Geoff Keighley announces the Summer Game Fest, 4 months of JV with industry heavyweights

While we have known for a while that the E3 war will not take place, some snipers posted waiting for a moment of weakness seem to have judged that the time had come to press firmly on the trigger . Among these campers is a certain Geoff Keighley.

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The industry veteran had announced in february give up the organization of the 2020 E3 tank, the one that was to give pride of place buzz and sandwich men

of the Internet. Now is the time for the counterattack, since The ex-Canadian journalist announces by video the Summer Game Fest, a festival that will run for no less than four (!) months, from May August.

And this first edition has a few major players, since many tellers have already responded to the meeting, and it will at least be necessary to count with 2K, Activision Publishing, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bethesda, Blizzard Entertainment, Bungie, CD Projekt RED, Digital Extremes, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Square Enix, Private Division, Riot Games, Steam and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Players from around the world will be able to participate in this little jump, since the Summer Game Fest

will take the form of online events, but we should not expect "simple" presentations, or events in-game as Epic knows how to organize them so well. In partnership with Steam and Xbox (for now), players will also be able to take advantage of time-limited demos, notably via the Steam Game Festival, already announced from June 9 to 14.

What about Nintendo?

The interested party wishes to describe the Summer Game Fest

not as a classic event, but rather as a "Google calendar" dedicated to the video game industry, and does not want on paper to compete with the IGN site and its Summer of Gaming of June.

Finally, the only common point of all these new events may lie in the absence of Nintendo, which will not take part for the moment any of them, which was counting on some on a video presentation next month, but could be forced to review their plans, which can, as everyone knows, change. According to our colleagues from Games industry, Keighley would continue to negotiate despite their presence.

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