Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, physical video game events have taken the lead, starting with theE3, Where Electronic Entertainment Expo if you prefer. The annual meeting organized by theESA was literally canceled in 2020 and made a comeback last year with a 2021 online edition again multiplying the livestreams around his dates. Well, it won’t be this year that we can turn back the aisles of the Los Angeles Convention Center, since we learn that L’E3 2022 is canceled in physical format and should once again be held exclusively online.
If the official site of the event already indicated that it would be organized, we did not know under what conditions. It is through Gamesbeat, the section of VentureBeat dedicated to video games, that the info was relayed:
Due to the current health risks associated with COVID-19 and its potential impact on the safety of exhibitors and attendees, E3 will not take place in person in 2022. We are nonetheless excited about the future of E3. and look forward to announcing more details soon.
With the virulence of omicron, this is hardly surprising, but it does not bode well for other events of the kind as we have just entered the month of January … well, it could be. that the virus has good back, because analyst Mike Futter states that even before the arrival of this variant, theESA had already abandoned their reservation dates for the Convention Center premises.
This is spin. I heard from sources in mid-November, before Omicron’s emergence at the end of that month that the ESA had abandoned their dates for the LACC. https://t.co/2oIbkNDFBx
– Mike Futter (@Futterish) January 6, 2022
Anyway, there is one who must be rubbing his hands well, since Geoff Keighley was quick to draw the announcement of the return of his Summer Game Fest, a large tote bringing together various online events, with all the same some exclusives of its own, which will obviously take place in the summer of 2022. But who doubted it?
In short, expect publishers and other major players in the industry to once again multiply web broadcasts from next June. Let’s just hope that some have learned from the mistakes of the past year, especially on the side of the Koch Primetime Gaming Stream !
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