Pushing Buttons: Spider-Man 2, yet more remakes and a ‘new E3’ – what to expect from June’s big games events

There’s a hotly anticipated Starfield, a conference for disabled devs and a month packed with must-see trailers. Here’s a roundup of this month’s key shows and announcements

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We are now entering what used to be the most exciting month for gamers (and for games journalists): June, the month of E3, where we would find out what gaming’s biggest names had in store for the winter and beyond. It’s all rather more diffuse now, since Covid did a number on the yearly gaming events rhythm and E3’s big return was cancelled (as Keith Stuart wrote about in this very newsletter), so I’ve pulled together everything to look out for from the summer’s gaming announcements in one place.

Before we get into it, though: it is difficult to get tremendously excited about hour-long sequences of trailers, isn’t it? Immediately after the live E3 press conferences of yore, games journalists would be running into side-rooms to interview executives and developers, often playing the games that had just been shown, and reporting back to readers and viewers with something more than mere marketing information. We could do a good job.