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GameOn New York Consumer Show To Debut In November

Posted by simoniker on from the woody-allen-also-on-advisory-board dept.

shadowcabbit writes "From November 12-14, 2004, Madison Square Garden will play host to GameOn NY, a new consumer version of the E3 or CES trade expo. The primary draw to GameOn NY will be that it is open to the public; to facilitate this, the event will have sponsored tournaments and LAN areas. A BusinessWire story provides some interesting information about the show's steering committee, which just happens to include Bernie Stolar (formerly of Sega) and Paul Eibeler (formerly of Acclaim)."

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  1. How very Japanese by JustJon · · Score: 2, Informative
    The Japanese have always had their trade shows open to the public like this, but it's cool to see American companies trying it out.

    My question is what will they hype? Most of the holiday games will either already be out or in hype mode for holiday sales, so they'd be promoting that you can play games you can buy within a month. The months after the holiday season are empty, with only a trickle of games coming out. By the type the next round of games come out, it's E3 time already anyway.

  2. It's not really closed to the public that tries by Kingfox · · Score: 2, Informative

    Getting into E3 is not the hardest feat in the world. Get a domain, have your friends do a few reviews, and you can BS your way into getting tickets.

    I'm friends with some people who work at a retail videogame store that manage to get in year after year with just that trick. An ex of mine's older sister's college friend works for Infogrames/Atari, and has offered me tickets year after year. Some guy I used to play on a MOO with's done the same.

    If your networking skills or social engineering skills are at least half-way decent, you can figure a way in. It's not like sneaking into the Oscars or Grammys.

  3. Error: GameOn is already in use by neonstz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to check if the name GameOn is already in use?

    GameOn is a touring game exhibition in Europe. I visited it at the Barbican in London and at the National Museum of Scotland, and it's really great. AFAIK it get updated once in a while with the newest games (there were a couple of additions at the Scotland exhibition).