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E3 2008’s Rapidly Shrinking Floorplan Revealed!

the-minusworld.com — The once relevant Electronics Entertainment Expo (aka E3) makes it’s triumphantly bastardized return this year.

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  • UtopiaInTheSky, on 05/21/2008, -3/+63At first I thought the TakeTwo and "EA Hostile Takeover" room was the best part. But then I spotted the PSP room adjacent to the ***** and found a whole new level of funny.
  • louiebaur, on 05/21/2008, -6/+34I am sure the LOL sega booth will be packed
  • Surferess, on 05/21/2008, -2/+15Wow this show is REALLY going to suck bad!
  • chkdg8, on 05/21/2008, -3/+20Dugg for the RROD booth at the front entrance, Atari's cross on it's grave and PSP by the outhouses. Genius.
  • Aeron, on 05/21/2008, -3/+31bring back the booth babes and the chaos, it used to be exciting
    • Gutterpunk, on 05/21/2008, -2/+3Heck ya! If you want a E3 made for traders, make a freaking E3 Trader Edition before of after the main event. But in the meantime bring back the booth babes!
  • luke16, on 05/21/2008, -2/+61On a more serious note: Whos idea was it to make E3 suck? E3 use to be that yearly event that everyone talked about. Now it has just turned into corporate bull *****.

    Bring back hot japanese booth babes please.
    • Remmiz, on 05/21/2008, -3/+17Now it's PAX.
      • mrASSMAN, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Which is why I'm not angry like most people.. yay for Seattle, now I can actually attend one of these events. PAX is tripling in size every year and why not.. this city is game central of America.. we've got Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve, lots of independent developers, a big gaming community.

        Though E3 was more than just games so it may never be the same.
    • cr4wl3r, on 05/21/2008, -2/+5I totally agree. I was going to go (for the first time) the year after the last good year, and then they announced that they were changing it and I was like "Fuuuck".
    • B1663r, on 05/21/2008, -2/+3They omitted the public from the show, then last year it sucked, but it was only good if you had a product that could get media attention. This year, if you want to advertise your product to the public, why go to this show? No need for the individual developers to go, onlt a need for the publishers and distributors there to make deals with the buyers. That is it.
      • NextGenXbox, on 05/21/2008, -4/+1E3 was never for the public.
        • Gutterpunk, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3Tell that to the public that was there before last year and generating more word of mouth/forum talk/blog posts than anything the press will ever be able to do.
    • 4crCoffee, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2I had the chance to go to the last good year :)
  • JerryAscione, on 05/21/2008, -1/+32Dugg for the fact there are exits everywhere.
  • junk2006, on 05/21/2008, -3/+7Noooooooooooo don't let EA takeover take 2 I want to play the improved allpro-2k10
  • JlmAWP, on 05/21/2008, -9/+4I'm thinking it's a good thing that the DS was left out of this mess.
    • sh4rkb1t3, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Get ready for the smackdown to be laid on you.
  • Remmiz, on 05/21/2008, -1/+8Mirror by chance? Work filter classifies this website as Pornography for some reason...
  • johnmark9, on 05/21/2008, -30/+0I agree about the EA takeover being the best - it really brought the room alive.

    http://wwww.mysecretadvantage.com
  • theatheist, on 05/21/2008, -4/+4Blizzard and activision broke away from the commitment to do their own gigs, blizzcon is gonna be pretty f'ing awsome this year.
  • Diran, on 05/21/2008, -5/+3mirror
  • Drull, on 05/21/2008, -3/+4Down already :(

    Duggmirror didn't catch it.
  • pond70, on 05/21/2008, -3/+4LOL .....
  • bmdubya, on 05/21/2008, -10/+5Ubisoft doesn't suck.
    • unionaire, on 05/21/2008, -2/+5after assasin's creed? yes they suck.
      Game's got killer graphics, but horrible playing experience.
      • XSVfan, on 05/21/2008, -1/+2Didn't you learn from Crysis that it's all about the graphics?
    • Wartz, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1after GRAW? the bughells known as rainbow 6 and the silent hunter series? the DRM ridden and horribly unoptimized SC games?

