E3, Los Angeles’ once-mighty video game convention, officially canceled after two-decade run
LA TimesCrowds gather at the Nintendo booth at the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles in 2018. The Electronic Entertainment Expo — or E3 — once the video game industry’s largest convention and media platform, has been permanently canceled, event organizers announced Tuesday. The move to officially kill the event comes after this year’s convention was canceled months before it was set to open at the Los Angeles Convention Center in June. Heralded in its prime as the video game industry’s largest event in North America, E3 had in recent years sat at a crossroads, with major developers like Sony beginning to opt out of the L.A. celebration in favor of their own more fan-targeted gatherings. E3 typically brought in more than 65,000 fans and industry professionals to the Los Angeles Convention Center and surrounding events every summer.
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