Subscribe- Lumines Live will be the next Geometry Wars.
- Did anyone catch that the Halo 3 demo was done with Xbox 360 hardware? They actually had the demo realtime behind closed doors. Pretty sweet.
- G4 sucks. Officially. Again. Kevin Pereira is an annoying talking head that needs to be fragged, Doom-style. His smiling mug wants to make me puke. And nice of G4 to lay off their personalities who actually care about games and replace them with Olivia Munn, who demonstrated her Brain Age of 88 when she was asked what she thought about her first E3. I swear I saw the wheels spinning on live TV last night. Oh yeah, and the endless babble of Adam Sessler during interviews, Morgan Webb pretending she’s a gamer, and Kevin’s endless decible-crunching spew of cliche made me regret tuning in last night. I haven’t watched G4 in about a year, and thankfully I was reminded of why so I won’t make that mistake again.
- Interesting how there was no mention of integration between the Wii and the DS. Perhaps Nintendo gave up on that experiment? Meanwhile, Sony is showing they will blindly follow what the other game companies are doing by repeating their old mistakes. PS3 integration with the PSP, controllers with motion sensors. A $600 price point – Trip Hawkins is laughing somewhere right now. What’s next, a robot?
- Speaking of the PSP, I’m surprised it was basically a no-show at the Sony press event. I want to hear more about downloadable PSOne titles. Hell, they should have made it available to everyone live at the press event. Even still, I want to hear what titles will be available, and at what price point. Or downloadable content of any kind – and please take off the resolution restriction on downloaded videos!
- Gamespot has the best E3 coverage thus far. IGN seems to be on vacation. And 1UP is smart by coming out with nightly podcasts of wrap-ups, but their site is so poorly designed it’s nearly impossible to find any content besides what’s thrown at you from the front page. I’d like to search the blogs based on staff and/or developer, and I’d like some federated (big word) search so I can scan the news stories. But I can only search “Gamers”. But it’s nice to catch the podcast on my way to work, instead of getting Gamespot’s streaming videocasts blocked by my employer. Gamespot has a nice new feature for subscribers in beta called “The Rail”, which basically streamlines the top stories – news, previews, movies – all in a nicely wrapped slideshow. This is probably the closest someone has come to presenting the avalanche of news stories in a presentable fashion. Most other sites organize based on title, and that makes reading the headlines a chore. Kudos to Gamespot!
- Is it me or does the show feel like it’s already over? Like last year, the announcements coming from the actual show feel like Kentia Hall – you know, the stuff no one cares about. A new Golden Axe? Who cares!
- Microsoft needs to think about updating their Marketplace interface for next year if they decide to provide E3 content to Xbox 360 owners. A little organization, perhaps a new blade just for E3, would be nice. Instead I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon bouncing back and forth from the XBL Arcade download section to the Marketplace section, getting constantly disconnected. And along those lines, let’s add some more servers to the infrastructure to handle the load. I still don’t have UNO. Bastards…
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