Who's ready for Summer Game Fest 2026, the biggest video game corporation shillathon of the year? Me, that's who! (Hey, if I'm forced to live in a world run by CEOs and their corporations, I might as well side with the ones that deliver products that bring me some joy, eh?)
Joking aside, in light of E3's passing in recent years, I do appreciate the effort Geoff Keighley has made to replace it to an extent with his Summer Game Fest event every year; an event that, like his Game Awards in December, has seen pretty substantial growth year over year.
Glossing over the full schedule for the event, there are a dozen if not more streams and Nintendo Direct-inspired events happening over the weekend following the big show on Friday the 5th, including my beloved Wholesome Direct and the Xbox Presents event, the latter of which is going to be an interesting watch considering the recent shift in direction the XBOX brand has made in recent months.
Today, May 27th, leaves us with less than one week away from the unofficial start of SFG'26, beginning with the big State of Play event from Sony. And while I am strictly a Nintendo platform-only kind of wolf, I adore video gaming in general and thus take pleasure in the festivities of announcements and excitement around them, even if I don't personally plan to play any particular world-shattering announcement.
I wish more people were like this instead of arguing over who's platform has the better games, but alas.
So now with the preface out of the way, it's time to get into the meat of this post, yeah? This will separated into two lists: My realistic predictions, just based on what I see and hear around the gameosphere, some will be grounded, fueled by leaks, while others will be my own analysis which factor in timing of past releases and other aspects from things I've personally noticed.
These are also all encompassing of the event as a whole and not related to one specific stream. The only event to get its own such thing is
Anyway, onto the meat of it!