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Earlier this month, the Entertainment Software Association decided that E3 2022 won't be an in-person result to preclude the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and opted to go far a virtual-only outcome once more. VentureBeat reporter Jeff Grubb now claims that the virtual version of the biggest video game convention of the year may exist scrapped altogether.

Jeff Grubb posted a video on TikTok saying that E3's virtual upshot may "probably" be canceled along with the physical version, which might make it the second time that E3 has been canceled in its history since the pandemic began. The video was then reposted on YouTube, which you tin can see beneath.

"E3 has been canceled," Grubb said in the video. "Well, physically, information technology'southward been canceled, digitally probably also canceled."

ESA has not commented on whether E3's virtual event will become canceled. In confirming the counterfoil of the in-person event earlier this month, they sent out a statement maxim in part, "We are nonetheless excited about the time to come of E3 and expect forward to announcing more details soon."

Information technology'south all-time not to take Grubb's words as gospel; yet, given the wording of that part of the ESA's statement, the counterfoil of E3 in its virtual format may not be outside the realm of possibility. Even if the testify goes on digitally this summer, developers and publishers are hosting their own showcases or entrusting their presentations to Geoff Keighley for Summer Games Fest.