E3 is officially dead, and it is time for games industry professionals across the globe to pay respects. Many developers, including Hideo Kojima, Cory Barlog, and Harvey Smith, have shared their memories and thoughts about the end of what was once the biggest industry event with nearly 30 years of history.

Games conferences and shows like E3 have been receiving criticism for years. The latest person to voice their issues with old formats is Raw Fury head Johan Toresson who urged developers and publishers to stop spending money on big events.

With E3 2021 slated to start less than ten days from now, the organizers have revealed the official schedule.

With no E3 this year, platform holders and Ubisoft still generated massive viewership numbers on Twitch. In fact, “decentralized announcement events” that big companies had to run this year brought more viewers than E3 2019 did. This is according to Carter Rogers, Principal Analyst at SuperData.

E3 slated to take place on June 9-11, 2020, is being cancelled as coronavirus situation deteriorates.

A draft version of E3 2020 went live yesterday and was quickly made private. No sensitive information was made public, but this could just be one embarrassment too many for the ESA, E3 organizer, which leaked personal data of about 2000 E3 participants last summer. Anyway, this latest blunder was serious enough for Geoff Keighley to decide not to participate in E3 for the first time in 25 years.

This year, PlayStation will not be attending E3. The console manufacturer explained that the format of the event does not fit into its marketing strategy.