UPDATE: Since we’ve received a lot of comments asking which movie theaters will be participating, we’ve added the list to the bottom of this post. As a reminder, tickets will be made available at http://playstation.com/e3experience tomorrow (Wednesday, May 27th) at 9:00am PT.
Whenever I interact with the PlayStation community I’m always struck by their passion and excitement for gaming. I saw this firsthand at E3 2014, when I teamed up with PlayStation and Fathom Events to bring the E3 Press Conference live to over 10,000 fans around the country as part of the PlayStation E3 Experience in movie theaters. It was amazing to see fans line up all across America to experience the news and announcements live with others in the community.
This year I’m happy to announce that the PlayStation E3 Experience will return on Monday, June 15. Due to the quick sell-outs in 2014, we will be staging it in significantly more theaters — and yes, it will still be free. Last year tickets in most markets sold out in 15 minutes or less, so for 2015 we are increasing the number of theaters by more than 150%, with at least one theater in every state across the US — including Hawaii and Alaska — plus 3 cities in Canada.
You and fellow members of the PlayStation community will get to see the full PlayStation E3 press conference in HD on the big screen, plus there are special bonuses for those who come out to the theater experience. I’ll be hosting an exclusive 30-minute in-theater post show with extended footage and interviews with developers, and everyone who attends will take home a PlayStation surprise, which will consist of PlayStation goods and digital codes we can’t disclose yet. (Last year attendees received early access to the Destiny Alpha and Battlefield: Hardline beta, along with a great poster and VIP laminate).
To make it fair to everyone in the community, this year we are giving you advance notice of ticket sales. Free tickets will be made available on Wednesday, May 27 starting at 9:00 a.m. PT at playstation.com/e3experience. Eighty percent of theater capacity will be reserved for ticket holders, with 20% of the theater held for those on the wait list, who will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. We saw the big lines last year and want to make sure that everyone has a fair chance to be in the theater.
The PlayStation.Blog guys also tell me that their big PlayStation LiveCast show will be back again in a big way, kicking off with the PlayStation Press Conference on June 15th, starting at 5:45 p.m. Pacific Time. They’ll have plenty of game demos, new trailers, and developer interviews over the next three days – and you’ll be able to watch on your PS4 or PS3 using the Live Events Viewer app, too. Stay tuned for more details.
| Theatre Name | Address | City | State | Zip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage 16 with XD | 301 E 36Th Ave | Anchorage | AK | 99503 |
| Trussville 16 | 5895 Trussville Crossings Pkwy | Birmingham | AL | 35235 |
| Colonel Glenn 18 with Xtreme | 18 Colonel Glenn Plaza Dr | Little Rock | AR | 72210 |
| Ahwatukee 24 | 4915 E Ray Rd | Phoenix | AZ | 85044 |
| Park Place 20 with XD | 5870 E Broadway Blvd | Tucson | AZ | 85711 |
| Century City 15 with IMAX | 10250 Santa Monica Blvd | Los Angeles | CA | 90067 |
| Mission Valley 20 with IMAX | 1640 Camino Del Rio N | San Diego | CA | 92108 |
| Century 9 San Francisco Centre with XD | 835 Market St | San Francisco | CA | 94103 |
| Pavilions 15 | 500 16Th St Ste 310 | Denver | CO | 80202 |
| Brass Mill 12 | 495 Union St | Waterbury | CT | 06706 |
| Mazza Gallerie 7 | 5300 Wisconsin Ave Nw | Washington | DC | 20015 |
| Brandywine Town Center 16 | 3300 Brandywine Pkwy | Wilmington | DE | 19803 |
| Sawgrass Stadium 23 with IMAX | 2600 Nw 136Th Ave | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 33323 |
| The Avenues Stadium 20 | 9525 Philips Hwy | Jacksonville | FL | 32256 |
| Sunset Place 24 with IMAX | 5701 Sunset Dr | Miami | FL | 33143 |
| Waterford Lakes Stadium 20 with IMAX | 541 N Alafaya Trl | Orlando | FL | 32828 |
