Well the sorta-big show has come and gone, and while E3 2008 offered some exciting moments, there was quite a bit of mediocrity overall. The dork-celebrities in the videogame world did show up in full force, and we were there to capture the event in pictures.

alt="At The Conference" />
"I am always right."

alt="Guitars" />
"It's going to be one expensive year."

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alt="Yoshinori Kitase" />
"So what if we told Sony Final Fantasy XIII would be a PS3 exclusive!"

alt="Playing video games" />
If only Wii Motion Plus did something about people looking ridiculous
while playing the Wii.

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alt="Xbox 360 presentation" />
"While we know the Wii is kicking our ass, we've doctored this chart
to make it seem like we're winning the console war."

alt="Animal Crossing presentation" />
"Yes, we know you'll buy into Animal Crossing again, even if
we didn't really add all that much to the game."

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alt="Nintento presentation" />
"Here's all the stuff you didn't want to see on Nintendo platforms
at E3 this year. Thanks for coming!"

alt="Sony presentation" />
Sony amazingly found a way to make going through financial figures
highly entertaining with LittleBigPlanet.

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alt="Guitar Hero presentation" />
"We'd like to announce that we're bringing a three-pack of R.E.M. songs
to Guitar Hero: World Tour! Anyone? Hello?"

alt="Sony PS3 presentation" />
"We here at Sony are proud to announce a price drop on the 80GB PS3.
Oh, and we're taking backward compatibility out of this version, too."

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alt="Rock Band 2 demo" />
"We wish we were Rock Band! Ohhhh oh ohhhhhh!
We really wish we were Rock Band! Ohhhh oh ohhhhhh! Yeah!!"

alt="Spore presentation" />
"Releasing Spore will further legitimize the fact that I'm smarter
than all of you combined."

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alt="NBA Live 09 presentation" />
"You should have smelled the stuff we smoked back stage!
It smelled like the most beautiful pine tree forest."

alt="People on camera" />
"As we are the voices of Dom and Marcus in Gears of War 2, we're
just happy there's a story in the game this time around."

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alt="People talking" />
"Crispy Gamer? They should shut the f*** up."

alt="Another game presentation" />
"Four-player co-op? Please. We've got eight."

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alt="Console capabilities" />
"Who says you need to charge extra for music? Just hook up your iPod!"

alt="Another Nintento presentation" />
"Wii are still awesome!"

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alt="Nintento presentation continued" />
"We would like to announce our next project for you called WiiBored!"

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Yeah -- where's the Bungie Stuff? Where's Alan Wake? Where's the
Peter Jackson stuff?