For all the people out there, E3 was a summertime event, splendidly held during the day under the glare of the season. For all of us here in Australia, E3 meant freezing nights, and even freezing mornings, because it happened in the dead of winter.
The first pre-broadcast of 2021 will begin at 10am LA, giving you time to sleep and catch up with breakfast. Here in Oz we had to be up by 2:59am at the latest if we wanted to watch the pre-show that goes live at 3am.
And while I might have been murmuring under my breath (the breaths you can see in the air are due to the cold), any reservations I had about the early morning, the bitter cold, or the hazy mix of both would melt away once I prepped for the live broadcast and settled into the show. I was enjoying my PC screen glowing as if it were a source of heat (which I guess it was, in the meanest way imaginable). Even though the general ether at the time was a sweltering winter, E3 kept me warm.
At the end of March this year, just as the Australian weather was starting to drop its toes into cooler temperatures, the Entertainment Software Association and ReedPop released official speech Regarding the frequency of the Electronic Entertainment Expo this year. Cancellation statement. In short, there will be no E3 2023. It won’t.
For many, the cancellation didn’t really come as a surprise. Nintendo, Microsoft, and even Sony have all hinted that they haven’t officially announced their withdrawal from the event, leaving many to wonder if E3 was actually dead at that point. Things were brought to crisis point when Ubisoft (from #UBIE3 fame) that she also won’t be attending E3 2023, though she previously promised to show “a lot of stuff” at the event this year.
It was a few days later when the authorities issued their inevitable cancellation statement, effectively pulling the plug on life support at E3. The industry responded with waves of mourning. While the cancellation may have been inevitable, it was heartbreaking and heartbreaking to receive the news nonetheless.
Many eulogies have been given since then and many words have been said since then about what the end of E3 really means for the ever-expanding video game industry. Now, as we head into the first week of June, as we move closer and closer to the week traditionally reserved for E3, the fact that it’s not It will happen next week, this year, at everyoneIt looks sharper than ever, more real.
I feel the Australian winter in ways I’ve never felt before. Previously, it was cold in early June, though cold arousing. That meant E3 was on its way (oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horsepower open trade show). Now, with no E3 to look forward to, the month of June is just chilly.
Freezing and red-nosed were the temperatures I’d traditionally wake up to on early E3 mornings, but did it really feel cold once I put down the coffee, the coffee, and the laptop light? Although it’s very early in the morning or eerily late at night (because there’s no in between when you’re broadcasting an event from PST all the way down to AEST), I’ve always been kept awake brightly by the week-long flurry of announcements and celebrations, And the excitement that only E3 can provide.
A tap on live and the screen turns brightly into a sunny landscape of E3 lands, the sun seeping through the on-set camera lens and into my wide face, as if it weren’t the dead zone at night, but America’s midday, the concrete floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center thousands of feet below. .
Even in those years when the entire E3 show was digital, did that make a difference to us “down here” since the event was always presented to us digitally, anyway? All that blue light of live streaming across my computer screen still fools my brain into believing it was day (as blue screen light won’t always do).
For me, E3 is going to be a sleepless week. From the initial 3am wake-up for the pre-show onwards, E3 will be a non-stop buffet of caffeine and adrenaline trying to stay as awake as possible, without wanting to miss a moment. I was there when Tetsuya Nomura unveiled Team-Ninja-developed Stranger Of Paradise (which prompted Square Enix to lock down international Twitter accounts in order to quell the equal backlash). Could I forget the tears that flooded my vision, or the joy that seized my heart, when Kojima announced his return? At E3 2016 Was met with loud applause?
And while we’re talking about the iconic theatrical presence of E3 history, don’t even get me wrong I started In the no-save presentation randomly put together by Konami at E3, 2010, dubbed “Worst E3 Show Ever”. My friends and I have rewatched it every year since Appear on YouTube. To this day, I still quote The Million Soldier Tak Fuji quote as if it were gospel.
Once E3 was fully wrapped and the year was officially over I was crashing harder than a PC but thankfully slept for the hours I lost, with all the festivities of Week 3 Es spinning through my head in a gorgeous montage, lulling me into dreaming big in the year in the next games.
Yes, there will be other events, and other shows, to move to the June stage instead of E3. I know I have Summer Game Fest to get excited about, showcasing PC games, and eventually some Nintendo Direct, whenever possible. I Known.
But I also know that all of these events are self-contained and isolated, each of which is “an event and an event.” None of them are set over several consecutive days as was the case at the electronic entertainment show, E3.
Winter in Australia wouldn’t be the same without E3. I will miss those very early mornings, those road– so late nights, those heartfelt cheers we’d scream at 2 a.m. (sorry, roommates!) because Nintendo had just confirmed that yes, the defining Metroid title was a real nodal legend, It is happening. It has been very good in development, in fact, after a decade or more of depth nothinghe finally got a file full trailer All of them have their own, and a bootable release date. Dread MetroidIt was first “announced” in 2005, and finally revealed at E3 2021. It will be on store shelves In early October of the same year.
Ubisoft’s song-and-dance stage presence, the 6 a.m. rush of a Devolver Digital skit (Nina Struthers’ cruelty catches our eye brilliantly). Cozy bangs for the commentary between show, and the warmth of live streaming. The sizzling reels flicker in my vision like candlelight, the source of warmth amidst the cold and darkness of this back pocket of the world now gone at this time of year.
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