Summer Game Fest 2025: News, Trailers and Everything Announced
Summer Game Fest 2025 is just getting started, and the weekend of games kicked off with a showcase of nearly 50 game trailers -- scroll down for all of them in our live blog as it happened.
The showcase was held live at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles and simultaneously livestreamed out to the world, but CNET was in the seats blogging as it happened. The biggest reveal was without question the debut of Resident Evil 9, but there were plenty of other highlights, like new footage of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (due out June 26), the reveal of the next game from Yakuza developers RGG, and a muppet boxing game (really).
How to watch Summer Game Fest 2025 livestream
The Summer Game Fest 2025 livestream was broadcast on the event's YouTube page and the Twitch page for The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley's annual end-of-year awards show.
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