The Electronic Entertainment Expo hasn’t been kept in person since 2019. Now, it may not be returning for 2024 or 2025– at least not at the Los Angeles Convention. According to an LA City Tourism Commission planning file shared on ResetEra, the computer game trade convention has actually canceled its live event for the next 2 years. The document’s Convention Sales information particularly notes that its information “consists of E3 cancellations for 2024 & 2025.”
Although the city document suggests that E3 2024 will not be hosted at the LA Convention Center, the Electronic Software Association itself seems reluctant to validate the entire occasion is canceled. “ESA is currently in conversation with ESA members and other stakeholders about E3 2024 (and beyond),” the group told Engadget. “No final decisions about the events have actually been made at this time.”
It’s unclear what this implies for E3 itself. The Electronic Software Association hasn’t hosted a live trade since the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of E3 2020, the group did put together a digital only occasion in 2021. Neither the in-person or digital versions of the program returned in 2022.
When the show was canceled again in 2023, ESA President and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis informed GamesIndustry that the exhibition may need to change to survive. “E3 will iterate to ensure it’s fulfilling the needs of companies that wish to market on this global platform.” Pierre-Louis said. “That indicates it will iterate in how people engage with E3. We wish to fulfill the needs of gamers who view this as an essential platform which’s going to evolve over time.”
