E3 Day 0 and 1: Press Conferences

Good evening, all, and welcome to the beginning of my special couch-bound coverage this year's E3 convention.

No, sadly I'm not attending the proceedings in Los Angeles this week (neither are the rest of our crew, Chris "The Gamerologist" and Nick "The Walls"), though we'll have to rectify that in the future. But, thanks to the power of the interwebs, all of the big events and presentations are available by live-stream on any number of websites, from G4 to GameTrailers to IGN and of course the respective sites of the companies themselves.

Being a workin' man, I couldn't rightly sit and watch the early press conferences at my desk (unfortunately). But I did follow the live blogging of a number of sites, and at least three dozen Twitter feeds that posted the same thing one after the other. It was quite an interesting day, and surely a testament to the role of social media in the gaming space.

But, let's get to the conferences:

Editorial: The Exclusive is dead... Long live the exclusive!

Back in August, I composed my eulogy for first-party exclusive content (I also wanted your thoughts on it... *crickets*)--the upcoming multiplatform efforts from Bungie, Epic and Insomniac are just another sign that the days of single-console development are waning. The Exclusive, as we knew it, is dead.

It is my pleasure to report, however, that the Third-Party Exclusive is alive, kicking, and ready to reignite the Console Wars.

There can only be one...