The Ombudsman Lives

Here are my favorite theories for why there have been no new posts here since I left for E3 nearly two and a half weeks ago, as proposed by the imaginary readers who have been e-mailing me asking what's going on.

1. I realized just how horrible the video game journalism industry was at E3 and decided to give up.
   
   
2. I got trampled to death when the U.S. Army invaded E3 and the government covered up the story.
   
   
3. I had finals, graduation, an apartment hunt, a new fullish-time job and trips to Philadelphia and New York to worry about first.

Feel free to decide for yourself which theory is correct.



I do have some coverage planned for my first trip to the show, including a first-time journalists guide to E3, reviews of some of the 27 free game magazines I managed to haul away from L.A. and some analysis of the coverage. The news hasn't stopped either, so there are quite a few non-E3 stories filling up in my queue. They'll all have to wait till next week, though, as I'm going away for the Memorial Day weekend tomorrow morning.



To hold you over, here's Dan Hsu, executive editor of Electronic Gaming Monthly, as quoted in a New York Times story on movie-based games. Discuss!



"These licensed properties get a lot of mainstream press because they are easily recognizable to the masses," Mr. Hsu said. "Most of the mainstream media are new to covering games and so they're going to want to cover the The Lord of the Rings or Spider-Man game before they are going to want to cover Zelda or Metal Gear Solid."