michael breaker
Hey everyone, we're back with the answer to a question someone asked us on this week's Video Game Tuesday. Why is there no need to replace it with E3?
Replace E3?: For those who don't know, Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, closed permanently late last year. This show is a major event in the gaming industry that has been held for over 20 years since his 1995. In GiN's early days, staff would travel to Atalanta each year for the event, continuing to follow the show and providing even more coverage when it moved to Los Angeles. 2019 was the last time GiN sent reporters to fully cover the program.
In 2020, the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was a major blow to the program. But E3 was in decline even before then, especially after Nintendo canceled his major keynote speech in 2013. But up until then, E3 was a big event with coverage across the gaming world.
That's wonderful. Must be replaced. : Well, E3 wasn't exactly good, and several news outlets criticized it for multiple reasons. One example of this is that the trailers shown at E3 were not necessarily indicative of the final product. This led to a lot of criticism of the developers, which in retrospect wasn't necessarily justified.
Controversy revealed by GiN: Nate Woolley, the founder of GiN and an amazing publisher, got to know the women who worked on the show in 2001, the so-called booth babies, and discovered that they were being exploited in many very bad ways. I knew. The articles he wrote exposing corruption made national news and initially threatened to permanently ban GiN from returning to E3 in the future.
However, the story grew and our coverage led to positive changes in the show, with E3 officials ultimately thanking GiN for revealing what was going on. In the following year, the women who appeared on the show reported vastly improved working conditions, new guidelines for how they should be treated, and greater respect from their employers. Many of them personally thanked Woolley for her efforts, visiting her 2002 show.
How E3 will impact the video game industry: I mean, the E3 Expo show has always been a pretty crazy place, and it hasn't always been smooth sailing. However, there is no doubt that it has had an impact on the video game industry. It's important to remember that E3 is for publishers, hardware manufacturers, developers, and gaming journalists who want to know about the latest and greatest the industry has to offer. It wasn't really a show for the average consumer, although in later years it started to become that way.
Now I don't think we need E3 anymore. Journalists and the general public alike can access almost any publisher's channel and watch the latest and greatest trailers for upcoming games just by visiting YouTube or his Twitch. So while it's sad to see such a crazy, big show go, its time really is over at this point.
That's it for this week's Video Game Tuesday.
