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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Blake Montgomery

Video games’ biggest trade show has been permanently canceled

Attendees play a video game at E3, the annual video games expo on 12 June 2019.
Attendees play a video game at E3, the annual video games expo on 12 June 2019. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, once the largest and most prestigious trade show in video games, has been permanently cancelled.

On Tuesday, the convention’s website had gone nearly entirely blank but for a statement reading, “After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last, the time has come to say goodbye. Thanks for the memories.”

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