It was bound to happen. We predicted it would happen. It's happening... E3 has been shrunk down to size, and now somebody else wants to replace it a new show, exactly the same as the old one. Big, glitzy, expensive, and ultimately self- defeating. Possibly not in the first year, or even in the second, but eventually it'll just become the untenable thing that E3 was this year.

The organisers of the Consumer Electronics Show, the big fish of big fishes where tech trade shows are concerned, have assembled what they're calling an "advisory committee to solicit gaming industry feedback and explore the viability of a West Coast event in late spring 2007 focused on the gaming and entertainment marketplace."

CES being in Vegas, maybe they'll stick it into that particular (proper) sin city, as our own Roberto wanted a while back. Down boy, you're a married man now, can't be at all that. Ultimately however this is a self-defeating exercise. It's one of those ideas that looks absolutely brilliant on paper, except for the fact that in practice it hasn't worked in the past - indeed, E3 isn't dead more than a couple of weeks at this stage.

I'm going back to bed now until somebody has a good idea. I need a good six month rest anyways...