This weekend, drunk pandas and I attended the Digital Life consumer electronics show in New York City on Saturday. Here is a quick recap of what went on and some of the cool things that are coming out.

• We arrive and are greeted by the VS Energy Drink crew outside and they forced lukewarm energy drink down our throats. Something about warm, grape flavored soda at 10 am is not delicious.
• There is a line of no less than 500 people waiting to get in and countless more paying the entrance fee. We are able to don our press passes and sneak through some fire exits and make it in ahead of everyone else. Ninjas indeed.
• drunk pandas and I make our way to the Guitar Hero III expo booth and pandas rocks out a high score on Pearl Jam’s Evenflow. High fives abound. Expect a GH3 giveaway from us coming soon. Red Octane guys were cool as shit.
• Next up was our America’s Army Virtual Soldier Experience. We have to register our names and address, so we will be getting recruiting swag in no time. The exhibit was bad ass. We sat on the edge of a Hummer in front of a large screen and got to fire real size M249-SAW replicas at the screen against some Iraqi terrorists in a rescue mission. The simulation was awesome, but this was a motivated booth. You can call it propaganda or recruiting depending on your point of view, but it was still fun nonetheless.
• We visited the Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar booth to get a good look at their upcoming game. Needless to say, we were both very impressed. Expect more on this very soon.
• We met with the EA games designers from Crysis. The game looked awesome, but to run this game, your PC needs to be a monster. DX 10 card will cost you about 500 bucks. I asked if and when they would port it to the 360., no comment.

There is much more to discuss and expect some new giveaways and some contests as a result. We made some awesome contacts and we will have much more that will benefit our readers as well as some exclusive interviews as well as some site changes.