Sit in a room with like-minded individuals and experience a master class on sheer, unadulterated lunacy.
Konami's E3 press conferences are The Room of E3 press conferences. Each year is like some magically delicious disaster of seemingly unrehearsed ludicrousness that almost morphs into a kind of bizarre, surrealist performance art. After the Rock Revolution debacle of 2008, I thought they could reach no greater peak, but 2010 somehow offered up an even wider array of non-stop insanity, most notably with the introduction of both Tak Fujii and Naoki Maeda and whatever the hell was going on here. Then again, at least there were luchadores...
Can Konami come up with someone more huggably bonkers than Naoki Maeda? Probably not, but I can't wait to find out! So, what could possibly be in store this year? No idea yet, but Konami is banking that you'll want to experience the awkwardness firsthand. Konami plans to promote its unique brand of ramshackle press conferencing--which will actually take place on June 2nd, five days before the show officially kicks off--by setting up live viewing parties for the event at cities around the globe, including, but not limited to, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, São Paulo, and Mexico City.
== TEASER == Yes, for real. You and your friends can attend a real life local screening of the Konami E3 2011 press conference and participate along with the rest of the audience as they shout hilarious callbacks at the screen, like "ONE MILLION TROOPS!!!" and a creepily whispered "Extreeeeeeeeeme..." Just don't be the jerk who yells "Riiiiiiidge Racer!!!" That's like shouting Rocky Horror lines at a Birdemic screening.
If you're not in one of the participating cities, or just don't fancy the idea of sitting in a room full of Konami fans while watching trailers and presentations full of long, excruciating pauses where laughter is presumably expected, you can also stream the conference online and enjoy the hilarity all by your lonesome. Regardless of method, you should almost assuredly tune in. Maybe this will be the year when Konami announces it's all been a gag, that the previous press conferences were purposely weird in service of a long-term, Kaufman-esque black comic prank. How great would that be?
If it's truly a Kaufman-esque gag, aren't they basically obligated to never admit that it's been a gag and go to their graves insisting everything was being played completely straight?
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