So found this on kotaku, I'll post some segments here. Wow at some of these. So what do you think?
The Touchy Security Guard
A few days after E3, I hopped on the phone with a fellow female games reporter. She told me about an all-too-close encounter at E3.
"What do you do when the person that's supposed to be keeping an eye out for everyone is doing that to you?" she asked me.
She confessed her nervousness after being grabbed by a security guard manning a particular booth on E3's show floor. What started out as friendly, albeit awkward chitchat quickly crossed the line.
It was early last Wednesday morning, and this female journalist—who asked not to be named—was all set to interview the creative director of a game. Through the whirlwind of news and appointments, she already had a lot on her mind, she told me.
She waved to a friend. A security guard who was covering the back rooms where these interviews took place mistakenly thought that wave was meant for him. He approached her. She responded to his small talk casually—in a friendly manner, she said—her eyes darting to the flashy big screen that showcased new trailers for upcoming games. She wasn't invested in the conversation, she told me. It showed.
Suddenly, he was standing over her. "Looming," she told me. He wrapped his hands around her shoulders in such a way that "he could have easily moved" her.
"I was physically compromised," she told me. "I wasn't in a position I could've slipped out of. I had to shake him off."
Four Groping Hands
One night of E3, a public relations representative for a well-known game company went to a bar with some other PR reps, some marketing employees, and an indie developer. "I remember not wanting to go into the bar in the first place because they were playing Star Wars: Episode I," she joked with me on Monday.
After chit-chatting with the developer at the bar for some time, she got up to go to the restroom.
"As soon as I got up I felt him rubbing my head around the temple area," she recalled. "I thought, 'Ok this is obviously a drunk person who thinks this is funny.'"
She did not think it was funny. She turned around to tell him to stop.
"As I was turning, he kissed the top of my head. I got paralyzed. I stopped turning."
Things only escalated from there.
"As I was turning, he kissed the top of my head. I got paralyzed. I stopped turning."
"A second guy started rubbing my shoulders and kissing the side of my neck. I freaked out."
Meanwhile, she told me, the indie developer knocked off her glasses while rubbing her temples. She didn't know if it was intentional, but it was scary.
"I'm useless without my glasses," she told me. "I couldn't see anyone I knew. I thought that, while I was talking to the indie developer, my friends might have left without realizing and that I was alone. I started panicking. I don't know if he set me up to be in this situation and left me here. I felt paralyzed. Like I couldn't move."
She said she couldn't even shake her head, let alone reach down to pick up her glasses. "Yeah, I wasn't moving at all."
Then, the two men stopped. She doesn't know why. Maybe they sensed her discomfort, or maybe they were just too drunk, she said. "I guess they got bored."
Read the rest here.
http://kotaku.com/the-creepy-side-of-e3-513484271
