I'm sure many of you watched E3 with delight of the great games that are scheduled to come out over the next year or so and I'm sure you also spent this time blissfully unaware of what was really going on.

Every company has had one thing uniquely in common this year over those previous: Motion controls. Sure you can kid yourself by saying that these are simply an evolution to how we play video games, but think about it, there's something wrong here. The 'big three' are being led by the nose by the mastermind Kudo Tsunoda to force gamers to get exercise! It's an insidious and well engineered plot! Nintendo puts on an elaborate ruse by tricking you into believing that they care about your well being by releasing another pulse monitor and selling Picachu pedometers (which we all know relay your position to the space-station Pikapollo1), but NO they don't care about us!

So why, why would they do this? Bah! The answer is obvious: THEY PLAN TO STEAL YOUR COUCH! Nintendo have been fooling us all with their motives to keep us distracted while Microsoft train Skynet (AKA Milo) to relay orders to an army of Kojima's snakes. Now we've seen that they have used advanced technology to get into a 2 snakes 1 box situation it's a matter of time before these soldiers sneak into your house/apartment while you're busy standing and waving your PS3 glow-stick like a flail at the TV.

My sources haven't yet found why these couches are so sought after, by my instincts say that Kudo plans to build a Couchtopia.

So please, hug your couch and tell it that you love it and I hope you all had a great E3

Now if you'll excuse me I need to take my meds.

Not a blogger was stirring, were they anxious? You bet!

Of course that's far from the truth, I can't remember an E3 with more leaks, roomers and speculation. Just listing all the things that have happened in the past couple of weeks leading up to E3 would be one mammoth blog posting, so instead I want to talk/write about the E3 of old and how I imagine it to be.

Having never been to E3 (yet) all I know is from what I've heard from GameSpot staff, either current or past. I wonder if the E3 veterans still enjoy the show as it sounds like a grueling Ironman event. There's no leisurely browsing the show floor, instead there's meetings and press conferences going on so often that you need a team of staff and a plan to have any hope of covering the show. The halls are huge and occasionally you'll be running across a large part of the floor to try to meet catch the next meeting, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the hordes of other people doing the same thing and the heat. So many bodies all crammed into the convention center, big booths, big lights and big TVs make for a hot and sweaty atmosphere, and where there's droves of sweaty folks running around, there's the smell that comes with them. It's no wonder so many people get sick after E3, the atmosphere has to be a breeding ground for germs to spread and breed, perhaps I can understand Capcom not showing up to show off Dead Rising 2, but it still seems a littleOTT . Not all the events get held in the convention center, some companies don't have a presence at the show and instead setup shop in nearby hotels, I don't know how far away these events get held, but trekking back and forward across LA when you're in a rush sounds like a pretty stressful experience. After a long day of running around, fueled by way too much Red Bull andKencha Hall hot dogs you'd probably want a break, but instead now is time for you to write up the events of the day. Now between writing and attending the night time 'meetings' (read: Parties) you can expect to be to awake up until far gone midnight, with the expectation of starting all over again tomorrow morning, shall we say, 7am?

Sounds like hell, especially if you're sat in a booth listening to the same game play trailer run over and over -- and over.

Despite all this, it sounds like the most fun that can be had as a gamer (With the possible exception of TGS) and I'd give a lot to be part of it some day soon. But until then, I wish you good luck at 2009 E3 GameSpot and stay safe!

Kind of a sucky week just past, rather disheartening. I entered a competition over at Kotaku to win an expense paid trip with them to E3. As you'd expect thousands of people applied, but I was fortunate enough to make it through a random drawing to the last twelve! The last twelve had to submit a writing sample and say in under three-hundred words if E3 should become open to the public again. I figured since I was in with 11 other random people and I've been writing for a while then I was a shoo-in after all the writing practice I've been getting. Sadly though, I didn't win and I also have no idea why. So I did a lot of moping around and trying to decide if I'm being foolish and wasting my time trying to get into the industry and I'm still not totally sure where I stand. Suffice to say though, I'm still rather disheartened.

Anyway, I've included the submitted article below:

E3 was a beast of a show: big lights, big crowds and all at a huge expense for the publishers and developers spending millions on their booths as the show grew in size every year. That is until 2006, when the ESA had the choice: Change E3 or scrap it.

Now the show has become strictly invite only in the hope of getting things back under control, which seems to be working out nicely.Attendance is under a tenth of what it was and the journalists have what they need: a single big event to see the games that are due to be released in the last half of the yearwithout being trampled by a pack of fans storming to the next event.

Sure the press could attend smaller events thatgo onalready throughout the year, but there's a lot of publishers out there and a lot of publishers means a lot of travel fees. It's a real deal breaker for the smaller sites and papers who can't afford to be sending writers around the map on thewhim of a publisher.

"So what about us!" I hear you cry. Well my money is on PAX, which since E3's downsizing has had over fiftypublishers and developers just waiting to show off games to consumers. Right now it might not be the spectacle that E3 was, but given a little more attention PAX is set to be the event that everyone craves.

So should E3 be open to the public? No. The US press need this event to cover games for the huge majority of people who can't attend, and when there's a four hour line to play Nintendo's new Wii, everyone looses. As for the future of other large events such as GC and TGS, well lets hope they can handle things better.

It doesn't go into a lot of detail, but then we were asked to keep it under so many words. Personally I thought it was pretty tight and rather good, but then, I'm bias

At least GameSpot think I'm remarkable

Thanks guys! I needed that emblem