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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or Exposition), commonly known as E³ or E3, is the world's largest annual A trade fair (or trade show) is an exhibition organised so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their new products and services. Generally trade fairs can not be open to the public and can only be attended by company representatives (members of the trade) and members... trade show for the A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. A video game is a computer game where the player is given feedback through a video display. In popular culture, computer game... computer and video games industry. The expo is only open to industry professionals and A journalist is a person who practices journalism. Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Reporters find the sources for their work; the reports can be either... journalists.

E³ is usually held in the third week of May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. May begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Taurus and ends in the sign of Gemini. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation... May of each year at the Los Angeles Convention Center in This article is about the largest city in California. For other uses of Los Angeles, see Los Angeles (disambiguation) Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. Missing from the center foreground of the photo is the Staples Center arena, completed in... Los Angeles. The Expo was held in Atlanta for two years during the mid-90s, in which attendance plummeted. E³ draws in over 65,000 attendees from over 120 countries.

Many A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game system, such as the Sony PlayStation, or may develop for a variety of systems including PCs. Some developers also specialize in certain... video game developers show off their upcoming games and game-related hardware at the event, over a fifth of which have never been unveiled prior to the expo. The independent " The Game Critics Awards for the Best of E³ have been held annually at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³) since 1998. The award givers are independent of the expo organizers. Award winners Note on all systems as platform: Because games shown at E³ are still in development, the platforms for... Game Critics Awards" have been given to "Best of E³" games in various categories since 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. Events January January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to... 1998.

The first E³ was put on by the Interactive Digital Software Association (now the The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the entertainment software industry in the United States. It was formed in April, 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) and was renamed to ESA on July 16, 2003. Most of the top publishers in the gaming world are... Entertainment Software Association) in 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/ Events January January 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union Fred West, accused... 1995. Previously, most game developers went to other trade shows to display new products, including the The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association. At the show, many previews of products are introduced, or new products are announced. The first CES was held in June, 1967 in New York City. From 1978 to... Consumer Electronics Show and the European Computer Trade Show.

The The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual gathering of video game developers. The conference is comprised of an expo and a variety of tutorials, lectures and roundtables by industry professionals on game-related topics covering programming, design, audio, production, business and legal, and art. Outside the San Jose Convention... Game Developers Conference is another yearly milestone for developers held in the spring each year in For other uses, see California (disambiguation). State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4.7%) Population (2000)  - Population... California, but it focuses on talks and discussions about the development of games. Other shows exist for the gaming industry (not just video games), including Origins International Game Expo is North Americas second most prominent annual gaming convention (Gen Con is typically considered the largest). Origins is held every year in Columbus, Ohio, in late June or early July. Origins is run by The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) as one of their two shows... Origins and Gen Con is the largest and most prominent gaming convention in North America. (As an indication of its size, consider that Gen Con 2002 brought in about 26,000 attendees; the only other gaming conventions that come close are E³ and Origins.) The name of the convention is derived from... Gen Con.

Week

E3 happens on a week-long fixed schedule from year to year, making it easier for visitors. This also allows some regularity from amongst journalists and those who work E³.

Many of the big players have their press conferences on the Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. It gets its name from the Mona, the Saxon Moon god. Monday is sometimes held to be the first day of the week. This is the case in most of Europe and South America. In Asia, many languages refer... Monday and Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. The English and Scandinavian names are derived from the Nordic god Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu. In Swedish, Tisdag, Danish: Tirsdag, Finnish: Tiistai). Quakers traditionally refer to Tuesday as Third Day eschewing the pagan origin of... Tuesday of the week of E³. Generally large-scale events at a rented-out hotel or amphitheater around greater This article is about the largest city in California. For other uses of Los Angeles, see Los Angeles (disambiguation) Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. Missing from the center foreground of the photo is the Staples Center arena, completed in... Los Angeles and usually invite-only, the big console makers will generally make the biggest splashes in the industry during these events and unveil which products attendees are to expect on the show floor. Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. The English and Scandinavian names are derived from the Nordic god Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu. In Swedish, Tisdag, Danish: Tirsdag, Finnish: Tiistai). Quakers traditionally refer to Tuesday as Third Day eschewing the pagan origin of... Tuesday, Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. The name comes from the Old English Wódnesdæg meaning the day of Woden, commonly known as Odin in Modern English. The astrological sign of the planet Mercury represents Wednesday, which was Dies Mercurii to the... Wednesday, and Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. The name Thursday comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, meaning the day of Þunor, commonly known in Modern English as Thor. By some conventions (see ISO 8601), the Thursdays of a year determine the week... Thursday are reserved for the conference program which is aimed at game publishers and developers to discuss the development of the industry. Conferences generally happen behind closed doors on the second floor of the LACC, away from the eyes of the public.

Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. The name comes from the Old English Wódnesdæg meaning the day of Woden, commonly known as Odin in Modern English. The astrological sign of the planet Mercury represents Wednesday, which was Dies Mercurii to the... Wednesday starts the three days of the exposition (designated Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 respectively). This is where the attendees get to move around the floors. Ziff-Davis Inc. (Z-D) was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis as a publishing company. Throughout most of its history, it was notable as the publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars, photography... Ziff Davis provides fresh-off-the-press Reading the newspaper: Brookgreen Gardens Pawleys Island, South Carolina A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint, containing a journal of current news in a variety of topics. These topics can include political events, crime, sports, opinion, weather. Newspapers also often include... newspapers called ShowDaily each morning of the Expo detailing special celebrities featured at different For the Feast of Booths, see Sukkot. Booths is a chain of supermarkets in northern England. Most of its branches are located in Lancashire but there are also branches in Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Yorkshire. E.H. Booth & Co. Ltd was founded in June 1847 by Edwin Henry... booths, news from the press conferences the nights before, maps of booth layouts of the different halls, and articles on the line-ups of some of the larger publishers in the industry, such as Activision, Inc. ( NASDAQ: ATVI) is a computer and video game publisher founded in 1979. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system, and it is now one of the largest video game publishers in the world, second only to Electronic Arts. History Prior to the formation... Activision, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is a leading video game developer and publisher. It was founded in 1982 by Trip Hawkins. It is the largest video game publisher in the world, with annual sales exceeding $2 billion (US). EAs success over the years was built upon a huge library of... Electronic Arts, or Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. Vivendi Universal is listed on Euronext Paris (code 12777) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol V). Its stock is part of the CAC 40... Vivendi Universal, among others.

Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. Its name is derived from the goddess Frige of Germanic mythology. In most areas with a five-day working week, Friday is the last workday before the weekend and is therefore viewed as a cause for celebration or relief... Friday ends the exposition and is also the shortest day for attendees to traverse the expo so that booths may be taken down.

Layout

Using the LACC, over 540,000+ sq. ft. are available for exhibition space across the five halls. The LACC is located over two blocks in Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. Start the DownTown article If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Please wait and check again... downtown This article is about the largest city in California. For other uses of Los Angeles, see Los Angeles (disambiguation) Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. Missing from the center foreground of the photo is the Staples Center arena, completed in... Los Angeles and shares a block with the The Staples Center is the center of the future Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District which broke ground in 2004. The Staples Center as seen in daylight Staples Center is a sports arena in downtown Los Angeles, California at the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District. It is located near... Staples Center. Parking is available under the West Hall for $10 a day (as of E³ 2005).

Show floor

The show is exhibited over five halls: Kentia, Petree, South Hall, Concourse Hall, and the West Hall. Booth space is purchased ahead of time by publishers. The publishers, in turn, spend millions of dollars creating elaborate displays and structures to accommodate the promotion of their bigger titles. E³ is See Loudness. See also: Loudness (heavy metal) - a Japanese rock band. Loud - Wiktionary entry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it... loud and busy, it's similar to being at a massive rock concert and every booth wants your attention in different ways. Booth babes are deployed specifically to thematically promote various games.

