E3 will indeed be back in 2023, though it won’t be the ESA running the show this time, as it announced a partnership with ReedPop, to run next year’s event.
ReedPop are the same company who organize annual shows like PAX, Star Wars Celebration, and New York Comic-Con, and also own websites Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, GamesIndustry.Biz and VG247 through its subsidiary Gamer Network.
With ReedPop now in the drivers seat, it can be expected that the E3 we see next year won’t look like something put on by the ESA, or at least the one that exists in 2022.
It almost sounds like ReedPop will try to bring the event back to it’s golden days. “For years, we’ve listened, heard, and studied the gaming community’s feedback. E3 2023 will be recognizably epic -” said ReedPop’s global vice president of gaming, Kyle Marsden-Kish.
“A return to form that honours what’s always worked – while reshaping what didn’t and setting a new benchmark for video game expos in 2023 and beyond.”
ReedPop president, Lance Fensterman also commented on the partnership, saying “It is a tremendous honuor and privilege for ReedPop to take on the responsibility of bringing E3 back in 2023.”
“With the support and endorsement of the ESA, we’re going to build a world class event to serve the global gaming industry in new and broader ways than we already do at ReedPop through our portfolio of world leading events and websites.”
This could really be the change that E3 needed, though we’ll see for certain next year, when it runs in the second week of June.
Source – [GamesIndustry.Biz]