Last year’s Game Awards infamously ended with a trailer for Highguard, a live-service free-to-play shooter that didn’t even stick around for three full months before being shut down due to low player count. For Summer Game Fest 2026, show creator and host Geoff Keighley is trying to avoid a repeat of that situation.
On June 5, about an hour before the event was set to kick off, Keighley teased on Twitter that the final reveal of the event wouldn’t be an online live-service multiplayer game like Highguard.
“Today’s final announcement at #SummerGamefest will be a single-player, narrative game,” posted Keighley. “Thank you for the feedback!”
It is for sure a direct reference to the very negative reaction Highguard received from people online in the hours after its initial reveal at the Game Awards 2025. A lot of fans expect the final trailer of these big Geoff events to be something like a new God of War or Last of Us. You know, something big, part of an established franchise, or from a developer with a long track record of hits. And mostly, they don’t want a multiplayer-only character shooter to end the event. It seems Geoff has gotten the memo.
Now, the game begins: What will that final mystery reveal be? What single-player narrative game will Keighley present to fans to wrap up Summer Game Fest 2026?
