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The creator of one of the most interesting gaming web sites around is now moving on to other projects. Dennis McCauley, the founder and editor-in-chief of the GamePolitics.com web site, announced this week he is leaving the site and indeed leaving journalism entirely. He has not announced what he will be doing next.

McCauley founded GamePolitics.com in 2005 and the site been at the forefront of covering how the game industry has interacted with the law and lawmakers. It has been the first to break major news events in that area such as the "Hot Coffee" mini-game discovery in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and how that mini-game lead to lawmakers asking for more rules regulating the game industry. It also covered the fall of one of the industry's biggest critics in Jack Thompson when he lost his Flordia law license.

GamePolitics.com is owned by the Entertainment Consumers Association and that group has already announced that former GameDaily editor-in-chief Pete Gallagher will be taking over McCauley's duties. We wish him well in his future endeavors.

E3 2008 is over now but it appears the reactions to the latest edition of the event were even worse than last year's E3 in Santa Monica, and that's saying something. The latest to state these facts is Dennis McCauley, the editor of GamePolitics in his latest Political Game column for our sister site Joystiq.

McCauley points out that Into the Pixel, the video game art exhibit, got more square footage at the convention center than the actual game exhibit hall where people went hands-on with a number of titles.That and a number of other issues mentioned in the opinion piece made the show the worst it has ever been and if McCauley is to be believed, " . . . you can go ahead and schedule that trip to the beach you were planning for next July. You won't be coming to Los Angeles.E3 is dead."