Guide: Summer Video Game Events: Times And Dates For E3 2020 Alternatives
The termination of E3 2020 due to a COVID-19 pestilence this year combined a opening in a center of a 2020 video gaming calendar. Various online E3 ‘alternatives’ have sprung adult to fill a blank and this beam is designed to assistance we navigate a summer report that has turn utterly busy.
Below you’ll find all a arriving video diversion events designed for Summer 2020, or a ones that mount a possibility of featuring Nintendo Switch games in some capacity. These embody conferences, online ‘festivals’ and other E3 2020 substitutes and marginal events. Obviously, Sony and Microsoft will have exhibit events for PS5 and Xbox Series X respectively – conduct to a sister sites Push Square and Pure Xbox for some-more information on those.
We’ll refurbish this list as new ones are announced or dates change. Due to tide events, some of a strange dates were deferred – check behind for new information as we get it. It’s also value observant that several of these events come underneath a powerful of others – we’ve listed them all away below.
Summer 2020 Gaming Events – E3 2020 Alternatives Full List
Indie Live Expo Saturday 6th Jun 2020
- Times: 11:50am BST / 12:50pm CET / 6:50am ET / 3:50m PT / 8:50pm AET / 19:50-23:00 JST
- Event details: A smaller scale 3-hour eventuality from Japan that will be streamed on YouTube and other platforms. It promises a special unison by stone drummer Dainashi including song from Undertale, information on arriving indie titles and special messages from a likes of ZUN, Toby Fox, SWERY, Kazuya Nino, Shuhei Yoshida and Jenova Chen. Here’s a tiny solely from a central site:
INDIE Live Expo will be hold here in a Far East island nation of Japan and streamed to all of a friends around a universe who adore indie games.
Our module will underline information on not usually Japanese indie games, though indie titles from a far-reaching accumulation of other countries as well.
Our idea is to emanate a livestream for a purpose of facilitating new experiences, friendships, and discoveries for people around a globe.
- Developers reliable (partial list): Inti Creates, Playism
Limited Run Games #LRG3 (originally Monday 8th Jun 2020, now TBA)
- Times: TBA
- Event details: Originally scheduled for 8th June, Limited Run has reliable that a LRG3 discussion with announcements of arriving earthy releases will be promote during “a after date” as announced around Twitter:
We’ll refurbish when we know more.
- Developers confirmed: TBA
Escapist Indie Showcase, Thursday 11th Jun – Sunday 14th Jun 2020
- Times: 8pm BST / 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 5am AET (Sat)
- Event details: A 2-hour Nintendo Direct-style display and post-show coverage over a following 3 days featuring over 70 indie games. Here’s a outline from a central announcement:
Our totally digital eventuality will start on Jun 11 with a “direct”-style showcase on YouTube, where we’ll be display off over 70 opposite indie games from developers all around a world. The showcase will embody new reveals and lots of gameplay, and we even had developers emanate brief tiny developer diaries so we could accommodate a ardent people behind a games you’ll be playing.
Following a Indie Showcase, from Jun 12 – 14 we will be providing post-show coverage on YouTube and Twitch featuring many of a games we saw in a showcase around in-depth hands-on demos, pre-recorded gameplay videos, and interviews with a developers.
- Developers confirmed: TBA
EA Play 2020, Thursday 11th Jun 2020
- Times: 12am BST (Fri) / 1am CET (Fri) / 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 9am AET (Fri)
- Event details: Electronic Arts reveals new games, maybe even something for Switch. Here’s a outline from a EA Play website:
EA Play Live 2020 is about joining players around a universe and bringing them closer to a diversion franchises they love. During this year’s digital event, we’ll showcase a games by a live broadcast, village content, and more.
- Developers reliable (full list): EA, of course
Guerrilla Collective, Saturday 13th Jun – Monday 15th June
- Times: 6pm BST / 7pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT / 3am AET (Sun)
- Event details: Originally scheduled for 6th – 8th June, here’s a central outline from a Guerrilla Collective website:
Online digital games festival to exhibit uninformed announcements, trailers and reveals from some of a hottest publishers and developers around a world! The Guerrilla Collective is hosted by Greg Miller and constructed by Media Indie Exchange (The MIX) with Kinda Funny Games Showcase.
- Developers reliable (partial list): 11 Bit Studio, Head Up, Humble Bundle, Nightdive, Paradox Interactive, Raw Fury, Rebellion, SEGA, Thunderful
IGN Summer of Gaming, Monday 8th Jun 2020 – Wed 24th Jun (TBC)
IGN- Times: TBC
- Event details: An powerful eventuality encompassing several of a others here as good as bespoke reveals, livestreams, interviews and reveals. Originally set for 4th June, a accurate report is adult in a atmosphere during a impulse – we’ll refurbish this when IGN announces what’s happening. Here’s how a eventuality is described by IGN itself:
…a digital eventuality entrance in Jun 2020 where people from all opposite a diversion attention come together to move we a latest updates, announcements, and uninformed looks during up-and-coming games and next-gen console hardware.
