Editorial
E3 is on! While I deprive myself to watch hour after hour of streaming video and read a million lines of press release, what do the ‘normals’ know of all this geekiness. My friend, a casual owner of a PS2 that buys a game every other month or so, perked up when I told him E3 is this week. “Oh, aren’t they going to unveil the new PlayStation” he said. “Ah, they did” I answered. “Oh.” This person, close to my heart and in my demographic, has very little clue as to what is going on in LA right now.
So tonight I’m going to pull myself away from the flashy gaming sites and scan mainstream media for E3 news. The most credible way to do this survey would be an intense night of scanning the cable news stations and catching the 11 o’clock local broadcasts. This TV diet would surely cause my head to burst, so I’ll skip it. Instead, this article is the result of sailing the internet, stopping in at each cable news’s networks site, a few news wires, and some of the big papers.
First and foremost, is the cover story of this week’s Time Magazine. Apparently Microsoft founder Bill Gates has the Xbox 360 grafted into his head. All fear the glowing eye of Microsoft-tron, and bow before his home media powers! Just kidding, the title story is a tidy little piece assuring non gamers that Microsoft is hip enough to reinvent the way we use game consoles, and can change its ways for the times. The piece was a good read, but nothing really deep or unexpected. An occupying article taps into my questions about video game industry, profiling four personalities; Pro gamer poster boy FATAL1TY, Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, Half-Life icon Marc Laidlaw, and Will Wright, the god that hath wrought the Sim universe.
http://www.foxnews.com/, the home site of everyone’s favorite Fair & Balanced network has little besides day old info on the Xbox 360 and nothing else. This is no surprise as Fox focuses on politics, punditry and pain. Oh, and a goofy picture of Star Wars geeks in full uniform waiting in line.
http://www.cnn.com/ Has, only slightly buried in sub menus, coverage of E3. The Technology section has a run down of the next generation consoles and their theories about the immanent price war. The bulk of CNN’s E3 coverage is in the Money section, focusing in on what all the hoopla means for portfolios. The only straightforward article easily found on main pages is tiny piece on ‘nakkid games’, discussing nudity and sex in a small amount of titles. Oh, and the wookies are here too.
http://www.msnbc.com/ A Microsoft affiliated sight has an article about global game design in its headlines. The article talks about the international flavor of this E3, and how Countries have put together booths to exhibit their native game makers. And Storm Troopers.
http://www.nytimes.com/ has a few blurbs in the headlines about the expo, and real articles about Star Wars.
This is about as far as I am willing to go. Let me know what you’ve found in your normal information haunts. Below I listed some good sites for big coverage.
http://www.gamespot.com/
http://www.ign.com/
http://www.bluesnews.com/
http://www.slashdot.com/
G4 Network, in partnership with IGN.com is broadcasting live from E3 each day starting at 4 pm Eastern Time.
E3 is on! While I deprive myself to watch hour after hour of streaming video and read a million lines of press release, what do the ‘normals’ know of all this geekiness. My friend, a casual owner of a PS2 that buys a game every other month or so, perked up when I told him E3 is this week. “Oh, aren’t they going to unveil the new PlayStation” he said. “Ah, they did” I answered. “Oh.” This person, close to my heart and in my demographic, has very little clue as to what is going on in LA right now.
So tonight I’m going to pull myself away from the flashy gaming sites and scan mainstream media for E3 news. The most credible way to do this survey would be an intense night of scanning the cable news stations and catching the 11 o’clock local broadcasts. This TV diet would surely cause my head to burst, so I’ll skip it. Instead, this article is the result of sailing the internet, stopping in at each cable news’s networks site, a few news wires, and some of the big papers.
First and foremost, is the cover story of this week’s Time Magazine. Apparently Microsoft founder Bill Gates has the Xbox 360 grafted into his head. All fear the glowing eye of Microsoft-tron, and bow before his home media powers! Just kidding, the title story is a tidy little piece assuring non gamers that Microsoft is hip enough to reinvent the way we use game consoles, and can change its ways for the times. The piece was a good read, but nothing really deep or unexpected. An occupying article taps into my questions about video game industry, profiling four personalities; Pro gamer poster boy FATAL1TY, Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, Half-Life icon Marc Laidlaw, and Will Wright, the god that hath wrought the Sim universe.
http://www.foxnews.com/, the home site of everyone’s favorite Fair & Balanced network has little besides day old info on the Xbox 360 and nothing else. This is no surprise as Fox focuses on politics, punditry and pain. Oh, and a goofy picture of Star Wars geeks in full uniform waiting in line.
http://www.cnn.com/ Has, only slightly buried in sub menus, coverage of E3. The Technology section has a run down of the next generation consoles and their theories about the immanent price war. The bulk of CNN’s E3 coverage is in the Money section, focusing in on what all the hoopla means for portfolios. The only straightforward article easily found on main pages is tiny piece on ‘nakkid games’, discussing nudity and sex in a small amount of titles. Oh, and the wookies are here too.
http://www.msnbc.com/ A Microsoft affiliated sight has an article about global game design in its headlines. The article talks about the international flavor of this E3, and how Countries have put together booths to exhibit their native game makers. And Storm Troopers.
http://www.nytimes.com/ has a few blurbs in the headlines about the expo, and real articles about Star Wars.
This is about as far as I am willing to go. Let me know what you’ve found in your normal information haunts. Below I listed some good sites for big coverage.
http://www.gamespot.com/
http://www.ign.com/
http://www.bluesnews.com/
http://www.slashdot.com/
G4 Network, in partnership with IGN.com is broadcasting live from E3 each day starting at 4 pm Eastern Time.
