Yeah, it’s true. For the 12th time the world’s most antic­i­pated trade-only event kicks off today and many peo­ple around the world have been wait­ing eagerly for this day. The Elec­tronic Enter­tain­ment Expo takes place at the Los Ange­les Con­ven­tion Cen­ter with more than 400 exhibit­ing com­pa­nies rep­re­sent­ing 90 coun­tries. We’ll get to see the lat­est com­puter and video games and tech­nolo­gies within 540,000 net square feet of exhibit space. Wait a minute. No, we’re not gonna see that in per­son. Since the trade event is not open to the gen­eral pub­lic we have to rely on the usual sus­pects for sup­ply­ing us with all the lat­est infor­ma­tion on upcom­ing games and gear. So, we browse over to E³ Insider, Next Gen­er­a­tion, GameSpot’s mon­ster cov­er­age, IGN’s E³ Cen­tral, and G4 TV. There are many other sites report­ing in from LACC, I’m aware of that, but I’m more than sat­is­fied with the ones listed above.

A major­ity of about 60 per­cent of E³ exhibitors are said to get the show­cased games into stores by the hol­i­day sea­son. That’s some­thing, I sup­pose. Well, I’m not that big a gamer any­more. The last game I was fas­ci­nated of was Prince Of Per­sia: The Two Thrones. Although it was a lit­tle dis­ap­point­ing it still is one of my favorite games. Last year, UbiSoft made quite some fuss about that game on E³ 2005. It didn’t live up to the great expec­ta­tions. And so we’re mov­ing on to this year’s trade show. Ah, I wish I could be there, walk­ing from booth to booth, check­ing out all the new stuff. I’m plan­ning to attend the show at least once in the years ahead. In the mean­time I’m dig­ging through the cov­er­age avail­able on the net right now …