By: John Wahl

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E3 2020 is officially canceled.

The news that the convention which has been the mecca of the gaming industry since 1995 wasn’t going to happen may have conjured up a lot of different emotions, surprise though was not one of them. This has been anticipated for the past several weeks due to the increasing danger posed by the COVID-19 virus, but even though it doesn’t come as a surprise to most of us there’s still a feeling of shock that it actually happened. The thought of E3 not happening this year, and the uncertainty of the convention moving forward has left me thinking back on my brief experiences with the show and wondering what the future holds.

Since I was a young man, E3 has been a nearly mythical place. A distant gathering of the most brilliant minds in the gaming industry where they would show off…