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rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean, there are already successful in-person gaming conventions so they aren't really doing anything special on that front.

Pretty much. The only "void" E3 left was the idea of having a single convention that was the definitive place for big announcements, and that idea had already died long before E3 itself actually did as companies realized that large press conferences were largely a waste of money. There's still interest in gong to in-person conventions, but that's largely satisfied by the others that have emerged, many of which had already emerged as more accessible alternatives to E3 while E3 was still going strong. A new one from IGN isn't going to magically become the "definitive" convention any more than those others have, especially where we're likely never going back to the days of large, in-person press conferences now that streamed announcements have done as well as they have.