{"id":114,"date":"2009-03-27T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T20:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:10:58","slug":"gdc-09-worst-expo-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"GDC 09: Worst Expo Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 15.9pt;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After 3 days, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that this is the worst GDC Expo I&#8217;ve been to in 10 years covering videogames. There have been plenty of interesting sessions, but the actual expo floor is a shell of what it used to be in years past.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.9pt;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Time was, NVIDIA and ATI would have dueling stations showing off upcoming games, Microsoft \/ Sony \/ Nintendo would have the same, and there would be all sorts of weird wacky stuff on display. People would have cool chalenges running (I even used to manage a Quake 1v1 event with Kornelia at a few shows), and it was generally a fun place to check out. Now it feels like a ghost\u00c2\u00a0town, which leaves me wondering what E3 will end up being this year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.9pt;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">And just to be clear, I&#8217;m not saying it was the worst GDC ever, just the exhibit area. I&#8217;m looking at you, Dakota! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 3 days, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that this is the worst GDC Expo I&#8217;ve been to in 10 years covering videogames. There have been plenty of interesting sessions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gdc-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}