| Hollywood 24 @ North I-85 | 3265 Northeast Expy Ne | Atlanta | GA | 30341 |
| Dole Cannery 18 with IMAX | 753B Iwilei Rd | Honolulu | HI | 96817 |
| Davenport 18 with IMAX | 3601 E 53Rd St | Davenport | IA | 52807 |
| Boise Stadium 22 with IMAX | 7701 W Overland Rd | Boise | ID | 83709 |
| River East 21 | 322 E Illinois St | Chicago | IL | 60611 |
| Galaxy 14 | 8105 E 96Th St | Indianapolis | IN | 46256 |
| Hollywood Stadium 14 Topeka | 6200 Sw 6Th Ave | Topeka | KS | 66615 |
| Tinseltown Louisville | 4400 Towne Center Dr | Louisville | KY | 40241 |
| Elmwood Palace 20 with IMAX | 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd | Harahan | LA | 70123 |
| Fenway 13 with RPX | 201 Brookline Ave | Boston | MA | 02215 |
| Lowell Showcase Cinemas | 32 Reiss Ave | Lowell | MA | 01851 |
| Rockville Center 13 | 199 E Montgomery Ave | Rockville | MD | 20850 |
| Cinemagic Grand | 333 Clarks Pond Parkway | South Portland | ME | 04106 |
| Celebration Cinema Grand Rapids N IMAX | 2121 Celebration Dr Ne | Grand Rapids | MI | 49525 |
| Brooklyn Center 20 | 6420 Camden Ave N | Minneapolis | MN | 55430 |
| Kansas City 18 Cinemas | 3200 Ameristar Dr | Kansas City | MO | 64161 |
| Cinemark 16 Gulfport | 15171 Community Rd | Gulfport | MS | 39503 |
| Gallatin Valley Cinemas 11 | 2825 W Main St Ste A2 | Bozeman | MT | 59718 |
| Stonecrest 22 @ Piper Glen with IMAX | 7824 Rea Rd | Charlotte | NC | 28277 |
| Brier Creek Stadium 14 | 8611 Brier Creek Pkwy | Raleigh | NC | 27617 |
| Century 10 Theatre | 3931 9Th Ave S | Fargo | ND | 58103 |
| Oakview 24 with IMAX | 3555 S 140Th Plz | Omaha | NE | 68144 |
| Cinemagic in Merrimack | 11 Executive Park Dr | Merrimack | NH | 03054 |
| Seacourt 10 | 635 Bay Ave | Toms River | NJ | 08753 |
| Hamilton 24 with IMAX | 325 Sloan Ave | Trenton | NJ | 08619 |
| Cottonwood 16 | 10000 Coors Byp Nw | Albuquerque | NM | 87114 |
| Village Square 18 | 9400 W Sahara Ave | Las Vegas | NV | 89117 |
| Transit Center Stadium 19 with IMAX | 6707 Transit Rd | Buffalo | NY | 14221 |
| Union Square Stadium 14 | 850 Broadway | New York | NY | 10003 |
| Empire 25 with IMAX | 234 W 42Nd St | New York | NY | 10036 |
| Oakley Station | 3025 Disney Street | Cincinnati | OH | 45209 |
| Georgesville Stadium 16 | 1800 Georgesville Square Dr | Columbus | OH | 43228 |
| Tinseltown USA | 6001 N Martin Luther King Ave | Oklahoma City | OK | 73111 |
| Century 16 Eastport | 4040 SE 82nd Ave | Portland | OR | 97266 |
| Riverview Plaza | 1400 S Columbus Blvd | Philadelphia | PA | 19147 |
| Cinemark Robinson Township with XD | 2100 Settlers Ridge Center Dr | Pittsburgh | PA | 15205 |
| Warwick Showcase Cinemas | 1200 Quaker Ln | East Greenwich | RI | 02818 |
| Columbiana Grande Stadium 14 | 1250 Bower Pkwy | Columbia | SC | 29212 |
| Sioux Falls Stadium 14 | 2400 S Carolyn Ave | Sioux Falls | SD | 57106 |
| Opry Mills 21 with IMAX | 570 Opry Mills Dr | Nashville | TN | 37214 |
| Cinemark Southpark Meadows | 9900 S Interstate 35 Ste N | Austin | TX | 78748 |
| Northpark Center 15 with IMAX and ETX | 8687 N Central Expy Ste 3000 | Dallas | TX | 75225 |
| Houston Marq*E Stadium 22 plus IMAX | 7620 Katy Fwy | Houston | TX | 77024 |
| Cielo Vista 18 | 2828 Cinema Rdg | San Antonio | TX | 78238 |
| Salt Lake City 16 | 125 E 3300 S | Salt Lake City | UT | 84115 |
| Westchester Common 16 | 361 Perimeter Dr | Midlothian | VA | 23113 |
| Lynnhaven 18 with IMAX | 1001 Lynnhaven Mall Loop | Virginia Beach | VA | 23452 |
| Merrill Palace 9 | 10 Fayette Dr | South Burlington | VT | 05403 |
| Pacific Place 11 | 600 Pine St | Seattle | WA | 98101 |
| Palace Cinema – Sun Valley | 2830 Hoepker Rd | Sun Prairie | WI | 53590 |
| Morgantown Stadium 12 | 1001 Mountaineer Dr | Morgantown | WV | 26501 |
| Fox Theater 6 | 505 S 20Th St | Laramie | WY | 82070 |
| Scotiabank Theatre Montreal + IMAX | 977 Ste-Catherine West | Montreal | QC | H3B 4W3 |
| Cineplex Cinemas Yonge Dundas & VIP | 10 Dundas Street East | Toronto | ON | M5B 2G9 |
| Cineplex Odeon International Village | 88 West Pender Street | Vancouver | BC | V6B 6N9 |
“If I miss out on this, I will be really upset.”
