Steam Next Fest kicks off in June and will offer ‘hundreds of demos’

Valve’s subsequent Steam Subsequent Fest, an occasion the place gamers will have the ability to check out demos of upcoming PC video games proper from Steam, will happen from June thirteenth by means of June twentieth, the corporate has introduced.

Valve is promising there will probably be “tons of of demos” this 12 months, and whereas it hasn’t shared what may be playable for the upcoming occasion, there have been some notable video games featured final June, together with Sable and Toem. It appears probably that Valve will promote video games which are nice for the Steam Deck, and hopefully by that point, many extra folks could have gotten their highly-anticipated reservations. (Sadly, my projected Q3 order availability means I’ll very probably miss out, no less than in the case of attempting video games out for the hand held.)

The mid-June scheduling means Steam Subsequent Fest will probably be timed proper round when E3 normally occurs. Whereas E3’s organizers have mentioned the commerce present received’t be in particular person this 12 months because of “the continuing well being dangers surrounding COVID-19,” they haven’t introduced particular dates for the occasion.