E3 to be no more?!??!?!?!?!

[zola]

It happens every year in May--one of the biggest, if not the biggest trade show for people in the video game industry.

The buzz is it's going to be cancelled

I'm really bummed--I had hoped to be able attend one over the next few years.

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's really surprising, since it still seems to be quite successful and well-attended, although I haven't gone for a few years (since I got out of the biz). Certainly, E3 isn't anything like Comdex, which didn't bother to change with the times and has now gone the way of the dinosaur.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Whoa... I just read the press release from the Entertainment Software Association. I'm still pretty floored by it though, because it did seem to still be quite successful.

[babyghia.livejournal.com]

That's sad to hear. Seems like a lot of conventions are slowly dying off due to them being too expensive.

[advinius.livejournal.com]

wow. this makes me even more sad that i did not try to get valve to cast me as gordon freeman teh year that half-life came out. back then, i was a dead ringer for the art. that woulda been a week to tell stories about...

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Okay, you're going to get sick of hearing from me on this subject. :-p

I don't know if you read Penny Arcade, but it just updated with a relevant (and funny!) strip:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/pennyarcaderss/103774.html

[zola.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm not sick of the posts at all. I just think it's a shame--I'm working on becoming a part of the gaming industry(progammer) and that was one of my things I really wanted to do, after the years of hearing about it and all.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I used to run an online game review magazine (it was quite awhile ago), so I managed to go to E3 for several years as press... it was such a wonderful experience! I wouldn't be surprised to find something else eventually pop up to replace it, because it's just such a perfect way to drum up publicity for nearly everything game related.