The badge design is nifty this year - a lot nicer-looking than last year's. Still doesn't have a sexy RFID thingy in it, but I guess that'd get expensive for 30,000-odd people.
I had been sort of casually disinterested in E3 lately, but as the time draws close, and the promise of crazy revelling and nerdry in downtown L.A. wafts under my twitching geeknostrils, I am positively energized.
Oh $#&%... work. Right.