Release dates for Starcraft II and Final Fantasy XIII are announced.

Blizzard is pressured for details on it's 'secret project' and declines to comment.

SE is pressed for a release date for FFXIII vs. and deflects with some gushing about how awesome it is.

Gears 2 has a short playable demo which plays almost EXACTLY like Gears.

Obsidian unveils a second NWN 2 expansion in just before the advent of D&D 4E shuts it down.

Bioware gives vague information on Mass Effect 2 while not actually showing anything, they instead hype this Sonic RPG no one cares about.

Massive Soul Calibre IV hype undoubtedly including a playable demo. Star wars and individual console fanboys continue to cry tears over the seperation of Yoda and Vader.

Lionhead hypes Fable 2 with features that may or may not actually be in the game.

Bionic Commando continues its unrelenting hype campaign with a playable demo that publicly breaks at some point because the game is still too early in development to produce a non bug laden demo.

Atlus reveals details on their PS3 RPG and then is ignored until a week before it ships.

Creative Assembly 'fesses up that they should just stick with strategy titles and focuses on Empire: Total War while trying to downplay Viking.

New Far Cry 2 trailers and screens that look better than Crysis, no playable demo because they're still not optomized enough to run fidelity like that in real time and somewhere deep inside aren't sure if they're ever going to get there.

No further info on Gran Turismo 5 because they just released a preimium demo that garnered them the additional operating budget they needed to finish the game.

Ubi says or shows something about Assassins Creed 2. It bears little or no resemblance to the original.

CDProjekt Red has a tiny booth in the corner with a small 4 hour playable demo for Witcher 2. They go largely unnoticed.

Relic shows everything BUT playable demos for DOW2. While the media covers it fans are still busy playing the CoH expansion so they don't care.

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Wow, that was negative.

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And yet extremely realistic.

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This may mark me as a terrible cynic but predicting what happens at E3 isn't an excercise in projecting wild hopes for me as it is an act of sterotyping the industry as a whole based on past behavior. A lot of the predictions I made sound worse than they actually are because of how I phrased them. Is Obsidian getting another expansion in before the 4E WoC crackdown a bad thing? Heck no! Do I really have a problem with playing fresh levels of Gears under the guise of a proper sequel? Nope, I still play the game's co-op from time to time to this day. Anyways, I consider most of the above predictions likely and since that's how I see things going down the least I could do was try to put some off color humor on it.