I believe in fate, especially in the cruel twists thereof. Not even a month after I have expressed through the written word the holy sanctity of the Electronics Entertainment Expo, it ceases to exist (http://wii.ign.com/articles/722/722055p1.html). While the trade show itself is still going to physically occur, the spirituality of the event is being adamantly avoided. What evil purpose and design lay behind this decision I can only guess, although I can say with a great deal of certainty that a cloven-hoofed, trident-wielding being definitely had a part to play in all of this. Perhaps it is a bit presumptuous and even rash to wholly condemn what very well could be a still monumental gaming event, but the sheer timing of the announcement, so shortly after I had written my article about said expo, has led me to believe that one deity or another is punishing me for some blasphemy. It is times like these when I find the English language to be incredibly constricting, for Webster and his annually revised written works would simply term this horrendous and unjust situation as ironic, a term also used to describe studying all night for a test that was not until the next day.

     Aside from the atrocious irony of the whole situation, I also find it odd how such a mammoth announcement seems to have been swept under the rug. While I am sure there are a wide range of outraged bloggers, journalists, and fans abroad, the story itself appears to have been roughly skimmed over and forgotten entirely shortly thereafter. It would be like seeing a blown up pie chart illustrating the most commonly used dish soap brands on the front page of the National Post, and then reading about Iranian Nuclear missiles being set up on Cuban soil in some obscure corner of page B11. While scaling back the trade show itself seems to have obvious benefits for those involved in hosting it, those attending it (indeed the very people who relay the information from the hosts to the masses) should be a little more dismayed by this news, shouldn't they? E3, for many gaming news related outlets, is the lifeblood, the eternal spring, the irrevocable nectar which animates their very essence. Certainly the very purpose of such media entities seems perpetually bound with the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and for that entity to fail to respond accordingly to an announcement this appalling may always remain a mystery to me. The only reasonable conclusion I can draw from this evidence is that the journalists involved actually welcome a much more intimate atmosphere of discussion and one on one conversation, instead of having 700 kilowatts of pulse pounding sound blare in their ears as they are bombarded by thousands of flashing images. Those crazy journalists wouldn't know a good time if it was turned into an annual trade show.