E3 was a horrible, loud, costly nightmare – however there was doubtlessly a magic about it. Desirous about it provides me a bloody headache, nevertheless it’s a nostalgic headache – and I’ll ceaselessly mourn that outdated, mad format. It ain’t ever coming again – however this week, I believe we bought a glimmer of what the longer term may and possibly ought to appear to be.
I’ve simply spent the week in Los Angeles attending ‘Summer time Sport Fest’, which on this article doesn’t simply check with the occasion that Geoff Keighley laid on, however all the broader actions round LA. For the sake of argument, let’s name it ‘new E3’.
Keighley’s occasion is form of the tentpole that attracts others in, with LA this week a bunch to the SGF stage present and stream, the ‘Play Days’ campus the place many publishers arrange store, an identical providing from our colleagues over at IGN Reside, plus separate occasions areas from Ubisoft and Xbox. Different publishers camped up in lodge rooms for top-secret hands-ons and the like.
