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E3 is one of the only events where attendees and those sitting at home can have equally valid, but disparate opinions. It’s the strange outcome of a videogame industry where interaction is essential to any experience and a videogame community that demands a flood of news, impressions, and detail to replace the interaction they’re missing out on. With that in mind, I present a counter top 5 (pun!) to Eric’s top 5 of E3. This not only reflects my distinct tastes from Mr. Bee (and they are pretty darn distinct) but also the fact that I was two times zones away from any sort of playable e3 games.

Jimmy Fallon has been making some tech-friendly gestures lately at his new position on the Late Show. Recently he featured Microsoft’s Project Natal only a couple days after it was unveiled at e3 (with John Krasinski in tow in less). The clip above is certainly entertaining in its own right (especially Jimmy channeling a 5 year old right before opening his birthday gifts) and the tech seems to work well – but it’s the larger implications of this appearance that have me the most excited.

Rishad seems to be everywhere these days, and we’re not just talking about his travel schedule – although 140 flights in 2008 alone has to be some sort of record, right? This month we find Rishad on the pages of his home country’s most popular daily newspaper, The Economic Times. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the pub or its massive reach, it equates to India’s version of the Wall Street Journal and ranks as one of the top financial dailies in the world.

Upon returning from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, my eyes had to readjust to not seeing projection monitors the size of a high school around every corner. The industry has been long without a big, loud proclamation of its growth and limitless future and this year’s E3 was exactly that. Plus, I saw Mini Me playing video games, which pleased me to no end. This was my first E3 and, by all accounts, it was a great one to be a part of. Every company had something remarkable to show and it became next to impossible to find a bad game on the show floor. That said, here’s my personal Top Five titles that I instantly pre-ordered from the expo.