The doors to TGS opened about 15 minutes ago and the Sony keynote is set to start in another 15. Kotaku writers are currently scattered to the wind, playing Metal Gear Solid 4, checking out booths, taking pictures and prepping to liveblog the keynote. Me? I'm hanging out in the stripped down sauna known as the TGS press room, a no-frills linoleum-floored box filled with folding tables and chairs and staffed with two TGS employees sitting behind a row of drink dispensers

At other shows people sprint to the games, here they sprint to the press room, because it's small, wifi-less and a necessary evil.

According to the press release they handed out with the TGS press pack this year's show will have 97 exhibitors, 1,735 booths featuring 217 companies.

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