E3!!!!!

Yes, this year E3 deserves five exclamation points in the title.  Absolutely amazing expo this year.  I obviously wasn’t there, but I listened to 6-8hours of podcast coverage a day plus all the G4 coverage…  I had a LOT of work this week, so it was perfect timing.  There’s no way I could have consumed so much coverage if I hadn’t been chained to my desk 16 hours a day. 

I was really impressed by most of what I saw.  Rumors about some fantastic tech turned out to be true (I’m looking at you motion sensing cameras!).  Amazing stuff, assuming it all works half as well as the demonstrations suggest.  Only a couple disappointing things, like the price tag on the PSP Go.  Too many interesting games to even go into (Scribblenauts? Bizarre and amazing).  And a number of huge announcements.  After all, a second new Halo game was announced alongside a new trailer for the other new Halo game and it was ho-hum news… that would have blown people’s minds a couple years ago but there was so much going on compared to years past that it hardly registered!

I’m a little surprised that I followed E3 so obsessively, and though I’m completely burned out on videogame news for the next couple weeks, I’m glad I did.  If nothing else it was really fun watching the frantic dance of the PR peoples.