Now, yesterday it was rumored that e three was could be canceled because the corn era virus and, well, that came to be true.

Ah, this morning in California time, which I'm in the East Coast.

So I've been up for quite some time.

But the E s a met and, ah, they talked about it in detail and they came to the conclusion that e three would be cancelled this summer.

Also, other trade shows could follow suit, but we don't know really what's gonna go on and what the future's gonna be.

Now, the reason why I'm talking about this is how it relates to Batman.

So as you guys have known, Warner Brothers W B games, Montreal rock steady and pretty much all the Big Warner brother studios and game developers were attending E three this year and releasing their games.

They were going to reveal them to the public.

And it comes out that Batman was one of those games which we knew about.

But this news is just kind of annoying.

Um, I'm hoping that W B will actually do a trailer or something that they can ride this wave.

But apparently they had a big spread.

They were gonna do possibly I was gonna be invited because whenever they reveal Batman Games and Amber and I go down t three so he's fun.

But this year, Yeah, not so much.

Um, there's a couple ideas that are flying around that could happen.

And the Batman leak came from Kotaku.

It was Jason.

Jason doesn't have the best track record, but he does have good sources.

Also, he's not the nicest guy in real life, but it is what it is.

So Cor Taco is the one that ran with the Batman story.

But there are other people talking about it.

So yeah, it's pretty common knowledge at this point.

We know Batman exists, and it was gonna purity three.

And now everyone is really bummed and doing the little names of Affleck pushing the ah swing with the rain because it's fitting.

It's actually it's fitting that it's raining in Gotham right now, because this is pretty upsetting.

So I mean, I can understand why they want to cancel the event.

They're very concerned about that.

This virus is going to spread even more than it is.

I doubt it.

But, you know, for people that have weaker immune systems, which most of the people that have died because of this virus or people that have auto immune diseases and things like that.

So it's to be expected.

I mean, having your lungs drowned from, you know, all kinds of stuff, like pneumonia or something.

Not fun.

So totally understandable.

And we don't want to risk people's lives over a game convention.

So what are a couple of the ideas that people are throwing around at the E.

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Right now is some digital shows Now the problem is with the digital stuff.

It's not the same as an actual trade show.

You know where you get hands on and stuff like that.

They could release demos on two systems, like PlayStation and Tendo X box things like that.

But it's not quite the same.

Is meeting the developers, talking to them about their game and then talking to your people like your audience through magazines or your YouTube channels, your podcasts.

It's a very intricate business.

Having attended several conventions over the past 10 years.

E three is a big deal.

The problem with the cancellation is how this is gonna hurt a lot of smaller people.

There's a lot of deals that are made in E 32 and also a way to get the public interested in your game.

It's a big thing, right?

It's kind of like nickname gamers Christmas for a reason, because it's our thing.

It's our biggest thing that we have to look forward to every year and doing it as a live stream.

Whenever companies have done that, there's been a loss of interest, as opposed to when it's happening at the trade show.

Now Nintendo's an exception there.

Non tender direct has expanded beyond belief, but the PlayStation direct, whatever it's called ps uh, PlayStation player placed.

I forget what it's called, but it never really caught on as much as some of these other things.

Same thing with Xbox and some other stuff.

So, you know, one of the things flying around which I hope this isn't true is that one of brothers is gonna try to do like a Nintendo direct.

The problem is, they don't have that many games.

So how are you gonna fill even a 30 minute live broadcast with Batman?

Ah, Lego.

A new Harry Potter game.

Whatever rock steadies, game and development is and a few other surprises at most sets about maybe six games.

Can't really, you know, filled it out.

Excuse me.

Somebody's calling me.

Yes, I have a cool guitar theme from my phone.

It's nobody important, but I lost my train of thought, though.

I mean, I don't know what they're going to do.

This is just I wasn't expecting them.

Thio.

Well, no, actually, they came close to canceling an E three a couple years ago when it was like swine flu or some other type of virus that was going around.

Why is it always election years that these 10 happened?

It's interesting, but anyway, so, yeah, that's pretty much all that's going on.

We know nothing about the Batman game.

I haven't reached out to a V yet because I kind of forget what time zone he is.

I know he's over in Europe, but, um, I don't know if he's awake it or not.

I'm really checked us Twitter.

The fact that Kotaku is running with the whole Batman thing.

It's not surprising.

I mean, everybody's known that the game exists and that it was gonna be at the trade show, but that's kind of where everyone was going to get their mitts on stuff.

But back in my day, especially when I started his game journalist a long, long time ago, you would still get new game information in magazines.

And, you know, nowadays that's kind of a rarity.

But there's still some exclusives that happen, right?

So they could in theory, um, do what they did with Arkham Origins and have, ah, game and former do like a whole media showcase again and have some exclusives with their ah magazine, which they did with Arkham Origins.

It's not quite as impactful is like a trade show, mind you, but I mean, it's better than nothing.

If I was one of brothers, ever try to find some way of scavenging around and, you know, fixing some of this cause while there's gonna be refunds issued for a lot of the people that would be attending the three like these companies and stuff like that, um, uh, it's still gonna cost the company is a lot of money.