- Developers reliable (partial list): 2K, Square Enix, SEGA, Bandai Namco, Devolver Digital, THQ Nordic
Future Games Show, Saturday 13th Jun 2020
GamesRadar- Times: 10:30pm BST / 11:30pm CET / 5:30pm ET / 2:30pm PT / 7:30am AET (Sun)
- Event details: An multi-platform uncover (with a sister PC Gaming show) showcasing arriving games. Here’s a outline from a strange proclamation on GamesRadar:
The Future Games Show is an hour-long promote containing disdainful trailers, announcements, and low dives on existent AAA and indie games, focusing on tide (and next-gen) consoles, mobile and streaming platforms. The Future Games Show will take place in Jun during a former E3 week, upheld by disdainful news, previews and interviews from a editorial group during GamesRadar.
- Developers confirmed: TBA
1st Day of a Devs, Monday 22nd Jun (2nd Day on Monday 20th July)
- Times: 4pm BST / 5pm CET / 11am ET / 8am PT / 1am AET (Tue)
- Event details: Presented by Double Fine and iam8bit and in organisation with Summer Game Fest, this developer showcase highlights a whole garland of arriving games, large and small. Here’s a dash of central blurb:
As prejudiced of Summer Game Fest, a all-digital multi-month tellurian gaming festival, iam8bit and Double Fine will be producing dual Day of a Devs digital events.
- Developers confirmed: TBC, though design a garland of indie diversion luminaries
New Game + Expo (NGPX) Tuesday 23rd Jun 2020
- Times: 5pm BST / 6pm CET / 12am ET / 9am PT / 2am AET (Wed)
- Event details: A 7-hour-long livestream promote exclusively on Twitch (trailers, highlights and a full tide adult on YouTube after a livestream finishes) with a horde of 14 (mainly Japanese) publishers and developers participating. Here’s a outline from a NGPX website:
…an online showcase of new and arriving releases from a bloc of developers from around a world. Featuring a different collection of dozens of titles travelling each genre from movement to puzzle-solving and even storytelling, this is your glance into what’s subsequent from your favorite publishers!
- Developers reliable (partial list): Aksys Games, Arc System Works, Inti Creates, Natsume, NIS America, SEGA, Atlus, SNK, Spike Chunsoft, Grasshopper Manufacture, WayForward
BitSummit Gaiden, Sat 27th Jun – Sun 28th Jun 2020
- Times: TBA
- Event details: An online festival of indie games that’s set to embody interviews, livestreams and downloadable demos. Here’s a outline from a central announcement:
BitSummit Gaiden (Gaiden loosely translates to “side-story” in Japanese) will be BitSummit’s initial incursion into an online eventuality and aims to safety a suggestion of BitSummit by digital mediums. Gaiden will be a jubilee of indie games from all over a world, streamed live by BitSummit’s Twitch channels with a new BitSummit Discord apportionment as a “virtual uncover floor”. Fans of indie games will be means to discuss with indie developers, watch live streams of Let’s Plays from some of a largest media outlets and many renouned influencers in a world, download and play demos of games from a preference curated by a BitSummit committee, and take prejudiced in contests to win prizes.
- Developers confirmed: TBA
Tennocon (Warframe), Saturday 11th Jul 2020
- Times: TBA
- Event details: A Warframe-specific eventuality for fans of a diversion by developer and publisher Digital Extremes. Here’s a outline from a Tennocon website:
Join us on Jul 11 as a Origin System unites for TennoCon 2020! Share in a digital fad and balance in for an action-packed all-day stream. More sum will be accessible soon, so prepared your Squad and keep your ears open.
In expectation of a large day, get disdainful equipment with a TennoCon 2020 Digital Pack or TennoCon 2020 Merch Pack! A apportionment of a deduction will be donated to Autism Ontario London and Alzheimer Society London and Middlesex.
- Developers reliable (full list): Warframe developer Digital Extremes
Ubisoft Forward, Sunday 12th Jul 2020
- Times: 8pm BST / 9pm CET / 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 5am AET (Mon)
- Event details: A discussion from Ubisoft that will substantially hang to a same regulation as a annual E3 offering. Here’s how a association described it in a central announcement:
Get prepared for an E3-style showcase with copiousness of disdainful diversion news, sparkling reveals, and most more.
- Developers reliable (full list): Ubisoft, natch
2nd Day of a Devs, Mon 20th July
- Times: 4pm BST / 5pm CET / 11am ET / 8am PT / 1am AET (Tue)
- Event details: See prior 22nd Jun entrance for details
Summer Game Fest, May – Aug 2020
- Times: May – Aug 2020
- Event details: Finally, Summer Game Fest is a ‘season’ of events organized by Geoff Keighley that collects many of a summer’s online events underneath a singular banner, including Gamescom Opening Night Live on Thursday 27th August.
Taking place between May and Aug 2020, here’s a outline from a Summer Game Fest website:
Bringing a universe together to applaud video games from a comfort of home. Summer Game Fest is a deteriorate of digital video diversion events from publishers, name playable content, in-game events, and some-more to be announced.
- Developers reliable (partial list): 2K, Activision, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Blizzard, CD Projekt Red, EA, Private Division, Square Enix, WB, Epic Games, Ubisoft
Have we missed anything? Let us know in a comments and be certain to check behind for updates to a Summer gaming schedule.
