E3 Coverage

With unprecedented access to this year's E3, the Gamers With Jobs crew has managed to write over 22,000 words dedicated to bringing you the most honest coverage possible of over 70 games. Behind closed doors, surrounded by mobs of fans or guarded by jealous PR people, it didn't matter. We brought the coverage hard this year and we're proud to bring you our complete list which is now alphabetized and edited with screenshots galore throughout. Enjoy!

Pics From The Show

The line for the Wii was made even more awesome with people on TV screens to chat with. This particular fellow does a lot of voices for Nintendo games.

With E3 now behind us, we have a moment to reflect back on the chaos and remember the good times. Beating Elysium at Madden for the third year in a row, getting buzzed at Microsoft's community night and even our hot date with GameGuru on Tuesday. All sorts of pictures from the show await you!

E3 Day Three

We're closing on the final day of E3 and everybody is trying to get everything wrapped up before they kick us out the door. One of the hallmarks of this show has been the amazing amount of great games on display here. I've literally spent hours just looking at interesting stuff I randomly spied while walking the floor. Last year we spent the majority of the show looking for something suprising and interesting, which we didn't find until the final day with Oblivion. This year, I'm having a hard time keeping track of all the really suprising games I've played. The "booth babe rule" has actually had an effect as well, with a much more subdued and professional looking E3. As professional as you can get with a giant statue of Sonic the Hedgehog in the middle of the hall, anyway.

Updated Saturday with info on NVIDIA and Havok Physics, Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade, Company of Heroes, Lucasarts Euphoria and Molecular Modeled Physics, Lego Star Wars II, Haze, Command & Conquer 3, Bioshock, The Darkness, World Tour Poker, Dark Messiah, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Chrome Hounds, Army of 2, Star Trek: Legacy, Crysis, Star Wars Empire At War: Forces of Corruption, The Witcher, Unreal Tournament 2007, John Woo's Stranglehold, Okami, Heavenly Sword, Deep Labyrinth, and Contact.

E3 Day Two

I have two minutes before I need to run off to my next appointment. We're all just utterly swampped with games we need to write about, but getting a spare 30 minutes is a lot tougher this year with all of the appointment we have. Yesterday I saw one game on the show floor, the rest were behind closed doors. Insane! So, welcome to day two! Lots more to come.

Even More Late Night Updates: Saint's Row, Madden 2007, Crackdown, Too Human, Guild Wars (new campaign), Tabula Rasa, Dungeon Runners, ExSteel, Soccer Fury, Viva Pinata, Paraworld, Mercenaries 2, Gears of War, Mass Effect, Dead Rising, Neverwinter Nights 2, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, NHL 2K7, Gothic 3, Age of Conan, Table Tennis, Ninety-Nine Nights, Genji, and Resistance.

E3 Day One

I figured a ton of content probably warranted a new intro, so here it is. The first few hours of the show have been a flurry of trying to put our hands on the long awaited games that have entertained and piqued our vulnerable notions for weeks and months. As always there was much to see, and a blitz of attention grabbing sights and sounds ... and yet, this year's E3 seems somehow more subdued. That's a good thing, because there just seems to be a sense of bringing it all back to putting the games in our hands and letting us play. Far fewer booth babes, a lot less of the grandstanding and firing t-shirts out of cannons, and a lot more of people with controllers and mouse in hand. That, my friends, is how it should be.

While we've given you a glimpse at the things we've seen, there's so much more to tell. Microsoft seems to be determined to give the rich PC gaming landscape the respect it deserves and is positioning itself to act as the PC champion. Imagine a world where you walk into a place that sells videogames, and again there is significant space dedicated to PC games. That seems to be Peter Moore's new vision, and we'll ask him all about it tonight. Find our updated list of games covered below, and expect more later on 360 titles like Too Human (awesome), Crackdown (better than I thought), and Madden (Pretty Much The Same).

Updated with: Call of Juarez, Hellgate: London, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Supreme Commander, Nintendo Wii, Ping Pong Wii, Golf Wii, Red Steel, Mario Galaxies, Excite Truck, Battlefield 2142, Spore, Prey, Lord of the Rings Online, World in Conflict, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

E3 Day Zero - Travelogue

As I write this E3 is beginning its short but spectacular neon burn in Los Angeles as Nintendo fans get their first meaningful glimpse of the Wii in action. I, however, sit at Gate C12, the waxing agricultural midwest sun streaming through the window and warming the base of my neck, waiting for Certis to arrive from points exotic and unknown; as far from E3 in every conceivable way as is possible without becoming Amish. There is always this strange moment when he arrives and we shake hands that is quickly realized and then dismissed where Certis and I take corporeal bodies and interact on this mortal plane, and it is a moment I'm anxious to reach and complete, but in the meantime I must wait and bide my time. The promise of a four-hour flight, wedged into Coach, looms.

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