Originally called the Electronic Entertainment Expo, this yearly convention is more commonly known to us as E3, gaming’s biggest and best annual trade show. Our first E3 came to us in 1995, and even in its baby years, it came out guns blazing. By 1996 we had the unveiling of the Nintendo 64 and the ever famous Super Mario 64. We had the debut of the Unreal engine, Starcraft, Final Fantasy VII, and man was I excited. So was the industry. They were pretty pumped too.   As the gaming industry picked up steam, E3 prospered in return. But let's not forget about our computer gaming neighbors. The shows in 1997 and 98 delivered with a bang, as we got to see the historic releases of Half-Life, Unreal, and Quake 2. But we all know how those games were really, really bad. Right? The list goes on and on, but chances are if you can play it, E3 had it. So what happened this year that's left a few critic's skeptic of the future of E3? Well, we'll have to actually look back two years to really understand what's going on. In 2006, E3 was renamed to the E3 Media and Business Summit, an event limited to the press and those in the industry itself. In response, the fans got E For All, the E3 where everyone can attend, and everyone can come play new games in the industry. But if we look at numbers, it looks like the split wasn't as successful as some had hoped. While E3 was opened up to the public, attendance numbers dwindled as a result. While E3 2006 had over sixty thousand people in attendance, the added count from E For All AND E3 2007 was a mere.... twenty one thousand. So what happened? One of the original great things about E3 was being there for the unveiling of something brand new, to share the excitement with a packed crowd when the first trailer came out for something you'd been anticipating for months. While E For All still had those great playable demos, it was distanced from the actual E3. The original appeal just wasn't there. As a final blow, major pu...