IGN Summer of Gaming 2025 Schedule: How to Watch and What to Expect

IGN's Summer of Gaming is backmost for its sixth twelvemonth and determination is truthful overmuch to look guardant to, including the instrumentality of IGN Live, breathtaking gaming livestreams similar the Xbox Games Showcase, Summer Game Fest, Day of the Devs, and truthful overmuch more.

While the afloat scope of each the summertime festivities has yet to beryllium acceptable successful stone, we wanted to commencement gathering each the biggest gaming events successful 1 spot to guarantee you don't miss a thing!

When Is Summer of Gaming 2025?

IGN's Summer of Gaming kicks disconnected June 1 and runs done June 30, and features each the large showcases from crossed the games industry! There are inactive a batch of unknowns for the large gaming events this summer, but the representation gets clearer eac and each day, truthful beryllium definite to cheque backmost often to enactment up to date!

Is IGN Live Returning for 2025?

Yes! IGN Live is backmost successful a large mode from June 7 - 8 for a multi-day solemnisation of video games and entertainment, filled with playable demos, caller announcements, panels, contests, signifier shows, giveaways, meet-and-greets with IGN personalities, and truthful overmuch more.

While determination volition beryllium 2 days of livestreams for IGN Live, we'd besides emotion you to articulation america successful Downtown Los Angeles astatine the Magic Box @ The Reef for a ton of breathtaking opportunities similar watching our amusement live, getting hands-on demos of games and perchance adjacent the Switch 2, photograph ops and exclusive merch, gaming stations and tournamnets, nutrient trucks and lounges, and more.

For much info and the nexus to bargain IGN Live tickets, click here!

Summer of Gaming 2025 Schedule and What to Expect

You tin find the existent docket for IGN's Summer of Gaming below, but we bash privation to enactment this database volition beryllium updated regularly with caller shows, details, dates, and truthful overmuch more!

Tuesday, June 3

• The MIX Summer Game Showcase - 9am PT/12pm ET
  • The MIX Summer Game Showcase, which was formerly known arsenic the Guerrilla Collective, volition beryllium highlighting immoderate of the champion indie games successful the world, some online during its showcase and in-person for those capable to get to the Grammy Museum Rooftop successful Los Angeles.
• State of Unreal - 6:30am PT/9:30am ET
  • The State of Unreal 2025 is acceptable to stock what's adjacent for Unreal Engine and the Epic ecosystem, and this volition beryllium the archetypal twelvemonth the amusement volition instrumentality spot astatine Epic's ain Unreal Fest. Last twelvemonth was a large twelvemonth for State of Unreal, arsenic that was wherever we got our archetypal existent look astatine Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra.

Thursday, June 5

• Green Games Showcase - 1pm PT/4pm ET
  • The Green Games Showcase has a precise important ngo - showcase however the "world's astir breathtaking games are driving real-world change." Furthermore, it has a ngo to rise $300,000 by June 30 to assistance with situation restoration successful Timor-Leste done its Gold Standard-certified partner, WithOneSeed, to assistance "protect endangered taxon and regenerate forests."

Friday, June 6

• Summer Game Fest - 2pm PT/5pm ET
  • Geoff Keighley and his Summer Game Fest are backmost again for 2025, and the amusement promises to unveil a glimpse of the breathtaking and agleam aboriginal of the video crippled industry. While we don't cognize what secrets volition beryllium revealed, you tin cheque retired what games were featured successful past year's amusement to get an thought of what to expect.
• Day of the Devs - 4pm PT/7pm ET
  • Another Day of the Devs is connected its mode this summertime and volition erstwhile again showcase immoderate of the champion games from indie developers astir the world. Last year's amusement was highlighted by specified games arsenic UFO 50, Zoochosis, and Cozy Grove 2, and we person a feeling determination volition beryllium adjacent much homeruns this clip around.

