E3 2022 has reportedly been canceled

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is no longer going forward with the online portion of E3 2022, meaning that the entire show is effectively canceled.

Earlier this year, the ESA stated that E3 2022 would be online-only due to omicron concerns. Now it seems that the digital event will suffer a similar fate. On Thursday, IGN reported that partners of the ESA were told the online event isn’t going forward either, meaning E3 2022 is canceled across the board.

The E3 expo has been an annual event for close to three decades now, with the first show happening in May 1995. Due to the ongoing global pandemic, the last two shows were online-only affairs.

E3’s future is undoubtedly in question now, though many games industry professionals saw this coming. Recently, Electronic Arts canceled its EA Play Live event for this year, which typically coincides with E3. 

Sources told IGN that the ESA is planning a big comeback of sorts for E3 in 2023, but whether that comes into fruition is another matter entirely.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.