OMFG, Half-Life 2 is amazing. Brilliant character animation, character AI, and stupendous physical modelling. Definitely best in show, and blows away everything else I saw (yes, this includes Doom 3). If you’re there, don’t stand in line for 3 hours. Go directly to the Standard (6th/Flower) where their showing demo screenings of the current build every half-hour on the half-hour.

Shot: 501 images (14 rolls), only 1.3GB as I switched to shooting JPEG — RAW was just way too massive.

Random fun story: Gabe and I were so engrossed in GTA3: Vice City, yelling and just in a state of pure joy taking out virtual cops with an assault rifle that we didn’t even notice that there was a filming crew moving around (with lights event!) capturing our excited squeals at how the heads popped right off the police officers.