Ultimate Gamers Expo: Stillborn

[zmeston]

Next month's Ultimate Gamers Expo has been canceled, as I learned this morning in a press release for the Phantom not-really-console. This isn't exactly a shocking development, as there was literally no prerelease hype (I don't recall a single print or website article about it), and the industry doesn't have the energy or money to invest in a second expo just three months after E3. Did anyone here plan on going?

-- Z.

[digitalpress]

Yeah that's rather unsurprising, hm?

Funny coincidence too that this happens on the same day that the GAME JAM publicity begins at www.phillyclassic.com ... coincidence? Or IS IT?!

</conspiracy>

The numbers they were expecting were outrageous too - 100,000 attendees, that's far far more than E3 ever has and THAT is crowded with three times as much space!

To answer the question though... no, I wasn't planning on going.

[dr mario kart]

I inquired about going, but it happens to take place during Quakecon (aug. 14-17), and they wanted to charge me $2600 for the smallest booth ($26/square foot times 10' by 10')

[Atar1G1rl]

Well phooey. I was going to go since it was after CGE and local. I wanted to see the mysterious new "ultimate gaming system" and report back on the Phantom, but I guess it was not meant to be.

I'm not terribly surprised and really not all that dissapointed, though.

[Anonymous]

the UGE was totally redundant. There's more than enough hype machines and media coverage for games and gamers as it is. I would have expected this event (had it survived) to turn into one of those "one weekend only" $ale of the $entury type deals where they sell crap. Not that I wouldn't mind going, however