Without an E3 to preview new games and premiere trailers, Geoff Keighleys annual video game event, Summer Game Fest, returns for 2025 with the usual batch of world premiere-exclusive game reveals, special guest appearances, and other surprises. (Not a surprise, though: Hideo Kojima will be there.)

For every big announcement at Summer Game Fest 2025, including new trailers and major game announcements, check out Polygons StoryStream below. You can also watch Summer Game Fest 2025 live right here.

• ByMarloes Valentina StellaJun 4, 2025 Where to watch Summer Game Fest 2025

  Summer Game Fest is back in 2025, in which host Geoff Keighley presents several hours of video game announcements, trailers, and world premieres. As always, expect updates on games that have been previously announced, alongside some likely reveals of new games. Also, Hideo Kojima.

  Heres everything we know about the biggest gaming news event of the summer, including where to watch Summer Game Fest 2025, what time the show starts, and what to expect from the stream.

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• ByMatt PatchesJun 11, 2025 The 12 best games we played at Summer Game Fest 2025 Image: Enhance

  Polygon was on the ground for the 2025 SGF experience and we played a lot of demos while we were there. Typically these are 20-, 30-, or 40-minute experiences, so theyre not always indicative of what the final product will be. Nonetheless, heres a list of 12 game demos we played that made us the most excited for the potential that lies ahead.

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• ByMaddy MyersJun 10, 2025 Yes, Grounded 2 will also have an arachnophobia mode — even for the rideable spiders I didnt use a screenshot of a spider from this game, because Im a nice personImage: Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios

  While on the ground at Summer Game Fest 2025, I got to play a little bit of Grounded 2 and then had a quick chat afterwards with game director Chris Parker. In the brief time I had with the game, which is a sequel that continues the survival game story of kids shrunk down to itty-bitty size, I got to fight off some creepy little multi-legged mites with a spear Id fashioned from twigs, pebbles, and twine. And as I fought off those bugs, even though they werent quite spiders, I thought about how they could still trigger somebodys arachnophobia (thankfully, not an issue for yours truly).

  I have good news for those of you who hate eight-legged freaks: Grounded 2 will also have an arachnophobia mode.

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• ByIsaac RouseJun 9, 2025 New Death Stranding 2 footage revealed at Summer Game Fest premiere Image: Kojima Productions/PlayStation Studios

  Kojima Productions Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is mere weeks away from official release. As such, video game auteur Hideo Kojima showed off some near-final footage at Summer Game Fest on Sunday at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theater.

  Joined by host Geoff Keighley and his own translator, Hideo Kojima welcomed the audience before bringing out several special guests, including Troy Baker, Shioli Kutsuna, and Death Stranding 2s music producer, Woodkid. Elle Fanning, who plays Tomorrow, also appeared via video message.

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• ByJosh BroadwellJun 6, 2025 Like A Dragon devs Stranger Than Heaven is LA Noire, Yakuza-style

  Following the reveal of Project Century during The Game Awards 2024, Sega and Like A Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio showed up to Summer Game Fest 2025 with a new trailer, a new era, and a new name: Stranger Than Heaven. Where the initial trailer looked like early-20th century Judgment, where a detective wandered around a rain-soaked, 1914s Japanese city, Stranger Than Heavens latest trailer is more like RGG Studios take on L.A. Noire. 

  A detective named Mako Daito moodily searches for clues to an unknown mystery in a glitzy city filled with people lost in their pursuit of excess, glamorous nightclubs, rowdy street fights, seedy tenements, and neon-soaked high streets. It looks like RGG Studio is digging more into survival and simulation elements than usual as well. In one brief shot, Mako holds a cigarette as an on-screen tooltip pops up that reads “Draws immense hostility when smoking.” He has hunger and thirst meters, a first for the studio, and makes split-second decisions about what to do in fraught situations, like whether to show a dangerous opponent mercy.

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• ByMichael McWhertorJun 6, 2025 Every big announcement from Summer Game Fest 2025 Image: Summer Game Fest

  Summer Game Fest kicked off on Friday with a tw0-hour extravaganza, in the old-fashioned E3 style. Host Geoff Keighley brought out tons of game updates, new reveals, and a few surprises — including the long-awaited release date of some of gamings white whales. As promised, Summer Game Fest featured games like Mafia: The Old Country, Dying Light: The Beast, and Fortnite — but the surprises were BIG. A new Resident Evil. A new Scott Pilgrim game. And Deadpool VR?

  If you couldnt watch Summer Game Fest 2025 live, heres a recap of all the game announcements, release dates, trailers, and other highlights from Keighleys big games showcase.

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• ByIsaac RouseJun 6, 2025 Resident Evil Requiem is a return to form for the franchise in new trailer

  Capcom revealed the next installment in the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil Requiem, on Friday at Summer Game Fest as the livestreams closing announcement, following a swerve by the dev team earlier in the show.

  Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom says, will take the franchise back to its origins: Raccoon City. The ninth mainline Resident Evil promises “deeply terrifying aspects of psychological horror with pulse-pounding action,” Capcom says, and “spine-chilling realism like never before, with complex character details like lifelike facial expressions, realistic skin textures, and even high-fidelity sweat droplets that are sure to keep players on the edge of their seats.”

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• ByJosh BroadwellJun 6, 2025 Lego Voyagers is It Takes Two, but make it Lego and Annapurna

  Light Brick Studio and Annapurna Interactive showed off a new Lego co-op multiplayer game during Summer Game Fest 2025 called Lego Voyagers, and its basically a cozy take on Hazelights It Takes Two and Split Fiction. Lego Voyagers has you and another player become tiny Lego bricks trying to reach space, working together to solve puzzles and figure out how to navigate a lush Lego brick world. Even climbing a step is tough when youre just a lil brick.

  The debut Lego Voyagers trailer showed the blocky duo traveling through jungles, across industrial scrapyards, and down lazy, rambling rivers, piecing together inventive solutions that range from tram cars to rickety-looking rocket ships. Light Brick didnt say how players will communicate with each other or provide many details about how cooperation will work in-game. However, the studio did say that Lego Voyagers will come with a Friend Pass that, like Split Fiction and It Takes Two, lets a friend join you, even if they dont own the game. Lego Voyagers will support local, online, and split-screen play.

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• ByMatt PatchesJun 6, 2025 Scott Pilgrim returns to games in chaotic new retro brawler EX ScreenshotImage: Tribute Games

  Scott Pilgrim, all his friends, and the many of the creators who have brought his world to life over the years, are all back for a new game set for release in 2026. 

  As revealed at Summer Game Fest on Friday, Scott Pilgrim EX is a “time-warped brawling adventure” that sends Scott, Ramona Flowers, and five other playable characters battling across a Toronto ravaged by robots and demons. The new title comes from Tribute Games, the retro-minded studio formed by members of the original Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game team, and comic creator Bryan Lee OMalley, who worked closely on crafting the new story. The chiptune group Anamanaguchi also returns for the soundtrack. 

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• ByIsaac RouseJun 6, 2025 Felt That: Boxing is Punch-Out meets Crank Yankers in new trailer

  If boxing Muppets that look like Crank Yankers wasnt on your bingo card for Summer Game Fest, you surely missed out! Felt That: Boxing is a comedic boxing game in a world of furry puppets, featuring Ezra “Fuzz-E” Wright, our unlikely hero. Its up to the player to go the distance with the little guy as he scraps his way through the Tournament of a Million Punches to save an orphanage.

  Whats more shocking is that the title will feature music by none other than Flying Lotus, one of the pioneers of the classic Adult Swim bumps. The trailer shows the hilarious but strenuous exercise routine of Ezra as he prepares to get in the ring with a puppet far, far bigger than he is.

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• ByAustin ManchesterJun 6, 2025 Lies of P DLC surprise drops during Summer Game Fest Image: Neowiz/Round8/Nough

  Lies of P: Overture is available now, after a new trailer was showcased during the 2025 Summer Game Fest.

  The new trailer shows P using new weapons the DLC introduces, like his Wolverine-like claws. We see more new locations as well and the enemies theyll bring, like a giant crocodile boss P will go up against.

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• ByPatricia HernandezJun 6, 2025 Sonic Racing dev calls out Mario Kart World Sega

  With Mario Kart World as the flagship launch game for Switch 2 this year, its an unusual time for Sega to be working on its own kart racer starring its iconic blue blur. But Takashi Iizuka, head of the Sonic Team at Sega, not only acknowledged the elephant in the room during this years Summer Game Fest — he also tried flexing on the Nintendo franchise.

  Following a trailer featuring new characters for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Iizuka took the SGF stage to highlight one major difference between his game and Mario Kart World.

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• ByMichael McWhertorJun 3, 2025 Summer games fest 2025 schedule: All conference dates and times Image: Summer Game Fest

  Summer Game Fest 2025 returns in June to fill the vacuum left by E3 — may it rest in peace — and will be joined by a long list of showcases from the likes of Xbox and tireless independent organizers who will put on shows like Day of the Devs and Wholesome Direct.

  This years Summer Game Fest and “Not-E3” extravaganza may look a little lighter, though. Publishers like Nintendo and Ubisoft havent yet announced their brand of events — Nintendo Direct and Ubisoft Forward, respectively — but some of that may change as we approach what would normally be E3 season. Sony was a late addition to the list of summer showcases, announcing a new State of Play the day before it was scheduled to stream.

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