What's up everybody welcome, Dijane Game Scoop. I'm your host, Damon Hatfield, and

joining me this week are Sam Clayborn. Hey everybody. Justin Davis.

And sitting in for Tina this week, Michael Swain returns to the show. Welcome back,

Michael Swain. Howdy, howdy, great to be here. I'll say it for you. Swain Scoop. And

we've got a great show for you this week. Big, big show. E3 is E320, 21 is behind us

the first E3 in two years, the first all digital E3. Lots of games, lots of stuff to talk

about. Interesting show. I think a lot of people have a lot of different opinions about

the show this year. So we're going to dive right into that. Let's start. I want to start

with Michael Swain actually because, you know, let's just be real. A lot of people

were disappointed in E3 this year, but not Michael Swain. And I wanted to explain.

That's true. Yeah, we were talking a bit before we started rolling. I think I'm in a unique

position on the panel here because I joined IGN about 17, 18 months ago. So I've now

done two E3s that were fully digital virtual, whatever you want to call it.

Do both of E3s. And yeah, when I joined the company, I did say to my girlfriend, oh,

maybe I'll finally achieve my childhood dream of going to E3. And I still might next year

or the year after we'll see if there's any delays. But, yeah, it's, I saw it on the

run of show. Like what, how would you rank this E3? And I feel like I'm kind of unfit to

do that. But it's great. You can just say number. It's your favorite. It's the number

one. One you've worked. It's true. I can't compare to like a lived experience, but it definitely

beat last year's E3. I think for obvious, like geopolitical reality reasons, but I was

really pleasantly surprised with most of the showcases. And I'm sure we'll dig into the

ones that were just kind of a blur to me or a map. But I honestly thought a lot of people

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