IGN Live 2026 is set for June 6 and June 7 in Los Angeles, with the two-day show opening at the Magic Box @ The Reef in downtown Los Angeles at 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET on June 6. The event will run until 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET that day before returning on June 7, and tickets are already on sale at $25 for Saturday or Sunday and $40 for a two-day pass that comes with a swag bag.
The new details matter because fans can now decide whether to go in person, watch from home, or both. IGN Live will stream on IGN’s site, YouTube channel and Twitch channel, and a discount code, CNET10, cuts one-day tickets to $15 and weekend tickets to $30. The timing puts the show in the middle of gaming’s busiest stretch, when readers are already watching for what lands around the summer showcase season.
IGN is also leaning on a lineup built to pull in both game players and entertainment viewers. The company says attendees will be able to try hundreds of games, from indie titles to major AAA releases, while the schedule will also include tournaments, giveaways, merch booths and live stage programming. Teased demos include Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced and the Gothic Remake, and Microsoft plans to bring its Xbox Games Showcase and Gears of War: E-Day Direct presentation to the event on June 7.
That public-facing setup is what separates IGN Live from the other big weekend event in Los Angeles. IGN Live is open to anyone willing to buy a ticket, while Summer Game Fest, which is happening the same weekend, is industry-only. That makes the show a rare place where fans can walk into the same venue as celebrity guests, then watch the same programming online if they cannot make the trip downtown.
Among the confirmed appearances are Sung Kang, Roger Craig Smith, Patricia Summersett, Steve-O, Bronson Reed, Kevin Owens, Tatiana Maslany and Alix Wilton Regan. Maslany is set to appear ahead of her new show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, giving the event a television hook alongside the games. IGN is using the weekend to mark 30 years of the site, and the booked slate suggests the company wants the anniversary to feel less like a retrospective than a live sales pitch for what it can still pull together on a crowded summer stage.
What remains open is the day-by-day schedule. IGN has already named several series and early looks that will be featured, including Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War! The Calamity, The Legend of Vox Machina, Cape Fear, The Terror Devil in Silver, Supergirl, The Vampire Lestat, The Walking Dead: Dead City and the first two episodes of Adventure Time: Side Quests. The answer to the next question is likely to arrive as June 6 gets closer, when the event begins and the full run of panels, demos and appearances starts to fill in.
