I have little faith in Nntendo at the moment so I'm hoping for this years E3 to prove me wrong!

You know, all I really fucking want out of Konami EVERY YEAR since is another Suikoden game.

I really want some more info on the new Tomb Raider, that could be a fantastic game...

Wondering if Valve will have something disappointing like Portal 2 DLC or L4D3 reveal
Or something that will blow us away, like another piece of Episode 3 concept art. OHHH

Probably DOTA2

I want to see more on XCOM, Metal Gear Rising, Bioshock Infinite, and Agent.  Some info on Asura's Wrath would be sweet too.

I want to be there so badly. Rockstar probably has an announcement, also 2K HAS to do something with X-COM. Doesn't it?

Where's Agent Sony and Rockstar!?!?

You want answers.

I want the truth.

You can't handle the truth.

I'm looking forward to being surprised. Should be an interesting E3.

Show me: SKYRIM

I'm not too worried about Mass Effect 3 despite almost despising Dragon Age 2.  The main reason is that they are completely different development teams.  The second reason is that Mass Effect has always been a shooter and RPG hybrid, so you can't really "dumb it down" that much.  Dragon Age started as a hardcore old-school CRPG and then turned into simpleton theater.

mechwarrior 5

My guess for Microsoft we will see MW3, Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite (I believe Microsoft will get some time exclusive DLC for each)  and the grand surprise would be the reveal for the GTA game at the end (with time exclusive DLC).

Or something that will blow us away, like another piece of Episode 3 concept art.

Then just after he leaves the stage a picture comes up on the screen of a new DotA2 character that has a crowbar and beside it a picture of this, and everyone goes from immense cheers to just a weeping mess.

If the fucking xbox gets Skyrim DLC before the PC I will murder someone.

Out of everything listed in this article, I think Burnout is the only part I care about. It's not like I'm gonna get a PSP ever haha

@AlexW00d said:

If the fucking xbox gets Skyrim DLC before the PC I will murder someone.

Sharpen your knife then ... because IF they do Skyrim DLC for the xbox, chances are it wont come to PC at all, let alone at the same time.

Personally I hope we hear something about Timesplitters 4. Also lets lock down some release dates for big hitters on the 3DS, the price is getting cheaper and cheaper and I just need a few decent games and I will buy the damn thing. I have been dipping back into some DS and GBA classics as it is. I also want to see some gameplay for DMC and obviously the biggest news of the show is whatever Nintendo's console ends up being.

Cant wait for e3!

Awesome Job, Jeff! I love these introspective pieces. It gets my imagination cooking toward the exciting future.

Borderlands 2 and Dark Souls is the only info I care about coming out of E3.

Nothing about Skyrim? WTF

Seems like there is more mystery this year and less known quantities. Which makes for a potentially more surprising E3.

Yeah Rockstar what ever happened to Agent? That was a Rockstar North joint so i have pretty high hopes for that one. What better way for all of us to forget about the whole PSN thing, then showing some gameplay of that? 

Nothing about Skyrim? WTF

A great food for thought article :)

Can I has Metal Gear Solid 5 announcement please?

I really hope that Criterion is working on a new Road Rash. C'mon, we're due! Plus they already proved they could do bikes in Burnout Paradise. 

Nice article! I can't believe e3 is almost here again, already. Sort of.
Maybe it's still a bit early. But this was a clever way of dealing with the whole embargo-related speculation paradox.
Anyway, now I'm all excited with like a month left to wait. So way to go, jerks

I can confirm that X-Com is still in development.

I just hope my Internet's fixed by then so I won't miss the livestreamed Pressconferences, that would be a bummer.

GTA 5 will nuke it.

Back to Vice...

Valve said between something like Oct 2010 and Oct 2011 they would announce three things and that they would very much surprise us. So far only one of the three is out of the bag: DOTA 2. E3 seems like a great place to drop at least one of the others on us.

Nintendo's console news is going to be a pretty big deal. But I think I'm more interested in how Sony handles the whole PSN thing.

Too bad I won't be able to watch any video this year. If I do manage to get Flash installed properly, I still won't get any sound. And then I'll likely run out of memory, reboot my computert, and I'll have to install Flash again. No, I'll have to rely on liveblogs to give me what I need.

I'd like to know what Rare is working on these days, other than Kinect Sports 2.  In my perfect world, it would be more Viva Pinata, with Kinect enabled romance dance mini-games.

YEAH FUCK THE LAKERS!

Battlefield 3 anyone?

While looking for a job I've seen several games mentioned in job postings, but they've been pretty easy guesses when you consider what they're known for doing.  Basically, more of the same with a bigger number at the end.

Prediction:

@Mezmeranto That's a different game.

I'm hoping for a microsoft surprise like a console or handheld or some new thing, cause sony's got NGP and wii's got this new console and they don't want to be left behind right? oh and wanna see some more battlefield 3 and other PC games, ohoh and I wanna see some star wars old republic gameplay, I'm hoping it won't suck.

                Nothing about Skyrim? WTF
           

Jeff and the GB crew have often mentioned on many occasions that RPG demos generally don't come off too well as you're often not given any real context about where you are in the game, you haven't had time to build up an affection for the game, it's enviroment or characters and also you don't have any perspective on in-game scale in such a short demo time.

As well as this we already have tonnes of information on Skyrim that I personally don't want to read so I know next to nothing about the game when I stick it in on it's release date, other than that it isn't as clunky as the last game/clunky at all this time around.

The voice-overs are actually good and not recycled lines for a group of people to be recorded saying and the faces look more like real faces and not "everybody-looks-exactly-the-same-land."

Oh and most important of all that the story is good without knowing what is in the story myself, if that's even possible.

Being an RPG fan I would've thought that you may be better off knowing as little as possible about the game as you can manage.

MW3 will be fine.  How hard can it be for a competent studio (or three) to put out one of those games at this point?  They aren't going to do anything groundbreaking, but then they probably don't need to until somebody else forces their hand.

What's the over/under on EA announcing Battlefield 3's release date as a week before MW3's?  I think that, if anything, is what will cause CoD to drop a few million sales.  CoD has sold crazy numbers in recent years, but it helped that the rest of the industry kept crying off out of the way.

Mass Effect 3 will turn out fine.  DA2 was a mess because they tried to morph it into a totally different franchise in about 15 months.

We have to see some AC: Revelations. I reckon we also see Far Cry 3 and GTA.

Last Guardian is going to get a date. 

Well I'm looking forward to going to E3 myself.  The only question is which day?  I only get ONE day and most likely Tuesday or Wednesday so which day do I go?

I'm probably going to look at smaller developers and see what I can see but I think it'd be sweet to bump into the GIant bomb guys.  (Though I'm sure they'll be a blur zipping by intead of able to talk. :) )

I want answers.

I'm not expecting Valve to announce Half-Life 3. With full Steam support and cross platform play for every system, including Wii2 and NGP.

I hope Ryan takes good control over the Bombcasts this year...