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[BlackM1st]

E3's physical event for 2021 has been cancelled, according to Los Angeles city documents published this week.

In a new report published by the Board of Los Angeles Convention and Tourism Development Commission, a sales update lists E3 2021 as a "cancelled live event".

The document states that the Convention board is working with E3 organiser The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) on broadcast options at the Los Angeles Convention Center and the nearby LA Live complex. The City board also claims it's "working" on a 2022 and 2023 license for E3.

The cancellation would mark the second year in a row the E3 event has been called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As exclusively revealed by VGC this month, The ESA has been pushing forward with plans for a digital E3 event this summer, but it still requires the backing of major games companies.

E3’s 2021 live event has been cancelled, LA city documents claim | VGC

VGC previously revealed organiser The ESA has been pushing forward with digital show plans…

www.videogameschronicle.com

Worst Next Gen launch EVER.

 

[Orta]

Expected but shit news all the same.

 

[Captain Toad]

I prefer digital events anyway. I just wish these companies just had more games worth showing. Live event or not won't change that.

 

[BlackM1st]

Expected but shit news all the same.

I just finished re-watching South Park's epic trilogy about "PS4 vs XBOX One ". That feels like it was a lifetime ago. Unbelievable how uneventful game industry has become. PS5 launch feels like a wet fart compared to PS4 HYPE. Bah. I'm fucking sad.

 

[YukiOnna]

Hoping they go through with a digital event like Blizzard did with Blizzcon.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

 

[SinDelta]

I remember when Nintendo decided to highlight Wii heart monitors??!

Then on the opposite end were the showstopper grand slam reveals for Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild.

Thank you for all the memories E3, the good and the bad.

 

[Connificent]

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Maybe that was a little much. Happy to see E3 gone though!

 

[Abriael_GN]

E3's physical event for 2021 has been cancelled, according to Los Angeles city documents published this week.

In a new report published by the Board of Los Angeles Convention and Tourism Development Commission, a sales update lists E3 2021 as a "cancelled live event".

The document states that the Convention board is working with E3 organiser The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) on broadcast options at the Los Angeles Convention Center and the nearby LA Live complex. The City board also claims it's "working" on a 2022 and 2023 license for E3.

The cancellation would mark the second year in a row the E3 event has been called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As exclusively revealed by VGC this month, The ESA has been pushing forward with plans for a digital E3 event this summer, but it still requires the backing of major games companies.

E3’s 2021 live event has been cancelled, LA city documents claim | VGC

VGC previously revealed organiser The ESA has been pushing forward with digital show plans…

www.videogameschronicle.com

Worst Next Gen launch EVER.

Oh yeah, the one site writing about this who thought they were above crediting Rösti on the other forum for breaking the news.

Guess they were too busy spamming links to their own site to give credit where due.

 

[SantaC]

I mean, did anyone expect a physical event this year?

I just hope we dont get Kneighlys 4 months of nothing back.

 

[Virt McPolygon]

Worst Next Gen launch EVER.

Are people seriously surprised by this news? lol

I don't know if MS, Nintendo or Sony would've had anything far along enough to show gameplay-wise.

Covid really impacted development on projects. Please enjoy more remasters and upgrades.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Syphon Filter]

E3 been dead, why are you surprised?

 

[Sir Vilhelm]

Hopkins doctor believes America could reach COVID-19 herd immunity by April

"It does look like, based on the current trajectory, that come April or May, we're going to start seeing very low background levels of infection," said Dr. Marty Makary with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

www.wbaltv.com

Cases in california have dropped over 90% since January. Time to return to normal, stop cancelling shit.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Time for another Gaming Summer Festival with Geoff

 

[BlackM1st]

Guess they were too busy spamming links to their own site to give credit where due.

That's the way of the internet media I guess. I don't read Reee, so I couldn't know the original source. You did good linking the source.

 

[Iced Arcade]

I'm more shocked anyone thought it was going to happen.

 

[MeatSafeMurderer]

Who cares? E3 is shit anyway. I was only planning on watching to see how much of a disastrous cringefest it was going to be.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Most of their audience is digital anyway. It's sad news but shouldn't be a showstopper. Pardon the pun.

 

[Sander Cohen]

Move it to Florida, away from no fun allowed leftists.

 

[AnotherOne]

Nothin of value was lost EA show is always shit.

 

[Barakov]

I find myself pretty indifferent to this. I really don't want to see social distancing E3.

 

[supernova8]

Hoping they go through with a digital event like Blizzard did with Blizzcon.

Yeah was nice to not have Geoff Keighley's voice ruining it.

 

[supernova8]

Time for another Gaming Summer Festival with Geoff

No fucking chance

 

[Shubh_C63]

Directs/StateofPay are better than sitting through hours of BS about "We here at ____ believe in giving power back to gamers bla bla" at E3.

not to mention the cringe. I watch it on mute frankly.

 

[Sophist]

E3 is obsolete, covid or not.

 

[Guileless]

Directs/StateofPay are better than sitting through hours of BS about "We here at ____ believe in giving power back to gamers bla bla" at E3.

not to mention the cringe. I watch it on mute frankly.

I like it when a CEO in a hoodie tells me he wants to give power back to the gamers. I say "wooo."

 

[vypermajik]

This is unfortunate. Remember when all the heathens in the press said NO to E3 anyway? Now they want it back. MAKE - UP - YOUR - MINDS

 

[Reptars Revenge]

Suckssssss I love going, fuck the haters