I can just tell journalists are still going to be doing cartwheels, somersaults, and leaping through rings of fire over active volcanoes to try to catch all the news erupting at this years E3. And I'll be glued to this site like a crack addict in a crack store to absorb it all. Big announcements? Halo 3 is not really an announcement anymore, especially with the package deals with various soft drink manufacturers and Fox, but it'll be fun to see what's going on in Microsofts Vistas. Sony will... #12

This E3 is going to be pretty amazing, even with the smaller showing of developers and limited space. We are going to find out a lot more about Haze and the development of as-of-now secret titles for each system. The stuff to really talk about are the emerging first-party titles. A third party title is never a sure-fire deal, and exclusivity contracts are often timed in one way or the other. Once you look over the first party land into the world of third party trickery, you're playing with fi... #46

Spore is hanging in there
Each time I see videos of spore, like the 34 minute long demonstration by will wright you can find on youtube, I notice graphical improvements, and new implementations of emergent technologies. If Spore is indeed slated for 2009 release, it is likely to coincide with one or more technologies and trends that would truly facilitate its vastness. Spore will be worth waiting for, and the title is just too big (Robin Williams had a live demonstration of it for crying out loud)to be dismantled. Wil... #12