E3 died last year. Booth Babes cried, fanboys screamed and anyone who had ever attended the buffet of blasting stereos and bloated neon breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, "The Show" rose again.
The 2007 Electronic Entertainment Expo has been rebuilt from the ground up and IGN will be in Santa Monica July 11-13 to cover the brand new "invitation-only" event. In fact they're so excited that they're kicking that coverage off now. Here's the list of every publisher in attendance at the show and the titles they've "officially" confirmed to be showing so far.
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.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
E3 announcements that would totally make my day. Mass effect demo coming soon, Uncharted demo coming soon, Killzone videos are shown with real gameplay this time, And maybe just maybe they could show us the Team ICO project. I would almost kill for a shadow of collosus 2. The beauty of that game would be unbelievably stunning on next gen
Killzone 2 confirmed to be there that will be good :D
When is E3 this year? July?
Sorry, double.
Rest in peace E3, you will be missed.
No one likes press conferences.