After yesterdays Microsoft E3 Media Briefing, all the attendees were directed across the street to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
As I exited Grumman's Chineses Theater, I bumped into my close personal friend Geoff Keighley, taping a segment for G4TV. I helped him out by making the appropriate peace sign behind his head and yelling, "Were number one!!"
Once inside the hotel, fearing for their very jobs, diligent gaming journalists get right to work updating the interweb with all the gaming goodness they had just witnessed.
The rest of us slackers said poo to that and headed out to the pool for some inter species mingling and indulging in fine sprits and hors d’oeuvres.
I recognized quite a few game developers and the like but did not chase them down with my camera this time. I caught Frank O'Conner chatting it up with his fellow bungieite Marty O'Donnell, award wining Halo composer. Microsoft’s Major Nelson was running around videotaping interviews. Pictured is Greg Zeschuk of Bioware in the striped shirt.
Around the pool set-up in bungalow suites, Microsoft had all of their games available for demo by the various developers, like a mini E3. After a raucous pillow fight, which Xbox Nerds won by the way, we get a low down on Real Time Worlds, Crackdown.
Showing off Microsoft’s new ‘Live Anywhere’ feature, FASA Interactive had both PC and Xbox 360 playing nicely together in a Shadowrun frag fest. Also on hand were non-working mock-up's of the new wireless racing wheel, video camera and HD-DVD drive. Inside the hotel there was a whole lot more going on but I did not get any pictures, sorry. Microsoft definitely did it up right, a great way to kick off E3.
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