Oh, E3. Back in the day you were a true bastion of videogame related treats, throwing surprises up left, right, and centre, dropping megaton announcements by the bucketload, getting fully grown adults excited like children and generally acting like a three day version of videogaming Christmas. People clamoured to get in, desperate to sit in the auditorium. Remember when Hideo Kojima dropped that first MGS 2 trailer and your brain literally exploded?

Remember when Sega announced that the Saturn was available that very day, three months ahead of schedule, and a mexican wave of faceplams swept through the auditorium? Good times, but more importantly, great moments. Defining moments even, snapshots from our very own mental scrapbook in these lamentable ‘Console Wars'.

But now, E3 sucks, and it's not even really its own fault. Blame the internet, and our rabid need to devour as much information as possible until our brains throw up over ourselves out of pure information apathy, but E3 is now less a revolving carousel of pure awesome and more just a regurgitation of stuff we already knew about, except now being belched to us in double-speak by men in suits that cost more than your  house. Microsoft will probably announce the Xbox 360 Slim this E3. Big deal, we saw the motherboard being made in a leaked phone camera shot from a Chinese manufacturing sweat shop. Natal's new name? It's out there, in the big digital ether, first at NowGamer, waiting to be consumed, discussed, and then lol'd at by keyboard monkeys everywhere.

It's all inevitable, and arguing against it is like pissing in the wind, as internet proliferation becomes so rampant that Twitter can probably now be accessed via toilet seats (which is appropriate, as most of the things said via it are utter, utter shit). As with anything, however, a bit of anticipation works wonders. We just hope something comes out of this year's E3 that will surprise us, and if it does, in the interest of full disclosure, this article will then be changed to ‘Why E3 Rocks'. And when you say that you saw it say ‘Sucks', we'll tell you it was a pre-release prototype photographed in an asian sweatshop and X360 does not comment on rumours and speculation. Ah, the internet.