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Ellie Gibson
Square Enix has told good old GamesIndustry.bizthat it is only sending a limited number of Japanese staff to E3 in Los Angeles next month, what with all the swine flu.
Other companies such as Capcom and Koei have already announced similar plans. Turns out hundreds of cases of swine flu have now been reported in Japan, prompting the Government to advise citizens to avoid international travel.
"A limited number of executives / employees from Square Enix's headquarters in Japan will be attending E3 this year, given the recent worldwide spread of H1N1 flu," said the company in a statement.
Koei's said something similar to Kotaku, and it turns out Capcom won't be showing Dead Rising 2 at E3 after all. In addition, producer Keiji Inafune declined to turn up at the Nordic Game Conference this week.
E3 organisers the Entertainment Software Association previously said they hoped the swine flu issue would be "a thing of the past" by the time the show rolled around. With just over a week to go, that doesn't look likely. Eurogamer will still be getting on that plane though; we ain't afraid of no swine flu. Also we could do with a few weeks in bed.
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notmyrealname
21/05/09 @ 10:28
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lol, what a pathetic lie. They just wanna save expenses on the dumbass exhibit itself. It's much cheaper paying a ticket for some fatass game ''journalist'' and buying them a night of dinner and hookers than posing @ E3. Also: having all these marketeers, programmers and spindoctors travel to every inch of the world whilst paying them too, is pretty costly.
The game industry is maturing (except for the dumbass spin nobody believes).
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neonemesis
21/05/09 @ 10:40
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Excuse my ignorance but what the hell is happening with Swine Flu anyway? It's been ages since I heard anything about it on the news. All I hear about is MP expenses blah blah blah.
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Vertical Stand
21/05/09 @ 11:48
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Not like they need many people, Final Fantasy sells itself or do they have something that isn't FF related to promote as well?
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Turns out hundreds of cases of swine flu have now been reported in Japan, prompting the Government to advise citizens to avoid international travel.
Sorry Ellie, but this is incorrect. In fact the Japanese government has decided to stop screening incoming flights for passengers infected with swine flu and will now focus on limiting infections within Japan. Of course before swine flu was present in Japan the government did advise citizens to avoid international travel to affected countries but now there are hundreds of cases within Japan there's not much of a point in doing so. |
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