Even before the coronavirus pandemic, E3 was losing steam. Geoff Keighley, founder of the Game Awards (who said he had attended every E3 since the first one), in 2020 launched the Summer Game Fest.

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, E3 was losing steam. Geoff Keighley, founder of the Game Awards (who said he had attended every E3 since the first one), in 2020 launched Summer Game Fest.

Due to a re-emergence of pandemic cases around the world, the ESA opted to cancel E3 in all forms in 2022. At this point, Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest had comfortably replaced most of E3’s usual ...

Since E3 is fully dead, we now have an archipelago of various gaming showcases this summer, some of which are tied to Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest, some of which are doing their own thing.