-Looks like we're kicking things off with a Halo 4 thingy. Some of it looked live action. Oooh, live gameplay. Looks awesome, visually.

-Holy shit, an Elite just disintegrated into nothing. Or not an Elite. Also exploding robo-dogs.

-What the fuck are these guys? Looks like we'll be getting seamless transitions between gameplay and mini cutscenes. And the new baddies have morphing guns that you can use against them.

-And now Don Mattrick or whatever his name was is here. Just general talking to start. New media shit to be announced.

-New game being played. I'm assuming Black Ops II. No idea, really. Nope, new Splinter Cell game instead. Multi-mark cutscene killoffs and Kinect enhancements. You can lure over goons with your voice and then kill 'em. Also air-to-ground missiles through Kinect. Actually kind of interesting in action. Launches Spring 2013.

-EA announces that the next Madden NFL and FIFA games will include Kinect support, AKA "Better With Kinect." FIFA 13 lunches this Fall. Joe Montana on stage to demo Madden NFL 13. Comes out August 28th.

-New Kinect only game. I'm getting serious Sorcery vibes from it. Oh, it's Fable: The Journey. So much for the idea of a new IP.

-Head of Microsoft Studios talking about a new action racer and the next Gears game. Trailer up. 2013 date. "New action racer" turns out to just be an open-world Forza game. And suddenly, dubstep in the Forza trailer. Titled Forza Horizon for an October 23rd date.

-New guy showing an update to the Bing Search function on Xbox 360 and voice recognition, better recognition for other languages, like Italian or Spanish. Nickelodeon's getting an Xbox LIVE app. Machinima, too. More sports on Xbox LIVE. First up, NBA. Next is the NHL and then there's ESPN getting more stuff. And now a sports trailer.

-Now it's on to music. Xbox Music is in the works, "your music, your way." Might be the first worthwhile addition so far, but no one buys music any more. And if they do, they use iTunes and won't want to pay for songs a second or third time.

-New partnership with Nike, apparently. Nike+ is coming to Kinect, titled Nike+ Kinect Training. Reveal trailer. Meh. Holiday 2012.

-Mark Whitney, head of Xbox LIVE now on stage. Xbox SmartGlass intends to unify devices. Xbox 360's, PC's, tablets and smartphones work together to share info about particular things, even on non-Microsoft devices, as he mentioned Android phones. Now there's Halo 4 and Waypoint with the SmartGlass treatment. They're also combining SmartGlass, Xbox 360 and Kinect to bring Internet Explorer to the Xbox 360. About damn time, honestly. You'll also be able to control the Xbox with a device using SmartGlass. All of it comes this Fall, worldwide.

-Two guys from Crystal Dynamics on stage to talk about the new Tomb Raider. Gameplay demo in action. The graphics look pretty. Lara barely survives an action section. First demo launches either first or exclusively on the 360.

-Now there are three new exclusives getting revealed for the first time. First, from the developers of Toy Soldiers, is an odd sort of brawler-esque game called Ascend: New Gods, which releases Spring 2013. Second game is LocoCycle from Twisted Pixel. And third is matter, a Kinect game. All coming 2013.

-Capcom now here to talk about RE6. Yawn. Leon being all actiony in a gameplay demo. Counters an axe wielder, chops off his head during said counter. More action. Too much for a series that was originally a survival horror. QTE's are in, too. DLC will be on 360 first. Yep, DLC already.

-New Xbox LIVE Arcade game which uses Kinect called Wreckateer. Blow up castles with slingshot cannonballs. Will be available in Summer.

-South Park on screen now. Trey Parker and Matt Stone to talk about the new game, already firing off jokes. This is the first time where they've had to actually figure out where everything was in the town.

-Harmonix with their newest Kinect dance game. AKA Dance Central 3. Usher's on stage to show off his moves that will be danceable in the game.

-Don's back and talking about ushering in a new "golden age of entertainment." They seem to be closing off with Black Ops II. Their deal with Activision which guarantees them first dibs on DLC and content seems to still be in place, or at least renewed. Gameplay demo is standard fare for FPS's. Boooring. Shots can penetrate solid structures, even pillars. Gameplay is skipped to new area for time. Inside a shopping mall which has been utterly trashed. You can control unmanned drones using a tech gauntlet on your left arm and have them fire at a designated point by pointing a holo-grid from said gauntlet. And now a jetplane section. Main character's codename is "Section," by the way.

And that's it. Quite boring, honestly.

-EA's up now, with Dead Space 3 kicking things off. New locations and a gameplay demo featuring drop-in, drop-out co-op play. Releasing in February 2013.

-Madden NFL 13 trailer. We already know about this from Microsoft's event. They're talking about the brand-new Infinity Engine being used, as well as the Connected Careers mode, which makes the career in the games more socially connected.

-Maxis on stage with Sim City Social, a new Facebook game app. And an all-new Sim City game with multiplayer functionality. February 2013.

-Battlefield 3 now, with a premium membership for $49.99. New everything, including expansion packs. Available for PS3 right this very moment, with other platforms starting next week.

-Now it's BioWare talking about Star Wars: The Old Republic. New content, but still subscription based after Lv. 15.

-And another shooter. Missed its name earlier, but I'd say it's Medal of Honour: Warfighter. Airstrike blew up a whole damned building, I assume due to DICE's Frostbite 2 engine. And some tank insanity. Multiplayer campaign involves 12 tier one units. Game releases October 21st.

-Madden NFL Social. FIFA 13 keeps your progress made in FIFA 12 through EA's Football Club social service.

-EA has entered into a partnership with the UFC for a UFC video game.

-The next Need for Speed game, once again helmed by Criterion. Also utilises the Autolog system. October 13th.

-Crytek on Crysis 3 to conclude EA's event. February 2013.

-Ubisoft opens with Flo Rida promoting Just Dance 4 and singing the exact same song he sung at WrestleMania a few months back. Open on a low point, great work, Ubi. Aisha Tyler comes on as host and reveals the co-host as Toby Turner AKA Tobuscus.

-Far Cry 3 opens with a suggestive cinematic. Tribal woman is half naked, etc. Pretty interesting afterwards. Constant close shot cuts of the guy playing on the PS3 controller, most likely to try and show that the gameplay is not pre-recorded or some shit. Is simply "coming soon."

-Splinter Cell: Blacklist comes up again. Not many new details. New clip, though. Suddenly the stream is lagging.

-Next up is Rayman (Fucking) Legends, which has a pile off Wii U exclusive features. Firstly is FIVE PLAYER CO-OP. The one with the GamePad plays as Murphy and is solely or mostly controlled through the touch screen. Murohy is able to interact with stage elements and even grab and drag enemies to assist the other four players.

-Next in the Wii U line up was ZombiU, yet another zombie game. Then came Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013, complete with Rabbids.

-Now, it's a trailer of Assassin's Creed III. Connor is arrowing the fuck out of everyone. And a gameplay demo, to boot. Hopping through trees, blending in grass and fighting fucking wolves. This might actually be enough of a fresh and new experience to make the series interesting again. Counter kill two people at once meatshields and snow everywhere, impeding your movement. Also climbing cliff faces. And that is some fucking fluid gameplay. Long time overdue.

-An E-Sports game called Shootmania is now up, with a wager between both hosts. The game looks really terrible.

-Ubisoft Montreal have come up with a new IP. Use technology and your wits as a weapon. Titled Watch Dogs and looks brilliant. And that concludes Ubisoft's presentation.