With E3 2020 officially canceled, publishers, including Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, are looking for alternatives to the press conference.

According to Kotaku, a source familiar with E3 plans told Kotaku that Warner Bros. was planning to hold its first E3 press conference to showcase several already rumored projects, including new Batman and Harry Potter titles.

In September, Warner Bros. began teasing what is almost certainly a Batman game. Prominent leakers claimed that it would be titled Batman: Arkham Legacy. It has been almost five years since "Arkham Knight" was released, but sales of the PC version were temporarily halted due to performance problems that made it unplayable. With a new Batman movie on the horizon, it seems like the perfect time for a new title.

This could be WB Games Montreal's follow-up to Batman: Arkham Origins. The Montreal studio gave all the notice in September, but original Arkham developer Rocksteady Studios is working on something else. That, too, was supposed to be announced at a press conference.

A new Harry Potter game was also poised to be revealed: in 2018, footage of a Harry Potter RPG was leaked, showing off character creation, spells, and a variety of environments. Instead of playing one of the characters from the books, you can create your own new student at Hogwarts. It wasn't a great video, but hopefully we'll see more of it in the near future.

Publishers like Microsoft and Ubisoft have already begun discussing plans to host digital shows now that E3 2020 has been canceled, and the ESA is considering an online version of the event.