The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) Opens Today

in the Los Angeles Convention Center. Here is the web site. A major component of E3 is computer gaming and Apple has a booth. Associated with the opening of E3, Nintendo announced that its new game box based on a PowerPC CPU, GameCube, will be available November 3rd according to this News.Com article. That's ahead of Micosoft's November 8th availability of its Xbox based on a Pentium III CPU and nVidia GeForce3 GPU. The Xbox, basically a stripped PC with a 10 GB hard drive and internet capability, will sell for $299.99. Microsoft is projected to lose $125 on each Xbox sold and plans to recoup the losses on game sales. Mac gamers are waiting for the game Halo, shown at Macworld 1999 NYC, that will appear first on the Xbox since Microsoft bought the developer.