We have been receiving e-mails in the hundreds of thousands. Yes, we are at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011, as we are every year, along with part of the staff doing coverage for our other network-owned publications. No we are not part of the GC panel this year. Yes, we have tons of crazy exclusives and interviews, but considering our entire staff is at E3 this year, there is no one in the Sacramento Headquarters. Videos are indeed upcoming after the post-process crawl.

Please be patient with us. Our goal is not to live-publish anything which is readily TV-ready. Our coverage is about succinct coverage with great people. The Microsoft Conference was extremely exclusive, with seats filled to the brim at the lovely Galen Center. We already guessed Halo 4 would indeed be coming moments before the actual conference went live, so that was exciting for us. Sony WOW-ed audiences and media alike  with a press conference with drinks, food, and after-show 120 kiosks. There is a level of professionalism that the  Sony Computer Entertainment team truly brings to a conference, not for a surreptitious concept, but to provide a sense of professionalism, claiming that customers are important while also giving the attendees equal respect. EA Conference was great, but nothing spectacular – while Ubisoft did display great visuals in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (for which we have an exclusive interview and booth tour). Nintendo is tomorrow, and we expect a new Nintendo console (we heard on good word 2 days ago it is a handheld, so it is very shocking) and our guess is maybe even Super Mario Galaxy 3. There is more to come, but surely after E3 and moreover after we send out the votes to 1000+ contacts this year for the Best of E3 Awards spread.

20 L.A. Noire Games, 20 people, any console choice. We are giving away 20 copies of L.A. Noire to 20 lucky future detectives who answer the following question with a bit of imagination: Why do you think it is great to be a detective?

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CES 2011 is spectacular, with new reclamations from companies such as Intel, our close friends at AMD, EVGA, Antec, Diamond, Crucial, Kingston, Microsoft, Verizon, Samsung, Cooler Master, GIGABYTE, Cisco and an avalanche of approaching more. To outline some of the most notable features, highlights are deemed necessary more than anything for those enthusiasts that want the neat and gritty on each company. EVGA is of course displaying newer cards, along with behind closed doors reveals for their upcoming GPU platform. Microsoft is caught up in all the KINECT madness, while mobility users can look forward to a Windows Mobile 7 interface platform that makes use of an android-like subsystem.  Verizon is displaying some new phones in the works from HTC along with Samsung contracted phones, but most of these are being saved for the big European phone tours. Crucial displayed new clock core frequency timings for their latest line of DDR3 releases to extend their offerings into the 2100 MHz mark and beyond. CISCO has tremendous Wireless-N routers for sale in 2011, and Cooler Master dazzles fans everywhere with unforgettable case and fan innovations that are a must-have this new year. CES has been fun thus far, even with small video game demo reveals of golden release candidate of DC Universe and Capcom Entertainment’s party along with the behind-closed-doors preview into the aeronautic depths of BioShock: Infinite. CES 2011 is ending in two days, but in the meantime when the show exposition is closed, we will be close by at the poker tables with experts such as Phil Ivey and more getting our talk on.

WhatIfGaming - Game Of The Year 2010 Awards

Afresh another year has passed the highways of our hearts, and left us alone once more at the passenger seat of life looking out to the road of video games throughout the year in the night sky. We have suffered the medal of ordinary titles, an award received when a man, woman, or child has played more than one terrible title throughout this tough year of video game concepts and design. Alas, in the midst of these terrible titles, there were some mediocre and others which seized the occasion for themselves, making 2010 a year to remember.

It is with pleasure that we provide the millions of anticipated readers what they have been waiting for since the dawn of 2010: the video game industry’s most exceptional and gratified WhatIfGaming 2010 Game Of The Year Awards ceremony, presenting its official Game Of The Year awards before anyone else with titles specially chosen by us here. Similar to the previous years, WhatIfGaming is first to give out Game of the Year Awards this year. The bittersweet red carpet has rolled out for the WhatIfGaming’s Best of 2010: Game of the Year Awards, the next step in industry and developer recognition.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Years to our beloved millions of WhatIfGaming readers! See you all in 2011.

We are here, and we have exclusive interview dates with notable guests: Dana Snyder of Aqua Teen Hunger Force fame , John Barrowman on Series 4 of Torchwood and Doctor Who Return, the incredibly talented Johnny Depp and finally many more in certain TV dramas and films.

Welcome to Liberty City.

Update: Dana Snyder interview soon - John Barrowman unavailable - Johnny Depp phone-call transcript soon (in the UK filming the next Disney Pirates of the Carribean)

E3 2010 was a spectacle, due to the opening of admissions to smaller retailers and media publications – with numbers nearing the similar peak. We were there to get every exciting moment: from Dead Rising 2, to KINECT and everything in between the PlayStation Move inundation. E3 2010 was marked through displays of motion and 3D, similar to our coverage of the 3DGS Convention. As always, it was certainly a great time, and now that time is over. It is time to look forward, ahead to newer and better releases, and to ennoble titles in this year’s WhatIfGaming’s Best Of E3 Awards 2010.

Criteria: The Best of E3 Awards, a subcategory for the WhatIfGaming Prizes, are given solely to those video games that demonstrate a pure excellence in the field for which they are not only nominated but also chosen. These awards only apply to playable games at E3 given a few exceptional categories.

Nomination & Selection Process: Compared with other site awards, the WhatIfGaming Prize nomination and selection process is long and extremely rigorous. This is the sole reason why WhatIfGaming Prizes have grown in importance over the years to become the most important prizes in their field. Forms, which amount to a personal and exclusive invitation, are sent to 150 (2010) selected individuals to invite them to submit nominations months in advance from the latest builds per video game. Self-nominations are disqualified. For WhatIfGaming Prizes, inquiries are sent to such people as developers, industry experts, analysts, among others. After our deadline passes, the nominations are chosen by permanent committee of 5 selected individuals from staff and only the final stage of nominees remain per category. From all of these, a winner is chosen.

The names of the nominees are not publicly announced, and neither are they told that they have been considered for the WhatIfGaming Prize. Some are announced publicly by practice. Nomination records are revealed approximately 2 years after each respective award year.

WhatIfGaming: Don, that was one heck of a show…

DM: That is what we try to aim for and always revealing the Xbox Experience.

WhatIfGaming: I do have to ask, did you find the scripted dialogue as horribly cheesy as I did? It was almost..

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Yes. Microsoft has decided to grace us with a new Xbox 360 ‘Slim?’ Not sure what to call it, and a call to a local retailer had them confused as well. Play in the UK gave us some details for our Euro-folks. Expect some to have them in a matter of a week. As for us, we will have a review out on the product soon – assuming it gets here soon.

More coming up. Interview with Don Mattrick on KINECT goodness and finally some Fable III preview.

We are doing a massive giveaway, as previously detailed. This involves 8 beta key giveaways from our Blizzcon Starcraft II Beta key stashes of our editors and correspondents themselves. In addition, 4 winners will receive a BioShock 2 Game Guide and we will upgrade select chosen ones to Limited Edition. If that is not enough, we are also providing a game giveaway with 4 winners and 1 grand prize winner (cannot be eligible for both contests). All of the contestants will be chosen from our e-mail pool and the only requirement is that the winners actively participate with us for over 4 years via e-mail, which will help to narrow down the millions of possible entries from our readers.

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It is with proud pleasure that I announce WhatIfGaming has been confirmed for another 4 Seasons (one year). We are looking forward to many more coruscate reviews from the most brilliant critic minds.

To introduce us to the 2010 Year, we have gained permission to include the following song from the label to offer but a small glance back at all our happiness and joy with a step further.

“There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized.”

See you all in 2010.

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