The Leisure Software program Affiliation (ESA) and ReedPop are not working collectively on the subsequent E3. The businesses have introduced they’ve parted methods, and PAX organizer ReedPop is not going to be engaged on any future E3 occasions.

Alongside this information (through GamesIndustry.biz), the ESA knowledgeable the Los Angeles Conference Middle that it’s going to not host a present there in 2024. The LACC was the standard dwelling for E3, however latest hypothesis pointed in direction of E3 leaving the venue behind.

ReedPop, which additionally hosts PAX and several other different conventions, was introduced on in 2022 to assist deliver the present again. (Disclosure: Earlier than Destructoid, I labored at a now-shuttered ReedPop outlet, USgamer.) The ensuing plans resembled one thing like Gamescom. An in-person occasion with each business and shopper days was introduced, after which canceled.

In a press release through GIbiz, ESA president and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis stated the affiliation appreciated ReedPop’s partnership.

“Whereas the attain of E3 stays unmatched in our business, we’re persevering with to discover how we are able to evolve it to finest serve the online game business and are evaluating each facet of the occasion, from format to location,” stated Pierre-Louis. “We’re dedicated to our function as a convenor for the business and sit up for sharing information about E3 within the coming months.”

“We’ve loved our time working with the ESA and admire their dedication to the video games business as an entire,” stated ReedPop video games occasions head Kyle Marsden-Kish. “Whereas we is not going to be concerned with the way forward for E3 we sit up for seeing its evolution and the place the ESA takes it.”

An unsure future

So, it looks like we’re again to questioning what’s subsequent for E3. At this level, any 2024 plan appears rocky. Notably, GIbiz says the ESA is engaged on a whole reinvention of E3 for 2025.

If 2024 plans fall via, we could have gone 5 years—2020 via ’24—with out an in-person E3. All of the whereas, occasions like Geoff Keighley’s Summer season Recreation Fest have swooped in to take {the summertime} slot.

I’d actually surprise what a reinvented E3 can deliver to the desk to try to get everybody again on-board after a number of cancellations. Possibly a return to Vegas? Or perhaps E3 evolves into one thing else solely. We’ll study extra because the ESA reveals its plans.