e3-2009-booth-models posts

E3 2009 is fading into memory but various web sites and media outlets are already putting out their E3 2009 "awards". We feel that a lot of these awards are, well, odd. After all nearly all of the games shown at the annual show are not finished and giving awards to these games would be like giving an award to a movie just by seeing its trailers. Remember when Spore won all those E3 "Game of the Year" awards? Remember when the actual game came out and, well, failed to live up to expectations? You get the picture.

So for our E3 2009 awards, we are doing something different. Instead of awards for best game or best action title or other generic awards, we are going to have some fun with our categories and give you a taste of the show itself. We hope you like it.

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Yep, E3 is definitely back and the reason we know this is because there were quite a few booth models in the exhibits and just hanging around the convention center this week. We close out our look at these various models for the third and final (official) day of the show.

And yes, that is Eliza Dushku in this set of pictures. She was signing at Bethesda Softworks' booth on Wednesday to promote Wet, a non-PC game. But she has the look and feel of a booth model so we figured that we would put her in the gallery with the others. If you haven't seen our frst two galleries of pictures you can still check out Day 1 and Day 2.

It's day two of E3 2009 so naturally we wanted to give you folks what you apparently want: more booth model shots from the show floor. From shots of the G4 television school girls to the dirty ladies of DiRT 2 to folks that don't seem to be promoting any game at all, we have them here.

Overall, while E3 2009 does mark the return of the booth babe, it definitely hasn't reached the level it did in previous years of E3 as a trade show. There are not any massive dance numbers with huge stages and even the famous Tecmo babe shows are silent this year. Hey, at least the sexy Everquest elf is still around.

E3 2009 is officially under way and we decided not to waste any time. We roamed the show exhibit halls and took pictures of the various booth models. Even though the show was open for just one hour we found quite a few models (both women and men) already dressed up. We suspect that even more will be in place later today.

One bit of very disappointing news on the E3 booth babe front, however. Remember when IGN reported that Activision was going to have some Wolfenstein Elite Guard models at their booth? Well today we were told that for some unknown reason those models won't be showing up at the show after all. Epic fail, Activision.