Anyways, E3 is now done, all over, finished, completed, finieto (Unless you stay up all night watching the live stage shows on Gamespot or IGN in which case, it aint). And that means we can at long last tell you what we have been planning for the past 2 months. We've put in our very hard work onto this project, perfecting it to its nook and cranny but as of 2 weeks ago, it was finished and we can at long last unveil it to you...or rather, tell you about it as it aint gonna come JUST yet but as you'll find out, it's very, very, VERY near.
I said that if there was no massive surprises from the big 3, we would provide one at least so that we could make sure this E3 went off with at least one surprise. However, of course, nothing can top Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 on Monday but I think after Tuesday's performances with the good yet lacklustre Sony conference and the boring as hell Nintendo, this maybe the 2nd biggest announcement of E3.
So...here we go. We've split this into three surprises in the one surprise (If you can catch the point) as although they are connected, they seperately big in their own right as they concern a massive change in the site so lets begin with Surprise No. 1, shall we folks?
1 - And this is what we have been working on for the past 2 months. The Wordpress verison is all done and ready to go. We've worked very hard on this night and day but finally, we can confirm that we have finished it and we can also confirm that all our posts from the original site that we had before we switched over to the E3 blog will be at the site so we dont have to look like noobs only starting out, we're starting again where we left off on July 6th.
2 - We can also confirm a launch date for the this new verison of Gamzsone V3 (Gamzsone V3.5 if you wanna put it like that) and after working on it for a such while, we wanted this out as soon as possible so that you could enjoy the site as much as we would + it'll be less likely for the memory message to come up if you use the PS3 to look at the site. We can confirm the date of this site to be Monday July 21st 2008 (Thats this Monday) so we hope you can join us for that.
3 - And finally, after 3 long years service, we are giving the Gamzsone name a retirement. No more Gamzsone V3 and infact, no more Gamzsone at all for that matter, Farewell our good old friend, you have served us well, enjoy your retirement as you throughly deserve it.
So...what is the name t hat is gonna replace it? Good question...except...you've been staring at it the entire time you've either been visiting the main site, here or the E3 blog. Still dont get it, do you? *sigh* Okay, I'll tell you. Our brand new name for the site is the subtitle we have been using this entire time for Gamzsone V3. It is called...
GOONL!NE

That...is the banner that will greet you on the WordPress site as of Monday morning. Also, there are a couple of questions to answer concerning this name-change? What about the videos that were branded Gamzsone V3 on the YouTube [age as well as the videos tagged GamzsoneV3 + the layout of the Gamzsone V3 page on YouTube?
All Gamzsone V3 videos on the YouTube page with branding (Including the last video with the branding on it which was the E308 trailer of Final Fantasy XIII) will stay on the site as planned but everything else will change bar them videos (and maybe the username)
Also, something to point out. All the post's we've made on the E3 blog will be going to the new site from Sunday morning before we launch everything on Monday morning. As for the Member's Blo, that wont be there...at least for now. It will be there at some point but we have decided that for now, we wont doing such a thing but it will be back before the end of the year.
Finally, as in reference to future events this year, Leipzig Games Convention or Tokyo Games Show, we'd like to clear up what we are doing about them events. Everything that comes out of Leipzig will be put into stories on the main site, there will be no blog on it but should there be any major press conference's from either Sony or Microsoft at Leipzig next month we we think there will be especially at hints throw around by David Reves concerning PlayStation Home as well as a next-gen Singstar according to Eurogamer.
And as for Tokyo Games Show, we are talking it through to decide as to if we will have a dedicated blog for such a thing despite the fact that we dont even know who the keynote speaker is for this year's Tokyo Games Show (In 2005, it was Satoru Iwata who unveiled the Wiimote. In 2006, it was Ken Kutaragi who did a pre-launch PS3 price cut and last year, it was Kaz Hirai who...did nothing...well, there was the unveil of the DualShock 3.)but once we decide on a outcome for it, we will let you know.
So there ya have it, our plans have been layed out on the table for you and on Saturday, as a parting gift to Blogger, our Best of E3 awards will be posted in the E3 blog as our farewell to Blogger.
So we hope you'll be around to see that and we hope you'll be around on Monday to see a brand new era in this site's history.
Jonathan Cullen
Managing Editor, Gamzsone V3/GOONL!NE