following cancellation of the 2020 event because of covid-19 and much rumor and speculation In terms of this year’s iteration of what was once the world’s largest video game trade show, the Entertainment Software Association today announced E3 2021, a fully digital event taking place June 12-15. Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive, Warner Bros. Games and Koch Media are already scheduled to participate.
The good news is that everyone is coming to E3 this year for free. The other good news is that no one has to fly across the country or around the world to attend the annual LA-based sweat festival, which is E3. Instead, we will all sit comfortably at home or at work, watching our screens as we always do, only now our screens will have the official E3 logo on them instead of the logos. two dozen digital events created last year to fill the gap left by the cancellation of E3 2020.
The other events will continue, but we will also have E3 2021, a show that will digitally connect developers and publishers with fans around the world. ESA’s official announcement does not suggest what such a digital show will look like. We assume that there will be a lot of trailers and pre-filmed interviews with people in the industry. Any form takes the great destroyer, Kotaku confirmed that the event will be completely free for participants, with no items locked behind a pay wall.
“For more than two decades, E3 has been the premier venue for the industry’s best video game offerings, uniting the gaming world,” said Stanley Pierre-Louis, ESA’s president and CEO the press. “We are evolving this year’s E3 into a more inclusive event, but we will continue to seek to excite fans with major revelations and privileged opportunities that make this event the indispensable central stage for video games.”
You heard the man. Indispensable. Just try to give it up. You will most likely fail. See you all at E3 2021.