Me too bro. Pretty pissed.
Man this is ridiculous.
I’m forever stuck trying to load into Get Tickets for my theater. :'( It was nowhere near this slammed compared to last year; at least for me that is.
Whoever had, this is going to be a giant cluster, a winner is you!
any luck ?
I cant even sign into PSN on the site, so I dont have a get tickets option :(
Got to a ticket amount option (1 or 2) and clicked “Register” which hung for a few minutes before receiving a “Server Error 502” message. Doh!
Made it to the “Register tickets” screen then watched it load for 5 mins and now I have a blank white page >..>
Tried clicking for Canadian tickets on Eventgrid and the whole site just died..
I see my theater and “Get Tickets” I selected it and the site has been loading for 10mins..
It crashed for me! Yikes!
This really stinks Sony. You increased your theater count this year but removed theaters that were included last year. Myself and many others had a fantastic time watching this live in St. Louis and now our only
Option is to drive five hours away. Add more theaters!
same boat as all else. clicked qty 2, registering… then 502 error. :( wife is sitting next to me, no luck either.
Thanks for the 502 on the last registration page servers…
Lol and now the site is just dead. Good show, Sony.
Well it wasnt open to every state last year. So alot of people didnt even bother UGHHHH now it went to “Service Unavailable”
Only Sony would have something like this… Lol HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable
and the 502 error keeps on. I suppose the upside is that now I may have a shot at it.
I don’t like traffic at all!
Same here VeritableHero.
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.
REALLY?
lol, we crashed the site. Good stuff
“502 – Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server.
There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. When the Web server (while acting as a gateway or proxy) contacted the upstream content server, it received an invalid response from the content server.”
:'(
Server crashed :(
yeah that was bull****…. 1 theater in colorado, your server went to complete **** the moment it opened. had no chance… appreciate it sony. you officially blow. i would have gladly paid to go, but you had to give it away free, so that way it would make it that much more impossible to get tickets. thanks sony!
Looks like they did not do a proper L&P test for this type of demand on this website. :(
Smooth start to e3 ladies and gents!
So…has anyone been able to get tickets yet?
Good job, Sony… announce it in advance so more people have a chance to get tickets, but guarantee the odds of the traffic jam collapsing the servers…
I’m sure nobody AT ALL saw this coming…
/s
WTF this makes no sense. At the final stage entering all info for attendees click next, page loads blank wow that’s unfair
I hope and pray we all get out chances here…but still no luck :( got to my theater and suddenly hit with a 502 error
Would really suck as well if i cant get one opened the site up right at 11:59 actually.
Truly a disappointing way to treat your most ardent fans. Not having the foresight to prepare for the load is disappointing.
The Canadian page finally loaded, now I can finally select Get Tickets and wait for a couple hours!…
Same exact thing happened to me VeritableHero. Now I’m just getting the 502 Error. And I was on the site at 12 sharp Eastern.
Did ANYONE even get tix?
Not to be negative, but I get the feeling someone had their ways into blocking others from getting said tickets.
Has Anybody even been able to actually get tickets so far or no?
I can’t do anything the site just keeps on loading, isn’t this great EVERYONE :D
Gotta hand it to Sony….the “experience” is incredibly on par with their servers for games….always crashing.
Servers must have gone down, I got to registration twice and both time got a blank screen after it finished loading.
Canadian side shows no theatres available for me, get tickets does nothing.
Pretty sure EventGrid has never had this much traffic before lol. We probably melted their servers
“502 – Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server.
There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. When the Web server (while acting as a gateway or proxy) contacted the upstream content server, it received an invalid response from the content server.”
What a colossal waste of time. Once again Sony fails to adequately allocate the proper venues and bandwidth in line with the anticipated demand. Keep your trinkets of demos and beta keys, I’ll watch this in the comfort of my home AFTER the live stream has ended because we all know you still won’t have set up the conference live stream or learned from last year to the point of allowing a smooth and uninterrupted experience. Because you don’t know even know how to allocate, upgrade and safeguard basic resources like PSN servers.
Got to the Register Now Page but its been stuck loading for a while after i click the button.
I’m sure tickets for these will turn up on StubHub/eBay for $100+. Regardless of them requiring ID at the door and everything.
i’m at the ticket registration page currently, selected my quantity…just waiting for it to load
And i woke up real early for this (Work until 3am)…
I’m checking the other locations and they are all “ended.”
It says the seating for my theatre ended.. WHAT???
cant go beyond get tickets