While E3 may be
long gone, and
E3Expo may have been on the horizon for a brief time, it appears that GamePro Expo will now be taking its place as the king of the American gaming shows. IDG, the company that publishes
GamePro magazine (and
Macworld mag and Expo), will now run this latest show to take over the Los Angeles Convention Center come October 2007. Although GamePro is only slated for 30,000 people (half the size of E3), it should still rock, given that it'll bring live competitions among other goodies. And if you're looking for us while at the show, we'll be the ones hanging our heads in shame after getting totally pwned by the smarmy editors over at Joystiq.
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posted Nov 4th 2006 1:44AM
October is a poor choice to present a gaming expo, and I don't think it will do any good. Penny-arcade expo all the way!
Oh and in case that GamePro didn't know... The Tokyo Game Show is in the end of September.
Blah, Penny Arcade.
This is probably going to be popular for the competition more so than the various attractions.
Does this mean they can bring back the booth babes!?
Peanut: au contraire! October is a great month for a game expo. What was wrong with E3? A major problem was a 6+ month lead before the holiday shipping season. Who wants a bunch of smarmy game writers groping their game when it's still rough around the edges (literally, jaggies OMG!).
With love,
A smarmy editor at Joystiq ;)
October is bad because with the exception of new console launches gamecos will have demos online for all holiday games, and there will not be another console launch for a while. So more or less it will be an early release party for the games, and a full year+ ahead demos. Also alot of stuff will be at Tokyo, and little changed. Besides, the key thing that made e3 special was launches, but no one is going to want to launch for the holidays in october, and everyone wants to launch for the holidays.
It isn't all bad, but it will more or less be a release party, and I imagine a lot of companies won't even use it as the primary release party, as they have to compete.