Upon hearing the initial news that E3, the fair maiden from whom many a video game blessing has flowed is to be no more, much grief ensued. I am going to work in the video game industry as a writer, hopefully as a journalist. Nowadays with digitally distributed demos, trailers, and the like, there are fewer and fewer things that are game journalist exclusives, save E3. The world's largest trade show, THE main event on the calendar year for all game journalists, the ONE thing I was looking forward to being able to attend as a game journalist, to be able to stand at the entrance to the LA Convention Center under the huge "Welcome to E3 20XX" and say to myself "I've finally made it"... but alas, E3 is now but one of a seemingly ever growing list of fair maidens that are now out of my reach. So I raise a toast to the Electronic Entertainment Expo... to all the glory that I, and many others, will never personally know... To E3!!! ... may she rest in peace...