IDG World Expo on Friday revealed the novel name for the consumer video and electronic computer gaming exhibition that will replace the now - defunct E3 — it ’s calledE for All Expo , short for Entertainment for All . It ’s planned for October 18 – 20 , 2007 at the Los Angeles Convention Center , the same locale that ’s hosted E3 .
IDG World Expo has put up a entanglement page for the land site and advises visitors that adjustment for E for All will begin in Spring , 2007 . In the interim , visitor interested in joining the mailing listing can ratify up using a strain on the home pageboy .
The show will let consumers “ test - force the latest in game and gadgetry , as well as purchase ware they enjoyed . ” IDG World Expo say additional drawing card are in the employment , such as video game tournaments , a business fair , phratry - well-disposed offerings and Video Games Live , a concert of TV game music . The show also plans to thrive into the LA Live sphere that adjoins the LA Convention Center .
In August , 2006 the Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) announced plans to downsize E3 from the jumbo spectacle it had become to a more intimate show intended specifically for high - story medium , analyst and industriousness movers and shakers , such as retail chain buyers .
Many large companies exhibiting at E3 had complained about the size of the show . E3 was put as an diligence - only event with ticket prices set consequently . That did n’t stop 10 of thousands of video plot enthusiast without any verbatim connection to the diligence from descending on the LA Convention Center and paying to get their hands on the latest games and gaming hardware .
In early November , IDG World Expo — coordinator of next week’sMacworld Conference & Expoin San Francisco , Calif. — revealed plans to replace E3 with a consumer - oriented TV game upshot , endorsed by the ESA itself . At the time , the companionship did n’t reveal the name of the show , instead referring interested people to a Web site through which designation suggestions could be made .
The winner has been select from more than 3,000 entries , according to IDG World Expo . Entertainment for All Expo , or E for All Expo , was proposed by Dante Padre , a California house physician . Padre explain that the was inspired by IDG World Expo ’s decision to make this show for everyone , rather than just industry insiders .
“ Now everyone will have the chance to live the excitement , the amusement , and the early look at the manufacture that ’s only been available to insiders before , ” said Padre .
IDG World exposition andMacworldpublisher Mac Publishing are both owned by International Data Group ( IDG ) .
