Planned return to in-person event scrapped E3, the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, will once again be an online-only affair in 2022, according to a statement from its organizers.
The ESA said last year that it had planned for E3 2022 to return to an in-person event, as it had been since the expo was first held in 1995.
After canceling 2020’s event, citing coronavirus concerns, E3 2021 was held online over the course of four days.
Combined with competition from independent publisher events and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest — Keighley tweeted just minutes after the ESA’s statement went live that his E3 competitor would return in 2022 — it’s unclear just what kind of future E3 has after all.