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E3 Power Rankings, Probably Moving Next Year
The Escapist takes a crack at ascribing 'power rankings' to this year's E3 players. Microsoft, EA, and Irrational are in the top three spots, with Bethesda and the newly-employed Peter Moore rounding out the top five. From the site's commentary on Microsoft: "Despite the lawsuits, the man with the biggest pockets earns the top slot by a fair margin. Microsoft has cleaned up on big-name exclusives and is slowly but surely building up Games For Windows as a brand. However, what really does it for Microsoft is Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mass Effect and BioShock. If one of those doesn't sell you a buggy, overheating, now-under-warranty Xbox 360, nothing will. Their upcoming billion-dollar 360 repair costs might dethrone them sooner than later, though." Meanwhile, the rumour is going around that LA won't be the site of the event next year.
For some reason I couldn't access the GameSpot blog. In any case, Google Cache has it, and it's one of those blogs linking to another source.
In any case, the original source was this MCV article. The GameSpot article basically confirms the story but points out that it isn't a done deal yet - they're just considering new locations.
They seem to be suggesting that E3 will be moving to Las Vegas, although it's not final yet. (The article also seems to suggest that New York was suggested and then decided against, which makes sense, since the Big Three game companies in the US (Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sory) are all on the west coast.)
I think even the foaming at the mouth Xbox fanboys over at teamxbox.com would roll their eyes at whatever the fuck that link is trying to say.
Another boring E3 article? ...1st Pr0st?
I love these because they attract no interest
Don't forget the new Beautiful Katamari Damacy which is a 360 exclusive right now.
I think that'll be the game that does me in....
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