Saturday, June 7

• IGN Live - Day 1 Livestream - 12pm PT/3pm ET
  • Along with our in-person IGN Live lawsuit downtown LA, our large IGN Live livestream kicks disconnected connected June 7 and it volition beryllium a amusement you won't privation to miss!
• Wholesome Games - 9am PT/12pm ET
  • Tune into the Wholesome Games amusement to spot a "vibrant lineup of artistic, uplifting, and emotionaly resonant games from developers of each sizes from astir the world!" For context, consciousness escaped to cheque retired the 15 games from past year's amusement that we perfectly loved.
• Women-Led Games - 10am PT/1pm ET
  • Women-Led Games returns for its 2nd amusement this twelvemonth with 39 games from unthinkable women-led and bulk women studios crossed the games industry.
• Southeast Asia Game Showcase - 12pm PT/3pm ET
  • Games developed successful Southeast Asia instrumentality the spotlight successful the aptly named Southeast Asia Game Showcase, which volition diagnostic exclusive reveals, caller trailers, and updates from implicit 45 games developed successful the region.

Sunday, June 8

• IGN Live - Day 2 Livestream - 12pm PT/3pm ET
  • The 2nd time of our IGN Live livestream takes spot connected June 8 and we'll uncover much breathtaking details soon astir what fans tin expect some in-person and online.
• Xbox Games Showcase - 10am PT/1pm ET
  • Xbox's large games showcase takes spot connected June 7 and volition beryllium instantly followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. As for the Xbox Games Showcase, it volition see a loook astatine games from Xbox's archetypal enactment studios and originative partners astir the globe. Last year, the amusement has the gameplay uncover of Fable, a large look astatine Doom: The Dark Ages, State of Decay 3, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and overmuch more.
• The PC Gaming Show - 12pm PT/3pm ET
  • Check retired The PC Gaming Show for a preview of implicit 50 games playable connected PC, Steam Deck, Linux, and MacOS alongside satellite premieres, exclusive announcements, in-depth developer interviews, and overmuch more. Oh, and it was confirmed the archetypal partners for the amusement are Ubisoft, Devolver Digital, Failbetter Games, and Astra Logical.

Monday, June 9

• Black Voices successful Gaming - 9am PT/12pm ET
  • Black Voices successful Gaming volition beryllium backmost with different amusement that celebrates Black crippled developers astir the globe, and you tin cheque retired the watercourse from past twelvemonth to spot what you tin expect.

Where to Watch Summer of Gaming Livestreams

Below, you tin find each the places to ticker the events, including IGN.com, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, and more:

• IGN.com (homepage)
• IGN’s YouTube Channel
• IGN's YouTube - ASL version
• IGN's Twitch Channel
• IGN's Facebook Channel
• IGN’s Twitter
• The IGN Fan Fest 2025 Steam Page
• IGN's iOS App
• IGN's Android App
• IGN's PlayStation 4 App
• IGN App for Android TV
• IGN for Amazon Fire TV
• IGN 1 connected Amazon Fire TV
• Pluto TV

Don't Miss Out On More Fun

Tune successful to IGN’s Summer of Gaming arsenic we sermon the caller archetypal series, FX’s Alien: Earth. From creator Noah Hawley and Executive Producer Ridley Scott, comes the archetypal tv bid inspired by the legendary Alien Film franchise premiering August 12th connected FX and Hulu.

Presented by Alien: Earth

See gamers “get good” — oregon astatine slightest get amended astatine 1 oddly circumstantial happening — with immoderate grooming montages and by utilizing the Lenovo Legion 7i gaming laptop. Its Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 50 Series graphics, and PureSight OLED show volition transportation these gamers from mediocrity to borderline respectability (depending connected who you ask).

Presented by Lenovo

IGN’s Daemon Hatfield, Brian Altano, Max Scoville, and Kim Horcher got to spell hands-on with the Nintendo Switch 2 and play immoderate Mario Kart World. Stay tuned to Summer of Gaming to spot it successful action, get a look astatine immoderate of the features of some the crippled and the Switch 2, and wherefore each our hosts recovered it distractingly fun.

Presented by Nintendo

We've got you covered connected each the biggest announcements and reveals during Summer of Gaming, presented By PlayStation Days of Play. This is besides the clip to instrumentality vantage of summertime sales. With PlayStation's Days of Play, you tin get the PlayStation 5 Digital console with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 bundle starting astatine $399.99. While supplies last.

Presented by PlayStation