If there's one thing about E3 that makes me want to kill myself, it's sitting in the media room—perhaps working on an article or something like that—and listening to a group of other media discussing how they need to get more pictures of "Booth Babes". It's demeaning for everyone involved, and particularly frustrating when (as was recently the case) a female member of the group joins in with the casual misogyny. So in the aims of balancing out the imagery of E3, here are some nice shots from the show floor, courtesy of Vincent Diamante's Flickr stream.
Some dudes play New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The Nintendo booth kept a healthy amount of crowding across the event, though few players expressed much delight when playing this title—it was Wii Sports Resort where the most fun seemed to be had.
God of War III surprised me by possibly being the most popular game of the entire show. Sony were prepared, but there was a massive queue for this title despite it having twelve demo units and a comparatively short demo time. Despite my distaste for the gore, the gameplay is good, so I can see the draw for many.
In many cases though, while the show was sized comparably to the E3s of old, the attendance wasn't quite up there, so there were some fairly empty seeming stands even if they had their chokepoints. Square Enix's stand above was busy, but never felt crowded due to the simple fact it was insanely huge.
Some publishers might have known what to expect, such as Sony with God of War III, but some others were taken by surprise. Scribblenauts was placed in an absolutely awful location by its publisher, but thanks to strong word of mouth it was astonishingly overcrowded by the end of the show.
Outside of the convention center Ubisoft's Rabbids had buit a tower of refuse in celebration of their upcoming game Rabbids Go Home—and as part of their attempts to reach the moon, of course!
The supposed "Christian protestors" outside the convention center that were demonstrating about EA's upcoming adaptation of Dante's Inferno. Almost everyone agrees that it seemedlike a publicity stunt, but EA's PR swore to me that they had nothing to do with it. I don't really believe them, but I'd like to see something conclusive before I get annoyed about it.
An audience watch a video of... something at Microsoft's booth. There was a surprisingly high percentage of games at this E3 that were hands-off demonstrations only.
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