E3 2015: Wrap Up
Your second-string E3 team worked hard to cover everything that we thought you guys would want to see and hear about. We played a lot of games, we sat through
Your second-string E3 team worked hard to cover everything that we thought you guys would want to see and hear about. We played a lot of games, we sat through a lot of press conferences, we asked a lot of questions, and we took a lot of pictures.
Sunday
I arrive at LAX right at 8am on Sunday morning. I stash my luggage at the hotel, catch a little desayuno y cafe, and head over to the Los Angeles Convention Center to pick up my E3 press creds and wristband for the Sony press briefing. Tim isn’t due to arrive until about 3pm. I wander over to the Microsoft Theater, formerly the Nokia Theater, to catch the Nintendo World Championships. If watching Nintendo fanboys play ancient video games from 1988 is your thing, then you would have loved it. This was absolutely not my thing and I died a little inside just witnessing this sad spectacle. I left the theater, snapped three amazing pictures with my brand new smartphone, then promptly broke my phone. It’s going to be a long week.
Tim shows up with the rental car and gets all of his wristbands and name tags. We wander across the street where he demolishes a plate of chicken n waffles. The Lucky Strike has a rather interesting menu.
The convention is only sparsely populated, as the actual show hasn’t started yet and there’s a lot of setting up going on.
We head back to our hotel room to catch the Bethesda press conference. If that briefing was any indication of things to come this was going to be an epic week!
Monday
The Microsoft briefing was held at the Galen Center, on the USC Campus. This was an early morning kind of deal, but Tim and I were properly caffeinated.
The Sony press conference was held much later in the day at a sports coliseum. This one had food and beverages, so we filled up for free and headed inside. Security confiscates Tim’s contraband beverage.
Tuesday
I got up early and banged out the Ubisoft article, since Tim had written both the Microsoft and Sony articles the previous day. We didn’t have any particular place to be until noon, so we hit Hollywood for some souvenirs for the kids and some touristy shit.
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ChunkySoup eats a burger.
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Sarcasmo teabags Han Solo.
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Staking out the ghost-infested Hotel Roosevelt.
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In front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
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Tim shoots Dirty Harry.
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The King’s Caddy in LA LA Land.
Time to get back to the job at hand. We don’t have any appointments so we spread out and take in as much of the action on the floor that we can.
[View Image]Jones waits his turn to play the Forza 6 demo.
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A little car porn.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider drew some big crowds.
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Oh, you sexy bitch!
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The Activision booth had a playable COD: BLOPS 3 multiplayer demo.
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ChunkySoup made some new friends.
Tim tried several times to get on TV with Major Nelson.
This collector’s edition has the Vault Boy seal of approval.
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After the show, we head to Santa Monica to get our toes wet and eat some seafood on the pier.
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No swimming trunks needed: that water is cold as shit!
We could go no farther.
Wednesday
[View Image]Jones vs. the Revenant
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Making friends at the Bethesda booth.
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Mr. Handy tells a joke.
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Tim spent a lot of time in the Video Game Museum Exhibit.
[View Image]Beards and boobs.
Welcome To The Party, Pal!
Thursday
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I had a feeling that Tim was going to shoot the House of Intuition.
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Adios, Los Angeles...it was real.