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E3 hasn't been "renamed", it will still take place in hotels, etc, being a "closed" affair. (Read here for more)

Another organization has now created something that will be called "E for All" It is run by IDG, not by the ESA, but it does have the ESA's endorsement. (That is here.)

Just to make things clearer for people.

http://www.e3insider.com/portal/

E3 is in July in Santa Monica this year.

Hell, even the title is misleading as the original article is entitled "GamePro Expo" gets final name. Did they even RTFA?

This is a serious question.

I have read that PAX is not, cannot, be a replacement for E3.

I can accept this; I just wonder aloud: "What is the purpose of E3?" What essential role did it play?

So they can sell a refurbished GC and peripheral that enables you to play this awesome game at $250, excellent.

The PS3 controller has 6 degrees of freedom.

That is to say, it can sense translation in the x/y/z dimensions (3 translational axes) and it can sense rotation as roll/pitch/yaw (3 rotational axes).

Using purely accelerometers, it would be impossible to accurately detect the rotational axes. The gravity vector would be necessary to determine the rotation of the device. You can break any algorithm relying on an accelerometer to detect the gravity vector by subjecting the controller to translational accelerations - these would interfere with extracting the gravity vector from sensor data, even if you use multiple accelerometers.

Imagine that the sensor knows gravity points downward at 9.81 m/s^2. Now start moving it to the left. You have one vector pointing down, and one vector pointing left. You can assume that the one pointing down is gravity, but what if the controller is tilted? How far is it tilted? You'd have to know which way gravity is pointing in order to subtract the gravity vector.

With a gyroscope, however, you can calibrate the controller when it is obviously only under the influence of gravity. Then, you can use the gyro to decouple the effect of gravity from other accelerations; the gyro lets you know which way gravity is pointing, and some simple vector subtraction leaves you with the translational data.

From:

http://www.e3insider.com/e3tv/
"ETV - DVD-Quality Versions of E3Insider's Videos, Including the Press Events"

It sounds really neat actually, especially the subscription thing, where I'm hoping you can just leave it running grabbing videos automatically.

www.e3insider.com has a teaser site up now but also does show coverage for the past few years and is the official e3 site, worth checking out during the show as well

According to E3insider this is Wind Waker 2.

Blue's News always has more gaming news than you can read in a day (but you should still try!), including slashdot-friendly summarizations of the proceedings. E3 Insider is the "official virtual gateway" to E3 that started I believe last year. I don't know to what extent the coverage will be, but its got more of a marketing feel to it so take that for what its worth.

there will be a site for the "virtual" E3 experience.