What's up everybody welcome to IJ and Game Scoop I'm your host Damon Hadfield joining me this week are Justin Davis

School Sam Clayborn. Hey, it's good to be gay and Nick Lemone joins us once again. I'm back baby with a very very cool

Virtual boy hat for our listeners out there. Yeah, is that from being an early adopter neck?

No, found it at a thrift store and I was like I need to buy that right this instant

So amazing what a thrift find someone did not know what they had

And we have a great show for this week big big news to discuss we'll be kicking off game of the year watch

2023 we'll talk about that lengthy Zelda gameplay demo. We got this week, but first you know what's first the news many of us

Rantis and Bating has finally come to light e3 has been canceled. There were once again be no e3 this year

It this news is not surprising

But no less disappointing to people like myself that just loved e3 for years and years and years a jam packed week full of big game announcements and the theatrical

One upmanship of all the big publishers trying to outdo one another with their you know stage performances and announcements and then getting you know

Media outlets providing

Hands-on impressions of all these games you do not get that in a very carefully scripted

Nintendo direct or Sony state of play

Sam not surprising, but what do you think happy because on paper

Repop coming in to take over e3 makes perfect sense. They've been and to explain who that we go ahead and explain who that is

They've been putting on packs for years. They do New York Comic Con. They do Star Wars celebration

E3 is an established brand with millions of people out there who look forward to it. Why can't

Repop come in and put on a successfully three. I mean, I guess what I

To put it another way if repop can't do it. I don't think e3 is ever coming back

Yeah, well, that's a good point. Although in the end of their press release

They did say that they will continue to work with yesa who puts on use the other kind of half of this party here

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