E3 seemed a little light on the swag front this year, with the only covetable things on my list being Sony's Ape Escape dolls and Square-Enix's Dragon Quest slime keychains. The one thing that did fire up the fanboy inside me was Konami's Kojima Productions pamphlet. Normally, corporate pamphlets are a staid affair, seemingly created specifically to line the garbage cans of the L.A. County Convention Center.

Last year's Kojima Productions kit was a lovingly crafted work of marketing art, an oversized, Hideo-heavy focus on the newly formed production offshoot. This year the team went all out, creating a 58-page magazine dedicated to Kojima Productions that apes the style of the E3 show floor daily. Unfortunately for the staff at the Konami spin-off E3's daily magazine changed publishers this year, resulting in a different appearance for 2006, but longtime E3 attendees recognized the similarities immediately.

Awkwardly titled "Show Maybe?" (after Show Daily) The mag has a series of interviews with staffers including Kojima himself and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops producer Noriaki Okamura, plus articles on the titles Metal Gear Digital Graphic Novel, Lunar Knights and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Tons more Metal Gear minutiae include detailed descriptions of every Hidechan radio program, as well as partial transcriptions, and info on the english language counterpart Kojima Productions Report. Metal Gear character artist Yoji Skinkawa also gets a little back-slapping from his co-workers, who's artwork was featured at this year's Into the Pixel gallery show.

I snagged an extra "Show Maybe?" for the Kotaku swag bag, which one lucky reader will have an opportunity to win when our contest goes live. Keep your eyes open for an announcement.

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