Killzone and Watch Dogs gameplay looked bananas. Really glad to hear about the social features, they're like everything I wish Steam's community features were. The only thing is, will all that really catch on? I got 45 Steam friends, some of which are a few of you here, and I'm the only one posting screenshots and such. Still, it was cool to see the early games like Killzone and DriveClub feature how those social aspects will be used in-game.

Obviously the hypercritical folks will be all over that long stretch of the conference which were no games being shown, David Cage talking, the strange media molecule montage, and an old Square Enix trailer. I'm not really sure why they did that.

As far as surprises, I'm not sure which was more unexpected: Blizzard announcing a partnership with Sony, Bungie creating exclusive content for the system, or Jonathan Blow finally coming out of hiding with The Witness as an exclusive. I never would've expected any of those three things to happen, especially since it seemed like Blizzard was leaning towards Xbox. Still, Diablo III being all they announced is disappointing. Been there, beat it almost a year ago, it's fun, but I only pick it up every now and then. Project Titan would have been more appropriate for the occasion.

Still not sure if this will be able to pull me off of Steam at launch, but it's a good first step towards bringing me back to console gaming. It certainly was a good appetizer for E3.