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What's Wrong With E3?

Sarcastic Gamer swims against the haterade current and defends E3.

"Let’s see, we have the slew of new Kinect games, Microsoft’s Xbox Live TV, Halo 4, the WiiU, Sony’s Vita price point and much more were announced over the course of the week. We got our eyes on Saints Row: the Third, Skyrim, Prey 2, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, and even the Witcher 2 is coming to the Xbox 36o.

So why is the gaming media disappointed in E3 2011?"

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trounbyfire5427d ago

Com on mr caffeine was awesome

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44% of games industry professionals have considered leaving the industry as a result of redundancies

New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.

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Cockney4d ago

Well if that 44% left im sure there would be a lot less redundancies

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Stop Killing Games on the latest European Commission public hearing

It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.

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"Be creative 99% of the time" – Glen Schofield on how creativity can help fix AAA industry woes

The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI

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lodossrage5d ago

I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise

We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.

Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.

Scissorman4d ago

it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.

__y2jb4d ago

This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.