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E3: Too Big, Too Much

Tags: Electronic Entertainment Expo + E3 Media Festival + Doug Lowenstein + 2007

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Posted by Motu 5 years 9 months ago; via online.wsj.com/public/art...

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, the videogame industry's raucous annual conference, will be getting a lot quieter.

Members of the game industry's main trade group, the Entertainment Software Association, voted to dramatically scale back the annual May conference amid growing disenchantment among exhibitors with the spiraling costs of the show, known as E3. Instead of a big event that has traditionally taken up a sprawling convention center in Los Angeles and attracted more than 60,000 attendees, the association plans to produce a much...

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E3 Finished?

Tags: E3 + ESA + Doug Lowenstein

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Posted by Motu 5 years 9 months ago; via next-gen.biz/index.php?op...

Senior industry sources have revealed that the E3 industry event, in its present form, has been cancelled for next year and the foreseeable future.

Well placed sources say the news that larger exhibitors were pulling out had prompted urgent meetings among publishing executives. They decided that, without the support of the larger software publishers and hardware manufacturers, there would be no point in continuing.

ESA president Doug Lowenstein will likely announce the news some time within the next 48 hours, possibly on Monday. It's...

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