PAX turning into a full-on fan convention minus the indie press/business layer makes that less useful for #GameDev promo/pitching, and E3 is dead of course, which means
... god do we really have to do GDC now? Is it really the last one standing, other than Gamescom? That's miserable! AGH!
GDC had even already (quietly) been becoming a press hotspot, so that's only likely to accelerate after this year.
