E3, the world’s biggest videogame convention, will be canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, Ars Technica reported Tuesday night. Citing multiple sources familiar with organizers’ plans, Ars Technica said the three-day expo will soon make a public announcement. E3 2020 was scheduled to run June 9-11 in Los Angeles. After originally saying the expo would go on, E3 organizers said March 4 that they are “monitoring and evaluating the situation daily.” If it is indeed canceled, E3, which had about 66,000 visitors last year, will join a long list of other conferences and festivals that have pulled the plug due to the outbreak, including the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
