E3 Still Alive.. but under new name

the expo will be changing to the “E3 Media Festival.” A different GameSpot article goes further into some of the causes and effects of this story, describing the pressure from companies like Sony, Microsoft, and EA to cut the costs associated with the show, as well as the impact of a smaller show on the city of Los Angeles from disappointed cab drivers to a hard-to-interpret remark by an attorney saying he thought the city wouldn’t “take this lying down.”

The show will be slimmed down and renamed, but what that means to the rest of us is yet to be seen. If this is really going to turn out to be a more ‘intimate’ show, it sounds like they may have even stricter qualifications to enter.