E3 is dead, and Apple helped kill it

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is done for good, the event's organizers announced on Tuesday. Apple's success in game sales and disregard for the entire trade show concept can take some credit for killing it — at least indirectly.The LA Convention Center's West Hall, festooned in E3 garbEven for the most grizzled veteran of Apple-centric events like Macworld Expo and WWDC, E3 was on a different scale, entirely. For a week every May (sometimes June), every hotel, restaurant and public space in downtown L.A. was besieged by tens of thousands of video game industry people and industry-adjacent people, clamoring to see the latest the industry had to offer and make deals. Read more...