I bet getting your E3 media badge felt like slaying a level 99 cosmic death dragon. lol. I cannot even be bothered to attempt that stuff but I understand why other gamers would be curious about new releases & how the industry works as a whole machine.
It's kind of scary the ESA can kill places like this via proxy. Though they would have to watch our for "martyr back-lash". Aka, squashing the little people often blows up in the faces of those doing the squashing.