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E3 Article at Wired News

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by chevalier, May 19, 2005.

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    Wired News has put up an article telling the story of a broken circuit, air conditioning out, bad products and more. Here's a snip:

    "What they will reduce us to is sweatshop workers," Cromwell told Wired News. "When you stifle the creators, what you get is shitty products."

    Inside the conference center, though, the mood is unabashedly pro-industry.

    As is the norm, attractive young women in suggestive outfits are everywhere, hawking this product or that service. The so-called booth babes are hired by agencies and brought to E3 from all over the country.

    Kelly Backer, who is wearing a skimpy skirt with playing cards covering her breasts, is touting Yahoo Games' new poker offering. She stops handing out promotional cards every few seconds to pose for photos with her cohorts, and says she enjoys wearing such unusual attire.

    "I guess it's not something we'd walk around (in public) with," said Backer, who usually works as a personal assistant in Decatur, Georgia.

    Meanwhile, countless gamers are walking around, playing demos -- or waiting to play demos, or waiting to have their picture taken with a booth babe.

    Read the story at Wired News.

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