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Stanley Pierre-Louis interview: ESA CEO digs into its first digital E3

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 13 min

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) disappeared from the landscape during the pandemic, as it just wasn’t possible to gather 65,000 people in downtown Los Angeles last June. The Entertainment Software Assocation (ESA) canceled the event outright, but this year it will hold an all-digital E3 from Saturday June 12 to Tuesday June 15.

Industry stalwarts such as Microsoft (with Bethesda), Ubisoft, Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco, and Take-Two Interactive are showing up at the online event to reveal their big games coming out this year or later.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.