Gaming has seeped into the culture as a whole, but as it becomes more tightly woven into the fabric of everyday life, it also becomes highly fragmented. The audience for is mostly different from people who play the Harvest Moon games.

Even if you just count first-person shooter games, E3 would lead you to believe that only big budget military shooters existed. As PCWorld's Alex Wawro noted in his analysis on at E3, most of the media, at least, seemed to be tired of these games, most of which are hard to distinguish from each other. Yet Valve is readying , a multiplayer shooter that will retail for just $15--and that wasn't shown at E3.

And for all the big budget RPGs that get press, like , games like Shadowrun from may end up being far better titles.

So if you're considering the game you'd like to play next, take a little time to dig around. Don't just go for the big games that make a big splashes at E3. There are great games out there, waiting to be discovered.