Recovering from the worst business blunder since New Coke, the ESA is trying to resurrect the world's biggest video game trade show, just two years after they replaced it with a Business Summit. We'll the summit failed and the industry got bruised by the lack of attention. So the ESA attempting to recapture the glory, scope and exposure with the return of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), making it one of their biggest shows yet.
Check out all of the classic video game related news and previews here, straight from the floor of the 2009 E3 Expo.
Examining the E3 Expo's past, downfall and the job of bringing it back to the top.
2. Live from E3 2009 - The Classic Video Game Forum
LIVE FROM THE SHOW!
E3 2009 is upon us and I've got meetings set up with some of the biggest publishers of classic video games! Right here you'll get up-to-the minute news, announcements and info directly from the show as it happens (Wi-Fi access allowing). You can also discuss the Expo with fellow retro gaming enthusiasts.
A breakdown of the very best retro revivals previewed at the 2009 E3 Expo.
This year is the big comeback show for the E3 Expo, resurrected from the ashes of the fumbled E3 Business Summit.
As expected, Day 2 of the 2009 E3 Expo did indeed have bigger crowds, but nowhere near the turnout that it once had in the show's glory days. As Denise Kaigler, the VP of Corporate Affair at Nintendo said in her Q&A with the on-site news mag E3 Expo Official Show Daily, "Were moving towards a happy medium. The show has been too overwhelming some years, or too sparse in other years."
In the final day of E3 I got the chance to investigate some of the nooks and crannies of the show floor between some hands-on demo previews with Nintendo and SEGA.
A lot of time at today's Nintendo press briefing was dedicated to how Nintendo has expanded the gaming audience by innovating how games are played. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained that today people who would never have thought of playing a video game a few years ago, are now playing on the Wii. With their upcoming slate of titles they plan to expand that range even more.
After a hard day's work at the office or school, haven't you ever wanted to just destroy a small farm without having to get off the couch? Well now you can thanks to Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals, the newly announced tornado game published by Konami and releasing September, 8th, 2009 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the Wii. While the dictionary definition of Zephyr is "a gentle breeze", the only thing gentle found in the demo at the 2009 E3 Expo is how easy it was to pick up and play.
he supernatural horror novelist Alan Wake (A. Wake...get it?) is having the worst bout of writer's block ever, and is willing to go to some pretty major extremes to get past it. First he and his wife travel to a small (and spooky) town in hopes that a little trip will spark some inspiration, but soon after they arrive his wife is kidnapped by a supernatural entity. Now Alan has to battle the forces of darkness to save his spouse and himself, while it all seems to follow the chapters of his newest manuscript, which he has no memory of ever writing.
E3 2009 is finally over! This is a special time for industry pros to rest and recover, and for us press who had crappy internet connections plus wall-to-wall meetings during the show, and then came down with the flu afterwards, to catch up on the boatload of news and previews to report. So let's start off with some of Nintendo's upcoming Nintendo DS/DSi announcements.
