Big players meet to shape video gaming's future

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Rival video game console makers and leading software designers are in California to show off what they hope will be this year's blockbuster titles in the multi-billion-dollar industry.

An invitation-only E3 Media and Business Summit featuring Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony as well as game publishers such as Disney Interactive Studios and Ubisoft begins Wednesday in the seaside town of Santa Monica.

The gathering is a scaled-down re-incarnation of an annual Electronic Entertainment Expo that died after evolving into a sense-numbing high-tech carnival, attracting 60,000 people last year to a huge convention center.

From 3,000 to 4,000 of the video game industry's key players are meeting in hotel suites and a small hangar...

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