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RIP E3 (Electronic Entetainment Expo), Hello E3 Media Festival

Well, I am sure most of you now saw the news that the Electronic Entertainment Expo the way it is now is unfortunately no more and instead next July, it will be renamed the E3 Media Festival and that it is getting dramatically resized to a smaller location and thus there will be no more jam-packed action in the Los Angeles Convention Center.

I can see in some ways, why they did this and most of it is due to saving money for developers and publishers wasting millions of dollars each year making up booths and advertising games in the convention center and also it will give some of the lesser-known developers/publishers out there a chance to showcase their games better since some of the best games out there are not made by the big guns as it were (Sony, EA, Nintendo, Microsoft etc).

I read the editor's thoughts on this news and they do make some valid points about it being less about games and more about babes and crazy stuff etc.  Most people who had the opportunity to attend E3 will miss this way and hopefully the new way next year will be somewhat of a welcome change to people out there but we have to wait and see whether this new way will succeed or not and if not, then who knows?, they may bring back the old way but I doubt that.

I will probably be doing a video blog on this matter as I never got a chance to attend a E3 but would love to just so I can say I was at a E3 in my life but now I won't have that chance (unless I build a time machine and travel back through May of the last 12 years but that ain't going to happen ever).

Let me know out there if any of you have the lucky opportunity of attending a E3 of any year, I don't care which and tell what the experience was like since I will never be able to share it among some of you.