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E3 Convention ~ Los Angeles Convention Center

10:18 AM PDT on May 12, 2006

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Taco paid a visit to the geeks and gadgets of the E3 Convention, the world’s largest gathering of video-game nuts where everyone was buzzing about how lame the Playstation 3 seemed, Nintendo's incredible wireless Wii, and the C-grade models who populated every booth.

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Among the highlights, both cool and absurd, was the Desperate Housewives game (where one can digitally slut out with a hunky neighbor), God of War II, Crysis-the most realistic first person shooter we’ve ever seen-, a Yakuza game, Splinter Cell Double Agent, and X-Box 360's Grand Theft Auto rip-off Saint’s Row, which admittedly has better graphics than its inspiration.

Glasses
Titan Babe
Gladiator Girls
Tire Girl
Scarface
Yakuza
Playstation 3
ScarGirls
FuzzySmile
Sporty Spices
Splinter Cell
Mohawk
Knight
Whattup?!
Toys
Vamps
Pac-Car

Final Fantasy Girls
Pac-Man Namco
Descent into Hell

Pick-up
Nightnurse
Waitin'

Streetwalkin'
NGage

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