The life and death of E3
www.gamesindustry.biz
Leading games executives recall their E3 memories and discuss its life, death and future
  • Madbrad200@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    1 month ago

    E3 really was a massive moment. Shame we won’t really have stuff like this again. I miss the yearly cringe.

  • Blackout@kbin.run
    13·
    1 month ago

    E3 taught me a lot about how to sneak into paid conventions and invite-only after parties. Had just moved to LA and a new friend brought me along and taught me the ways.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          They never really recovered from covid. All the big game studios just did live streams of varying quality and then realized that it’s much simpler for them to just do that than go to a big conference. They stopped going to the conferences and started just doing their live streams.

          It also didn’t help that Sony and Microsoft would have their own conferences for their consoles and any games that were releasing on those consoles. Then a lot of the time those games would also be releasing on PC at some point so they didn’t need a separate announcement for that they just tell you at the PlayStation/Xbox conference.

          Then the studios started to have their own conferences, because they couldn’t possibly tell you about a new game in 10 minutes when they could spend over an hour telling you the same stuff.