The sixth annual Summer season Sport Fest is returning to Los Angeles from June 6 to June 9, 2025.
Hosted by The Sport Awards creator Geoff Keighley, the principle occasion will as soon as once more be a stay kickoff present on the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, on Friday June 6. Then SGF: Play Days will happen for media and influencers on June 7 to June 9 in downtown Los Angeles, produced by iam8bit.
The Summer season Sport Fest is fan-oriented celebration of the way forward for video video games, unites shoppers, media, influencers and thought leaders for a multi-day in-person and digital celebration of the online game business. It has just about changed the sport business’s outdated E3 commerce present.
There may also be a “new thought chief occasion” in downtown Los Angeles throughout this time.
Produced by the staff behind The Sport Awards, SGF’s kickoff present can have a stay viewers of 1000’s of shoppers will be part of along with a stay on-line viewers of tens of thousands and thousands to expertise new online game bulletins, surprises and divulges.
The SGF occasion can be streamed stay all over the world throughout greater than 20 digital video platforms together with YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, X and Steam, in addition to throughout worldwide companions. Public ticket gross sales will begin later this Spring. In 2024, the SGF showcase delivered greater than 36 million international livestreams, up 12% YoY and over 8,000 co-streams on Twitch and YouTube.
SGF: Play Days, produced by iam8bit, will return to offer three days of immersive displays and hands-on showcases in downtown Los Angeles for the world’s high invited media and content material creators. I’ve usually gone to this occasion, and this yr SGF: Play Days will characteristic sneak peek activations from greater than 40 of the gaming business’s high publishers.
New for 2025, SGF will introduce a business-to-business thought chief occasion to delve into among the key adjustments, challenges and alternatives going through the worldwide online game business, in addition to have fun the cultural impression and significance of video video games as essentially the most highly effective type of leisure on this planet.
This occasion in downtown Los Angeles can be curated by Christopher Dring (former head of GamesIndustry.biz) and Geoff Keighley (creator of E3 Coliseum and The Sport Awards), and have thought leaders from gaming, leisure and past, bringing a number of industries collectively on one stage for insightful discussions.
SGF will help and amplify a wide range of different writer and associate occasions and livestreams throughout SGF weekend, together with Day of the Devs, a non-profit with the mission to have fun the creativity, range and magic of indie video video games.