E3 2023 has been cancelled
The 2023 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been cancelled.
IGN reports that the Entertainment Software Association emailed its members today to let them know the show has been scrapped.
The email reportedly said that while E3 “remains a beloved event and brand”, the 2023 version “simply did not garner the sustained interest necessary to execute it in a way that would showcase the size, strength, and impact of our industry”.
E3’s organisers have now officially confirmed this.
“ReedPop and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) have announced that both the digital and physical events for E3 2023 are cancelled”, a statement reads.
Following the report, Summer Game Fest organiser Geoff Keighley took to Twitter to reiterate that his show is still planned, and that it was originally created as a solution to what he thought was wrong with E3.
“E3 meant so much to me and to so many of you too,” Keighley wrote. “Four years ago, I realized that E3 wasn’t evolving as it needed to compete in a global, digital world. So we started building what’s next. See at Summer Game Fest [on] June 8.”
The future of E3 was thrown into question when Ubisoft announced on Monday that it had backtracked on plans to attend the revamped convention.
Last month the Assassin’s Creed publisher became the first major company to publicly commit to attending the show, which was due to take place in June at its traditional venue of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
However, in a statement issued to VGC, the company said it had now decided to “move in a different direction” and will instead be holding its own Ubisoft Forward Live event on June 12 in Los Angeles
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