the ability to withstand large crowds of obnoxious people.

Hence the rigorous training.

After they let us media animals in early and we get situated on the show floor, when they finally open the doors to let the rest of the animals in I wanna be in tip top shape so I can effectively dodge the stampeding crowd in slow-motion like Neo from the Matrix! Last year I damn near cracked my back while attempting to do so...

Terry, are you going to TGS this year?!

I' d give an arm and a leg (from someone else) to go!!!! But sadly it' s not happening this year. But I' m going to do everything in my power to see if I can make it happen next year.

I honestly don' t know, but we' ll have more than enough to give you around the clock coverage from the show floor, including high quality videos and exciting reviews!

I am such a shill.

LOL, I actually cringed after reading that

I wonder what the possibility is of re-modelled Playstation 3 controller having motion sensitivity. The actual traditional style pad having built in tilt functions...

I' d say the chances are zero. Even though Sony likes to steal good ideas it' s not Sony' s style to make a product like that.
They' ll probably focus more on the eye-toy games instead.
And I think Microsoft will try similar things.

I thought microsoft had already started a bit of focus on the eye toy games thing. As for sony I don' t think they might change the controller much, plus I think it would be anothr risk for them on top of the others they have already.

I want sony to make a copy of dualshock it was great.

I think it IS Sony' s style. They included the analog sticks in the Playstation controller because Saturn and N64 had analog controllers and yet very few Playstation games used them, the right stick especially.

The technology was used in a little more primative form in GBA cartridges so it' s small and cheap enough to include in a pad. It would also steal some of Nintendo' s thunder in Japan at least. It wouldn' t even have to be used in a lot of games, -- as long as the option is there for developers.

The Dual Shock 2 has some HUGE flaws, most notably the position of the left analog stick which should be switched with the D-Pad. The sticks themselves need to be indented like the 360 pads and they need to be less sensitive.

I was just wondering what they could do with the pad to make it' s unveilling a big event, because just revising a Dual Shock 2 and making it wireless wouldn' t be very cool.

Microsoft HAS been working on EyeToy-esque technology for use with it' s camera and all will be shown off at E3.

The Dual Shock 2 has some HUGE flaws, most notably the position of the left analog stick which should be switched with the D-Pad. The sticks themselves need to be indented like the 360 pads and they need to be less sensitive.

I don' t mind the way left analog is placed -it' s just as good as with 360 , but I agree about sensitivity.Also the D-Pad on DualShock is really hopeless - I hate it.

Another thing - Triggers, no racing game should be played without them - Xbox and DC proved that.

I wish they made a new controller that looks different and is different - DS2 is OK, but it' s getting boring :)

Well you think they would at least switch the left joystick with the d-pad. You use the joystick more than the d-pad now and the d-pad is in the more comftorable spot.
I get hand cramps just thinking about using the PS3 controller shown last year.

My only problem with Sony' s controllers, but a MAJOR one that makes me give them a D- minus grade is their ridiculous d-pad.. They need to ripoff the Japanese Sega Saturn' s d-pad design... That thing was actually crafted by a higher power.

check this out

http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/weblog/2005/02/

(a little under halfway down the page)
sweet sweet retro controller goodness.

Oh yeah!

So get this. I bump into the editor for Edge, who then berates me in public after I told her the vast majority of games suck. Really, it got ugly. Almost physical! Surely, it was intimidating.

Edge has lost its.. egde.

Gamestm all the way man.

ORIGINAL: Willco

So get this. I bump into the editor for Edge, who then berates me in public after I told her the vast majority of games suck. Really, it got ugly. Almost physical! Surely, it was intimidating.

Ooooooo man I would have loved to be on the sidelines watching on...chanting *ahem* I mean calming it down. But why was she so aggrovated by it?.

That controller was nice but WTF was that ...urinal thing? some Wii peripherial maybe ?

Anyone else catch Adam' s article in last weeks Pre-E3 MCV weekly?

I thought it was very apt!

Haha, we were talking about that article over drinks the other night. I have not caught it, yet.

So get this. I bump into the editor for Edge, who then berates me in public after I told her the vast majority of games suck. Really, it got ugly. Almost physical! Surely, it was intimidating.

You should have really pushed her buttons by asking her if her mother taught her to speak that way ;)

And then after asking her that you run for your life.

Seriously, ask Alex, because he saw the whole thing (and was the only sober one amongst us), I was up against a window. Nowhere to run! She was pointing fingers and everything!

OH man! You missed a perfect opportunity to flirt with her. At that point I would have looked at her wantingly and told her how I love aggressive women and how her aggression towards me is really turning me on.. LOL

And since she already had you against a window I' d just stand closer to her, lol.. ;)