E3 2020: CANCELLED
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E3 2020: CANCELLED
The ESA has confirmed that E3 will not be taking place this year due to the Coronorvirus. They have said that they are looking at the possibility of holding some kind of online E3 instead.
https://www.theesa.com/statements/e3-20 ... -19-virus/
https://www.theesa.com/statements/e3-20 ... -19-virus/
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Re: E3 2020: CANCELLED
Shocker. Never saw that one coming.
The Euro's will be next no doubt.
The Euro's will be next no doubt.
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Re: E3 2020: CANCELLED
They cancelled probably out of no choice because budgets had to be paid like now and most likely all publishers pulled out - so there was no show to host !
Health and safety had nothing to do with it - no one wants to go and who can blame them
Health and safety had nothing to do with it - no one wants to go and who can blame them
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Re: E3 2020: CANCELLED
Yeah, after GDC I figured this was inevitable. Microsoft are likely cursing their luck, because with Sony absent they were likely going to be getting all of the headlines.
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Ubisoft have indicated that they will be doing something similar also...
Re: E3 2020: CANCELLED
Not to mention that they had some sort of celebrity crap planned that even Geoff Keighley decided "I'm out"Achtung Englander wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:07 pmThey cancelled probably out of no choice because budgets had to be paid like now and most likely all publishers pulled out - so there was no show to host !
Health and safety had nothing to do with it - no one wants to go and who can blame them
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To be honest part of me wonders if coronavirus is just a convenient excuse.
If theres no virus next year and they cancel again you know what happened.
If theres no virus next year and they cancel again you know what happened.
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Re: E3 2020: CANCELLED
No 'digital showcase' from Bethesda...
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A 'reimagined showcase' set for June next year...
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... or-e3-2021
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... or-e3-2021
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The ESA have chucked the whole "online experience" thing now...
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... 2020-event
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... 2020-event
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Well, yeah. Why would developers choose to pay to exhibit at a digital E3 event when they can probably get paid by Microsoft or Sony to feature in theirs?
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Also Bethesda and Devolver Digital said they are not doing one - so yeah - who cares about E3.
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