The Electronic Three is starting earlier than ever before. While E3 2017 is officially Tuesday through Thursday, the press conferences start with EA on Saturday. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past twenty-two years, you know that E3 is the biggest trade show for the video game industry. We're gonna see countless new trailers, demos, announcements, interviews, and live streams over the next week or so. What does that mean in relation to you and Giant Bomb? It means there's going to be a tidal wave of new threads created to talk about this stuff and almost as many wiki submissions for new games. But, if you follow these simple steps, you’ll survive the chaos.

A lot of what you'll see below should be utilized year-round, but especially during the insanity of E3.

Press Conferences

From Saturday afternoon through Tuesday morning, you are going to see threads dedicated to each press conference (EA, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo). These threads will be posted and stickied shortly before each press conference. They are the go-to place for any and all discussion for their respective press conferences before, during, and after the show is over. So, don't go posting a brand new thread each time someone new walks out on stage and says something dumb/funny/insane/amazing. Let's try to keep it all in one place.

Here's the details on when the shows are. For commentary by Giant Bomb staff, you'll want to be watching them streamed in chat. The "Local Time" link translate the time automatically to your local time.

EA Play 2017

• Saturday, June 10 @ 12 PM PDT - The Hollywood Palladium (Your Local Time)

Xbox E3 2017 Briefing

• Sunday, June 11 @ 2:00 PM PDT - Galen Center (Your Local Time)

The Bethesda E3 Showcase

• Sunday, June 11 @ 9:00 PM PDT - Dolby Theatre (Your Local Time)

Ubisoft E3 Media Briefing 2017

• Monday, June 12 @ 1:00 PM PDT - Orpheum Theater (Your Local Time)

PlayStation E3 Media Showcase

• Monday, June 12 @ 6:00 PM PDT - Shrine Auditorium (Your Local Time)

Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017

• Tuesday, June 13 @ 9:00 AM PDT (Your Local Time)

Individual Games

We know you want to talk about all these glorious new games that are about to get announced. But, there's no sense in fifty duders creating a new thread to talk about that thing that thing Phil Spencer just announced 18 seconds ago. And, in case you didn't know, every game in the Giant Bomb database has a forum attached to it. Tidy organization is built right in!

The idea here is to not clog up the General Discussion. Any thread that is about a specific game should be attached to that game's forum. If a moderator spots your thread about God of War's exclusive pre-order bonus in General, it's going to get moved, so help us out and just start by posting it where it should go.

E3 is fast and furious, so we know there are going to be duplicates, but help us out by taking a few seconds to check first. The dupes that get through will soon be locked anyway.

The Wiki

But, what if there's no page for the game I want to talk about?!

Well, the answer is pretty simple. Go ahead and make a page for it. Before you do, though, make doubly sure there's not already one created. We have a some hardcore wiki users that are going to be lightning quick on new stuff. Sometimes, when a new page is created, it takes a bit of time to show up in search. Here's a tip for you:

<< !!! THIS PAGE HAS THE MOST RECENTLY ADDED GAMES !!! >>

Even if someone submitted it three seconds ago, it's going to be there. So, use that instead of just checking the search bar. The mods will be monitoring the wiki queue like hawks trying to get the new stuff through as quickly as possible.

CitizenKane's Patented Bullet Points of Recapping

• An official, pinned thread for each of the six press conferences.
• Any topics about individual games should be placed inside their respective games' forums and NOT in General Discussion.
• Check for already existing threads about what you want to talk about.
• Topics not in the correct place will be moved by moderators immediately.
• Any user who continues to post such topics in GD will receive an official warning. So be cool.
• Follow these simple steps, and have fun. It's E3 time!

And That...

E3 is one of the most fun times of the year for anyone who loves games. It's fast. It's chaotic. It's sometimes ridiculous and/or hilarious. All of us here in the Giant Bomb community want to have a good time with all the news, announcements, trailers, and late-night podcasts. So, let's all do our part to keep things as organized as possible so everyone can find anything they're looking for during E3 2017.

Got questions? Feel free to post them here so that anyone else with the same/similar question can get helped at the same time.

Let's do this!

When is Jeff planning of broadcasting his drive via Mixlr?

Friday. I don't know what time. I'm sure he'll post on Twitter when it goes live.

@marino: Thanks!

Exciting times. Also, for those who are interested, this is when the PC Gaming Show is on.

@marino: I am always excited to see my patented bullet point lists used on Giant Bomb. I can't believe it's been 8 years since it started!

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, and I am not finding the answer, but will there be the "late night talk show" thing going on this year? Don't see anything about it on the schedule. I need the chaos that is GB E3 interviews.

Yes. Tuesday through Thursday evening.

To the mods: thank you thank you thank you for selecting my banner as a winner this year. Living in the blue zone in chat has been mind-blowing; I hope I did not get too chatty. I have no idea how I'm going to readjust to normal chatting again.

And as always you folks made chat a wonderful place to hang out for the weekend conferences and week of E3. You guys deserve so much credit for the community that's been built here at Giant Bomb that we all get to enjoy so much. You da real MVP. PEACE!