European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 17 gaming conference tones Down for 2007 by Matt Slagle the associated press the video game Industry Annu Al showcase is saying goodbye to scantily Clad Booth extravagant multimillion Dollar blaring lights and pounding celebrity appearances from the likes of Paris Hilton or Snoop Dogg Are a thing of the this years version of the elec tronic entertainment re named the e3 Media business will be a tone Down affair As organizers Hope to have a far less flashy discussion on new and upcoming video the which starts looks to be More like a country club an invite Tio Only gathering Complete with luxury Beac Side sushi restaurants and meetings in private conference to put it More its about the Quality of connection for leaders of the says Michael a former telecommunications policy adviser under the Bush administration who now Heads up the entertain ment software the Trade group that puts together the after last years organizers decided it had become too big for its own with More than people cramming into the los Angeles convention there was a feeling that the needs of no one were being addressed particularly it had gotten out of control and needed to said Mike Wil chief executive of Texas based game publisher it was techno was blasting there was no place to sit and the Micro wave cheeseburgers were it just want Wilsons company want invited to the new e3 that being held in a handful of hotels along the Beach in Santa he int the Only Only about 30 of the largest video game hard Ware companies Are Down from the hundreds that packed the sprawling los Ange Les convention Center in Previ Ous also missing will be traders View and play with playstation 3 at the electronic entertain ment expo on May in the los Angeles convention the video game Industry annual showcase is saying goodbye to Booth babes and extravagant exhibits and focusing on video game the army of Small time zealous game fans and others who somehow managed to infiltrate the Trad Only this weeks which runs through will focus on the Industry largest including 1 Gam software maker electronic arts and console makers Microsoft Sony and Nintendo the big Story last year was so to our summer vacation loan makes it easy to visit family and for visit our website or speak to a Community Bank associate Community Bank credit subject to approval and Normal credit standards Banko America member Odic look for live coverage of the e3 expo starting thursday in nys decision to Price playstation 3 at up to and whether it would catch on with prom ised to bring More no gamers into the fold with its interactive Microsoft continued to build on its Box live online gaming since both the ps3 and the Wii have been unleashed on the Microsoft launched its next generation con the Box in Ana Lyst Ted Pollack of Jon Peddie re search said he Doest see any los ers in the current crop of consoles and believes they will be a Boon for the Industry for at least the next five there All doing Well in their own he All three con soles will win Battles in the con sole wars and at the end everyone will be left artist captures new Orleans House in Latex by Cain Burdeau the associated press new Orleans Takashi Morisaki is about the Only person left in the lower 9th Ward trying to keep bulldozers at Bay As the artist labors to create a Carbo copy of one of the few Homes left in this sad and crushed Corner of new or for the sculptor has been in an elaborate dance with bureaucrats charged with bulldozing houses in the epicentre of Hurricane katrina destruction As he tries to Coyer a Home in a Latex adhesive skin to capture the Wood Nail Heads and essence of a debris pocked and floodlit eat toned Treyve been demolishing Homes every lots of All says Brush in hand As he applies swabs of the whitish Sticky in Short Hes Back to talking i think i should bring the real but we cant afford to bring the entire so maybe just the How appropriate to use a Home to Tell the tragic Story of katrina and illustrate the Hurt lurking Over this the growing Mound of katrina inspired from photo graphs to stage Hor Sakis Latex House May Likely stand out As a unique contribution to the understanding of while the Latex House wont be on the scale of one of Christos environmental this As Morisaki Calls will transport a hefty chunk of the new Orleans soul to a new York City sculpture the work will be exhibited at the end of july in the so crates sculpture Park in