With E3 gone, LA Comic Con will offer bigger gaming experience for fans
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been canceled, but Los Angeles Comic Con plans to expand its gaming expo and experiences for fans that come to the show in December 1 to December 3.
It’s not going to be a replacement for the business event of gaming that was E3. But it should be a big fan show, as last year the show drew 200 exhibitors and 126,000 attendees, including 87,000 who visited the gaming experience.
Chris DeMoulin, CEO of show producer Comikaze Entertainment, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the big event plans to expand its Gaming & Anime Hall, doubling it to roughly 200,000 square feet in the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
“We try to change our content every year based on what our fans want,” DeMoulin said. “We were planning on expanding anyway.”
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And in recent years the fans wanted to see more gaming and anime content. COVID-2019 slowed down the event’s growth but it returned in 2021 to the convention center and began growing again.
“I’m a longtime fan of v3. And I was really looking forward to see what Reedpop was going to do with it,” he said. “That show needed reinvention. When they said they weren’t doing anything, we said there are probably a lot of companies that were going to exhibit there that now could not. So we let them know we have a great gaming event in LA Comic Con.”
The LA Comic Con is now Los Angeles’ biggest gaming event, assuming E3 is gone for good. And it will
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