E3, citing Omicron concerns, will not return to Los Angeles this summer
LA TimesThe video game extravaganza that is the Electronic Entertainment Expo, colloquially known as E3, will for the third summer in a row forgo an in-person event at the Los Angeles Convention Center. “We remain incredibly excited about the future of E3 and look forward to announcing more details soon.” E3 typically brings more than 65,000 fans and industry professionals to the Los Angeles Convention Center and surrounding events every summer. While the merits of E3 have become a subject of media debate in recent years — especially with some top game companies, including Sony Interactive Entertainment, opting to no longer participate in the event — the loss of the convention this year is a blow to Los Angeles. While E3 has struggled in recent years to attract some of the industry’s biggest players — Electronic Arts, for instance, has staged its own festival in Hollywood the same week as the Expo — the loss of E3 leaves a large gap in the summer convention calendar for Los Angeles.
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