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Video gaming 'history' to be made this week at E3
By: cnn.comPosted On: 06/14/2010 4:57 P
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For gamers, it's a digital Christmas Eve, Mardi Gras and Fourth of July all rolled into one.
For gamers, it's a digital Christmas Eve, Mardi Gras and Fourth of July all rolled into one.
And this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual trade show where the biggest news in the video gaming world is made, may be the most influential one ever.
The event, nicknamed E3, will showcase futuristic motion sensors that could get rid of the need for a game controller. It will feature gaming in 3-D. And those game-changing innovations will be backed by the industry's biggest players on the industry's biggest stage.
In short, if this week's announcements live up to the hype, they will change the way people play games.
"We're literally watching history in the making," said Michael Quiroz, an associate at Nyko, an accessories manufacturer that will be displaying at the expo and a veteran of 10 E3s.
E3, which officially runs Tuesday through Thursday in Los Angeles, California, started in 1995 as a spinoff from the Consumer Electronics Show -- the yearly cavalcade of gadgets in Las Vegas. The very first E3 launched a little gaming device called the Sony PlayStation.
The next year saw the Nintendo 64 and the games "Resident Evil," "Starcraft" and "Tomb Raider" roll out, and it was official: E3 was the launching pad for the biggest splashes in video gaming.
In the years to come, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, GameCube and a Nintendo console nicknamed "Revolution" -- it would later become the Wii -- took the stage, along with some of the most popular video games of the past decade and a half. Last year the two surviving Beatles made a rare joint appearance to promote "The Beatles: Rock Band."
"E3 is an annual mecca," said Scott Steinberg, founder of GameExec magazine and Game Industry TV, and a gaming blogger for CNN.com. "It's a mandatory pilgrimage. It's the one time during the year when the media spotlight is honed precisely on the video-game industry and its biggest stars come out to shine."
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