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May 11, 2004

E3 2004: Welcome to the Show!

We’re here – live on the floor at E3! It’s really like a big summer camp reunion, seeing all our gaming press friends again (since they all live in San Francisco).

The show floor doesn’t actually open until tomorrow, but everyone’s at the convention center today, picking up their badges and hanging around the media room. Can we just say, we love WiFi?

We hit up the Sony and Nintendo press conferences, and saw some really cool stuff, especially on the hardware side. Sony is debuting their PSP handheld system in the first quarter of 2005. The system looks great, and the games seem to be almost PS2 quality.

The Nintendo DS look a lot like the Game Boy Advance, but it sports two screens, one on the base, one inside the lid. The showed off a few unique ways to use the two screens, and we’re very interested to see what developers do with it.

We’re off to the THQ and Vivendi Universal parties tonight, after a schmoozy boozefest for media peeps called E-Focus. Check back later for our drunken post-party ramblings…

Posted by gamegal at May 11, 2004 06:36 PM