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It's all going down the tubes.
On top of the fact that E3 is being held in the same place that Barney's New York has their annual warehouse sale (the clothing feeding frenzy that causes rich men and women to drop drawals right in front of each other in order to save up enough time to grab even more other designer crap that doesn't really fit), the list of exhibitors has now been revealed, and it's not pretty.
Most of the big players seem to be there but it's a big way off last year's exhibitor list which exceeded 400. There are also only two independent developers listed, id Software and Foundation 9 Entertainment, which is disappointing seeing as one of the biggest reasons for the down-scale was to give smaller devs a chance in the spotlight.
In total, 32 companies will be exhibiting in the new and "improved" E3 and only 3,000-4,000 (compared to last year's 60,000) people are expected to attend. The upside? It's now by the beach, but as far as I know, the geeks as a species don't tan so good.
