Gearbox Software Live From E3

O Photo Albums

I've put some of our photo albums from E3 up on the site!

-Ennui

O Best and worst of the show

E3 is a strange creature. Three days of sensory overload is too much, yet it's not nearly enough time to see and do everything the show has to offer.

I think the best booth goes to Nintendo. The booth itself was a work of art.

The most annoying booth goes to Webzen. They gave out annoying schwag (flashing necklaces, huge inflatable boogie boards), and had a very annoying chic yelling on their stage most of the time. The noise and schwag drew large crowds, and made manuevering past this booth a nightmare.

Everyone loves Sonic!

More shots of the Hell's Highway booth:

We were located right next to the Spore booth.


A shot of one of our re-inactors posing with Stella.


Mike and Randy sitting in the fuselage. I'm glad they're not real pilots since neither of them have their hands on the wheels. ^_^

We'll be posting many more photos soon to a public photo album for all to see. I took close to 500 pictures throughout the week... far too many to post on this blog site!

-Kaelina

O Home sweet home

Hey everyone, sorry we didn't update again on Friday - it became incredibly fast-paced. I hope everyone enjoyed our blog as much as we enjoyed sharing our experience with you as live as we could. Yesterday I got back home and crashed hard - what a week it was!

Anyway, we do indeed plan to collect up all the photos that were taken by our crew (probably some 300+) and post them in an album soon, hopefully on Monday. Don't forget to keep up with Gearbox antics on our forums, where you can always get a look into the culture of Gearbox! Thanks for reading and look out for me next year ;p

-Ennui

O Day 3: the End is Nigh

Well, it's the last day of E3. It has been a long week, but I have had a blast. This morning, we got up bright and early and got to the show as soon as it opened, hoping to get to see the Wii today. However, the line for the Wii was unbelievable, even just after the show opened this morning. We took some video of the line; walking quickly all the way down the immense line, the video ended up being four minutes long. We'll post it later so you can see why we abandoned hope.

We did, however, see the UT2K7 demo this morning, and it looks pretty awesome! I'm excited about it. So far some of the coolest things (other than our booth, which is obviously the best) that I have seen are the Spore demo, the Square-Enix stuff (FFIII remake for the DS? YES), and the SOE and WoW booths. I know I've missed stuff, there's so much to see here that it's unbelievable.

We'll get all our pictures up next week in an album, we've got hundreds of them so far.

Just wanted to check in with a quick morning update; we'll post once more before we go - the show ends early at 4pm today

We were nominated for Best of Show!

Mikey holding Stella - we've got some really cool pictures of the WWII paraphernalia that we'll post later!

We'll post again soon

-Ennui

O End of Day 2

Well, day two is almost at a close. Today we shot shakeycam from inside the booth... I'll let you drool over that and wonder about the demo. I'm not sure when we'll be able to get it out there, but it does exist now!

We mostly wandered the floor today, taking in more sights and damaging our eardrums from the loud sensory overload that is the E3 floor. We hit up Square Enix and many other booths and collected items

Tomorrow is that last day! Here are some more images for you!

Sora at Square Enix

Pac-Man at Namco booth

The Ubisoft booth dominating the floor - tons of "best of E3" in there

Sora at Square Enix

Crazy Xbox 360 demo units. There is so much cool/expensive stuff here

More later, we are very, very tired and achey!

-Ennui