PJ at Electronic Entertainment Expo 1999
PJ from the Adventurer's Guild, one our hosted sites, went to the Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E3) in Los Angeles from May 12-15, 1999. While there, he provided daily reports of his experience for BGC including his impressions of the Planescape: Torment and Pool of Radiance II demos. Below are some pictures he took and links to his news reports. He has also posted more information at his personal site since returning.
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| Guido Henkel (Project Director), in the red shirt, was providing demonstrations of Planescape: Torment to the press for Black Isle Studios; PJ was shown Torment on May 14. Keeping everyone on schedule was Krys Card (Public Relations), on the right, shown talking with Stefan "Desslock" Janicki. Below are pictures of the curtain-shrouded Interplay booth and Chris Parker, the Producer of Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast at Black Isle Studios. |
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| PJ ran into Mike "Zarth" Geist (Webmaster/Designer [and BGC co-founder]), left, and John Gallagher (Director of Concept Art) sporting their official Bioware T-shirts. Later that day, he had a group photo taken with Ben "Amanu" Smedstad, Bioware's Producer of Tales of the Sword Coast, and other RPG-addicted reporters. From left to right are PJ, Ben, David "Valen" Frank (Site Master, Middle Earth Vault), Richard "Jonric" Aihoshi (Editorial Director, Vault Network), Eric "Ilibard" Neuman (Managing Editor, Vault Network) and Stefan "Desslock" Janicki (Desslock's RPG News and GameSpot). |
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| Jon Kromrey (Associate Producer) and Dexter Chow (Executive Producer) were showing off Pool of Radiance II which is being developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Mindscape/SSI. The games' specification sheet and a couple early screenshots are shown below. PJ provided his impressions after meeting Dexter and Jon on May 15. |
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| Shown to the left is the west hall entrance to the Los Angeles Exposition Center where E3 took place. The Gamespy Network was set up in a parking lot outside called the Promised Lot. At the Gamespy booth are Joost "Joost" Schuur (Hosting Director), Andrea "China" Bruns (Advertising) and Alison "Flower" Leger (Black Market Director). Below, PJ gets his picture taken with "Xena" at the GameStorm booth. |
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