Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest.

Geoff Keighley launches Summer Game Fest to capture gaming’s biggest unveils

Geoff Keighley, the organizer of The Game Awards, is announcing the Summer Game Fest today. It’s a four-month-long season of game industry news events from the top platforms and game publishers.

The new festival will be a substitute for the now-canceled Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and it will be organized around an online hub for announcements from May to August. One of the big events will include content related to the May 7 news for the Xbox Series X, and it will culminate with Keighley’s broadcast of opening night for the now all-digital Gamescom.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.