User blog:Baziel/E3 News and other round-ups

I thought I'd wait until it was all over and the dust had settled before I blogged about this, but the E3 event has now finished and (obvious as it was always going to be) there was No News about Legacy of Kain and not even a mention...and given the situation, I'd frankly welcome another "we're not working on it" announcement to calm some down.

For those of us who actually try to report LoK news, it's been a testing time in the run-up to E3, primarily because there have actually been absolutely no LoK-related stories in any rumours, yet many have been reported and passed around - especially annoying since you can trace each one back and they all seem to have originated purely in non-industry 'comments sections' and mis-understood announcements (in both cases totally un-related gaming news tragically seized upon by over-enthusiastic LoK fans).

For the record, Crystal Dynamics do have a major title in the works that is taking up a huge amount of their time - The Tomb Raider Reboot (and indeed all of the mis-interpreted LoK news was pretty obviously actually about Tomb Raider.) That franchise has been given the full works this year, with soo much new info released about it; they now have a very impressive trailer, a release date in March 2013 (that's just before next E3) and even news that this upcoming reboot will have a Hollywood film adaption.

As for the Legacy, it's once again not looking promising for the near future, but don't lose hope (just blend that with some realism); when they talk about Lok, they do seem to legitimately love the series; but remember they will have their hands full on other projects for the foreseeable future. Any LoK games within a couple of years would be a genuine bolt-from-the-blue at this stage (and would have to, by necessity, involve several companies lying or having already lied to us).

In other news, Wikia (kind of our parent 'Website network') is for the first time being represented at this years Comic-Con International Event in San Diego, USA. Now I'd say that at the moment, we're nowhere near large enough, detailed enough, popular enough and have no-where near the amount of regular contributors to be worth highlighting (that and the fact most of the admins here are about as far away from San Diego as you can possibly get) so I've decided not to put us into the mix yet. However, Wikia seem to keen to take this further in future years and to throw a spotlight on many wikias at each event, so it may be something to bear in mind for the future. I'm sure the Legacy of Kain could benefit from some Convention exposure. Baziel 20:35, June 9, 2012 (UTC)