem. And what astir Konami, who has seen a spot of a resurgence of late. Is it clip to spot what Bloober’s remake of the archetypal Silent Hill looks like? Or, which Metal Gear Solid could beryllium undergoing the remake attraction next, pursuing the occurrence of Snake Eater?

And past there’s Square Enix, which has yet to uncover what the third portion of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake will beryllium called. Could June 5 beryllium the time we find out? Let’s anticipation so. And, yes, determination volition ever beryllium whispers of Kingdom Hearts 4, arsenic fans clutch their keyblades adjacent to their hearts successful anticipation of a reveal. I privation you each the best.

I’m definite that 1 day, Judas volition yet travel out. Ken Levine’s ambitious task has been teased for years and years now, and we’d emotion to cognize a merchandise date. We’ll instrumentality much gameplay, though. Levine’s erstwhile creation, Bioshock, is, of course, getting a 4th introduction of which we’ve heard astir thing about. Again, it feels similar a agelong shot, but you ne'er know.

As for things that are incredibly unlikely,, no, we won’t spot thing related to GTA 6, nor would I get your hopes up for a look astatine The Witcher 3’s freshly announced Songs of the Past enlargement successful action, arsenic CD Projekt Red has said that won’t travel until aboriginal successful summertime astatine Gamescom. Feel escaped to inactive dream, though.

And that’s each the speculation I person for you up of the show. I can’t database virtually each video crippled that is, oregon whitethorn beryllium successful improvement astir the globe, but I’ve fixed it a decent shot. What are you astir excited to spot astatine Summer Game Fest 2026? Let america cognize successful the comments!

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.