Elsewhere, the E3 video game announce-o-rama is rocking Los Angeles this week. Joystiq got its hands on Beatles Rock Band: "With any luck, MTV Games will decide to give us a closer look into the campaign mode before the September 9 release date. Otherwise, we're feeling a bit ... skeptical." Binge Gamer offers a review of LEGO Rock Band: "It's Rock Band... with LEGOs... Despite having absolutely no reason to exist, LEGO Rock Band is actually quite fun." DJ Hero (now you can pretend to be a guy who plays other people's music!) seems to work but Engadget had to watch a company rep play it. Hecklerspray says all that's groovy, but "trailers for Left 4 Dead 2, Crackdown 2, Forza 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Joyride and Halo 3 ODST, all looked pretty impressive, adding "the star of the show for us was Modern Warfare 2, which simply looks brilliant." Gizmodo lists five things that should have been at E3, starting with price cuts: "The financiapocalypse has yielded no price cuts for ailing gamers from Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft."
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