Alors, Comment appelons-nous cette conférence non-E3, de toute façon?


NOT E3

Dans le monde des magazines, la page arrière est l'endroit où vous trouverez toutes les gaffes étranges que nous ne pourrions intégrer nulle part ailleurs. Certains peuvent l'appeler “remplisseuse”; nous préférons “une page entière pour faire des blagues terribles qui sont tangentiellement liées au contenu du mag”.

Nous n'avons pas (papier) pages sur Internet, mais nous aimons toujours les blagues terribles - alors bienvenue dans notre fonctionnalité semi-régulière, Retour. Aujourd'hui, Kate’s trying to find out what the heck we should be calling this mid-June video game extravaganza, if it’s not E3


E3 ain’t happening this year. The Electronic Entertainment Expo — that’s the three ‘E’s, by the way — has been happening in some shape or form since 1995, until it was cancelled in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even then, c'était donc vous dérivez d'un endroit à l'autre parce qu'il n'y a nulle part où aller et pas pour des raisons d'histoire concrètes to take place: All the participants had been confirmed, the arena had been booked, but there just wasn’t enough time to switch it to an online event.

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En 2021, still in the middle of a pandemic, it went online-only, and it was a bit of a damp squib — so it’s not entirely surprising that the Entertainment Software Association, or ESA, decided to scrap it altogether in 2022, a bit like someone cancelling their birthday party because they didn’t get enough RSVPs. Néanmoins, the rest of the games industry has rallied together to basically throw their own birthday party. With better cake. And Geoff Keighley.

(Oh, and fear not — E3 will be back next year. For now, anyway.)

So now, we’re left in this very minor pickle: What are we supposed to call this… amorphous event? It’s not E3 any more, and it feels a bit silly to call it that anyway, even if it is a nice two-character shorthand forlots of revealsthat fits nicely into a headline.

Most games journalism outlets seem to have settled sur “Not-E3, ourselves included, presumably because it’s a lot shorter than “Fête du jeu d'été” and doesn’t give Geoff Keighley all the credit. But if E3 really is going the way of the dinosaurs, we can’t call itNot-E3” toujours, can we?

Perhaps what we need is some good olfashioned democracy. What do you think we should call this week of game announcements, nouvelles, retards, and updates?

As always, if you have other, better suggestions, drop ’em in the comments.

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