How's this for opportunism - the corpse of E3 is not yet cold, it hasn't even stopped twitching, but already the videogame vultures are circling with alternative offers. "I'm sure you've heard the announcement that E3 is downsizing next year from a zoo of 60,000 attendees to a smaller, more manageable invitation-only crowd of 5,000. Good for them! But what does that mean for you?" asks the email that arrived in my in-tray late last night from the Austin Game Conference.
"If you're looking for a great event to cover that would be happy to have your journalistic-prowess, look no further than Austin, Texas, September 6-7-8," it goes on to offer. And then one final poke at E3's bloated body, "what we lack in booth babes, we offer in top notch headlining speakers..."
This, I suspect, is just the beginning...
