Organizers have booked the Los Angeles Convention Center for the second week of June.
Good news for fans of the world’s biggest video game fairs. ESA today announced the conclusion of an agreement with the managers of the Office for Consumer Protection (OPC). Los Angeles Convention Center to set the date for E3 2023 for the second week of June next year, taking a decisive step towards bringing the event back home after it was not hosted on site these three last years. E3 2021, remember, was digital.
To ensure its success, ESA and Convention Center officials announced. a partnership with ReedPopa web publishing and event production company with almost 20 years of existence and which has already organized major entertainment industry trade shows such as PAX, New York Comic Con, Star Wars Celebration, etc. . In other words, they are by no means novices in this field.
As we read in Variety, E3 2023 promises to be a new appointment. a global showcase with ads with global reach, including triple A presentations.where publishers, developers, journalists, content creators, manufacturers, buyers and licensors can meet in person, in Los Angeles.
E3 brings our industry together like no other event.ESA“We are thrilled to be able to bring E3 back as an in-person event with ReedPop, the world’s leading pop culture event production company,” said ESA President and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis. , the trade association for the video game industry in the United States, in a press release. “The last three years have confirmed that E3 brings our industry together like no other event.“, he adds, without giving details of what the event will be.
The exact date of E3 2023 has not been communicated, but it is assured that it will be held during the second week of June, the usual week of the fair.
Will the big conferences be back?
Recently, in an interview with the Washington Post, Stan Pierre-Louis offered to organize an event that would be both digital and face-to-face. It now remains to be seen what the reaction of the major companies in the sector will be, which, even before the pandemic, had already shown signs of wear and tear vis-à-vis the show, either by organizing alternative days like EA or Microsoft, or by postponing their announcements to a later date, as PlayStation has planned in 2020. In the background we have Geoff Keighley (Summer Game Fest) who, in his own way, will be looking to compete with E3 2023.