With E3 2020 formally cancelled, Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has introduced the Steam Game Festival might be returning as soon as once more this yr.
The Steam Game Festival kicks off on June 9, the day E3 was initially scheduled to start out, and can run till June 14. Like the earlier Steam Game Festivals, the upcoming occasion will supply up free game demos to Steam customers for a 48-hour window, though Keighley’s tweets counsel says that this time issues may be a bit larger.
“Much more news will be coming soon about my plans for the Summer,” he writes, “an entirely new way for us all to gather and celebrate gaming in these uncertain times.”
Much extra information might be coming quickly about my plans for the Summer — a wholly new method for us all to collect and rejoice gaming in these unsure occasions.
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) April 13, 2020
The Steam Game Festival was first announced in 2019, taking tempo alongside The Game Awards.
“Six years ago I bet everything I had to create The Game Awards as a way to celebrate our passion for gaming,” Keighley mentioned on the time. “Now looks like the appropriate time to take the subsequent step with The Game Festival, a totally digital strategy to the buyer occasion house.
“Let’s face it: Not everybody can attend a bodily commerce present or client occasion. The Game Festival is designed from the ground-up as an occasion with out boundaries, extending the advantages of a bodily occasion to the worldwide gaming neighborhood that watches The Game Awards.”
A Spring Edition of the occasion took place in March, highlighting over 40 games whose demos had been meant for this year’s postponed GDC event.
