E3 Attendees Extending Show; Extended Show Involves Mostly Partying.

HOTELS SURROUNDING THE STAPLES CENTER, CALIFORNIA - E3, the gaming convention where output of pictures of people posing with people they meet increases by approximately a thousand percent, ended yesterday -- at least, the part that the ESA officially endorses did. A group of "gaming journalists" have decided to continue the show until they're no longer able to pay for their invariably desecrated hotel rooms.

"E3 is really the only time of the year where we can party and call it work without anyone checking up on us, because they're either partying somewhere else, or writing snippets about how this game is doing this thing or how it's totally not," said Bob Newhope, a writer for some site not owned by a media conglomerate. "All the procrastinators unite at the Figueroa, telling each other to stay for the next round. We usually talk about the games we saw, all the great people we met who validate our lives, and usually make videos of all our undeniably entertaining conversations on why shooters are everywhere this year."

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