It WASN'T just about the games, it was a celebration of the Industry. As geeks, nerds, gamers, this was OUR week. But to say the game aspect was getting sidelined is bull. UT2007, BioShock, Gears of War, on and on and on. What do these have in common? Exclusive details released at E3. Not to mention all the new tech showcased. 20m for a booth? Best advertising dollars you could spend. Honestly, I read a headline about the new E3 AFTER it was over and thought "Didn't they get rid of E3?". I didn't even know it was freaking on this year! I too had wanted to attend but couldn't, now I'm heading to SIGGRAPH in Sand Diedo on August 4. The computer graphics special interest group anual convention is now officially more exciting than E3.. More exciting than an "Electronic ENTERTAINMENT Expo". That's just sad. Our week was stoled away:(

Umm.... That render looks horrible, and as others mentioned there is no new technology here. What kind of contest was this and why did they win?

As a side, if I go to a bar and drink myself to death is the bar responsible for my death? Legally, I would think so. But would it REALLY be their fault? I mean come on. If I died of alcohol poisoning from drinking too much at a bar, I wouldn't want my family to sue it. It would be my own damn fault, and were I still alive I'd be man enough to admit that.

Weather or not it's legal does not change the fact that you are responsible for your own actions, and IF she died of water intoxication(which I'm skeptical of anyway as she didn't even win...and I can point to plenty of coroner reports that were wrong) she did so of her own actions. I could care less of the legality of the matter.

This reminds me of an old adage... You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it. Well, they were holding a contest but they didn't make anyone drink water, nor did they make anybody drink more water than they thought they could handle. They simply provided water, and that's no crime. Tragic yes, but not their fault.

I won't buy either for a long time, HD DVD has a lack of support right now and I don't want to support Sony and their Bentley of a console.

In the scheme of things, this doesn't matter at all. As long as the rain forest are going to be completely axed, and they ARE going to be completely axed baring military intervention(which won't happen), these moves amount to nothing more than positive PR for the companies.

Aside from lense issues, that is approaching what the human eye can capture without moving your head.

What is the point in playing these games if you can't have a huge pile of $$$ when your winning? That's the whole point in playing monopoly, so you can sift through your bills to break change for people, loan them cash, and basically just flaunt your stash.

Don't know if anybody mentioned this but, as cool as this stuff is... you can't propel anything of significant mass to the speed of light. The energy requirments for exeleratoin approach infinity as you approach the speed of light. Also some current theories provide that as your spatial velocity increases the speed of your time progression decreases so that both are equiv to light speed. So if you somehow reached light speed spatialy, your time speed would have to be 0(which of course means you aint going nowhere and probably something bad would happen lol).