I’m very pleased to observe that for the first time a gaming trade show is coming to the east coast. It’s not E3, but I’ll take it. You can already register for this fall’s GameonNY show, and at $10 for a 3-day pass it’s cheap. I’ll definitely be going and hopefully I will even manage to convince a couple of my friends to work with me as a team in the tournaments, even if we would be doomed to defeat at the hands of the 20-somethings.

I’ve got my fingers crossed that this will go over well and become an annual event. I’ve been jonesing to go to E3 for at least 10 years. I almost managed it once during my time with the newspapers, when they were sending me out on the trade show circuit 3 months out of the year, and my last boss and I discussed it as a possibility but never got serious about it. Now I finally have a real chance to check one out.

Anyone who’s going drop me an email or post a comment so I know who to try and pull together for some FPS tournament action.