During the heat of past E3s, IGN has heard fellow editors lament the hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people crammed into the Los Angeles Convention Center that had nothing to do with the video game industry, but had somehow managed to finagle a pass and lock up important kiosks.
Even if you've never been to an E3, you're certainly read enough accounts to know what it was like during what IGN likes to call the Circus Years. Giant screens, light shows, scantily clad booth models, overly long press conferences bursting with Power Point braggadocio, and after-parties with professional acts that cost more to book that most people will ever see in 20 years.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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