Grab your snacks, fill up your Stanley cup and get ready: The games are coming. Summer Game Fest 2025 kicked off today with the official SGF livestream hosted by Geoff Keighley, followed by the annual (and wonderful) indie-focused Day of the Devs stream.
Here's a full schedule of Summer Game Fest events and related livestreams. Don't miss the PC Gaming Show on Sunday!
You can watch the archived Summer Game Fest livestream above, but if you just want to skim the announcements, I live blogged the whole thing as it happened. The live blog is archived below, with my posts presented in chronological order from the start of the show to the end. (Spoiler: Geoff and Capcom pull a mean trick on us part way through.)
Thanks for joining me, PC gamers. We've got about an hour and a half before showtime, which means you've got a generous window to go buy some chips—and then read our SGF 2025 preview for everything we know about this year's show.
There's quite a lengthy list of developers partnered up for this event, but if I had to pick out one name to be excited about, it's probably Coffee Stain, the developer behind my beloved Satisfactory. Coffee Stain recently spun out from under the Embracer umbrella. I wonder what it's got cooking up?
What did you think of 007: First Light's reveal at Sony's State of Play on Wednesday? We might see a bit more of it during Summer Game Fest, since IO Interactive is a partner.
PC Gamer's Rich Stanton is a life-long Bond fan and argues that James Bond doesn't need an origin story, even though he's sure IO Interactive's game will be great. Bond should just be perpetually middle aged!
One hour to go!
The Summer Game Fest livestream kicks off at 2 pm Pacific. It'll start with a preshow, but Geoff usually packs a few announcements in there, too.
Anyone know what's up with that chicken?
As you can see from the photo above, there is at least one chicken in attendance at Summer Game Fest. Here's what Geoff Keighley had to say about it earlier today:
"Here's a rooster looking forward to #SummerGameFest"
... yeah, that doesn't really clear anything up at all. Except perhaps that Geoff Keighley so passionately believes in the power of videogames that he thinks this rooster knows what's going on and is excited for some trailers.
The Summer Game Fest theater is filling up
PC Gamer's Evan Lahti is live on the scene, and the audience is filtering in ahead of showtime, which kicks off in about 20 minutes.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the Summer Game Fest lozenge on the screen there looks really tasty? That's cherry candy right? I'd eat it.
10 minutes to go. Last-minute predictions?
Here's my wild one: Hideo Kojima shows up, but not to promote Death Stranding 2, which has its own dedicated event on Sunday. He's actually going to offer an early look at OD, the horror game he's supposedly been making with Jordan Peele.
When the Summer Game Fest announcements start flowing in, I'll be concentrating on summing up each bit of news rather than blasting out a second-by-second play-by-play.
Here we go!
Summer Game Fest begins!
"This show has a little bit of everything," says host Geoff Keighley.
But you know what it has the most of? Goo. As previously established, I love and would eat the goo.
Keighley is highlighting some of the biggest games of the year using the top games on Steam, from indie hit Schedule I to RPG his Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. PC gaming really is the leader now, eh?
Mortal Shell 2 is metal af, coming to Steam in 2026
The first game announced at SGF 2025 from Swedish studio Cold Symmetry looks absolutely grisly. The trailer went hard with a metal track that I bet got a few folks in the crowd pumped the hell up.
And lookie here: Mortal Shell 2's already got a Steam page.
