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Article: Who's got game? Cellphones, Palm Pilots.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 21, 2002
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Byline: Gloria Goodale Arts and culture correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
LOS ANGELES -- Games rule.
In a nutshell, that is the message of this year's elaborate dog-and-pony show of the video-game industry, otherwise known as E3, short for Electronic Entertainment Expo. And it's about time, say most gamers.
While that may seem obvious to outsiders, this year is the first time that talk of pixels and hard-drive capability wasn't the main message coming from each of the big three competitors (Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo) in the console marketplace.
The industry has finally come to accept what most casual gamers have ...