Their press release doesn't even mention trying again next year. It's fuckin dead
The most memorable parts of E3 are always the awkward moments. Giant enemy crab, my body is ready, one million troops. It's spoooky
Giant enemy crab
I never got that one. Was it that they thought they invented the idea of boss weak points?
No they were just bragging about something that was not inspiring, interesting or cool iirc
You gotta watch the whole clip. Right before introducing the crab he is talking about how the game is "based on real history", and the juxtaposition of those two ideas is what's funny about it.
When I was a kid I always wanted to go to E3, then it became press and shitheads only and said :bugs-no: to public schmucks like me.
it was a bigger deal when a lot of game news was through magazines. as the internet grew it became worthless.
I miss magazines, honestly. Once a month and you could collect them afterwards. Nothing better to read while on the toilet. And you could show off your tastes by which magazines were in the holder. I had Mad Magazine, this one magazine I forget because the previous tenant didn't change his address and they kept coming for years, and Guns & Ammo.
with your library card you can probably sign up for the Libby app which has magazines you can view on a tablet. it's the first time ive looked at a magazine in years. plus some history magazines which i always enjoyed buying from the massive barnes and nobles magazine section that used to exist.
isn't it an industry event that eventually opened to the public?
Based on research, it was industry-only for most of it's existence, but opened to the public starting in 2017.
but opened to the public starting in 2017.
Shit I missed my shot, now it's over :negative: oh well, there's always the tokyo game show
Makes sense. The only thing corpos get from these big conferences anymore is embarrassing flubs. Much better to tightly control your messaging the way Nintendo does with the Directs.
Now, indie games on the other hand have a lot to gain from them. I don't think PAX will die any time soon.
There's also been a lot of consolidation in the industry. Right now a no from Microsoft means that Activision and Bethesda/Zenimax aren't attending.
yea it's very much a relic of press relations pre-internet video streaming that stuck around way longer than it was useful to the forces that built it. same with most games journalism to be honest.
Kind of sad. Had a lot of fond memories from E3 over the years. The Smash Melee reveal and Reggie unveiling the DS for the first time blew my mind as a kid. There was even a time when my friends and I would gather around the computer for E3 updates or videos to see what had been announced. The increasing lack of live events does concern me and is probably going to lead to increased alienation that developed countries are already having problems with.
Everyone found out you don't need live presentations anymore, nor do you need a big trade show to get the mainstream news to cover you. You can just stream game announcements on Youtube and people will tune in.
Nintendo has an exclusive one every year and millions of people tune it and it becomes a meme for a week or so. A physical show just seems pointless unless you’re demoing or doing Cosplay, which seems depressing that it’s all online now
The industry was designed around the fact getting information out to consumers was difficult and costly. The developers went to these shows to give new game info to dedicated games media sites, those sites showed that information alongside ads to make money.
Eventually in the mid 2010's developers found getting information to consumers was increasingly easy. They didn't need to run and maintain an entire dedicated website and attract viewers, all that functionality and existing userbase was already YouTube or Twitter.
So now they don't need to go to a trade show to get information out, and now games media sites can't get info by going to a trade show. It's why both E3 and dedicated games media sites are dead or dying, they became no longer useful for developers.
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RIP to all the suits who tried and failed to get with booth babes every year and all of Jesse Cox’s stories about these
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I remember when Nintendo skipped E3 for the first time and everyone in the industry acted like it meant they were dying. Funny to see how right Nintendo was.
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Kinda sad but the idea of E3 was always cooler than it actually was in practice
