E3 2005
I attended E3 in May of 2005 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Here are some pictures and captions documenting the experience.
 Brian Clevinger, of 8-Bit Theater, whom I hung out with for the week.
 Inside the convention center.
 Brian again. Elusive bastard, isn't he?
 Hallway.
 Outside.
 Ahh, there he is.
 The coolest stairs I have ever seen.
 Inside.
 In the EA area, they had this circular, panoramic screen playing demos. That was Burnout Revenge up there. You could turn around and see the destruction left behind.
 StarCraft Ghost Statue. Very cool.
 StarCraft Ghost multiplayer. Very fun. I had to stand in line a bit, but it was worth it.
 Blizzard's booth.
 Ubisoft and Prince of Persia 3.
 NCSoft and their gigantic screen and stage.
 Band and performers hosted by NCSoft.
 City of Villains.
 Brian playing City of Villains.
 Guild Wars.
 Soul Calibur 3. I played Tira, the chick with the bladed Hula-hoop. Brian was Mitsurugi.
 Namco booth.
 The new Katamari. So much fun.
 More Katamari.
 Guys dressed up to promote a Korean RPG called SUN.
 Self explanatory. Square-Enix theater.
 The 360.
 Phantasy Star Universe.
 A sniper game.
 The Expo.
 Outside Microsoft set up a tent and was giving gamers free hot dogs and soda.
 Inside the Microsoft tent, playing games like FEAR.
 The LA Convention Center.
 The Tumbler, the New Batmobile.
 Mountain Dew truck, parked outside all week, giving away free soda and game swag.
 Age of Empires ad outside.
 Mortal Kombat.
 Nintendo booth.
 The new Zelda title revealed.
 Incredible Hulk, one of my favorite games of the show.
 GameBoy Mini. Too fucking small.
 Kingdom Hearts 2. The only game they stopped me from photographing. See that dude's hand coming at me from the left? I got one shot off, sucker.
 Sony Booth. Now there is a handheld gaming system.
 Sony Booth. PSP's everywhere.
 Burnout Revenge.
 Burnout Revenge.
 Burnout Revenge.
 More Burnout Revenge. It's an awesome game.
 Wizards of the Coast had giant lit up Magic cards around.
 Age of Conan.
 Cool little PSP peripheral with a built in battery, stand and speakers to watch movies and such.
 SOCOM3 tournaments.
 Fatal Fram3 3.
 Fatal Frame 3.
 Nintendo.
 The Expo.
 Microsoft/Xbox area.
 From an Xbox 360 promotional video. They told us we could take still pictures but no video. I recorded it anyway.
 The lobby.
 Goofing around with the camera.
 LA freeway?
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