What to expect from the PC Gaming Show at E3

07.06.2021 15:32

Pcgamer.com

Next weekend is going to be wild.

After a tumultuous 2020 scattered June's usual stack of gaming events across the calendar, balance has been restored. 18 livestreamed events (and counting) will take place from June 9-15 as part of a reunified E3, and the PC Gaming Show is dead-center in the middle of it.

Part of a giant day of programming that will also feature Microsoft and Bethesda, Square Enix, Back 4 Blood, and our compatriot show The Future Games Show, the PC Gaming Show will air Sunday, June 13 at 2:30 PM PST / 5:30 PM EST. Watch the show live on twitch.tv/pcgamer, youtube.com/pcgamer, or practically anywhere else. This year's show will broadcast on a record number of platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Steam, TikTok, VENN, Reddit, Entertainment Weekly, and international partners such as WEBEDIA, Wechat, Bilibili, and AfreecaTV. But not on the Golf Channel. You will not find us on the Golf Channel.

Expect a more concentrated 90-minute event, a bright moment focused just on PC gaming amid the plentiful activity of E3. And into that duration we've packed as many great trailers as possible, a total of 39 new videos, game announcements, and interviews that will make up this year's broadcast. Here's a preview of some of what you'll see:

PC Gaming Show 2021 partial lineup

Exclusive content, along with beta and launch information for Naraka Bladepoint
Techland will be showing Dying Light 2 Stay Human and giving the first in-depth look at its main character Aiden and his internal motivation, alongside revealing more about the Dying Light 2 Stay Human universe
The first reveal of a new game from Kasedo Games & Bulwark Studios
Big news for the Orcs Must Die! franchise
New content from New Blood Interactive
New gameplay for Hello Neighbor 2, new modes revealed for Rawmen, and a world premier of a new title from tinyBuild
A new announcement from Pixelated Milk
A reveal of the next game from Shiro Games
SEGA and Amplitude Studios will have a major announcement and reveal for the highly anticipated strategy game, Humankind
Exclusive content from All In! Games and Chernobylite
An announcement for EVE Online
A new Chivalry 2 announcement from Torn Banner Studios
NACON and Big Bad Wolf are showing a brand new trailer for Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong
An exclusive offer from GeForce NOW, NVIDIA's cloud gaming service
Other exciting unrevealed games
And a message from Valve regarding Steam Next Fest

The PC Gaming Show will also include exciting new content from:

Frontier & Frontier Foundry
Fellow Traveller
Tripwire Interactive
Humble Games
Ishtar Games
Alawar Games

We're also doing something a little unusual, if you didn't catch it from Day[9]'s short announcement video above: the PC Gaming Show will be taking place in outer space. Listen, when a StarCraft legend says "Hop in my spaceship," you don't say no. This will be by far the highest-end production we've created, and it's one we've had a lot of fun pulling together.

Not unrelatedly, here are our sponsors for this year's show, without whom we couldn't broadcast an E3 event from orbit.

PC Gaming Show 2021 partial lineup

PC Gaming Show 2021 sponsors