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By Kevin O'Hara, Senior World Designer for SOE Seattle

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Agent Wilson’s identity has been compromised and he has been removed from the E3 mission!

Kevin demoing on the show floor while Client Lead, Alex Pfaffe, explains technical jargon on screen behind him.

This is Kevin O’Hara, Senior World Designer for SOE Seattle, taking over the blog for Matt. He has to skip out on the last day of E3 due to a different travel commitment. Though personally I think it may have had more to do with the amount of sake at our table last night. I do have to give my highest recommendation for Bond St. restaurant on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Hal, Matt and I were treated to an unbelievably fantastic meal by Nabil Debira from our international office. Not only was the food first rate but we got to hang out on the top floor of the hotel with a wonderful view of the Los Angeles skyline; a chic spot stars mingle at. We apparently just missed crossing paths with Prince. Truly we were living the life of elite agents.

I’m not sure there is much more I can report from the E3 floor. Another busy day packed with interviews (more than I was expecting, thanks Matt *smiles* ). The third day does allow for you to spend a bit more time with people you’ve talked to before and have returned with more questions. Personally I’ve very pleased with the enthusiasm the press had for our game. Although we couldn’t give them more information about our release date, they were very understanding and appreciative that SOE is fully committed to paying more attention to quality over set release schedules.  This was clearly shown with our other game, Free Realms. The extra care and time they have been taking has paid off in spades; the game just looks so fun to play now.

Our station on show floor.

About 1:30 PM, Hal had to take off to catch his flight so I was alone to man the final few interviews. Luckily I got a little bit of time to check out some other media suites. Outside of our own games (seriously, I want to play Free Realms), I think the game that most sparked my interest was Valve’s Left For Dead. It just looked like a lot of fun taking down zombies in a team.

Well that’s all from The Agency team this year at E3. Agent O’Hara, signing out.

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