June was once a month reserved for E3, the biggest trade event in the gaming industry. While the importance of the show has waned significantly over the years, it was still the biggest show where most publishers brought their biggest titles and announcements. But this year has changed the game as the COVID-19 pandemic has killed the physical show. In its place, there is a lot of alternates popping up, such as the IGN Summer of Gaming. And now there’s one more spearheaded by yet another news organization.

Gamespot announced they will be holding an event they are calling Play For All. The all digital event will serve as both an alternative to E3 with tons of confirmed publishers taking part, but also raise funds for Direct Relief for COVID-19 relief. Publishers and developers announced to be taking part are 2K Games, CD Projekt Red, Deep Silver, Amazon Games, Bethesda, Devolver Digital, Google Stadia, Larian Studios, Mythical Games, Bandai Namco, Perfect World Entertainment, Sega, and Square Enix. While Gamespot is the main spearhead, it was also feature personalities from Giant Bomb and Metacritic.

The Play For All will take place in June, though no specific dates have been confirmed. The event will see several weeks of livestreamed content, and we’ll keep you updated when more solid dates are announced.

The tweet below is from Gamespot Writer, Carolyn Petit. It’s easy to tell that she was being sarcastic due to the amount of attention that was given to TV capabilities of the Xbox One as opposed to games. It seems that Microsoft did not understood the sarcasm behind the tweet and took it as a positive reaction instead.

A better way to watch TV: #XboxOne. twitter.com/Xbox/status/33…

— Xbox (@Xbox) May 21, 2013

Few moments later Carolyn sent in another tweet:

I…I don’t know if this is horrible or glorious. twitter.com/Xbox/status/33…

— Carolyn Petit (@carolynmichelle) May 21, 2013

I am sure many people got a nice laugh out of it.  After an underwhelming show, Microsoft really needs to pick things up at E3 2013. Will they able to fight back and show the real thing that matters: The Games?

Check back on GamingBolt for more news and updates regarding Xbox One.

Thanks DualShockers.

Konami has a ton of announcements for this year’s show, including Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the next Pro Evolution Soccer, and a new trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 among other things.

President of Konami Digital Entertainment Tomoyuki Tsuboi stated that, “Konami is bringing back the Pre-E3 show once again this year, with the biggest and best content the company has to offer. We have partnered with the best in the industry, CBS Interactive and Gamespot, to provide our fans updates on some of their favorite franchises, all in advance of the world’s marquee video game conference.”

E3 2013 will be taking place at Los Angeles Convention Centre from June 11th to June 13th.

We have a new gameplay video for Rise of the Nightmares, courtesy of Gamespot. Game is being developed by Sega for Xbox 360 Kinect.

Here are the latest preview videos of Gears of War 3.  One from IGN and the other from Gamespot which is narrated by Cliffy B. (yeah I called him that) and other EPIC Staff.  Gears of War 3 comes out Fall 2011 for the Xbox 360.  Enjoy.