So here's what was going through my head as I watched the Xbox 360 E3 press event on TV.

What the hell am I watching TV at 1:30am for... oh that's right. It's pretty amazing I'm watching this on Foxtel now that I think about it. Are we mainstream now?

Call of Duty Black Ops looks pretty great moving, Infinity Ward who? On rails helicopter sequence looks like good but simple fun.

Holy shit, Call of Duty is Xbox 360 timed exclusive for the next three years? Ouch for Sony.

Wow, Don Mattrick is the worst public speaker in history, stop moving those hands man!

Oh, Metal Gear Solid Rising, forgot about that game, and gameplay footage too. It's like the cut scenes from MGS4 but they're playable. Looks really amazing, also extremely violent, like, this could be an import game for Australians. Blood and body parts fly like crazy.

And now its Gears 3 time with Dude Huge. New bayonet attacks look the business and you can weapon swap with your coop partners now, terrific. The Lambent seem like a pretty awesome new enemy, they mutate and you need to strategically shoot bits of them to beat them, like the enemies in Dead Space.

Here's Phil Spencer, he's much better. I'd buy magic beans from him.

Oh a brand new IP (and Xbox exclusive as every thing on the show is) from Crytek of all teams. Unfortunately it's just a few actors dressed up as ancient Greek era warriors. The game doesn't even have an official title, it's called 'Codename: Kingdoms'. They might have well said, Crytek are making us a game, just for us! Wooooo! It would have had the same impact.

It's Halo: Reach time baby! Yep, amazing cinematic opening. Single player campaign play, the graphics engine definitely looks like a step up from Halo 3. Much prettier, much more detailed and much real world grittier. For a game about space soldiers fighting religious aliens. Cool, armour powers are in the single player, as are assassinations, cool. Oh what's he doing, he's getting in a space ship, it's taking off. Okay your flying a cool looking space ship into orbit, probably just a cut scene. No, holy crap it's playable, you fly a UNSC orbital fighter and shoot down Covenant ships. I have just creamed my pants.

Fable 3 presentation was reeeeally under whelming. No mention of the Kinect implications either. Sad face. I woke up Cameron to watch that and it was pretty lame.

Kinect stuff, you can use it to pause and play movies and songs, using your voice or hands, wow, this is a big deal. A really big deal. This is the death of remote controls. Duracell take note! Pretty girl now video chats her friend, also a pretty girl, recite some terrible canned dialogue and watch a movie together using video chat, that's very cool.

Sport game details, time to take a leak and get a coffee... (hey these are my thoughts!)

It's Kinect game time. Kinectamls is amazing. Every member of my household will want this. You can 'touch' your pet, you can teach him tricks by imitating them, rolling over and sitting down, it responds to voice commands and even gets upset when you hide behind the couch out of sight. Kinect Sports looks ready to piss all over Wii Fit and Wii Sports. Looks ten times better and, more importantly, ten times more fun. Ping Pong! Yay!

Joyride next. Demo girl is driving standing up. Stunts are cool, you can drift and super boost your speed by throwing out your hands and swinging your arms. Not clear how she accelerated though. Joyride has a few game modes, racing, stunts... and something else creepy guy didn't mention.

Kinect Adventures. Yes it's also better than Wiii Sports Resort. The guy switches from a one player to a coop game by having his mate just walk into range of the camera, is that really how easy it is to get it working? River rafting looks like mad fun. It photographs you while your playing so you can post your embarrassing pictures online. Great?

'Hip and funky' commercial time with pretty people playing You Shape from Ubisoft, the fitness game all the TV hosts will play when this thing releases. No real solid gameplay, but it sounds good. Oh, wait, gameplay demo now, I spoke too soon. Kinect also knows when the woman takes of her sweater, kinda creepy. In all honesty it looks very flashy, with floating intuitive menus that follow you around the screen as you move and measures your progress. It's like something out of a scifi movie. Aerobics, Tai chi, martial arts workouts, yoga, its all in here. Plus jogging on the spot and some guy friendly stuff like boxing targets and head butting balls.

I should point out that none of these Kinect demo's are down in front of a big white screen or any specially prepared neutral area, it's just a stage with objects and things around, but the tech seems to be working exactly as its always been described. It can't really be this good can it? Really? If you see this footage, and you really should, you'd be hard pressed to tell me it was canned animations. I'm pretty sure everyone in the whole damn world will want this, Kinect will be bigger than Jebus if he was backing the Beatles.

Dance Central demo time. Looks cool, but I can only imagine how painfully I would fail at this. Maybe now I can learn to dance quietly and alone in my living room. Again, if its a canned demonstration they've totally fooled me. Here comes the Harmonix boss with the speech, he doesn't look well though, he might be sick, that would make this a memorable E3. More tracks available to download after release (noticeable snort from the audience). Oh this is good, they've got an admittedly uncoordinated guy to demonstrate Dance Central's capacity to teach. Here he goes... yes it is a bit Napoleon Dynamite. Hey he's doing okay, the dude has balls I'll give him that, he's doing this live to an audience of thousands in Time Square alone.

Yay Phil's back! And Kinect comes out 1st November. Here comes the Star Wars game announcement. Trailer with gameplay! Graphics are a bit early concept but if even half of this is possible its pretty cool. Looks like Clone Wars post Order 66 with a young Obi Wan fighting Storm Troopers and Darth Vader. I reserve judgement till I see someone play it.

Real racing game time. Driving a Ferrari with Kinect in Forza. Sweeeeeeeeeet. Forza looks very much the business, Gran Turismo is now moot, stop waiting for it, it doesn't matter anymore. Need a reason? Vanity mode with Kinect lets you 'walk' around the car and check it out, even kneel down and check the hubs and brakes, you can open the bonnet and poke around the engine, its amazing, you can open the door and take a look inside just by waving your hand. Then you start it up, all with Kinect, and drive that sweet machine. This is the car enthusiasts game, hands down people.

Don Mattricks back, he still looks like Woody from Toy Story. He says Microsoft are transforming the game industry, after what I've seen it doesn't sound like hyperbole at all. Final announcement, the new slim Xbox 360, all confirmed, 250 GB's and WiFi N built in. Say hello to the new slim Xbox 360 which shipped to retailers... today! TODAY! You can buy one within the week and everyone in the audience gets one for free!? Why could I not go to this?

That was actually a pretty amazing show, I believe Kinect could really change gaming and entertainment as we know it. If the tech performs as shown. Still got that nagging doubt until I can read some objective reports from journos hanging around at E3. But from what I saw, wow. No wonder Microsoft are throwing money at this like mad. They're expecting to make an awful lot very soon.

So that's it, I'm going to bed now to get three hours sleep.