Summer season Sport Fest’s dwell showcase may need struggled to constantly entertain with its saggy center and extreme runtime, however the total season-wide occasion has apparently already achieved what it wanted to – producer Geoff Keighley has now confirmed Summer season Sport Fest will return subsequent 12 months, dwell showcase and all.
Summer season Sport Fest is presently in its fourth consecutive 12 months – having initially began amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as a response to main in-person gaming occasions being shut down – and 2023’s providing has been larger than ever.
It was, after all, initially anticipated to have some competitors from the returning E3 this 12 months, however after that present’s cancellation, Summer season Sport Fest swelled to fill the hole, hoovering up quite a lot of writer showcases and occasions below the Summer season Sport Fest banner.
And in keeping with Keighley’s announcement of a Summer season Sport Fest return in 2024, this 12 months’s occasion has been a “record-setting” one – though precisely what information have been set wasn’t made clear. Nonetheless, it is clearly confirmed sufficient of a hit that each the dwell showcase and invite-only Play Days part (a particular in-person occasion for media and influencers) are confirmed to be going down once more subsequent 12 months.
Keighley says extra particulars on Summer season Sport Fest 2024 shall be shared “within the coming months”, and as for the rest of this 12 months’s present, you may see what’s nonetheless to come back over in Eurogamer’s information.
