In Pictures: E3 2008 Picks and Pans

For once it doesn't matter whether you swear by the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, or PC gaming. It's all here. Here's what caught our eye--and what we wish we'd never laid eyes on--at this year's E3 gaming expo in LA.

Danny Allen, Darren Gladstone, and Matt Peckham, PC World

Sony's show-launched PlayStation Video Store got an appreciable jump on the new Microsoft-Netflix coalition (coming "late fall"). Letting you buy or rent from a selection of hundreds of movies and thousands of TV shows, the store mostly cooks right along, even if the interface could stand some tweaks and a few TV shows are missing episodes or even entire seasons. Sony's biggest challenge? Offering jumbo high-def content for keeps (you can only rent HD shows for starters) without snapping your hard drive's cylinders. --Matt Peckham