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The Scheduled E3 2022 has been Scrapped
Ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, numerous significant occasions and assemblies have either pivoted to a digital landscape or been completely called off. Among these casualties is the Electronic Entertainment Expo, more commonly referred to as E3. E3 was outright canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns and transitioned to a fully virtual format in 2021. This year, amid declining COVID cases and the successful proliferation of vaccines, E3 was initially slated to return as an in-person event, but this plan was later revised in January to be online-only.
However, for undisclosed reasons, it appears that the event has been entirely shelved. As per Will Powers, the PR director for Razer, a gaming peripheral manufacturer, the company received communication last night announcing the complete cancellation of the event, with no intentions for either physical or online proceedings.
FLASH: E3 will not be having any physical or digital showcase in 2022. https://t.co/ePDSoVUVoN pic.com/tYpHjQII8P
— IGN (@IGN) March 31, 2022
As reported by Stephen Totilo from Axios, the ESA, the entity responsible for organizing E3, aims to reinstate the event in its entirety in 2023 as a dual physical and online experience. In the interim, however, the major game publishers are likely to resort to the same strategies employed in recent years – conducting their individual presentations independently around the customary E3 timeline.
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