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E3 was held last week. You know what that is. Probably. If you don't, it's basically the world's biggest (or at least one of the biggest) video and computer gaming convention. Essentially, it's for the companies to show off their latest products with a splash of dick measuring thrown in for good measure.

Now, every single blog on the Internet has done a post about E3. Somewhat understandably. I felt like doing one too, but I thought that would be surplus to requirements. Not least because I'm, ahem, a week late. 

But unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything original.

D'oh.

So instead, here's a few things that I loved and what I hated about E3 '09

LOVED:

Microsoft. In general. Their press conference was really interesting and showed off a lot of reasons to be excited. Project Natal is the biggest, of course. If it works, it'll be amazing, if it doesn't, it'll just be an EyeToy, like what Sony made about half a decade ago, like. So not that good. Personally, though, as a massive Rock Band fan and a liker of The Beatles, my favourite announcement was The Beatles: Rock Band. Well, reveal, I suppose, given that everyone's known about it for months. It does look amazingly good though, and I can't wait to spend tons of money to pretend to be George Harrison.

Golden Sun 3. I'm not the world's greatest fan of JRPGs, but the two Golden Sun games on the GBA were damned good. Hopefully the new one can replicate the success.

HATED:

Nintendo. And Sony, actually. This makes me sound like a Microsoft fanboy. Believe me, I'm not. I own all three of this generation's consoles and play them all a fair bit. And God knows I was something of a Nintendo fanboy 'back in the day', actually. But seriously guys? Boring conferences. Nintendo's was an improvement over last year's, but a chimp playing the bongos could have been an improvement. Actually, they should make a new Donkey Konga just so they can pull off that publicity stunt. And even then, they'd still be flogging a dead horse. Mario Galaxy is over-rated, they still put far too much influence on Mario as a rule of thumb...they just seem stuck in a rut. Admittedly a rut that's making them a metric fuckton of cash though. Sony's was...OK but nothing special. PSP Go is big, I guess, and arguably could be more crucial to the future of gaming than Natal. I mean, if it pays off it could lead the way for an entirely digitally distributed future. But if it doesn't, we might have discs around for a while yet. Everything else was crummy, except for impressive demoes of MAG and Uncharted 2.

Everything Else. In general, I thought it was a really bad show this year. It's good that it's still around, and no doubt I'll be very excited when it comes round again next year but...I can't help but think the companies might be better doing an Apple, and announcing stuff at various times around the year. I know to an extent they do that already, but to a greater degree. I dunno. 

So that's it. I'll maybe try and be more original next year!