walbourn

I'm off to E3 on an early flight tomorrow morning. This year I'll be putting in a really long week helping with Microsoft's combined Games for Windows and Xbox 360 Booth--I even have cards know that show I'm branded by both now--doing setup, meetings, helping with tear-down, etc. Since I'm no longer in tiny group sending one or two people to E3 and now in a group sending over a 100, I have been assigned a random roommate for the week. Good times.

For the majority of you who have never attended E3, here is what you can do to simulate the experience:

Go to a techno club and stand right next to the speaker stack
Take two flashlights and shine them directly into your eyes (preferably with some color filters over the caps)
Try to carry on a conversation
Add women in ridiculous costumes (perhaps by attending an animae convention rave instead of a techno club)
Walk 10 miles. Through a riot
Repeat for 3 days
As for actual computer games, watch a bunch of marketing trailers and try to determine if the game itself will suck or even what the actual gameplay might be