The ESA made a massive announcement last night, one that could shape the video game landscape, at least as far as trade shows and annual events are concerned. iicon will be headed to Vegas in April ...

Taking place April 27–30, 2026 in Las Vegas, the Interactive Innovation Conference is set to be an essential convening for changemakers across industries "For decades, video games have been at the ...

It looks like the industry also believes we don’t need an E3 anymore – we need something better. ESA has announced iicon, a new event that they’ll be holding this April. Let’s cut straight to the ...

You might remember the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) as the company that ran E3, before handing off the responsibility of running it to ReedPop, who then failed to salvage the broken event ...

The organizers of the extravagant E3 games conference pronounced the event dead in 2023. Attendance for the bombastic, news-packed trade show was on the decline in 2019, and after the Covid-19 ...

The Entertainment Software Association - the trade organisation that represents video game developers and publishers that previously organised industry staple E3 - has launched the Interactive ...

No one would blame you if you didn't realize that the entity behind the defunct E3 gaming expo—Entertainment Software Association, or ESA—still exists. The group is back with a new gaming event, but ...

TL;DR: E3 is replaced by the Interactive Innovation Conference (iicon), an invite-only event for industry leaders, held April 27-30 in Las Vegas. It aims to foster networking and discussions among ...

E3 organizer ESA announced a new gaming event: the Interactive Innovation Conference, or Iicon. Iicon is an invite-only event that will take place in Las Vegas in late April 2026. Iicon will be ...

Rather than try to rebuild E3, the ESA has created an entirely different event to bring the games industry together every year; one that’s not open to the public. The death of E3 in 2023 was tragic ...