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It feels unfair to write that, to sit back and say “pish-posh, a little thin.” We critics pine and plead for creativity, and then we show up at this annual event and say, “Show me what you’ve got.” We ought to recognize that this isn’t quite right. Creativity and inspiration don’t happen on a schedule, and it’s folly to expect that every June, right on cue, Microsoft will be able to provide some epochal leap forward.

I would feel worse, though, if the titans of the game industry hadn’t set up this E3 boondoggle themselves, and if they didn’t bill it as a showcase of “innovation”—a word that once meant something special but now is used primarily a marketing term for forced obsolescence.

John Teti, “Pump And Smear.” Gameological At E3