T'was the night before Christmas, and ... wait, that's the wrong holiday. It was the night before E3 2023, and ... wait, no ... E3 is dead. What exactly do we call the traditional June video game showcase season anyway these days?
Indeed, it was a very different type of Xbox Games Showcase for several reasons. Before the pandemic, video game fans, writers, bloggers, journalists, developers, publishers, and content creators of all types would descend on Los Angeles in their literal thousands to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3. The last time I was in attendance, Microsoft had Keanu Reeves on stage to show off Cyberpunk 2077 — all blissfully unaware that not a year later, the entire world would go into mass lockdown. E3 itself will likely never return.
