E3 Wrapup

If you read Slashdot with any sort of regularity you probably noticed a lot of game posts last week - new stuff being shown off at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Let's wrap up the last few submissions and put the Expo to bed for a year. Neil Yates writes "210 pictures, 56 booth babe shots, spread over five pages - what more can we say; this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory!" angkor submits a link to a NYTimes story noting that sales of video games were way up last year, no doubt driven by the new consoles. And we had another submission, but the link seems to be broken, so I guess that's about it.

Comments

Envy?

[Troed]

this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory!

this is the killer Slashdotting feature - only on Slashdot. Small Envy News sites beware - this is broadband++ territory!

Re:Envy?

[ishark]

this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory!
this is the killer Slashdotting feature - only on Slashdot. Small Envy News sites beware - this is broadband++ territory!

Even worse: ``210 pictures, 56 booth babe shots, spread over five pages''. This is not "killer slashdotting feature", this is website hara-kiri.

(and the hara-kiri succeeded: I managed to get the thumbnails of the 1st page, now it just timeout messages...)

Re:Envy?

[imr]

strangely, only the babe booth babes is affected by the slashdot effect.
Which I find annoying because it's the only page I wanted to reach.

there is a great disturbance in the force ...

[jms258]

as if millions of computers suddenly initiated connections to port 80 of www.envynews.com ... and were suddenly silenced. i feel that something terrible has happened.

This website is gonna get slashdotted really quick

[Xpilot]

...as thousands of geeks who didn't get a chance to go to E3 are just dying to see the babe shots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew games and stuff.

Re:the end of gaming?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think so. Working in the telecom industry this may be somewhat biased but I work with about 15+ adults who are gamers most of who are addicted to evercrack. I was addicted myself, but luckily A.D.D. kicked in and now it seems like MTV news is verbose. Also when I used to play evercrack a majority of the players that I met were adults ranging in age up to 40. You assume too much.

slashdots

[Anonymous Coward]

News for dorky consumers, stuff that matters to their capitalist overlords.

Beware!

[MotorMachineMercenar]

>Dial-up users beware - this is broadband
>territory!

Broadband is overrated: I get a timeout at exactly 90 seconds using either a 56k at home or T1 at work.

I won't be upgrading to broadband anytime soon!

Link To Mirrors

[cmdr_beeftaco]

found this link to a number of mirrors

Re:the end of gaming?

[Lemmy Caution]

I'm a thirty-something professional who still avidly plays video games.

However, in order to really get maturity as a medium, the age of booth babes - meant to appeal to sex-deprived lonely geek-gamers - is going to have to come to an end. It's embarassing and sad to see game developers pander like that. I was at E3, and the whole phenomenon of watch 20 pasty-faced pudgy gamer fan-boys gape at bored second-rate models in metal bikinis (and I'm a big fan of metal bikinis, mind you) was just sad. I'm an adult. I have a fiance. I wanted to look at games, not at babes. (I don't think it an accident, however, that the strongest games usually aren't promoted by bikini-babes - perhaps an expanding association between poor games and cheesecake will address the matter.)