This week as you may have noticed Microsoft has been holding an invite only event in San Francisco. The reason I assume you have noticed it is the huge amount of media frenzy it's been generating on gaming sites all across the web.

I have been looking on with interest over the course of the event and have eagerly been awaiting the expected barrage of screenshots, gameplay and big announcements that usually come with events of this type. I have therefore been disappointed as Microsoft's Event has simply boiled down to being a series of uneventful release date announcements and a handful of screenshots. The highlight of the week so far has been the release of a Halo: Reach vidoc.

Let's look at the announcements so far

Halo: Reach... No solid release date but the good news is that they will be making the beta available in the summer for Halo: ODST owners, the only new news is that you will require your ODST disk to play the beta.

Alan Wake... finally a release date May 18th.

Dead rising 2... August release but Xbox 360 users will be able to buy a special prologue called case zero which ties together the first and second games, I'm personally not sure how to feel about this as the developer has said that this will act as the games demo, I don't like paying for demos.

Modern Warfare 2... Map pack coming spring.

Final Fantasy XIII... special-edition bundle with a 250GB hard drive, two wireless controllers, exclusive add-ons for the game, and a copy of the title for $400 on March 9.Does this mean owners of existing 360's will have to fork out for a new console if they want the exclusive add-ons?

Splinter cell conviction… release date set for April 13, is this even news? They already told us this

Lost planet 2… Set for May 18 release and you can play as Gears of War characters and Albert Wesker. Pretty sure there was a video to this effect on my dashboard a while ago

Block party… basically a busy march on XBLA with releases for Perfect Dark, Toy Soldiers and Scrap Metal, A similar event to last year's summer of arcade.

This year releases for Crackdown 2, DLC for left 4 dead 2 and Natal.

I for one have been seriously disappointed by this and I am still sort of angry that the developers have been showing off working game footage at the show and releasing more substantial information that we as the game buying public are not privy too, this event stinks of Microsoft buying good favor with the review sites because as far as information trickling down to the eventual end users a Spreadsheet would have done the trick.

What are your feelings on the X10 event ?