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Hmm... This is quite a confident showing but a lot of it is not good. They've shown some of the third party stuff the Wii U is getting (Mass Effect 3 for instance) and a more heavy look at Arkham City... and Arkham, dunno if it was just me, looked worse than the 360 version and the Wii U additions were gimmicky as ****. New New Super Mario Bros game is coming. Looked alright if thats your thing. 3DS has got given 3 minutes to show off its own new New Mario Bros game ('It's completely different to the others!'. No it isn't. No it isn't at all). The Luigis Mansion game we knew about already and a new Paper Mario. Nintendo need to blow it out of the park, fast. This just isn't exciting me.

Straight in with Pimin. Using it to demonstrate how the Wii U makes gaming better, really. It's quite pretty but the Nintendo art style makes it hard to judge the actually oomph behind it.

Nintendo in 15 minutes. Likely to be a highlight of the show either for pure quality or pure failure. I'm really intrigued to see what the Wii U is actually capable of, the smart money seems to suggest it being a little ahead of the current gen but not some generational leap forward.

I still haven't gotten round to it. Probably won't for a while if I'm honest. I don't know anyone who has the DVD/Bluray, I don't think it's had a TV premiere yet (on Film4/terrestrial), and I exceptionally rarely follow the other avenues for anything these days. I do really want to see it though. I just can't justify getting it myself, especially with no money coming in just yet... ...Perhaps I'll buy it on my first payslip at a new job? Haha.

I've... appreciated... Carey since she appeared in that Dr. Who episode. I don't even watch Dr. Who, it's the only one I've seen. Excellent luck on my part, as I now look out for everything she's in, even if I don't get round to watching it soon enough. I loved her in 'An Education', but I really, really like her in Drive. She doesn't even do much. But... she's there damnit and she's hot. Crawl through fire levels for me.

I've never read the book, and it's got Luhrman all over it, and it's being shot in 3d for reasons known not to man, so... ugh... but it has Carey in it. I'll see it. Sometime. And have this look on my face every moment Carey is on screen

I've not seen it yet (possibly tonight, possibly tomorrow...) but I've seen a couple of places have people draw parallels with the Phantom Menace and see raw reactions to those comments, even from people that themselves disliked the film, say that that is a mental reaction, so I'm inclined to agree with hogso here, it seems like someone saying that is turning up the hyperbole.

Make a quote box and then colour the text inside it white. And where you'd normally put whoever you were quoting, just whack 'Spoilers' between the quotations. Edit - so like this

I recommend checking out Star Wars 1313. I don't give a damn about Star Wars so the setting isn't swaying me here... but it looks amazing. Unfortunately it also appears to be Uncharted Star Wars Edition but you can't have everything I guess. Running on high end PC for the demo, which explains how pretty it all is, again I'd be tempted to say that the 360 cannot handle that level of detail whatsoever. Thats a game with some production values. It's got production value all over it. Nice.

No. It's got elements of Uncharted, the climbing stuff and interacting with the environment, but it's less Indiana Jones and more 'The Road', survival gameplay, 2 or 3 enemies being a genuine 'could easily be killed here' encounter as opposed to Uncharteds run around with 20 guys shooting you and spraying bullets all over the shop.

I expected more Vita stuff from Sony to be honest. The Sony conference wasn't as good as many hoped imo. The new David Cage thing had people actively laughing in the audience, and thats not a good sign for a game maker as want to do pretentious twaddle as Cage. God of War, again, tired franchise doing nothing, nothing new at all. The Super Smash Brothers rip off looks like exactly what you'd get if you took SSB, and photocopied it, took all the charm out, and pasted in tired Sony characters nobody gives a **** about. The AC3 section... well, I've seen AC3 now, and that wasn't a good section of that game, new or not. And the Far Cry 3 thing looked rough as hell. Wonderbook stuff I genuinely had to wonder if anyone at any point, sat down and said 'Wait... this is **** shit, forget this'. Because thats exactly what they should have done - Move is deader than dead, and this thing is just painful bollocks. The Last of Us saved them a little, looked incredible and looked, ultimately, just different. A little. Nintendo don't even need to knock it out of the park today to blow everyone away, even Ubisoft with all their interesting stuff is a fairly easy beat imo. Interestingly apparently Nintendo are doing 2 conferences this week, one traditional conference and one with a complete game focus, so the could hit it out of the park twice. I'm still not convinced by the Wii U so I'll watch with interest.

