Or three steps back? E3, the video game convention that's seen better days, is moving back to the Los Angeles Convention Center this July after last year’s debacle in Santa Monica. The note I got said it would still be a stripped down version of E3, and that could mean a convention center that’s lonely due to lack of peeps. I let Scott Jones cover E3 last year, not only because I had a ton of work in New York, but because I just didn’t want to deal with all the crazy missteps of the so-new-it-was-full-of-mistakes, mini-E3. Now, it looks like they’re experimenting again: “The US is the world’s number one video game market and the E3 Media & Business Summit is its premier video game conference. The 2008 Summit will provide a professional and efficient environment for suite-based meetings with media, and other industry leaders,” said Michael D. Gallagher, CEO of the ESA, which represents US computer and video game publishers and owns the E3 Media & Business Summit. “We look forward to welcoming the media and top industry executives to a centralized, business focused and personalized experience. Our program of high-level meetings, networking and personal dialogue, and industry-shaping panel discussions will capture the explosive growth we have seen in 2007 and lay the foundation for the 2008 video game marketplace.” Should I stay here or should I go? Let me find out more and I’ll give you the skinny.

http://www.theesa.com/archives/2007/12/entertainment_s.php