The Game Trust at E3

So the Rock Band/Harmonix suite that Alex Rigopulos invited colleague Scott Alexander and me up to? (I’d mentioned it last week in a previous post.)

Last Tuesday night Evan Narcisse, Gus “Wonder Beard” Mastrapa,” along with Libe Goad and Robin Yang from AOL/Game Daily and Dan “Dr. Sideburns” Ackerman from CNET all reported to the Wilshire Grand and took the elevator up to the top floor. We listened for the muted sounds of someone warbling his way through “Black Hole Sun,” and knew the suite had to be close by.

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What did the Game Trust think of the biggest week in videogames? Tune in for their rants and raves about the biggest games — and the smaller size — of this year’s E3.

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So E3 2008 is finished. Some booths, sadly, began inexplicably shutting down early on Thursday afternoon, hours before the show was even officially over. It was as if some developers and publishers couldn’t flee the L.A. Convention Center fast enough. De-bug units were boxed up. Plugs were pulled on the plasmas. The coolers filled with Diet Pepsi were carted off.

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Dear Nintendo,

Thank you for inviting us to your press conference yesterday morning.

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One of my favorite things about E3, in addition to the Breakfast Burgers at Carl’s Jr., is the license I’m giving to “woo” as loud as I possibly can during the press conferences.

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