TL;DR: By now, most people are enlightened that E3 2022 volition exist online-only like last year'south. However, this year'south event will feature a unique virtual experience attainable via an online portal or app. Filled with exhibit booths, lounges, forums, and a few other things, E3 2022's virtual feel will run parallel to the event, which starts on June 12 through June 15th.

The online portal, created by Game Cloud Network, HCL Technologies Ltd and Revyrie Inc., volition work as the middle indicate for all things related to E3 2022. Media partners volition be allowed to admission the portal starting on June 7th, while the full general public will gain access on June twelfth.

Both the app and the online portal will allow the general public to create and customize their contour and access virtual booths with special events, VODs, and articles where publishers and studios will denote new games and more. At that place will also exist lounges for people to gather virtually and forums with special boards to share and hash out topics.

Moreover, the online portal and app will characteristic leaderboards to display the collectibles you've gathered during the show. These collectibles tin can be acquired by interacting with selected elements within E3 2022's virtual feel.

"From the moment we decided to host E3 virtually, we've been focused on providing an interactive experience for fans around the earth that goes across the typical livestream," stated Stanley Pierre-Louis, president and CEO of ESA. "The result is a bespoke online portal and app that will let fans, media and industry professionals to have an E3 experience designed to run parallel to the four-day broadcast, laying the foundation for interactive E3 elements to go on beyond this year's all-virtual show."

If y'all watch E3 live circulate through the app or the online portal, y'all volition take admission to viewer polls, featured tweets, and more than through Hovercraft'south interactive overlay. The broadcast will be hosted by Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez, Jacki Jing and Greg Miller.

For those interested in accessing the online portal or the app, registrations are expected to go live (free of accuse) afterward this month.