Jun 10, 2026 · 21 min · 8 segments
Shane finally admits that the old E3 is never coming back! His picks for the five best NEW games shown at Not E3/Summer Game Fest 2026! Plus, the origin story of the mixtape might surprise you!
Shane SatterfieldHostgreetings and welcome to boss fight this is a segment where i get a chance to talk about some of the hot topics in the games industry for the week and obviously there is no bigger topic this week than not e3 summer game fest 2026 whatever the heck we want to call it at this point and that's what i'm going to discuss right here um you will probably not find other than michael pachter a bigger fan of e3 than you will me and it goes back a long ways my first e3 was 1998 in atlanta and then i went to the first e3 in los angeles in 1999 and i went to everyone after that And there's a lot of people like me, old journalists who have gone to every E3 or whatever.
Don't forget E3 actually started as this little like splinter thing at CES in Vegas.
And I know some people that went to those who actually went to E3 before I did.
who went to a lot of E3s, and I don't know if they feel how I do, but it's not that I just went to E3 for so long, although I'm sure that contributes to my nostalgia and stuff like that.
I've told all those stories, but what's most important about those? is that if I had not gone to those E3s, I never would have got a job in the industry, and God knows what would have happened to me.
I mean, maybe my life would be better, I don't know, but one thing's for sure, I would not be working in the games industry.
I specifically remember when I applied to my first job at a real publication at GameSpot, when I went and interviewed and then finally got the job, I specifically remember Joe Fielder, my boss, telling me that me going to E3 and sacrificing the money and the time and everything else to go to E3 was what got me the job.
He said other people had written as much as I had and had done other stuff, but none of them had taken their own money to fly to E3 from wherever they lived.
And then, of course, it was on me to show up and do the job well and all that kind of stuff.
If a pipeline for people like me in 2026 has now been closed off, and your only real chance now is to just luckily catch the eye of somebody when you write it on your fan, it's...
I feel like a lot of the things that I was afforded to get my career going are no longer there for people who are trying to do that now.
greetings and welcome to boss fight this is a segment where i get a chance to talk about some of the hot topics in the games industry for the week and obviously there is no bigger topic this week than not e3 summer game fest 2026 whatever the heck we want to call it at this point and that's what i'm going to discuss right here um you will probably not find other than michael pachter a bigger fan of e3 than you will me and it goes back a long ways my first e3 was 1998 in atlanta and then i went to the first e3 in los angeles in 1999 and i went to everyone after that And there's a lot of people like me, old journalists who have gone to every E3 or whatever.
Don't forget E3 actually started as this little like splinter thing at CES in Vegas.
And I know some people that went to those who actually went to E3 before I did.
who went to a lot of E3s, and I don't know if they feel how I do, but it's not that I just went to E3 for so long, although I'm sure that contributes to my nostalgia and stuff like that.
I've told all those stories, but what's most important about those? is that if I had not gone to those E3s, I never would have got a job in the industry, and God knows what would have happened to me.
I mean, maybe my life would be better, I don't know, but one thing's for sure, I would not be working in the games industry.
I specifically remember when I applied to my first job at a real publication at GameSpot, when I went and interviewed and then finally got the job, I specifically remember Joe Fielder, my boss, telling me that me going to E3 and sacrificing the money and the time and everything else to go to E3 was what got me the job.
He said other people had written as much as I had and had done other stuff, but none of them had taken their own money to fly to E3 from wherever they lived.
And then, of course, it was on me to show up and do the job well and all that kind of stuff.
If a pipeline for people like me in 2026 has now been closed off, and your only real chance now is to just luckily catch the eye of somebody when you write it on your fan, it's...
I feel like a lot of the things that I was afforded to get my career going are no longer there for people who are trying to do that now.
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