Look, everyone knows E3 is lifeless. Nicely, not less than the occasion that we knew as E3 is lifeless – there’s one thing referred to as Iicon that is strutting arond carrying the lifeless E3’s garments however we expect it is liable to be one thing of an imposter. It is a pruely B2B occasion, for a begin.
However we have, not less than, bought options. There’s the Keighley-backed Summer season Video games Fest that is rising and rising yearly (even when it would not but maintain a candle to our dearly departed Digital Leisure Expo). Then there’s additionally IGN Stay. Aimed extra at followers than it’s at journos and businessmen, IGN Stay will return this June for a second 12 months, and it plans to be greater and higher as a bodily occasion than final 12 months’s Los Angeles-based blowout.
IGN Stay will as soon as once more be primarily based at LA’s Magic Field downtown occasion house, and can characteristic hands-on oppurtunities for unreleased video games, a stage with contemporary reveals and trailers, interviews, and superstar panels. It is like all of the bits you cared about at E3 with none of the backroom offers the place execs would shake fingers and waggle on about video games that will most likely by no means get launched.
The large higlights that stand proud of final 12 months embody an interview with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy’s forged, an interview and sneak peek for the upcoming Borderlands film, and a few contemporary Greedfall 2 gameplay.
If you wish to go and see what all the excitement is about for your self (and nab your self some extra particulars on dates and tickets once they’re out there), merely head over to this hyperlink.
Disclaimer: IGN Stay is hosted and organised by VG247 and Gamer Community’s dad or mum firm, IGN.
