Thursday Rant

E3 is usually the time of year for big game announcements, booth babes with bouncing babylons and exciting developments.

What I witnessed this year was none of these things. It may have well been a sketchy game expo put on in Adelaide by university students. It was just all the game companies releasing new screen shots (some videos too) of games we already new were coming out. They didn’t even tell us when they were coming out!

Then there was the normal drivel about how well each company is doing, and to be honest, who gives a flying monkey testicle what their sales margins are? I sure as hell don’t. I just want to see some groundbreaking game technology or some new fandangle fps game that is better than Bioshock, Halo, COD and Quake put together.

There was no Bungie announcements so we didn’t get to find out about their new secret game or that stupid janitor avatar that popped up on Xbox Live.

I have a friend who is a PS3 nut who tells me that Playstation had a “behind closed doors” announcement for the press about some new uber game that is meant to change the shape of things to come. Now tell me, what the hell is the point in that. Why have a closed doors preview for press when they cannot even comment on it? Why not just show us? I will tell you why, because the game is a steaming pile of rhinoceros poo and Sony are just spinning their stupid hype wheel again. Damn that rat must be running fast.

E3 is meant to be, as I said a god damn spectacle. The Golden Globes of the gaming industry. This years was more like a TV week readers choice craptacular.