As Chris has said, there wasn't too much swag to be had at E3 this year, so what we got was all the more appreciated. Here's my haul:
EA Press Conference Goodie Bag: EA's press conference was all about entering the casual gaming space, so it makes sense that the messenger bag they handed out had the logo for their casual gaming portal, Pogo.com. Inside was a little notebook, a pen, an EA-branded water bottle, and an asset disc that kept falling out of its protective sleeve.
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Gamecock:
__ Gamecock was certainly creative when it came to their handouts. The umbrella and the bandanna were for the funeral, appropriately in mournful black. The lei with the chicken on it was snagged from their party on Thursday night. The chicken makes some truly obnoxious chicken noises if you push its wing. Wing pushing has been forbidden in my household, on pain of...well, pain.
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Tabula Rasa:
__ Lord British (sorry, General British now) may have given the presentation in full AFS uniform, but we got baseball caps instead of berets. I'm fine with that, really.
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Mass Effect, the book:
__ Reading? Don't these people know gamers don't read? Kidding. The book is the prequel to the action of the game, and should be a pretty decent read. I'll let you know after I'm finished with the Potter.
I also got a GTA IV t-shirt at the Take Two press conference, but it's in the laundry at the moment. It's fairly enormous, so I used it as a nightshirt whilst I was at the show.
