Look, everyone knows E3 is useless. Properly, at the very least the occasion that we knew as E3 is useless – there’s something called Iicon that is strutting arond carrying the useless E3’s garments however we predict it is liable to be one thing of an imposter. It is a pruely B2B occasion, for a begin.
However we have, at the very least, received alternate options. There’s the Keighley-backed Summer season Video games Fest that is rising and rising yearly (even when it doesn’t yet hold a candle to our dearly departed Digital Leisure Expo). Then there’s additionally IGN Live. Aimed extra at followers than it’s at journos and businessmen, IGN Dwell will return this June for a second yr, and it plans to be larger and higher as a bodily occasion than final yr’s Los Angeles-based blowout.
IGN Dwell will as soon as once more be based mostly at LA’s Magic Field downtown occasion area, and can characteristic hands-on oppurtunities for unreleased video games, a stage with contemporary reveals and trailers, interviews, and movie star panels. It is like all of the bits you cared about at E3 with none of the backroom offers the place execs would shake palms and waggle on about video games that might most likely by no means get launched.
The massive higlights that stand out from final yr embody an interview with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy’s solid, an interview and sneak peek for the upcoming Borderlands movie, 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 after they’re obtainable), merely head over to this link.
Disclaimer: IGN Dwell is hosted and organised by VG247 and Gamer Community’s mum or dad firm, IGN.
