I’ve decided to start my behind the scenes E3 coverage today with some news.

As you may or may not know I’ll be attending the brand new E3 Business and Media Summit this year representing Evil Avatar.com. The ironic thing of this is the exclusive nature of the event this year, being invite only. While in the past the staff at EvAv.com had a bitch of a time getting official access.

The first event of the show will be Microsoft’s Press Conference on Tuesday July 10th. I just confirmed my registration for the event, and they decided to ask some odd questions. Confirming involved telling them my favorite game, favorite achievement, favorite band and my gamer zone. Odd. But the bottom line is I’m going.

Next up is Nintendo’s Press conference on Wednesday morning. The big 3 Press Conferences are Invite only (like the event) so I’ve been trying to gain access. Nintendo responded with a “We’ll do our best, but won’t know until closer to E3″. Um…ok…gee thanks.

And then last of the big 3 is Sony. Sony. Dear Sony. What the fuck are you doing? I’ve sent out no less than 5 Emails to 4 different people without even the courtesy of a fucking response. Either they don’t have their shit together, or they just don’t give to shits about EvilAvatar.com. Ah well.

The good news this years is James Young aka Fitbabits from EvAv will be coming as well. This should help us provide better coverage. I’m looking forward to finally meeting him, hell we’ve been working together for over 3 years now.

More as it becomes available…

During a recent discussion over at the Avatar, Mark Rein (Epic Games Vice-President) hinted that we could be seeing user created content on the XBox 360.

But let’s not forget we always said UT3 was coming to PC. Part of what makes the Unreal Tournament games great is the amazing variety and quality of user-created content. Sony gave us every indication from the start that their network would be an open system and that they would welcome mods and user-created content whereas I’m sure you know Xbox Live is a closed system. We have been working with Microsoft for a while to try to get the ability to support user-created content on the 360. We now have a pretty good indication that we’ll be able to do most of what we want to do in that area so we’ve decided to bring the game to that platform.

Sounds like good news to me. My guess is once Live Anywhere gets going, there will be a nice pathway from PC Level Editors/Mods to the XBox 360. I’m also going to venture out on a limb and say Mods will only be available for Gold members. The rumors are abound that with the spring update we’ll be seeing a dedicated XNA section in which members of the Creator’s Club can upload their project. Who knows, you might even see a game from this little penguin.

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It may be till saturday night till Ev Av is back online. I’ll be sure to keep you updated. Needless to say, our hosting company is a bunch of monkeys.