It looks like Half-Life 2 envy gave everyone at E3 crabs, because that was the theme with a lot of games this year. Crabs! This hilarious blog post outlines all the games that got crabs that was shown at E3 this year.

Due to the “me too” nature of a lot of game publishers, pretty much every E3 has a very visible trend, like toon shading or World War 2 shooters. The trend that was noticeable this year, to me, was crabs. Yes, crabs. It became very obvious right from the start during Sony’s press conference. Microsoft’s subsequent showing confirmed it.