Due to the ongoing pandemic, last year’s series of monthly game events was a mishmash of random shows put on by publishers and organizers. Without E3 holding it all together, we looked toward companies like Microsoft and Electronic Arts to host its own showcases. E3 2022 is still an unknown at this point. In fact, we don’t exactly have a solid list of events for the year. But if you were expecting Electronic Arts to return with an EA Play Live 2022, then we have some unfortunate news. EA isn’t planning on a show this year. A company representative reached out to IGN, saying that the giant publisher is skipping out. Instead, it looks like the company is planning on simply revealing information on upcoming games the normal way.   “We love EA Play Live as it’s our way of connecting with our players and sharing what’s new with all of you,” EA told IGN. “However, this year things aren’t lining up to show you everything on one date. We ...

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The ESA, the organizers responsible for E3, have announced the convention will be held virtually for the second year in a row.

The annual trade and met up of the video game industry, the Electronic Entertainment Expo commonly referred to as E3 is once again going to be an online-only event in 2022.  According to a statement from its organizers, The Electronic Software Association (ESA), the annual event is returning as an online-only format for the second […]

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2022 has arrived and, despite bringing some bitterly cold weather with it, I’m sure we’re all hoping for a more positive year compared to the last two! Considering it’s only the first week of January, there was a surprising amount of news, so let’s dive right into our first gaming round-up of the year… In the News This Week E3 2022 will be online-only once again – Summer Games Fest confirms its return Mario Kart 9 rumours fly after analyst states it’s in “active development” PSVR 2 specs and name revealed along with Horizon Call of the Mountain! Just Add Water CEO and founder Stewart Gilray has passed away Insomniac Games are tweeting about the Chimera again, are they hinting at something? Rumour: The Last of Us PS5 remake will launch this year Rainbow Six Extraction will launch on Game Pass, Ubisoft+ coming to Xbox Ghost of Tsushima has swept past 8 million sales Days Gone might have sold 8 million copies in 1.5 years, according to game director A Skull & Bones associate game director has left Ubisoft GoldenEye 007 achievements appear online sparking rumours of remaster Castlevania NFTs to be auctioned by Konami as part of Memorial Series Amazon’s Fallout TV series will begin production this year Final Fantasy 7 Remake mod concept brings back PS1 camera And if you’re subscribed to various gaming services, January’s updates are live: Xbox Game Pass January 2022 includes Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Outer Wilds and more The January 2022 PS Plus games are now live, download links here PlayStation Now January 2022 line up includes Mortal Kombat 11 & Final Fantasy XII Our Most Wanted Games of 2022 Heralding in the new year, our look at the top games coming in 2022 kicked into overdrive as it entered the final five: #5 – Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League #4 – Dead Space Remake #3 – Horizon Forbidden West #2 – Elden Ring Check out the rest of our 50 Most Wanted Games of 2022 here, and keep your eyes peeled for our #1 game coming later today! Games in Review and Featured Articles As you might expect, it was a quiet start to the new year for the reviews: Exo One – XSX|S, XBO, PC – 8/10 Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Dawn of the Battle Royale!! – NSW– 3/10 Never-the-less, Aran was on hand with the first preview of 2022 as he looked at My Lovely Wife that makes you question how far you would go to bring back someone you love. Last up, we finished off the week as we always do with What We Played, which featured Deep Rock Galactic, Far Cry 6 & It Takes Two. Trailer Park See the plane fight from the Uncharted movie in a new 2 minutes clip New Horizon Forbidden West trailer reveals the Utaru and Tenakth tribes AVICII Invector Encore Edition announced for Meta Quest 2 Your Achievements Here’s what you in our community has been up to this week: MrYd has made his way to the third area in Ghost of Tsushima and is loving it. He also enjoyed Deep Rock Galactic, Life is Strange 2 and Sniper Elite VR, but was disappointed with the ‘broken’ Alan Wake. willbuchanan got the platinums for Tomb Raider and Donut County. He’s also completed Maneater and the Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens DLC, and has now moved onto Guardians of the Galaxy. TSBonyman wasn’t impressed by Deep Rock Galactic and had mixed feelings for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – while it looks gorgeous he thought it was a bit bare bones. Luckily, the weekly music jams in Dreams are a familiar home. And Andrewww has been continuing through the main story of Days Gone, trying to avoid the open world fatigue from too many side quests. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you again soon!

The ESA (Entertainment Software Association) has canceled this year’s E3 […]

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Due to concerns over coronavirus, E3 2022's physical event has been cancelled, with no news as to whether there'll be a digital event.

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The Entertainment Software Association has announced that E3 2022 will once again be an online-only event, citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as the primary reasoning for the decision. In a statement to VentureBeat the ESA said, “Due to the ongoing health risks surrounding COVID-19 and its potential impact on the safety of exhibitors and attendees, E3 will not be held in person in 2022. We remain incredibly excited about the future of E3 and look forward to announcing more details soon.” Meanwhile, Geoff Keighley vehicle Summer Game Fest, which emerged in 2020 as a way to fill the void left behind the completely cancelled E3 from that year, has confirmed that it will return this summer. Because we didn’t have enough of Geoff presenting and giving forewords to literally ever single game announcement and trailer in the universe over the past 18-24 months. pic.twitter.com/5MLaSCESlH — Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) January 6, 2022 The concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic remain very real, especially as new and more transmissible variants seem to be popping up all the time, but it’s still surprising that the ESA hadn’t waited until a bit closer to the time to see how the virus is impacting every day life. The CES 2022 tech trade show has gone ahead in Las Vegas this week, which was probably a really bad idea given the Omicron variant’s spread around the globe, but the summer months have seen countries feel able to lift lockdowns and bullishness surrounding vaccination programmes has helped to avoid the strictest lockdowns in many countries. Again, it’s probably the right call, but feels odd to be coming six months in advance. That is if the pandemic is the actual reason for cancelling the physical event. Analyst Mike Futter took to Twitter to counter this claim by saying that the ESA had already abandoned their dates for the LA Convention Centre back in November. This is spin. I heard from sources in mid-November, before Omicron's emergence at the end of that month that the ESA had abandoned their dates for the LACC. https://t.co/2oIbkNDFBx — Mike Futter (@Futterish) January 6, 2022 He continued to say that publishers have all seen the benefits of marketing directly to customers with their own streams, instead of paying for expensive show floor space for a select few. That was already evident prior to the current situation, as one by one Nintendo, EA, Activision and Sony started to step away from E3 and start marching to their own tune. I’m sure we can expect that E3 will try to put itself at the centre of this summer’s bonanza of streams and game announcements, but COVID-19 or not, it feels like the trade show’s goose is getting cooked… and Geoff’s getting the first serving. Source: VentureBeat, Mike Futter

Could be a cover-up.

The ESA has confirmed E3 2022 won't be held in person in a statement issued this evening. Citing the "ongoing health risks surrounding COVID-19 and its potential impact on the safety of exhibitors and attendees", the show will not be something both journalists and the public can physically attend this year. Interestingly, though, the statement doesn't mention whether E3 will be presented digitally for a second year running.

While it may be a safe assumption the ESA does have something planned for the summer months, it hasn't come out and confirmed anything at the time of writing. When GamesBeat asked a follow-up question on the possibility of an online event, the company replied that it is "excited about the possibilities of an online event". Again, no confirmation.

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