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Xbox’s We Happy Few scores big at E3 in terms of new Internet searches

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook said that Sony won the attention war among Facebook users at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles. But another tracking company, ListenFirst, says that Microsoft’s Xbox event won the most attention, as did the small indie game We Happy Few, when it comes to new Internet searches.

Just like Facebook itself, ListenFirst is tracking which brands, studios, and games are generating the most hype at the expo. It is doing so by tracking the number of new Wikipedia page views.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.