After missing last year entirely, E3 2021 is finally here, albeit in an entirely digital form. The proceedings officially kick off tomorrow, but E3 has released an official trailer to drum up excitement ahead of its official start date.
Last year's E3 was canceled because of the Coronavirus pandemic, which led to many games industry companies running their own smaller reveal events or joining up with the Summer Game Fest that arose to take E3's place. This year, however, the conference is coming back with big companies like Xbox, Nintendo, Take-Two, and Gearbox all jumping back in to show off their newest titles at E3.
E3's new trailer highlights those companies as well as highlighting some of their biggest recent titles, although there is no telling whether or not the games showed hint at what may be to come once the presentations kick-off. Interestingly, there are two companies that do not have any gameplay footage shown. The first is the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. It has already been confirmed that Battlefield 2042 gameplay will show up at Xbox's conference and it is very likely Halo Infinite will in some form as well. Beyond that, however, many fans have speculated as to whether or not Bethesda will give a look at Starfield or if anything will be shown of Xbox's upcoming Fable 4.
Take-Two Interactive also notably does not have any gameplay following its name. There was a sizable leak claiming to reveal some unannounced titles from Take-Two, with one of those titles, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, already being shown at the Summer Game Fest. For both conferences, however, it seems that the companies are looking to maintain their secrecy as much as possible for as long as possible. The trailer also lists a number of personalities participating in the event, including Greg Miller, T-Pain, Arin Hanson, and many more.
E3 is always an exciting time of the year, and there will surely be many exciting announcements coming from this year's E3. Thankfully, fans do not have much longer to wait to see what is all revealed at the event. There have been countless rumors and leaks circulating around regarding the event, so it will be great to see which end up being real and which are fake. Of course, Elden Ring did already get announced so one miracle for the event has already come true. Hopefully, there are more on the way for all the other fans watching as well.