In two weeks’ time, the E3 press conferences will be over. You’ll have seen the biggest newest from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft. You’ll know all about the Wii U, the next big things for Xbox 360 and the future of PlayStation.
I’m in California this week for the purpose of checking out a bunch of video games that will be shown at E3 next month. I’m a pre-E3 judge*, you see, bouncing from one showcase with a game publisher to another, signing lots of paperwork in which I swear not to tell people about these games for a few weeks.
I had lunch with a friend and colleague on Thursday, a guy who has been to every E3 — and before that he was going to the Consumer Electronics Show when it was the gaming industry’s big expo. Absent some miracle hardware reveal, he thinks we could see the quietest and most depressing E3 ever this year. I hate to say it, but I have the same fear.
Expo Fighter is a 2D fighting game in development that leaves dojos, headbands and scantily-dressed Japanese women at the door, instead focusing on combat between…video game company executives. On the stage at E3.
Yesterday, the website MCV reported that Mojang was boycotting E3 due to the ESA’s support of SOPA, the Stop Online Patriot Act.
Nintendo’s currently holding an investor’s meeting to discuss its recent financial results, and among all the grim financial talk there’s some news. Like the fact that, despite launching worldwide in 2012, Nintendo won’t be telling us how much the system costs at E3. [Twitter]
