Choose Your E Monday, July 9, 2007 : 1:00 AM EST By: Chris

Yay for E3 this week. Although I don't really know what I'm yaying for yet since I have little idea of what will be revealed and how that information will be brought to the masses. Prior to the pruning of E3 down to its current state, you could get tickets to the event if you had a loose business connection to the videogames industry. As such, I think prior to summer of '06 anyone who ran an indie gaming webcomic entertained thoughts that perhaps one day their comic would be significant enough to qualify them for access to E3. Those hopes are pretty much gone now. At least they are for me. But wait, what news descended upon us not long after the E3 news? There would be a new expo, titled E for all, that would carry the spiritual torch that E3 had tossed by the wayside -- and it would be accessible to the general public. Now if you've kept up with the E3 coverage of years past you know that the event can become somewhat crowded and chaotic when equal parts hype and humans mix. And that's with maintaining a crowd of adults with some type of professional investment in the videogames industry. Opening up an event like this to the general public seems like an invitation for, well, extreme annoyance at least. Imagine 60,000 EB Games loiterers, you know the type: know-it-all kids, ranting fanboys, etc., all packed into one building with the dangling carrot of brand new games and hardware before them. Yikes.