I wasn’t at E3 this year so I learned about what was going on the same way that most of you did. I read the major gaming news sites, kept an eye on my favorite forums and kept checking Gametab for anything new.<\/p>\n
E3 has become such a huge press event that it puts the week before and after into a nether region of press coverage. Before E3 it’s all about “What we are looking forward to E3?”. After the event, it is all “Whither E3?” and “Ten cool things we saw at E3.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I am still waiting for reviews of Supreme Ruler 2010<\/i> and Imperial Glory<\/i> – two strategy titles that show a lot of promise in this dead zone of game releases. I depend on reviews to guide my purchases (I am not a first day buyer i most cases) so the lack of coverage of recent game releases really cuts into my routine.<\/p>\n
And, my most reliable source – word of mouth – is further limited because nobody is hearing about these games through game site coverage.<\/p>\n
It’s not like there was a lot of surprising news coming out of E3. New consoles were launched with the specs that had leaked a few days before. Few new games were unveiled. The only uniformly positive buzz is about Spore<\/i>. And everyone says that there are too many people there who don’t belong there.<\/p>\n
I say leave a few people at home to man the store and keep the review updates going. Both Imperial Glory <\/i>and Supreme Ruler<\/i> have been out for a couple of weeks now, and Gamespy and Gamespot likely got advance copies. I want to know what their reviewers think. I need to buy another game. Help me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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