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2026 Summer Showcase Megathread - Moonface - May 21st, 2026 2026 SUMMER SHOWCASE MEGATHREAD SHOWCASE SCHEDULE Six One Indie Showcase — May 21 | 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST Warhammer Skulls Showcase — May 21 | 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST AG French Direct — May 27 | 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST Thinky Direct — May 28 | 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST Insider Gaming Showcase — May 28 | 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST Indie Quest — May 28 | 5pm PT / 8pm ET / 1am BST (May 29) Midsummer Nights Scream — June 1 | 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm BST PlayStation State of Play — June 2 | 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST Latin American Games Showcase — June 4 | 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST Women-Led Games Showcase — June 4 | 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 12am BST (June 5) Summer Game Fest — June 5 | 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST Day of the Devs — June 5 | 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 12am BST (June 6) Southeast Asian Games Showcase — June 6 | 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST Wholesome Games Direct — June 6 | 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm BST Story-Rich Showcase — June 6 | 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST Future Games Show Summer Showcase — June 6 | 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST Gayming Pride Parade — June 6 | 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST Frosty Games Fest — June 6 | 3pm PT / 6pm ET / 1am BST (June 7) Xbox Games Showcase + Gears of War: E-Day Direct — June 7 | 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST PC Gaming Show — June 7 | 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST Access-Ability Summer Showcase — June 9 | 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST The UploadVR Showcase — June 12 | 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST Source: Game Informer There's no chance I'll probably watch even half of these because dang that's a lot, but I figured I'd make this to help folks see every showcase happening over the next two weeks as well as have somewhere to talk about any of them or the games that get shown off during them. Also interesting to see Sony having their SoP before Xbox because I'm so used to it usually being the other way around. RE: 2026 Summer Showcase Megathread - Dragon Lord - May 21st, 2026 Only going to pay attention to the State of Play and the Xbox Showcase (just to see if we get more P4R information or if they announce Persona 6). Other than that nothing else on the list sounds even remotely worth paying attention to. RE: 2026 Summer Showcase Megathread - Mr EliteL - May 22nd, 2026 Geez, why is there like 22 separate showcases, and they already started yesterday? 23 if Nintendo decides to add their own, though there were one or two Directs a while ago, or I might be remembering wrong. I suppose the ones worth watching are the main Summer Game Fest, SoP, Xbox, maybe PC Gaming Show but that's usually one I either skip or lose interest in very quickly if I happen to catch it. 10PM for my timezone which is just about tolerable, though last year I went to bed a bit too early before a showcase finished and missed something. Eh, sleep before work is more important though. RE: 2026 Summer Showcase Megathread - Moonface - May 22nd, 2026 I watched the Six One Indie Showcase yesterday and there were a few games in there that caught my eye in one way or another: Flip-Flop Fury Definitely the game that has lived rent free in my head since the show more than any other one, purely because I just love that someone took the idea of "la chancla" and made a whole game around it. It's a dumb fun idea that looks like it'll be a blast to watch or play. Sloppy Forgeries Again, another game that just looks like good dumb fun that could be great to play with friends among a mixture of stuff like Jackbox Party and such. Fraymakers I had never heard of this game despite it coming out in 2023 and being essentially an indie-guest Smash-like. I'm curious to learn more about this one to see how it plays and compares to actual Smash. Gang of Frogs Literally just Helldivers with frogs by the look of it, but doesn't seem to require a four-man squad like I think Helldivers does? Please Insert Disc I have no clue what the fuck this game is meant to be from the trailer but the Steam page says it's a horror game about navigating through the UI of a totally-not-a-PS2 console to find out what's wrong with it but uncovering creepy shit in the process. Doubt I'll play it but it's a novel idea. I could comment on a lot more of them, like the Zelda-likes or some of the really out there stuff that feels like the developers were on "dat good shit" when making their game. The biggest credit I'll give to the Six One Indie Showcase is they don't charge any developers to showcase their games, which probably makes them the only or one of the few third-party showcases that put the games and developers behind them before anything else. RE: 2026 Summer Showcase Megathread - Moonface - May 31st, 2026 So given how many events there are and how much of the games announced during them are going to fly under the radar, this site (Games Recap) is really good to check out for an easy recap of every trailer that gets shown, sorted by event. There's also a drop down menu to show just one particular event if you find scrolling through dozens upon dozens of thumbnails from every event at once to be overwhelming like I started to find. You can also filter by genres and such too so if you're only interested in certain genres it'll only show those, which could be useful since the only way to know the genre of any of the games otherwise is to click their respective card to flip it and see what genres it has attached to it, which would be fine if not for there being so many games being shown off right now.