Hello internet. Well, we're in and sitting down. It's heaving. A good 300-400 people.
Mark who does Bethesda PR told me to ask you to go out and buy WET. It must be like Christmas to PRdom. I've never seen so many games journalists in one place.
We have mini burgers on the table.
Someone's just given me some bottles of water. It's all go.
Sitting next to EGTV's Johnny Minkley. He's looking sorry for himself and saying how he can't get drunk tonight. I suspect he may be lying.
Rupert from Eurogamer says "hi," VG247.
Ellie Gibson's here now. She says she'd reviewed WET and it's "a bit 7/10".
We're nowhere near anything happening from the look of things. Unless you call of large roomful of people being very loud "happening".
Just been chatting to Luke from Play.tm. He's just interviewed Murray Walker.
Alex from IGN UK and Rory from Nuts are laughing at this blog. It's "electric," apparently.
A little like their publications.
I am now eating a piece of chicken.
Intent boss Stuart Dinsey just came over and asked if I had enough food. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
I'm not a thin man.
Just heard an amazing piece of personal news from a couple of friends. Not sure if it's public but they know who they are. Massive congrats.
A chap came one the PA about five minutes ago and said we had 10 minutes to go.
Everyone's here. My face hurts from smiling.
The 2K PRs want to do a Borderlands comments competition. Also, we're going to be running a Dragon Age Deluxe Edition one tomorrow morning, so get ready for that.
Here we go. Lights down.
Movie on screen. Photos of previous winners.
Montage of games now. With the Smiths playing over the top, for some reason.
Compere up. A guy called Nicky Flannagan. He's making people cheer.
He's going into his "routine". He's talking about drugs.
He's 5/10.
He's talking about being old and going to nightclubs. No one's laughing very hard.
More like polite tittering.
Wanking now.
And Chingford.
A "fucking rough" sex.
And "erotic" hair-pulling. And punching kidneys.
Bit of heckling.
He's talking to the crowd now. About travelling.
"It's hard when you go to American, because they can't understand a fucking word you say."
Maybe I go to a different America.
Now anal sex.
He's got the full book. "Just let me come in your ass."
A lot of people are talking up the back.
He's talking about buying tickets on the Underground.
He's properly taking the piss out of one of the Microsoft guys down the front. Shame.
"Spunk dustbin". I'm not making this up.
He did a bit about prawn cocktails that was quite funny.
We'd better fucking win something after being forced to sit through this.
And now he's ripping the shit out of EA.
He's talking about doing "fuck all". He's a man after my own heart.
We're doing the awards "fairly soon," apparently.
