“Only Jesus can save your soul!”

Or so the energetic fundamentalist standing on the street corner outside of the LA Convention Center boomed, hectoring the crowd of journalists, buyers, and industry luminaries leaving E3 on a sunny Southern California afternoon. Given the seeming lack of soul in the games shown off by Microsoft, EA, and Sony in the early press conferences, maybe he’s on to something.

Part of the writer’s journey at E3 are the big press conferences, but it’s the smaller meetings and the chance encounters that really make the show worth seeing. If all I wanted was press events and too-long demos, I’d just watch it all stream on the web from the comfort of my home office.

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