      yes, ubisoft sucks
    • coresnake, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3I BEG TO DIFFER
    • Gutterpunk, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Did you play their game lately? They are trying too hard to be the new EA
  • 3szoom, on 05/21/2008, -4/+4Webwasher blocked this site due to "Pornography." Nothing more pornographic than a floorplan...stupid work web filter..
  • Haz3rd, on 05/21/2008, -5/+2Wait... whens E3?
    • nard3456, on 05/21/2008, -1/+5It says on the bottom of the picture, July 15-17
    • Haz3rd, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1Well considering the picture never loaded, I never saw. Besides, it was a joke, meaning I didn't know when E3 was because it's gone so down hill.
  • zizzy, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3Sometimes I forget why we have a Gaming topic...
  • crazyjake, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3Dugg for the Square Enix section!
  • YME1280, on 05/21/2008, -4/+18http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/2766/e3mapxa5.jpg
  • crobarian, on 05/21/2008, -4/+4mirror?
  • akermani, on 05/21/2008, -2/+3LOL, SEGA
  • rowlodge, on 05/21/2008, -1/+6kinda dead, isn't it...

    i hope they announce a whole bunch of ps3 price reductions this time.
    • Picer, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1I hope they do too, but Sony have reduced it by substantial amount, when they realised it was too high, if they can get it under
      £250 (£299 currently), ill be happy to buy it, but I doubt any reductions will occur most of my colleagues and friends are happy to buy at the current price.
      • popfrogs, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1It's expensive due to your socialist taxation structure. The US doesn't pay that much and it's actually a fair deal if you buy it with Euros.
      • shmatt, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1That's only about $50 more than what we pay in the US. I kind of doubt 'socialist taxation' is to blame. Do you mean tariffs? think probably it's higher shipping costs.
  • shdwsclan, on 05/21/2008, -4/+13Yeah.......its because EA bought up a bunch of studios, so what used to be 100 boths of great gaming, is just 1 booth of blank, cheezy games...
    • popfrogs, on 05/21/2008, -1/+13What do you mean blank cheezy games? Personally I'm looking forward to Burnout 18, Madden 2012, Battlefield: Bad Bad Battles 12, Harry Potter and the Neverending Sequel of Shuggoth, and everyone's favorite, The Sims: European Vacation Tourguide.
  • mztiklimit, on 05/21/2008, -1/+2Very clever.
  • cesclaveria, on 05/21/2008, -1/+4I always wanted to go to the E3, so bad it turned into this boring business convention related to video games.
    changing the topic a little, is PAX really that good? I've heard from some people that it is like the E3 of old days, is that true?
    • Lunarbunny, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2I couldn't compare it to E3 (I turned 18 when they crapified it) but PAX is definitely awesome. I've gone to PAX for the last 2 years (it'd be criminal if I didn't, considering how close it is), and thoroughly enjoyed myself at both. Also gotten about $800 in free ***** too :D (results not typical)
  • saunders45, on 05/21/2008, -2/+8EA Sux...
  • tylermenezes, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3I mirrored it for you: http://mirrors.tylerm.info/E3map.jpg
  • atomicrobot, on 05/21/2008, -1/+2E3 is dead.
    Long live E3.
  • twignificant, on 05/21/2008, -1/+4Dugg for the all-too-appropriate "Sex-Guessing-Hutch."
  • ShyGuy91284, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Who cares? E3 is just a lame publicity stunt where nothing new is really unvealed anymore.
  • Seaseme, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1haha. sega.
  • daridave, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1E...what? Forgot all about it...
  • gweedo767, on 05/21/2008, -0/+3I have to say...I am kinda sad about all this. I fondly recall years of taking my lunch break at a specific time to watch the Nintendo Press Conference each May (then watch the others when I have time). I loved the flood of news, it was great. I fully understand why it had to die and the publisher based events do give better data/info spread over time...but I will still miss it.
  • jpop, on 05/21/2008, -0/+3I think E3 was on the downswing, and the banning of the booth babes, then shipping it off to multiple hotels/warehouses killed it.
    Issue 1: It was less industry and more public. The original intent was for industry to get together to make their deals. It expanded out to more a PR setup.
    Issue 2: The larger companies (right or wrong) felt that they'd get better PR for less money if they were the sole info in the news vs. having it diluted by hundreds of companies. So they started to do their big announcements at other areas vs E3.


  • FuckXboxx, on 05/21/2008, -2/+4Wake me up for CES...
    • billygreen23, on 05/21/2008, -1/+4I went to CES this last January and it was a complete waste of time.
  • metroidragon, on 05/21/2008, -1/+3top right > bathrooms | PSP
  • thekeenone, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1friggin hilarious
  • coresnake, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Soon it'll be so ass they'll have to change the name from E3 to EA
  • nixonismyhero, on 05/21/2008, -7/+1This was stupid and a waste of my time.
  • laserblazer, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Hey, let's make a convention about gaming and only invite jaded software developers and industry leeches! So cool!
  • Pahtcub, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Where's the "Valve" blow job booth?
  • b-dizzle, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2I like how the Xbox booth is shaped like an RRoD.
  • slaystench, on 05/22/2008, -0/+1That's not even the real floor plan.
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