E3 2009 Back to Old Style
Written by Joe Chen on October 22, 2008 – 9:04 pm -
ESA just announced today that the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will be held June 2-4, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC). It will be open to “international and U.S.-based media, analysts, retailers, developers and business partners,” meaning that it will be returning to the way it was pre-2007. The last two years have had significantly less attendance and the spectacle of the event was mostly absent.
While the event still will not be open to the public, the policies will remain as relaxed as it was before when you could gain entrance just by having a gaming blog. The event will be open to both ESA and non-ESA members (Activision-Blizzard, LucasArts, id) to exhibit their newest and upcoming releases. In response to concerns that the extravagance expected will lead back to the trimmed down E3 of the past two years, ESA president and CEO Mike Gallagher said that they will be keeping many of the improvements such as the suites format.
[Joystiq]
Tags: E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, ESA, Los Angeles Convention Center, Mike Gallagher
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