"Why he (and the 2-3 other developers) post here is beyond me. Imagine being a film buff and having a director take the time to post a comment. I doubt they would get the rough trade the developers here do."

I can say from experience, developpers come here because we also love games, we stay current on gaming events (we're not registered to some form of secret developper's only newsreel, so most of us learn the news like you do, and sometimes even employees learn news about their own company here first), and we enjoy reading user comments about such and such game.

I you were making a game, wouldn't you want to know what people think about it, and wouldn't you want to talk to people who either love it or hate it and find out why? Us too.

And BTW, the booth babes are overly hyped for not much. Most of them are local strippers out of work, and what we see on the floor is a scantily clad babe with 50 geeks all around her waiting to get their picture taken with her. Pretty sad if you ask me.

E3 is mostly about noise, lights, lasers, and headaches. Oh, and 65 thousand people in a single building yelling on their cell phone.

Jean-René Couture
GolemLabs