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Steam will host more virtual game festivals during lockdownWith demos to play
With demos to play
The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition will run June 9-12th, offering “time-limited demos or short playable experiences” for upcoming games, devs chatting, and so on. Like previous Steam Game Festivals, but now happening in the week E3 was due to fill. This is wholly separate to E3, to be clear, just conveniently claiming its spot. E3’s organisersdon’t plan to hold an official online alternative, though it seems many publishers will still go ahead with announcements and such on their own livestreams.
Valve’s summer festival pagehas handy options for the public to sign up for reminders, as well as for developers to sign up to take part. Keighleymentioned on Twitterthat “The Festival will also expand to more platforms,” though it’s not yet clear what that means.
As for Digital Dragons, the games conference will take its annual indie games festival and awards to Steam as the Digital Dragons Indie Celebration on May 13-15th. Working with Valve and the Polish publishers, Walkabout Games, the organisers plan to highlight fifty indie games on a special Steam page with demos, streams, interviews, and awards. Interested devs can sign upover here.
Having had no plans to attend either E3 or Digital Dragons myself, yup, cool, I’ll check out and play the games in these. Some developers have spoken to us aboutlosing community vibes from cancelled eventsand this can’t really help with that, but the virtual events will certainly still be welcome.
