This E3 was particularly good, because the console war is in it's 3rd year. This meant games were looking and playing better than ever for the most part.

Jak3 showed very well, and it was great to see people ooing & awing over it. There were some great criticisms as well. We're going to polish this one quite a bit by the time we launch in November.

The Sony Party...

Me & Andrew Gilmour

Black Eyed Peas at the Sony Party.

Black Eyed Peas. (1 mb)

Missy Elliot

Missy Elliot again, 4th wardrobe change in 20 minutes.

Her stage presence is speaks for itself in this short clip. (1.6 mb)

Probably the 7th wardrobe change.

How you work it around the stage like this and remember your lyrics at the same time is beyond me. (5 mb)

Missy Elliot and her entire show were amazing.

The Crystal Method at the Sony Party.

The inevitable rise before the break-it-down part. (3 mb)

Their bass system felt like wind blowing past my pants.

Crowd (and Brian's) participation not a problem with The Crystal Method. (6 mb)

Special thanks to he members of The Black Eyed Peas, Missy Elliot and her performance staff, and Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method for the unauthorized use of their photos.

The main entrance to E3...if you lose the person you came with, it's best to just forget about finding them.

This is the heart of Sony headquarters. Three warring factions faced off again this year: Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.

One of the coolest things at E3 was the PSP, or PlayStation Portable. Here's some more info.

This movie shows the scale of the PSP a little better...

This year, it appeared Crash Bandicoot finally had to stoop to flanking himself with babes in order to get attention from an increasingly disenfranchised public. Here's an attendee participating in the unofficial E3 sport of pose-with-babe-pic-colleting.

Crash had some problems though, and needed to make an emergency trip back stage. Despite the efforts of security people to keep me away, I got to see him out of costume, and score this unauthorized pic of the guy inside. As you can see, he looks nothing like Crash.

Skate-boarding ambassador to the world, Tony Hawk was nice enough to pose, and talk about games a little bit. He was there promoting Activision's lineup.

There are girls everywhere at E3. Not girls who play games, but these girls. Here's Brian "asking for directions"...

Guys just walk up and take pictures of them. Sometimes they pose with their arms around them, sometimes they just shoot and walk away. Weird. There are whole websites devoted to this sport.

I decided to try it once to see what it was like. Later, I was horrified when I saw the picture, and the face this poor girl had to make every time another geek needed a pic with her.

Here I am about to get executed for being an imperial smart ass.

Partying with Spencer Lindsay at Balboa's on Sunset.

AAAAHGGG!

The Nintendo section was dominated by Game Boy Advance games. Nicole's trying her hand at The Sims.

Resident Evil 4 was the only impressive Gamecube title I saw, but I probably missed several others.

We had about 12 kiosks like this running the game.

Here I am freaking myself out playing Res Evil 4. This game has a way of making you physically back up when playing it.

Max Ancar from Sony Interactive... I used to work with him at Atari a loooong time ago.

Our friends, Jeff & Renee came to promote Renee's company, Eyerus Progoganda Kolektive.

Angie Pytlewski from Relic Studios -I like running into these types of former co-workers.

I don't know anything about race cars, but this car seemed pretty fast.

This Dwarf remained motionless the entire show as far as I could tell.

Working for Sony has it's perks, like this free bar. After a few hours of sensory-overload on the show floor, this guy's your best friend.

Here's Brian signing autographs for a crowd of horny young female fans. Not pictured: horny young female fans.

This is Adam from Australia (center). He's a huge fan of the San Francisco Rush series, and bestowed us with much flattery.