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 |
Finally got in! Bring on June 15! :D
I got tickets! Made it through the storm. Woot!
No venues found :(
I’m on the phone with Sony support to at least make them aware of the trouble with the website.
im on Canadian side of things and keeps redirecting me to home page when i try and even sign in its getting me so angry
Don’t worry @NeutralChaos, It has to just be traffic jam.
The entire PS nation is trying to secure a seat, that’s a lot of states and a lot of people in them.
never got past the register page and now it crashed. It’s be pissed if I can’t secure my tix.
I’M IN!
Took just a little longer than expected, but after opening the link in a new tab, and again, with extra patience, but I was able to get in!
See you guys at the Mission Valley AMC in San Diego!
I didnt go to school to get this tickets and it has been 30 minutes already
Making everyone register for tickets at the same time was a great idea! I love waiting and then getting blank pages…
Canadian site says no venues. Anyone else getting this?
On the other hand, MGS V Ground Zeros is part of June’s PS Plus line up :D
This is ridiculous. I was able to register for 2 tickets, submitted and it gave me a “bad request” message.
How are you guys getting in?
General seating sold out Toronto Young and Dundas
The PlayStation E3 Experience 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
from 9:00 PM to 11:30 PM (EDT)
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Registration Quantity
General Seating (Sold Out)
How are the tickets to my theatre sold out when nobody could even access the Canadian page? Wtf is this.
And of course its sold out once it loads for me, after 28 minutes of waiting and trying. Like I said before, don’t care anymore about going there in person as I’m sure that’ll be a broken, laggy stream regardless.
502 (server crash) error after I finally made it to the registration page at 9:05 Pacific.
anyone tell me if the denver has ended?
can someone copy and paste the link to get to eventgrid to get the tickets? It doesnt even appear when I go to the website sony is proposing..
Who didn’t see this coming really. We are basically ddosing the site right now. Although a ticket website should be able to handle a heavy load. Tickets for concerts in my city get sold out for even the **** events usually in <10 minutes.
Loaded…my theater says “sold out” …*sigh* joing the waitlist
Website isnt working to get tickets??
Got VERY close and then the registration timed out…
What a complete joke, I’ve been sitting here for over half an hour trying to get their pathetic website to load and every time I try to register it just gives me a white page. At this point I expect compensation.
Yup – Toronto sold out! Great! I don’t understand how they sold out 80% when no one could really get on.
Oh well, I lined up last time. Definitely not doing that this time.
I was able to complete the process, but the email has yet to come. *fingers crossed*
I got all the way through and entered my info in……Then…….. *Error*……..
I don’t have time to be playing around like this at work, i timed my lunch for this, and now because of of the 502 errors, and the general lack of preparedness on the event registration process, i am going to miss out. Congrats on botching this for the fans.
now trying to get my tickets and the wait continues its like 10 min from page to page
This was really BS. They said the tickets will be available on the https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/campaigns/2015/e3experience/ and they sold them at https://eventgrid.com/Events/4294/the-playstation-e3-experience/Dates/4361
Thank you Sony! I’m super frustrated. Second year I miss out!
My city says “sold out” also and I can’t see why if the site crashed!
For Canadian, the theater in Toronto already has sold out. Don’t bother wasting your time getting in to the site.
Khoury, which venue?
Finally made it through the mess and got my tickets. Wow… 33 minutes to fight through all the traffic…
For anyone who may be using other browsers, I was running Chrome and IE side by side to try and get through, and I managed to complete registration on IE while Chrome was still stuck at the “select number of tickets” page.
Canadians joining the wait list good luck entering a province, there’s only US states
I’ve made it to “Registering…” twice before it times out. *sigh*
got in for columbus ohio !!!
i have not got my conf email yet tho ???
I literally don’t even understand how the theatre in Quebec sold out when nobody could even get on the damn site
‘cue elevator music’ Oh boy, what an experience this is!
well, we sat here at 11:45 am est and waited. hit refresh, and no go. i just got through the “waiting list” … but that’s as good as not going. very upsetting. always next year. at least we can watch at home.
Already registered and white page
i just got to the canada eventgrid site i hope it works it took me 9 trys of refreshing ………… and sold out
Sad… I finally make it to “confirm” my tickets and enter my information..and I click submit and it says “error” …it tells me to go back to the main event page, and then the theater is full… at least I got on the waitlist… curious how that’s gonna work out. I hate how these websites always go down like that…there’s gotta be a better way.
@Winter324 Century City 15 in Los Angeles
Not sure how theaters are sold out when I’ve only seen one confirmation that someone was able to complete the process.
General Seating (Sold Out) is this a joke?
I GOT IN…I can’t believe this slowness. Error on my order page, refreshed and blank page but link was a thank you. Checked my email, got 2 tickets for Montreal, Canada. Hell ya!!!
Anyone on the waitlist get emailed yet? I haven’t…very nervous about this
Sucks, I was on time here to get tickets but it kicked me out.
My phone was the first one to place my ticket, but now it seems to be just as fast on other devices.