It's even cancel at this point because you have to remember that most of these people have already bought, like plane tickets and hotels in advance.

Uh, they've planned out their schedules Now it's like they have all this free time in June.

What are they going to do?

Um, plans have to be remade.

And all that costs money, especially for depending how many members of their team were coming down.

Everything changes.

I don't even know if What's the next packs?

By the way, Pax East already happened.

Is packed.

Has packs West happened already or pack south.

I haven't read game and former and years, but they're still following me.

We'll never get in announcement.

You'll get an announcement for something.

What's the next trade show?

They should do what football's doing Know people at the stadium ball.

Aside from the players, right?

Pak South just happened in January.

Pak South already happened.

Packs prime happens in August.

Okay?

Still packs primes, Probably still going on.

Taxi starting happened, although maybe if Pax East and happened Ah, maybe the now that's that's just stupid thinking.

Never mind.

I'm not going to bring that up all I know is before packs.

There were no cases in Pennsylvania or some other things, but or some of the other states.

Yeah, that's just purely speculation.

And just stupid thinking on my part.

Most people have already been infected that have been infected.

Now, the you know sure comes with quarantining the people and quarantines.

Not fun, anyway.

Uh, but I don't want to get intel.

That medical stuff.

I had to learn about quarantine when Amber was gonna be working at a hospital.

And some of the stuff she told me it was terrifying.

It's almost like prison.

You're not allowed to leave.

And even the people who work there, they have to stay until either the virus passes or all the people die who have the virus.

Then you have a cleaning crew come in.

It's very freaky.

So you don't want to be courting seats like one of those buildings?

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, probably more conventions.

They're gonna be closed off.

Or some like that.

But I'm just I'm surprised.

Ah.

E three has come close to canceling over the years, but this is the first that I can think of.

But e three has been having problems for a while.

Ah, lot of companies have pulled out well before the whole virus fear.

Ah, back in I believe it was September.

Several developers announced that they wouldn't be attending the three this year.

So and then you had some high profile people in December announced that they weren't Jeff Keeley said he wasn't gonna do it and some other entertainers pulled out, Which is weird, because I mean, yeah, it's costly, and you could just do like an online streaming chauffeur.

I don't know, a few 100 bucks, some decent quality ones and still make what you were gonna make it e three.

Almost because streaming is the future.

So I don't know.

It's ah, there's not a lot of information out about it.

No one really knows.

While no, everybody knows that's got the virus.

But, oh, what's funny is a lot of leakers got in trouble this year for, you know, pre spoiling what e three was gonna be.

And now that they're snowy three, it's like I don't know about you, the leakers.

They're kind of like, huh?

But it's It's devastating.

It really is.

But I mean, trade shows have people from all over the world.

So people from infected countries would be coming.

And you know, then, well, California's already messed up anyway, But yeah, I wouldn't wanna wish that sickness on anybody.

So where does Warner Brothers go from here on out.

Ah, If I were them, I would probably make an announcement this spring like they did with Arkham Origins.

Everyone knows the game exists now, and people are, you know, getting tired of waiting.

It might already be too late.

Like E three would have been that last big hurrah that could get people interested in a fall release.

Now, without their big spread that they were gonna have and really know convention's gonna house anything game related until, like, August or September.

Yes, it's not.

Not gonna be good for the game industry this year.

Just being completely honest with you guys.

It's e three is a spectacle that really helps sells games, especially the casual players.

It's not just like gamers that tune into the three.

It's people that aren't really hard core gamers.

You know when they get that's there.

Oh, they find out all the games that are coming out, they don't go to Web sites that have, AH, upcoming releases and stuff like that.

They don't follow those type of stuff.

They don't go toe i g n or Game stop or any of those places regularly, so they have no idea what's going on.

E three is as much of a show for casual people as it is hard core fans.

And now that's not gonna be a thing.

So that could impact sales for gaming this year.

I don't know.

It's never happened before.

When I started, E three was a very, very small trade show.

When I was a fledgling journalist, it grew exponentially in the two thousand's Not Gonna lie.

It kept getting bigger and bigger, bigger.

And then it became to the point where it was beyond the media circus.

It was almost kind of like a mini carnival or something, or like a big theme park or something.

You know, all the adults go.

It was magical.

It's still also, I mean, easy to get lost.

If I didn't have that W B guide helping us to the W B booth for Aqaba virgins in Arkham Knight, Amber and I would have gotten lost 33 Because it's massive, way bigger than packs.

It's bigger than like the New York comic con.

All that stuff.

It's easy to get lost.

Well, I mean, I have a horrible sense of direction, but it was nice to have ah, Warner Brothers guide with us because I had no idea where we were at the time.

And the result is people like much together too.

So I could see how people like tens, thousands, hundreds of thousands of people probably could all got sick and then became, like, infected and spread it all over their countries.

Stuff.

Yeah, So it's kind of good, I guess.

I don't know.

No, you three, it's gone.

But yeah, you can expect Nintendo will have a live stream.

Um, PlayStation probably will E.