Seriously?

I'm pretty sure gametrailers has all of them. Same parent company or something.

Broadcast means TV to me, it's not necessarily the same as the internet.

A. doesnt everyone with cable have spike? 
B. you can undoubtedly find livestreams of the conferences on the internet, like on ustream or justin.tv

Pretty sure all this means is that its Spike instead of G4.  The companies will likely have direct feeds again.

I hope so. They're not quite clear on the topic in today's 'Invisible Walls'.
 
If they stream both EA's and Microsoft's conferences live on GameTrailers for everyone worldwide, then it's no big deal (at least if it's a rocksolid service). Redundancy of service brings security. I had 2-3 streams open in prior years, just to have back-ups when one cut out.
 
Either way. Quite uncool to monopolize what's like the most exciting gaming-related moments of the year.

Having the TV rights to an event is nothing new. Super Bowl, World Series, Oscars. It's all the same think really. This time it's for a Video Game conference. Not exactly the same caliber, but the same idea.

Having the TV rights to an event is nothing new. Super Bowl, World Series, Oscars. It's all the same think really. This time it's for a Video Game conference. Not exactly the same caliber, but the same idea.

I would assume it's just TV, and doesn't change all the websites streaming it. During the latest Feedback over at G4 they were talking about getting some kind of awesome 360 degree camera and setting it up in each press event. So on the website you can use your mouse to pan the camera around and look at whatever you want during the E3 event. I doubt they would spend the money on a contraption like that if they couldn't stream it.

i hope it just means TV. it would suck for companies to not being able to see it. gametrailers probably will have it since it's on spike. i am just saying this but i always miss gametrailers when it's on. 
 
good times when jeff kiely use to be on G4.

Pretty sure that's just for tv. You'll still be able to watch the streams on IGN, Gametrailers, etc.

Is it going to have fucking commercials?

I cancelled my cable years ago. I haven't missed it as the internet exists. I'm sure IGN, Gamespot, Gametrailers, and many many more gaming sites will have live feeds of the conferences. If you want to watch it on TV, you'll have to go spike though.  

Is it going to have fucking commercials?

Is it going to have fucking commercials?

@KaosAngel said:

Is it going to have fucking commercials?

These conferences are practically commercials.

I'll probably stream it over GT anyways. It's cool that people watching TV can see it too. 

@RTSlord: Not every country has spike

I REALLY hope that is TV only, maybe Patrick will post some news story thing soonish explaining this ordeal.  Spike's done nothing but bad for video games in my opinion.  The VGAs are pathetic.
 
This is dumb anyways, why would you want only one company to show your stuff when what you're showing is practically a big ass advertisement for your upcoming stuff.  Jesus.
 
As long as it's still online on several sites in good quality (i.e. GameTrailers), whatever.

What type of technophobe watches the E3 press conferences on TV? Step into the 21st, anybody who cares about this.
 
@Seppli said:

At least not without going out of my way finding 'pirate' streams of SPIKE on the net?

By doing this they've reminded me that it will be broadcast on TV, which is great.
@shinigami420 said:

@RTSlord: Not every country has spike

I believe in a few years (maybe next year) Spike is fully going to take the broadcast rights of E3 away for G4. From the ESA's perspective Spike has a bigger audience G4, I think, so it makes sense to show it there.