The show hasn’t started yet and I didn’t get to go to any press conferences so I went to the convention center to get my badge and take some pictures and I think I managed to Ricky Gervais (see Extras) my way into a video about the day before E3. So if you see a dude in a purple Batman shirt bumbling around taking pictures in the background of an E3 video, that is me.

It should also be mentioned that Microsoft went ahead and officially named Natal Kinect. They are very proud of this. How do I know? This is what was going on in my bathroom when I got to my room at the Westin Bonaventure:

So yeah Microsoft put advertising on the my bathroom mirror but no conference invite. Nice.

There’s all kinds of advertising going on. Here is my room key:

Also, as I write this from the 24th floor of the hotel I have just experienced my first earthquake. It was pretty weird.I don’t have any pictures of it sadly.

So now before I completely lose my calm and poop myself, here are some random pics of the convention center before anything is going on as well as some of the advertising goodness around downtown.

Alright so there it is for tonight. There will be something of substance tomorrow.