Hooligans of the Night

Indeed. The weekend will be open to us!

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/a...-june.aspx

Level Up has just learned that after long, bruising and politically difficult negotiations, the Entertainment Software Association is preparing to announce tomorrow that E3 2009 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center during the first week of June--and that for the first time, E3 will officially open its doors to the public at large. According to a source close to the process, the convention floor and meeting rooms will open on Tuesday June 2nd to media and industry professionals. On Friday June 5th and Saturday June 6th, however, the show floor will open up to the public. What about the famous press conferences from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, along with a handful of third party publishers? Our source told us to "expect a boat load of press conferences on Monday during the day and on Tuesday morning."

Internally, the ESA and its members are referring to the event as a "prosumer show," a term our source found puzzling. Presumably it refers to the ESA's intent to reach out to not necessarily the world at large, but to media, industry professionals and the most avid gamers. For while attendance is expected to rise dramatically from the 2008 show, our source informed us that the ESA is aiming to cap next year's attendance at 40,000. That's significantly less than the record 70,000 people that attended E3 in 2005, and it's also less than the nearly 60,000 people who attended this year's Penny Arcade Expo in August in downtown Seattle.

I just finished reading the EGM article about E3. Good Read.

I really don't care about how big it is our how over the top it is. I just want E3 to go back to being the main event of our industry. The place where most major titles are revealed. With the big 3 trying to top one another.

yeah, figures the organizers would finally allow this by the time e3 stopped mattering.

I would've wet myself over this back in 2001. seriously might've considered taking a few days out of school, taking a plane ticket to LA or wherever it is and doing it.

I'm thinking about doing it this year because it will probably be the last chance I'll get at something like this before starting a real job. So...

I don't really think it's anything to get hyped up for, they can move it back to the convention center and have public days, which is nice, but I still don't think you're going to see the presence or announcements that you used to see. I think it'll essentially be a louder version of the show from the last couple years.

I think fan presence will do a world of good in regards to drumming up new interest in E3. The past few years have been positively soulless because of it.

Sounds exciting,
aside from the high potential for price raping and the potential for the whole place possibly needing a few gallons of Febreeze.

It would be interesting to see, but I think that the price will be too high for what you get. Look at last years E3, personally not much appeal compared to the previews of the next gens E3.
I do believe that intelligent fan input might make developers change how they make games . On the flip side it could be a total cluster fuck with fans and media in the mix.

(Imagines the smell of hundreds of bags of Doritos, sweaty lunch meat, and old shoes... crammed into one area).


Poor neutered uneventful E3. You shall now obtain the smell of 1000 fanygeekboys! Hooray!!

Silver probably isn't that far off with the Febreeze comment. At the first or second PAX, Gabe and Tycho had to make a public service announcement about deodorant and basic hygiene.

See, but Comic Con I never noticed that once. I expected tons of body odor to permeate the air, especially when you factored in hot costumes increasing the sweat factor. But nope. None of it.

Well maybe they could have sniffer dogs at the entrances. If the arrivals don't pass the smell test, they get the fire hose.

What the hell is this Middle School? You know these gents have their priorities straight when you have to make an announcment reserved for 12-14 year olds.