Different booths will also invite celebrities over for signings for their specific games. For 2004, Activision brought in Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922) is an American writer and editor, who - with several artists/co-creators, especially Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko - introduced complex characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books... Stan Lee and Tony Hawk (born May 12, 1968 in Carlsbad, California) is often regarded as the most skilled and best-known skateboarder today. He is sometimes compared to Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky for his dominance of the sport. Among the areas he dominates in the sport is the vert ramp. He... Tony Hawk to promote X-Men Legends and Tony Hawk Underground 2 respectively while Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. Vivendi Universal is listed on Euronext Paris (code 12777) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol V). Its stock is part of the CAC 40... Vivendi Universal brought in Mark Vincent (born July 18, 1967 in New York City), better known by his stage name of Vin Diesel, is an American actor. Diesel is multi-racial, a fact upon which he based his well-received 1994 short film Multi-Facial, about a struggling actor who is rejected for part... Vin Diesel to promote his new game Escape from Butcher Bay Categories: Computer and video game stubs | 2004 computer and video games | Windows games | Xbox games ... The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay based slightly on the summer 2004 blockbuster of the same name. Celebrities are generally only available for a few hours, so line-waiting is a general practice at E³.

Concourse Hall and Lobbies

The external apparatus that connects the bigger halls is the Concourse Hall and subsequently, the West Hall and South Hall lobbies. The lobbies are used for registration, picking up badges and badge holders, and other general information. Bag stands and the ShowDaily paper are available in the lobbies. The lobbies are also the signature glass structures of the LACC and are massive awe-inspiring structures.

The Concourse Hall generally features four booths and a few media outlets as well as the recent Enter the Pixel game art exhibition started at E³ 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004. The Concourse Hall is generally used as a link between both lobbies and features a window display looking out on downtown LA.

South Hall

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Kentia and Petree Halls

The second smallest and smallest halls respectively. The Kentia Hall is generally used by hardware companies to show off their latest wares while the Petree hall was generally home to Atari and Midway's massive booths in years past.

West Hall

By coincidence or otherwise, the West Hall is used by the biggest publishers from World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. Geologically and geographically, Asia is not a continent or a subcontinent. The exact boundaries are vaguely defined, especially... Asia. Nintendo Corporation, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is translated roughly as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands, do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories; TSE: NTDOY) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in... Nintendo and Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (NYSE: SNE) is a consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in the late 1940s, was a... Sony's booths are normally located here. The West Hall is also where one will find the various gaming For other uses of the word Media see media (disambiguation). Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). It... media outlets such as IGN is the oldest and most visited general gaming website, and runs one of the most popular forums on the Internet. IGN is ranked in the top 400 most visited websites according to Alexa. Introduction Founded in 1995, the part-free and part-subscription site attracts 8 million unique visitors... IGN- Categories: Computer and video game stubs | Video game websites ... Gamespy and GameSpot is not to be confused with Gamestop, a retail gaming store. The GameSpot Portal provides access to both textual and multimedia content GameSpot is a website launched in 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein as videogames.com. GameSpot presents video game (and since recently, hardware) reviews... Gamespot doing interviews with various gaming celebrities.

See also

• The Tokyo Game Show is a video game expo / convention, similiar to E³, held in Tokyo, Japan. History The first Toyko Game Show was held in 1996. The most recent show, Tokyo Game Show 2004, was held on September 24, 25 and 26. It featured 117 exhibitors showing off more... Tokyo Game Show — Game expo held in Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō, lit. eastern capital) is the capital of Japan as well as the most populous conurbation in Japan, and the worlds largest metropolitan area by population with 33,750,000 people living within its urban influence. A little more than 12 million people... Tokyo, Japan.
• SpaceWorld is a video game trade show hosted by Nintendo. Unlike most of the other big game trade events, SpaceWorld is not held annually or any other set interval; Nintendo usually makes a decision to hold the show or not by mid-July. It has historically always taken place inside... SpaceWorld — Nintendo Corporation, Limited (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is translated roughly as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands, do is a common suffix for names of shops or laboratories; TSE: NTDOY) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in... Nintendo exclusive game expo.
• The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association. At the show, many previews of products are introduced, or new products are announced. The first CES was held in June, 1967 in New York City. From 1978 to... CES — Computer Electronics Show
• The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual gathering of video game developers. The conference is comprised of an expo and a variety of tutorials, lectures and roundtables by industry professionals on game-related topics covering programming, design, audio, production, business and legal, and art. Outside the San Jose Convention... GDC — Game Developers Conference

External links

• Official E³ site (http://www.e3expo.com/)
• Game Critics Awards - Best of E³ (http://www.e3awards.com/)
• E3Insider news (http://www.e3insider.com)