Summer Game Fest: The Pros and Cons of Digital Game Conventions

16 May Summer Game Fest: The Pros and Cons of Digital Game Conventions

With the cancellation of the 2020 E3 convention and the Tokyo Game Show, LaughingMan and LlamaPockets are watching Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest digital convention. While it has longer, more in-depth looks at new games and technology, will it lose the “meme-ability”of its predecessors?

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In the wake of the cancellation of the 2020 E3 convention and the Tokyo Game Show, LaughingMan and LlamaPockets are watching Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest digital convention. The creator of the Video Game Awards is putting on a great show, with more long-form discussions that they both appreciate and enjoy. After major players like Nintendo and Sony have pulled out of E3, with Nintendo long holding its own digital Tree House event, are digital conventions like the Summer Game Fest the future of game conventions? While the content is certainly more prone to longer, more in-depth looks at new games and technology (Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 Remaster, Unreal Engine 5), it could be more stale and less “meme-able” than its live, more disaster-proned predecessors.