Word: expos
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There was a clear military presence at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles last week, and it had nothing to do with terror alerts or heightened security. The U.S. Army, eager to boost recruitment among 18-to-24-year-olds, is getting into the computer-game business. In July it will release two titles: Soldiers, a Sims-style basic-training exercise based on interviews with more than 700 real-life grunts; and Operations, a fast-paced online game that puts you behind the trigger--and teaches you teamwork--in a combat situation. Operations is built with the same...
...land of EverQuest had 433,445 inhabitants, with 12,000 new immigrants arriving every month. Its subscription fees have made the game a gold mine for its owner, Sony, and helped put a relatively obscure genre--the massively multiplayer game--on the map. This week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, a select few VIPs will get an early glimpse of EverQuest II, a sequel likely to trigger another Norrath population boom. The game has become a global addiction so quickly that insiders jokingly refer to it as "Evercrack...
...standing in the presence of greatness. Tomorrow, Publishers Weekly—the magazine bible of the publishing industry—will present Frank Kramer, proprietor of Harvard Book Store, with the 2002 Bookseller of the Year award. The ceremony, which is to be held at Book Expo America, conveniently overlaps with Harvard Book Store’s 70th anniversary...
...Genre spotlight extends beyond pure print and web perusal. Crosby says the editor asked him to travel to New York City over St. Patrick’s Day weekend to sign copies of the magazine at a “gay business expo.” Also, the e-mail greetings keep coming in, though Crosby says most have been almost too subtle for his own taste...
Following Media Expo in October 2000, a convention for Internet media, Dorfman says he realized that though “other people were trying to do the same thing, it didn’t work as well...