WASD Expo Has Ceased

The end of the world’s largest gaming expo, E3, made the headlines. E3 had a hard time following the lockdowns over Covid-19, and even after them the event just couldn’t recover. Covering the costs of hosting such events was difficult to begin with, but with online streaming competing for viewers, it becomes even more difficult to justify holing such events.

There’s been a new victim of the circumstances surround the economy, consumer trends and the internet: the WASD Expo has been put to an end once and for all. Although it certainly wasn’t as large as E3 or the Tokyo Games Show, WASD was a chance for smaller studios and British talent generally. Co-founder of WASD told the BBC that increases in costs spelled the end for the expo.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? I started dipping my toes in the vast sea of Kemco JRPGs.