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E3 Draws Close, Companies Reveal Games Ahead Of Time

Posted by simoniker on from the nothing-left-for-the-show dept.

Thanks to Planet GameCube for reprinting data revealing the amount and diversity of games to be shown at next week's E3 Expo in Los Angeles. It's noted: "Approximately 1,000 of the nearly 5,000 computer and video game products to be displayed at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo... have never been seen before... survey results indicate that about 40% of products displayed will be for video game consoles, while about one-third will be for personal computers." Many companies are revealing titles before E3, though, with some highlights including most of Sega's line-up (including "SPIKEOUT: Battle Street... and Virtua Quest"), a list of 23 new EA titles, including new Timesplitters 3 details and a first look at Catwoman, THQ's new info on Destroy All Humans!, Rockstar's announcement of Midnight Club 3:DUB Edition, Activision's showing of X-Men Legends, and UbiSoft's announcement of Prince Of Persia 2.

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  1. Units by bluesnowmonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Over the past decade, E3Expo has hosted exhibitors in a total of more than 4.5 million square feet of floor space, approximately 520 times the length of the Golden Gate Bridge.

    Um, did that author just compare feet to square feet?

  2. Re:E3 Passes by MMaestro · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The problem with getting into E3 is you have to either be in the media or be in the gaming industry itself (in which case your company would probably send you anyway).

    -rant- Alllll the news you get will pretty much be focused on 'the big names'. You won't have any Mike Medium's Game Review Webpage reports of E3. You won't have adventureous gamers who spend the whole weekend looking at the indie games and shunning games like MGS3, Doom 3, HL2, and Halo 2. The end result is a lotta money being wasted on flashy events news sites won't report on. A public which has to read/search 4 different sources to find all the screenshots released on a certain game. And a hardcore community is left sitting on the sidelines groaning over the fact that they still can't go. -endrant-