Gen Con To Take the Place of E3?

Venues like PAX, Tokyo Game Show, and GDC are taking stock in the wake of E3's 'demise', and coming to terms with what this will mean next year. Gamasutra reports that another trade show is stepping up the the plate: Gen Con. From the article: "In order to better accommodate the video game business into its existing shows, Gen Con organizers plan to expand its venue space at the Indianapolis show in 2007. An additional 43,000 square feet will be added to the exhibit hall with additional space expanding into area hotels as well to accommodate the thousands of games taking place over the four-day event. In addition, Gen Con So Cal, the companies' show traditionally held in Anaheim, will be moved to the Los Angeles Convention Center, the former site of the annual E3 trade show, for an unspecified 2007 date, and will attempt to attract further video game companies to exhibit alongside the traditional paper-gaming and CCG Gen Con stalwarts. 'When the news came out about the drastic changes at E3, we began to hear from some industry players about Gen Con increasing its capabilities to better accommodate the industry,' said Peter Adkison, CEO of Gen Con, LLC." This is truly surreal.

booth babes

[Edward Kmett]

Gen Con gets booth babes?

Forget Los Angeles...

[__aaclcg7560]

They should move it to Las Vegas [adultenter...ntexpo.com]. Isn't that much different from E3, except some of the games are very different.

Make it a theme park...kindof

[Drago Kith Somtaw]

What the video/computer game industry needs is something like comic con that is geared toward the gamers and fans and everyone else who was going to E3 but wasn't actually there for the original reasons of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which was more for companies and journalists than the fan base that was growing up around it.

How cool would it be if the companies could all get together and set up something like a mega-arcade that operated on a semi-permanent nature where new games and companies could use it for publicity, etc...

Re:Make it a theme park...kindof

[Snowgen]

Precisely what GenCon is - its all about the geeks. Now if it would only move back to Milwaukee, where it belongs ...

Let's be a true purist and move it all the way back to Lake Geneva, where it really belongs! Afterall, it's not called "MilCon".