An avid gamer since his youth, author Steven L. Kent has seen the evolution from flat 2D arcade games to epic non-linear 3D adventures. Kent talked to CrunchGear for the second part of our series on video game violence and content. For more than a decade Kent has been the video game industry’s most prolific writer to date. His work has appeared in dozens of magazines and Web sites. In 2000, Kent self-published The First Quarter: A 25-year History of Video Games. That book was later purchased and re-published as The Ultimate History of Video Games by the Prima, Three River Press, and Crown divisions of Random House. → Read More
Getting into the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this year is being compared to getting the golden ticket in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and not just for the attendees but also for the exhibitors. The number of companies that will be at the show has shrunk from more than 400 to just 32 companies. So what are the smaller guys to do? One option is for them to wait until this fall’s E For All Expo, which will be held in the former stomping grounds of E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The other option might be to sort of crash the party, and attend Gamecock’s alternative to E3. The outspoken game promoters, and former founders of God Games, have unveiled plans for their own event to take place on the same days as E3 in Santa Monica. Dubbed the E.I.E.I.O. (Expo for Interactive Entertainment Independent and Original) Fun Fest 2007 this event would probably rekindle the infamous “Promised Lot,” which God Games had set up in a parking lot across from the convention center complete with strippers, a skateboard ramp and open bar all day long… and much to the bane of the E3 promoters I might add. So if E.I.E.I.O. does come together it is sure to have class written all over it! E3 Expo Gamecock Media Eforallexpo → Read More
It seems that the ESA (Electronic Software Association) just can’t make up their minds. First they pulled the plug on the large scale Electronic Entertainment Expo in favor of the E3 Business Summit to be held this July in Santa Monica, but now citing a lack of positive response from the major game publishers, the trade association for the video game industry has announced that for 2008 the event will return to the regular venue at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The ESA will announce this week whether the E3 Business Summit can be moved back to the LACC for the July event, or whether 2007 will the year without an E3. → Read More
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