EA Play Live Event for Summer 2022 Has Been Cancelled
It has been confirmed by Electronic Arts that the company will not be hosting the EA Play Live event this year. Beginning in 2016, EA has hosted a yearly event to showcase its upcoming projects. The event originally took place in both a physical location and an online experience similar to E3 for anyone to see the anticipated announcements from the major video game publisher.
In recent years, thanks in part to the current global pandemic, EA Play has transitioned to a purely digital event. Not to be confused with the game subscription service of the same name, it was in this event that major titles were announced. For instance, it was at EA Play Live back in July 2021 that the much anticipated Dead Space remake have been announced to the public. This year, however, the company has decided to cancel the event outright.
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Announced via IGN, EA has made the decision to cancel this year's EA Play Live event, stating that they will instead be sharing information about individual projects "when the time is right." The company representative goes on to confirm that reveals for its major projects will still be coming this year, they just won't take place in the same event. This announcement comes after E3 2022 canceled its in-person event, leaving this year's major event schedule up in the air.
EA Play Live has been canceled this year. https://t.co/AB8eZRdcw9 pic.twitter.com/Bwc4WvS1gq
This is the first time since its conception in 2016 that the EA Play event is being canceled, and the reasons given are different from the usual culprit of the last few years. However, it's possible that the pandemic has caused these projects to run into delays that led to this
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