In this first episode, we give you a series of e-mails between Dan Kaszor and I which spawned during the week after the events of E3, about current state of Episodic games and digital distribution. Enjoy.

It looks like organizers behind Games Convention are considering bringing their their big-deal annual game show to North America. So where will this new convention take place?

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Judging from this demo, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is shaping up to be a fun ride, though an unintelligent camera and some sticky force power controls may hold it back from being excellent.

While it’s arguably a prime example of a game that can be considered art, Braid is inarguably a gorgeous and brilliant puzzle platformer that will exercise your mind for hours, even after you’ve put down your controller.

While Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 retains the addictive insanity of its predecessor and gives you more bang for your space-buck, alterations to the series’ simple nature take away from overall satisfaction.

Does this remake of a seminal top-down shooter make us long for the Arcade heyday, or are we screaming mayday as we crash into the Pacific?

We caught glimpses of a lot of games during this year’s E3, but a number of smaller diamonds were buried in the rough by their more lustrous brethren. Today we use two different metaphors to take a look at the E3 ‘08 games that flew under the radar.

The plethora of music and rhythm games that threaten to flood the market like so many basment apartments during heavy rain, the ubiquity of the Wii’s infectious casual nature, and Sony and Microsoft’s mad rush to get a piece of the new market that those two elements are ensnaring, are all signs of what “hardcore” gamers and Dennis Dyack are sure to refer to in the coming years as Ragnarok. Is casual gaming the end of the industry, or a shiny new beginning?

Day two of E3 commences with a press conference from Nintendo, and we’ll be here to Liveblog it. Rumors are spinning like crazy and I’m excited to see what Nintendo really has planned, so let’s see what the big N has planned this year…