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It doesn’t look like E3 will be returning anytime soon, as a new document from the Los Angeles City Tourism Commission claims that both E3 2024 and E3 2025 have been canceled. For over 20 years, the Entertainment Software Association held an event called E3 each June, where companies from around the video game industry would come together and show off their upcoming games. It got canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the ESA took 2022 off after a rough digital-only show in 2021. The expo was set to…

With no E3 happening this year, there’s a massive void to fill. Developers have tons of video games to reveal, but nowhere to show them. That’s where Summer Game Fest comes in. Organized by Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley, Summer Game Fest essentially acts as a modern replacement for E3. It’s a series of live streams and in-person events that loosely mimic the idea of a standard E3 season, giving gaming fans plenty of news to chew on. It all starts with the Summer Game Fest Kickoff stream, where Keighley will…

Ahead of the annual Summer Game Fest event, creator Geoff Keighley has announced the full list of partners expected to showcase their titles. The list includes 43 publishers and developers, including heavy hitters like PlayStation, which still hasn't confirmed any exact dates or events for its summer months. The publisher, alongside Xbox, previously pulled out of the E3 2023 event, eventually leading to the cancellation of the video game extravaganza. Summer Game Fest is slated to kick off June 9 at 12:30am IST in India/…

Summer is one of the most exciting times to be a gamer, as it’s when most video game developers and publishers tease what’s coming next. For years, this was all centered around E3, but since that show went away due to the Covid-19 pandemic, publishers have switched things up and held a variety of reveal-focused live-stream events over the course of the entire season. 2023 is shaping up to be no different, especially now that E3 2023 is canceled. From Meta to Microsoft to gaming’s main man Geoff Keighley, a lot of…

Microsoft will host its Xbox Games Showcase on June 11 — as confirmed before — and ahead of the event, the company has dropped timings and other details for the same. The showcase will be held live across Xbox's official YouTube and Twitch channels, at 10:30pm IST in India/ 10am PT in the US. The event will showcase some ‘new surprises and first-looks' from Xbox's internal and third-party studios and will be followed by a ‘Starfield Direct' event, immediately after. The news comes in the wake of multiple major publishers,…

E3 became known for excess, such as the 2019 Ubisoft E3 conference, with the entire “Assassin’s Creed Symphony” pushing out some of the series’ tunes.Photo: Christian Petersen (Getty Images)Pour one out for what was once the biggest video game showcase on the planet. On Thursday, The Entertainment Software Association, the organization that manages the Electronic Entertainment Expo, formally announced it was canceling both E3's digital and physical event for 2023. It’s the second year in a row that organizers fully…

After weeks of speculation and gaming giants such as Ubisoft confirming their absence from the event, organiser Entertainment Software Association (ESA) officially announced that Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will no longer happen this year. Veteran game journalist and the man behind The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, revealed his take on why the gaming event has faced ‘challenges’ in recent years.In a tweet, Keighley posted a throwback picture from E3 1995 and wrote, “Here's 15-year old me at the first-ever E3 in…

Despite how inevitable the complete downfall of E3 felt over the past several years, E3 2023’s official cancellation still strings as it’s a significant loss for the game industry. For gamers, press, and developers, the show served multiple purposes that digital livestreams and scattered publisher-specific events don’t currently replicate. In lieu of E3’s cancelation this year, and potentially forever, it’s time for other gaming events to step up and help push the video game industry forward. Why we lost…

The Entertainment Software Association and ReedPop confirmed that E3 2023 has been canceled following a report that broke the news. E3 2023 was supposed to take place between June 13 and June 16. Earlier today, IGN reported that two of its sources received an email from the Entertainment Software Association saying that this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo has been canceled because it “simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size,…

Ubisoft will no longer be attending E3 2023, even though it said it would participate in February. Instead, the game publisher behind Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry plans to hold its own Ubisoft Forward Live event in Los Angeles this June. Ubisoft confirmed its change in plans to Video Games Chronicle today, with a spokesperson saying that while Ubisoft “initially intended to have an official E3 presence, we’ve made the subsequent decision to move in a different direction.” This is a change in messaging from just…