Kanye West stormed into the final day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles — and he didn’t have to wait in any lines.
The rapper surprised several attendees when he slipped into the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday to check out such games as Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Halo 5: Guardians, Cuphead and Star Wars: Battlefront. Patrick Bach, executive producer for the Star Wars multiplayer combat game, tweeted a photo with himself and the Gold Digger singer.
“He liked it,” Bach said later in the Electronic Arts’s suite. “I think. It was really quick.”
A spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association, which organises E3, says Yeezy was admitted to the trade show as a celebrity guest. His attendance wasn’t totally unexpected. West’s camp reached out to the ESA ahead of the expo to see if he could attend.
Other stars in attendance included Josh Duhamel, who made E3 his own personal “Take your kid to work” outing. The actor brought his 21-month-old son Axl to the Activision booth to see the latest version of Skylanders.
“It is unbelievable. Truly sensory overload,” Duhamel said.
Video-game fan Rosario Dawson was also at the Activision booth, playing Call of Duty: Black Ops III. She described the game, set in 2065, as “the future of war. ... It’s drones, controllers. It’s a whole other world. It’s technology on a whole other level.”
Dawson — seen most recently in Netflix’s Daredevil series — said she just has to keep herself from getting too intense when playing games.
“I’ve had that moment. You’re, like, tweaking at 4 o’clock in the morning,” she said. “My brother is like: ‘Go to sleep. You’re going to give yourself a heart attack.’”
“Yeah, it’s not a good way to go,” Dawson reflected. “I mean, it kind of would be a funny way to go but maybe not the best way to go.”
