{"id":8616,"date":"2026-06-04T01:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/summer-game-fest-2026-all-the-news-from-gamings-busiest-week\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:15:36","slug":"summer-game-fest-2026-all-the-news-from-gamings-busiest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/summer-game-fest-2026-all-the-news-from-gamings-busiest-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Game Fest 2026: All the news from gaming\u2019s busiest week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Get ready for some gaming news. It\u2019s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, and gaming hype man Geoff Keighley. But this season doesn\u2019t just feature the big tentpole shows; there will be a bunch of smaller events, too, and they might feature some promising games as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">But this year\u2019s events are taking place at a difficult time for the industry. The prices of consoles and gaming hardware have skyrocketed, with all of the three major console players announcing price hikes and PC handheld makers jacking up hardware costs as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Game companies also have to work around the looming giant that is <em>Grand Theft Auto VI<\/em>, which is set to launch on November 19th. That time of year is usually a very busy one as studios launch their games to get ahead of the holiday shopping season, but we could see some of the industry\u2019s biggest games give <em>GTA VI<\/em> a wide berth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">We\u2019ll be tracking the biggest news of the June gaming events season right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for some gaming news. It\u2019s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, and gaming hype man Geoff Keighley. But this season doesn\u2019t just feature the big tentpole shows; there will be a bunch of smaller events, too, and they might feature some promising games as well. But this year\u2019s events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8223,3772,206,5177,1143,4661,1841],"class_list":{"0":"post-8616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-busiest","9":"tag-fest","10":"tag-game","11":"tag-gamings","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-summer","14":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}