[I]t's true that the chaotic and sometimes uncertain planning for E3 encouraged developers to host their own events prior to the show. [..] We're even having a hell of a time coming up with a winner for "biggest surprise" of the show simply because we already knew just about everything there was to know about all the big titles. I am, of course, discounting [CivRev] which I thought was pretty boss but it isn't even coming to the PC.