The last major company to present at E3 was Sony. I should really point out before starting the rundown of the Sony Press Conference is that I ahve already covered the Microsoft and Nintendo conferences and they should be below this entry so please look at them and tell me what you think.

Sont had a very flashy opening, which really kind of set the tone for the entire presentation, lots of flashy things and no real content. It did look very nice and was obviously well rehearsed and vey well presented but there wasn't anything new shown, well they did show Resistance Retribution for PSP which no one had known about, but they really did not show very much at all. We all know Resistance 2 is coming and we all know it looks awesome, come on Sony, Microsoft came up with a huge announcement, surely you must have something, right?

One of the highlights of the Sony presentation was how they showed the boring sales figures. All the numbery stuff is usually the really tedious dull bit but showing it in LittleBigPlanet was a work of genius and really showed the creative nature of LittleBigPlanet and was a good way to build up the hype for that game.

One thing that really bugged be about the whole presentation was they did spend a bunch of time looking back to the history of PlayStation, Ok we know all about PlayStation by now you've been around for almost 15 years now and seems as E3 is all about NEW games why do we really need to focus like half an hour purely on the PlayStation 2, we know you like to support console till waaay into the next interations lifespan but to be honest most of us are looking towards the future of PlayStation 3 as there is serious competition coming for microsoft with the xbox 360 so how does focusing on a console that has already dominated and sales are starting to die down. Overall I feel that Sony's was possibly the best conference overall but still lacked any huge big WTF moment like Microsoft, so although MS really stole the show with FF13, Sony overall had the best press conference.

Well after Microsoft had their huge announcement Nintendo had the unenviable task of following it up, so surely Nintendo should show something incredible and mindblowing, right?

First of all who the hell is this Cammy person? I took an instant dislike, partly because of her voice, but also because of the feeling i got from her that she doesn't actually play the games, doesn't care for the games and has simply been given the book 'patronising girly games for girls' and doesn't understand that girls don't always want games based around ribbons and unicorns. Her whole patronising demeanour came out throughout the conference, it's as if she was talking to a bunch of children. Anyway enough talking about the wicked witch of the west.

I was moderately pleased to hear Nintendo talking, at the beginning of the conference to acknowledge the veteran gamer. This sounds like a good step towards having some more 'hardcore' gamer titles and a move away from just the casual almost gaming 'fad'. I was pretty hopeful, maybe too hopeful as throughout the conference we got teated to such delights(i use the term lightly) of Animal Crossing Wii, Wii Sports Resort and a new Guitar Hero DS. Not exactly what I'd call hardcore game, actually I'd go as far as to call these game pretty damn casual. The most hardcore game they had was GTA on the DS, which was mentioned in passing once, as if they're ashamed to be having a proper game on their console.

And we've been introduced to some new hardware. I'm sure by now if you've been getting all the various add ons to the Wii you must have a really cluttered room by now. We've got Wii Remote, Nuchuck, ****c controller, Wii Zapper, Wii Wheel, Wii balance board as well as a bunch of third party stuff like the guitar hero controllers and Rock Band controllers. This all begs the question that of the Wii Remote was supposed to be this excellent multipurpose controller, so why do they keep bringing out addons? Theres a Wii Motion Plus, which just adds better motion sensing capabilities, so if you think about it it's just adding some feature that really should have been there already but wasn't due to incompetence. So why should we have to pay for their incompetance?

Right the big 3 have all had their say at E3, so I guess it's time for everyone to pitch in with what they thought about it. I might as well do them in order that they were presented so here goes with a E3 conferences reviews.

Microsoft- Microsoft kicked off (after a little chat) showing some game footage. Things such as Fallout 3, which looks incredible, Fable 2, which also looks incredible and then Gears of War 2. I may get flamed for saying this but it is my opinion that gears of war has pretty much ruined any shooting game this generation. Don't get me wrong it's a very good game, but given the (little)amount of creativity other studios have they have all jumped to copy this game in every way possible and generally leaving all current gen shooters looking very brown. But that aside the game is a pretty solid shooter, nothing to wet yourself over.

I noticed througout the microsoft presentation that they have wholehearted taken up the idea of casual games (or jumped on the nintendo bandwagon) and also catered to this crowd and the whole online identity with their mii, erm, I mean avatar system (nintendo? bandwagon? anyone?) and the new user interface *cough*XMB*cough* microsoft really have taken to create a new innovative and totally derivative update this autumn.

However, that said at the end of the press conference was something that completely blew me away, Final Fantasy 13. I love final fantasy and to be honest it's pretty much THE reason I decided upon a PS3 over 360 and there it is going multiplat. I could have saved around £100 getting a 360, thats £100 worth of sweets (or 360 repairs) well seems as I'm probably not trading my console I guess Sony already have me but I'm getting a little disgruntled with how efficiently they carry out their customers wishes (only took 2years to get in game xmb and trophies as opposed to those xboxers who had it on day 1)

I have had an impossibly fun day. Spent today in Doncaster trawling around town with a stack of CV's looking for a job. Damn I hate trying to get a job but I really need the money. Oh well it wasn't all that bad whilst I was in town I managed to pick up a couple of games for PS1 as well as getting Uncharted: Drakes Fortune again. It is an awesome game that I just didn't spend enough time with last time round so I'm looking forward to going through it again but i haven't started yet as Sony have put up firmware 2.41 and Naughty Dog have promised trophy support some time during the future, so I might hold off playing through again whilst unlocking a bunch of PSN trophies. I'm not an achievement whore honest.

Anyway I might cut this short as I'm really really tired as I didn't get too much sleep last night and I've been trawling around town all day and I really need some sleep.

After a while sorting out myself and my personal life I have returned to GameSpot. Partly out of boredom and also prompted by the release of PS3 Firmware 2.40 and me finally getting a copy of CoD4. Anyway, I might as well tell you what you all already know and that it is awesome. Hope they will put trophies in sometime, but that doesn't seem likely. I was hoping to come back with a video blog but for some reason my webcam wasn't picking up sound so I can't really do that. Anyway, during my time away I've basically been doing a while bunch of college work but as tomorrow is my last day then I'll have a whole bunch of free time.

Recently I have been playing CoD4 obviously as well as lost planet: extreme condition as I saw it fairly cheap at the shops and decided to pick it up. My 100% GTA4 mission continues and I'm currently upto 87% so I'm not too far off now but I'm kinda hestitant to do the last push now as with the release of trophies and considering that GTA4 is a big title they are fairly likely to include trophies and if they're not retroactive then I am simply NOT 100%ing the game twice so I'll wait until trophies are either released or rockstar simply says they're not bothrering before I get that elusive 100% mark.

Also been playing Super Stardust HD which is a pretty fun and addictive game so I'm pretty pleased with that £5 purchase, I'm definately going for a bunch of trophies in there as they have already been added.

Anyway, thats my blog for the moment and hello everyone, I'm back!

I'm sorry to have to say this but due to the actions of some gamespot users I will be going on an indefinte break from GameSpot. It seems that I have lost all faith in some of the people who visit this website after questions about my personal life arose and caused me huge offense and caused a major depressive episode (for those who are unaware I am a dignosed manic depressive) so I will not be around for a while, dont know how long, could be weeks, could be months. Most of you have been great but there is a minority of users who spoil things for the rest of us here. So I'm handing over leadership of my union to tofu-lion (although I will remain as the official leader just in case I do feel the need to come back) and all union work is suspended.

Sad to be going. Hopefully I'll see you later.