E3 2024 and 2025 cancelled according to Los Angeles tourist department

UPGRADE 10.45 pm: The ESA has stated it is “currently having discussions about E3 2024 (and beyond), and no decisions about the occasion have actually been made at this time” in a statement provided to Eurogamer following the Los Angeles City Tourism Department’s suggestion that E3 shows planned for 2024 and 2025 have actually been cancelled.
INITIAL STORY 10.11 pm: New details released by the Los Angeles City Tourism Department suggest E3 will not be returning any time soon following the shocking cancellation of this year’s event back in March, with programmes scheduled for 2024 and 2025 now presumably scrapped as well.

Restera discovered that the Los Angeles Convention Centre had been booked by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) for the weeks of June 11th, 2024 and June 3rd, 2025. These dates had been disclosed in an October 2018 report by the Los Angeles City Tourism Department.

The Los Angeles City Tourism Department hinted in a new report from earlier this month that the previously planned E3 events for 2024 and 2025 have been scrapped.

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Given the untimely demise of what was to be E3’s huge return earlier this year, this may not be an entirely unexpected development for a convention that has struggled to maintain its importance in an era when most major publishers prefer to share their news on a more unhurried schedule through digital occasions and livestreams.

After losing its physical component in 2019 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, E3 2023 was supposed to be its triumphant return. As more and more major market players either skipped E3 or pulled out, Reedpop, the company in charge of PAX and EGX (and the parent company of Eurogamer), formally cancelled the event in March.

“We appreciate and understand that interested businesses would not have playable demonstrations all ready and resourcing difficulties made being at E3 this summer a challenge they could not eliminate,” Reedpop said in a statement released at some point. “For those who did commit to E3 2023, we regret that we are unable to provide the display you deserve and have come to expect from ReedPop’s event experiences.”

Stanley Pierre-Louis, president and CEO of ESA, stated that the company was “dedicated to supplying a market platform for marketing and assembling,” but that it hoped to “discover that ideal balance that satisfies the requirements of the market” after the cancellation of E3 2023.

With Geoff Keighley at the helm, Summer Game Fest stepped in to fill the void left by the absence of Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) by hosting a series of digital displays, including those of several major companies. Keighley has already confirmed the 2024 event’s return.

I’ve contacted the European Space Agency to discuss the latest E3 development.