The Digital Leisure Expo hasn’t been held in particular person since 2019. Now, it will not be returning for 2024 or 2025 — at the very least not on the Los Angeles Conference Heart. In line with an LA Metropolis Tourism Fee planning doc shared on ResetEra, the online game commerce present has canceled its reside occasion for the subsequent two years. The doc’s Conference Gross sales information particularly notes that its information “contains E3 cancellations for 2024 & 2025.”
Though town doc means that E3 2024 will not be hosted on the LA Conference Heart, the Digital Software program Affiliation itself appears hesitant to verify all the occasion is canceled. “ESA is at the moment in dialog with ESA members and different stakeholders about E3 2024 (and past),” the group instructed Engadget. “No ultimate choices in regards to the occasions have been made presently.”
It is unclear what this implies for E3 itself. Though the Digital Software program Affiliation hasn’t hosted a reside commerce because the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of E3 2020, the group did put collectively a digital solely occasion in 2021. Neither the in-person or digital variations of the present returned in 2022.
When the present was canceled once more in 2023, ESA President and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis instructed GamesIndustry that the commerce present may have to alter to outlive. “E3 will iterate to make sure it is assembly the wants of firms that wish to market on this world platform.” Pierre-Louis mentioned. “Meaning it can iterate in how folks interact with E3. We wish to meet the wants of gamers who view this as an necessary platform and that is going to evolve over time.”
