GWN's latest feature details everything they know about E3 2007 up until this point,
"E3 has trimmed its fat, and I don't just mean some of the booth babes.
This year's E3 will admit only media and business partners, no longer allowing all the tiny stores and other people who finagle their way through the doors. That will essentially reduce attendance from more than 60,000 to less than 4,000. To prove how much leaner and less extravagant it can be, Entertainment Software Association (ESA) even changed the name from the "Electronic Entertainment Expo" (E3), to "E3 Media and Business Summit," driving home the refocused event.
It's really not that much of a coup, simply devolving the Expo back to its original intention: letting game companies gather to drink and conduct face-to-face business and alerting the media about all the great and wonderful videogames and gaming products being release in the next year (or so). By putting the focus on the news and not the hotties, huge monitors, thumping sound systems and multimillion dollar booths, expect this year's media coverage to be more about the games and the gear and less about the Expo itself."
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
Poor E3. Hopefully the E3 2007 surprises us all with its size and glory.
hmm i think this way is better for 99% of console owners that were not able in past to attend any E3. Reasons:Live outside of USA, expensive traveling all the way to USA, it was limited to 50.000 people if i am not wrong and so on.
Now journalists will have more space and time to try all games(yes even the crappy ones)and give us/show us theirs impressions. Before it was impossible. If you wanted to try some game you had to wait 5 hours in line.
I have a feeling this will be better and lets not forget those that want to visit show like E3 can do it later this year, when new thing called E4 starts.