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After the three big publishers announced they were not going to participate in the expo last year and it being subsequently canceled, this single message now appears on the E3 website: https://e3expo.com/E3.html The writing has been on the wall since at least 2019. It's good that the ESA is...

The ESA, trying to improve their image, has published a short blog post detailing how they're changing E3 for this year and the years ahead. In doing so, they completely miss the reason why consumers and game companies are bowing out from participating in the annual convention. They apparently...

Not exactly a huge Surprise. Next Xbox is launching Holiday 2020, with a Zen 2/Navi based SoC with HW Ray Tracing, just like PS5. Basically everything about the PS5 HW seems to Apply to Scarlett. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14519/xbox-at-e3-xbox-project-scarlet-console-launching-holiday-2020

Following in Sony's footsteps, EA just announced that they're skipping the press conference at E3 this year. In its place, they'll have multiple livestreams from game developers at their EA Play event the weekend before E3 starts ups. EA claims this is what their player base wants, and...

Sony told Game Informer that it is dropping out of E3 next year. The exact reasoning behind the decision was rather nebulous, as many PR statements are, but when asked if Sony would host an event off-site like EA has done in the past, they said "We will not activate or hold a press conference...

Earlier this month we showed the trailer for Overkill's upcoming "The Walking Dead" game, and now we have a 22 minute gameplay video to let you know what you're actually in for. Polygon played through the Central Georgetown mission with some of the devs, and the response has been, unfavorable...

Bethesda Senior Vice President of Marketing Pete Hines has apparently hinted at an announcement for a sequel to 2016's DOOM. Gadgets360 is reporting that Hines stated that E3 is "hell on earth" for Bethesda, leading some to believe that this is a reference to the original Doom 2: Hell on Earth...

We have gotten to the point where we expect E3 to be a peasant-console-laden lovefest year after year. While we might have gotten a bit numb to this over the years, the guys over at GamerCrate were paying a bit better attention than we did. It suggest that Microsoft is front and center as it...

At E3 in 2016 Bethesda promised a Fallout 4 VR launch in 2017. Now we know that it will be coming at E3 this year. Reportedly it is "the most incredible thing you've seen in your life." Hyperbole aside, it does sound like it could be pretty awesome. Support from big AAA tiles I'm actually...

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There is an announcement up on Gamespot today that E3 will for the first time be opening their doors to the public this year. (Warning, linked site contains a video which starts playing automatically.) A total of 15,000 tickets will be sold to the public at $250 a piece, or $150 as part of a...