Staff Reporter Troy Wolverton is in Los Angeles to attend the Electronic Entertainment Exposition -- better known as E3 -- which is the video-game industry's giant annual gathering. He's filing occasional dispatches on news, rumors, sights and thoughts from the show.
Wednesday
Among the console makers, one of the big themes of E3 has been using the next generation of machines to expand the audience for gaming.
At Microsoft's(MSFT Quote) press event Monday, for instance, J. Allard, who heads up the company's Xbox development efforts, noted that while early video-game systems such as the original Atari console got the entire family involved in gaming, more recent systems have tended to attract just what people now consider the core gaming audience: males under the age of 34. ...
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