{"id":23473,"date":"2026-06-10T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/eight-trends-ive-noticed-from-watching-hour-of-livestreams-from-nintendo-playstation-xbox-and-more\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:37:26","slug":"eight-trends-ive-noticed-from-watching-hour-of-livestreams-from-nintendo-playstation-xbox-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/eight-trends-ive-noticed-from-watching-hour-of-livestreams-from-nintendo-playstation-xbox-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight trends I\u2019ve noticed from watching hour of livestreams from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From horror galore to Chinese action games and YRK nostalgia, the key trends, trailers and surprises from the Summer Game Fest<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\"><strong>Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did <em>you<\/em> spend hours of your weekend watching a relentless series of video game adverts? No? I don\u2019t blame you \u2013 Summer Game Fest, the collection of livestreams that has arisen in place of the giant annual E3 video game expo in Los Angeles, is extremely overwhelming. There are the bigger, longer shows: the PlayStation and Xbox streams, the main SGF show hosted by Geoff Keighley and Lucy James, Future\u2019s duet of the Future Games Show and the PC Gaming Show. Each show is two hours long. Then there are all the indie showcases: cosy games, female-led games, Black voices in gaming, Day of the Devs. Between them, they show off hundreds of games that might pique your interest.<\/p>\n<p>I picked out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/jun\/08\/summer-game-fest-highlights-new-video-games-resident-evil-silent-hill\">exactly 34 highlights here<\/a>: the biggest news, the most interesting-looking smaller games. But from the barrage of trailers I was also able to discern some trends. Here\u2019s what we can learn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/jun\/10\/eight-trends-from-summer-game-fest-nintendo-playstation-xbox\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b47d22afcef2d35491a989e94431c921deb4ce69\/284_0_1125_900\/master\/1125.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d479fa32b53ad7900ac7e0de398494b7\" title=\"Eight trends I\u2019ve noticed from watching hour of livestreams from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and more\" \/>From horror galore to Chinese action games and YRK nostalgia, the key trends, trailers and surprises from the Summer Game Fest<br \/>\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nDid you spend hours of your weekend watching a relentless series of video game adverts? No? I don\u2019t blame you \u2013 Summer Game Fest, the collection of livestreams that has arisen in place of the giant annual E3 video game expo in Los Angeles, is extremely overwhelming. There are the bigger, longer shows: the PlayStation and Xbox streams, the main SGF show hosted by Geoff Keighley and Lucy James, Future\u2019s duet of the Future Games Show and the PC Gaming Show. Each show is two hours long. Then there are all the indie showcases: cosy games, female-led games, Black voices in gaming, Day of the Devs. Between them, they show off hundreds of games that might pique your interest.<br \/>\nI picked out exactly 34 highlights here: the biggest news, the most interesting-looking smaller games. But from the barrage of trailers I was also able to discern some trends. Here\u2019s what we can learn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From horror galore to Chinese action games and YRK nostalgia, the key trends, trailers and surprises from the Summer Game Fest \u2022 Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Did you spend hours of your weekend watching a relentless series of video game adverts? No? I don\u2019t blame you \u2013 Summer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/eight-trends-ive-noticed-from-watching-hour-of-livestreams-from-nintendo-playstation-xbox-and-more\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight trends I\u2019ve noticed from watching hour of livestreams from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and more<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}