Plans for E3 2024 have already been in doubt, but now a report from GamesIndustry.biz reveals that the ESA - the trade association behind the event - has dumped its organizer. The ESA has confirmed to The Verge it no longer plans to partner with PAX organizer ReedPop for future E3 events.

While the ESA was supposed to work with ReedPop for E3 this year, things started to fall apart when companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo dropped out of the show. Now GamesIndustry.biz reports that the ESA and ReedPop have made the "mutual decision" to exit their multiyear deal.

Although a June report from the Los Angeles City Tourism Commission re …

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E3 isn’t happening in 2023. It didn’t seem likely after Nintendo said it wouldn’t be there, Microsoft said it would skip the show floor, and Ubisoft committed to going and then backed out. Then on March 30th, organizer ReedPop officially called off the annual gaming convention.

Sadly, I probably won’t get the Silksong release date I was hoping for.

Sony kicked the summer schedule off with its PlayStation event. It showed off footage of Spider-Man 2 and revealed new hardware accessories, including a “Project Q” streaming handheld and a pair of PlayStation earbuds that will both go on sale later this year.

Summer Game Fest 2023 came and went with a slew of new trailers but no women on stage.

Microsoft responded with the Xbox games showcase that featured our best look at Starfield yet, news of a new black 1TB Xbox Series S for $349, as well as other gaming news and trailers for Star Wars: Outlaws, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Forza Motorsport, Fable, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and more.

Here’s all of our coverage of E3’s cancellation and what comes next.

• E3 continues to fall apart
• Panic’s first developer showcase had flies, football, and very messy food
• Stray wanders onto Xbox in August
• E3 is not returning anytime soon
• Keigh3 will be back next year.
• We’re not done yet.
• Assassin’s stream.
• How to watch Ubisoft Forward 2023
• The biggest announcements from the Xbox Games Showcase 2023 and Starfield Direct
• The next Steam Next Fest takes place later this month.
• Summer Game Fest featured no women onstage
• How to watch Summer Game Fest 2023
• Capcom joins the summer gaming fun.
• Devolver Digital’s next games showcase is scheduled for June 8th at 6PM ET.
• Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotuku Studio sets up an event for June 15th.
• The 6 biggest announcements from Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2023
• The PC Gaming Show returns on June 11th.
• Sony is holding an hour-long PlayStation Showcase next week
• Get ready for another Devolver Direct in June.
• Nintendo Live 2023 starts September 1st in Seattle, and the tickets are free
• The Xbox Games Showcase kicks off on June 11th.
• Meta is hosting its next VR gaming show in June
• The Game Awards anniversary concert will have music from Hades, Elden Ring, and more
• THQ Nordic joins the lineup of summer gaming events
• E3 is canceled, but Nintendo Live is coming to the US in September
• E3 isn’t coming back
• E3 might be gone, but this summer still has some big gaming events to watch
• I never went to E3, but I’ll miss it anyways
• Ubisoft bails on E3 in favor of its own show in Los Angeles
• Xbox is skipping the E3 2023 show floor
• Nintendo confirms it won’t be part of E3 2023
• Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are reportedly all skipping E3 2023

E3 is dead, and it's not coming back for at least a few more years. According to a report from the Los Angeles City Tourism Commission, E3 won't be back in LA in 2024 or 2025.

The news was contained in a footnote on a chart highlighting the city's projected and actual number of hotel rooms booked for fiscal year 2022 and 2023.

Apparently, the city does not expect E3 to return in 2024 or 2025. This news seems at odds with the messaging from E3's organizers, ReedPop and the ESA. Earlier this year, the ESA - the trade organization that runs E3 - announced it was partnering with ReedPop, the entertainment company that runs large fan convention …

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E3 2023 is cancelled, and the gaming industry is mourning. Like my colleague Ash Parrish, I've always wanted to go, but don't think I'll ever get the chance; the industry has changed enough that it's probably not coming back.

Even E3's organizers don't seem optimistic. The Entertainment Software Association's (ESA) president and CEO completely dodged when GamesIndustry.biz asked if the event would return in 2024.

"We're committed to providing an industry platform for marketing and convening but we want to make sure we find that right balance that meets the needs of the industry," Stanley Pierre-Louis told the publication. "We're certainly …

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E3 2023 has been canceled, but that doesn't mean you won't have big summer gaming events to look forward to. We're already aware of at least three things you should mark on your calendar, and it seems like there will be major news of some kind from each one.

Here's the 2023 summer gaming events that we're currently aware of. Given that E3 is now officially not happening, it's possible this list will grow if more companies want to make a splash in June.

• June 8th: Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest. Since 2020, Summer Game Fest has taken E3's place as the industry's collective summer news blowout, with reveals like the first gameplay trailer f …

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It was inevitable that E3 would end this way. Even before the pandemic put a pause on in-person gatherings, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was already on life-support as the larger developers had already put distance between themselves and the event to focus on their own presentations on their own time. And though E3's eventual cancellation was all but written in stone, I still feel a great sense of loss. Which is odd considering I've never been to E3.

I've covered it remotely before. It was my first year of freelancing for a small video game wiki site that no longer exists and I was excited because this was, in my freelancer's eyes, the …

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E3 has been canceled. Gaming's big summer show was set to return in person in Los Angeles for the first time since 2019, but it's been called off after huge gaming companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Ubisoft all said they wouldn't be participating in the event.

E3 2023 was scheduled for June 13th through 16th with a mix of industry-focused days and days that would be open to the public. But in the lead-up to June, there had been some worrying signs that things might be rocky for E3's revival.

According to an email sent to employees and verified by IGN, E3 2023 "simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a w …

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Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are all skipping the revitalized E3 convention in June, according to a new report from IGN. E3 will be back as an in-person conference in Los Angeles after not happening at all in 2022, and I personally was hopeful that the big three console makers would be at the show when it takes place from June 13th through 16th to help make it feel like the big event of years past. But according to IGN's reporting, that's not the case.

That said, it's not entirely unexpected. Sony first skipped E3 in 2019 and hasn't been part of the convention since. Microsoft said last week that it would be doing a showcase in LA this sum …

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