For over 20 years, the ESA held an event called E3 each June, where companies from around the video game industry would come together and show off their upcoming games. It got canceled due to the ...

The ESA posted a brief, rather abrupt message on Twitter and the event website “After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye,” the ...

This comes after the covid pandemic forced the ESA (the nonprofit trade association of the video game industry) to cancel E3 2020, go all-digital for E3 2021, and then cancel E3 2022, as well.

It would make sense with ESA president and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis's comments earlier this year about the likelihood of an E3 2024, too. From an ESA note sent to members (game publishers): “We ...

Before E3, video games were showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but the industry was pushed to the sidelines. The ESA created E3 as a trade show for retailers to meet with ...

It’s game over for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3. The Entertainment Software Association, the video-game trade group that ran the convention, announced Tuesday that E3 ...

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced on Tuesday that it is canceling the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) video game event permanently. In a message on Twitter, the ESA stated ...

The result was not unexpected, and the Washington Post reported the death of E3 yesterday. I had a chance to interview Stanley Pierre-Louis, CEO of the ESA, yesterday about the demise of E3.

Amid all the chaos, E3 had a genuine festival vibe. There was an organic, celebratory energy, even among the tired eyes, ...

It suffered an even more significant loss in 2019, though, of $2.2 million. 2019 saw the ESA bring in $40 million in revenue, $17 million of it from an in-person E3 and $15.7 million from member ...

It's not as catchy a name as E3, and sadly for the average gaming fan ... brand alignments and synergy. Since the old ESA ...

The new project is called iicon, or the "interactive innovation conference." It's not as catchy a name as E3, and sadly for the average gaming fan, it's probably not an event they'll care about as ...