{"id":320,"date":"2023-03-31T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:15:19","slug":"e3-2023-video-game-expo-has-been-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/e3-2023-video-game-expo-has-been-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"E3 2023 Video Game Expo has been Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/images-20.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-321\" width=\"342\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/images-20.jpeg 657w, https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/images-20-300x213.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: Los Angeles Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E3 is the industry\u2019s biggest annual the video game event. The much anticipated 2023 annual event would have been the recent after several disruption due to the Covid Pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Read More-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US\u2019s Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and events company Reedpop announced in a joint statement that the event would no longer hold as scheduled for June in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Popularly refered to as \u201cvideo game Christmas\u201d by fans, E3 has been a fixture of the gathering of world&#8217;s largest gaming companies showcasing their latest consoles and developers debuting their new games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what\u2019s right for the industry and what\u2019s right for E3,\u201d Reedpop\u2019s Kyle Marsden-Kish said in a joint statement with the ESA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe appreciate and understand that interested companies wouldn\u2019t have playable demos ready and that resourcing challenges made being at E3 this summer an obstacle they couldn\u2019t overcome&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor those who did commit to E3 2023, we\u2019re sorry we can\u2019t put on the showcase you deserve and that you\u2019ve come to expect from ReedPop\u2019s event experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U are among the consoles that have been announced at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E3 cancellation now leaves the gaming industry without a &#8220;dominant focal point&#8221; for selling new titles, however since Covid, &#8220;the trend has been towards live-streamed shows where publishers announce and show new titles virtually&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E3 is the industry\u2019s biggest annual the video game event. The much anticipated 2023 annual event would have been the recent after several disruption due to the Covid Pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-e3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servpay.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}