The best thing shown by Sony by a mile.

Sony just unveiled a complete car crash - the Wonderbook. AR books using Move tech. They've also chucked enough money at Rowling to get her to sign up to it. It's hideous. Terrible. Absolutely vile.

More good E3 music, Bat for Lashes. Sony conference thus far hasn't blown me away. It's not Microsoft bad but nothing awesome.

Indeed. Looks too good for 360 to me - that was either running on a top of the line PC and polished to ****, or Ubi just gave us a crafty look at what next gen can do - thats beyond what the 360 can do imo, unless Ubisoft just managed to make the Xbox turbocharged with dev wizardry. EDIT - apparently that was a PC run demo, not really surprising, but the game is being developed for PS3 and 360... which means that it won't look anything like that come launch if you're on console. Still, the looks aren't all that sold me that, it's an interesting concept. And new!

Watch Dogs Honestly, watch that. Even if the concept does nothing for you, it's just beautiful looking. Fantastic. If that can manage to have things like the traffic light switching to catch the guy in a car crash be more fluid and less like a set piece... well... incredible. See, new IP and people love it!

EA will have thrown money at the UFC. THQ get another kick in their rapidly shrinking balls. Back to the game Ubi rounded out with - Honestly, thats looking like game of the show stuff. It looked... well it looked gorgeous. And it seemed to be like the old PC game Uplink crossed with GTA crossed with Assassins Creed. Your character seems able to hack and so on at will - the demo opened up a mission that, in something like GTA/AC would be an assassination, sneak your way into a club, find some guy, etc etc. But it played out a little differently to that. He uses his phone to cause a distraction at the door to an art gallery, for example. I was almsot sad it turned a bit cover shooter at the end, if I'm honest... but wow. Absolutely intrigued. And I cannot get over how good it looked.

Dana White appeared on stage and seemed quite happy about the whole deal. We can only assume that the thing Dana White likes more than burly men knocking 7 bells out of each other, is filthy lucre. Ubisoft are currently showing off what I can only assume is the big new IP people rumoured. Started off with a pretentious scene setter/background concept video but now it's got going with gameplay it's kinda cool - lots of conspiracy hacker stuff, obviously got some AC tech underneath, but looks cool as hell. Actually as I type that it's turned into a cover shooter. Oh well. Looks interesting regardless... Watchdogs seems to be the title. Thats the most interesting thing of E3 so far. Ubisoft, in winning E3 Day One shocker.

I wanted to like Paradise but never got on with it. Sony will chuck Vita stuff off like no-ones business, because they need to, will give bigger looks at the Last of Us and few other new titles, and then are almost certainly announcing some sort of deal with a cloud gaming company. Don't expect anything crazy. I've watched a bit of the Ubisoft conference and they've pushed a fair bit of Wii U stuff, and haven't done badly actually. They obviously had a big thing on AC3, which appears to a be redcoat murder simulator - I'm still not sure about it. A lot of people seem totally sold, it has questions for me still. I'm beginning to think the series can't win me round, I loved it but then it stagnated fast and all I can do now is look at it and see all it's flaws, flaws that seem to remain present in this game. But then I don't want to lose the things that signified it as a good game. Catch-22.

Ubisoft up next and I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch it... it's usually mental. Assassins Creed 3 and a new Rayman are certs, and theres word doing the rounds they've got something we don't know about to show off so might be worth a look. Maybe.

Crysis 3 is very pretty and a bit different from your usual modern military shooter, but what they showed off really doesn't show off anything like what they've been saying, that it's a return to the more open fluid shooting of the first game. That section was nothing more than a very well produced corridor shooter.

NFS:MW is to be an 'open world' racer... Hmm, Burnout Paradise meets Hot Pursuit then? Looks very pretty but I never got on with Paradise's open world thing, I hated having to guess at routes.

And they've bought the UFC licence.

FIFA confirmed as an offence year.

SW:TOR - DON'T MENTION THE HIDEOUS LOSS OF USERS! It's all good! And Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Yawn. It's not possible for a modern military shooter to look exciting any more. I dunno why they're doing such a lengthy demo - no-one cares and everyone in the audience could describe the game to within spitting distance of what it really is with ease.