Rumor: Old E3 to return? (1)
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Filed under: Rumors 60,000 gamers crammed together in one sweaty convention center. Women in skimpy outfits, paraded like pieces of meat. A gigantic, deafening, cacophonous din.Yep, the old-style E3 really was glorious. But in all seriousness, it seems as though most of the internet would kill for a return to the old format. Whether it's because of the muted reception to this year's horribly empty E3 Media and Business Summit, or simply a hangover from ...
Will Wright calls E3 a walking corpse (10)
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Filed under: E3, Business The latest bandwagon that people seem to be hopping onto is the "Let's bash E3" express. We've had our own prognosticator proclaiming that the video game expo is past its prime, and now Will Wright is joining in by delivering a couple of swift kicks to the ribs. Then he backed over it a few times with his car before driving to his giant Scrooge McDuck pool of money and diving ...
E308: WiiSpeak with Mario (1)
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Filed under: News Nintendo's WiiSpeak demo was one of the freakiest things that happened during E3. Basically, Nintendo had an Animal Crossing demo running in their conference room, with a WiiSpeak mic connected. In an undisclosed location somewhere else in the convention center, Charles Martinet was also playing City Folk, with a Mario-style avatar, and riffing in the Mario voice with whoever happened to wander by.Mostly, this entailed yelling at other players for messing with ...
Hiphopgamer Sets The Record Straight With Aaron Greenberg (1)
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Hiphopgamer ran into Aaron Greenberg at the Sony press conference and called him out on his claims against Sony. Aaron took up the challenge like a true pro and didn’t back down.
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Sean said:
He may not have backed down, but he fell down!
Zero Punctuation apparently missed the actual E3 (1)
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Filed under: Culture This week's Zero Punctuation makes us wonder: What E3 is Yahtzee talking about? Perhaps things seemed different from the outside, but this year's show actually saw a slew of original titles -- shockingly enough, many from the maw of EA. Sure, there is some serious sequelitus going on (and certain outlets really need to stop riding RE4 v2 RE5's rooster), but we were pleasantly surprised by some of the new IPs. Oh ...
The Last Guy Is Here To Rescue You (1)
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Recently at E3, SCEA announced some really cool PlayStation Network titles, including Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, Fat Princess, Flower and Crash Commando. Well, the goods keep on coming because I’m excited to tell you today about ANOTHER new downloadable title we are bringing to PSN very soon: The Last Guy. Before I say too much else about it, fire up this first-look gameplay trailer to learn a little bit about the premise ...
Fuel for debate: More E3 'best of' award winners announced (1)
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 Everyone has an opinion - especially when it comes to which games at this year's E3 were the very best. IGN voiced its yesterday; today we have the results of what we're sure was heated voting at 1UP, GameTrailers, and G4's X-Play. Okay, we're not totally sure the voting was heated, but we can only imagine it was given the chairs thrown ...
The NSFAmerica Dead Space 'Lullaby' trailer (2)
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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, ActionSend the kids to bed, dear readers. It's grown folks time. The Dead Space "Lullaby" trailer we've placed cautiously after the jump is full of ominous environments, severed limbs, and creepy children's songs -- the horror game trailer trifecta. In fact, Ars Technica reports that shortly after viewing the trailer at E3, they received an email from Electronic Arts telling them that the ESRB refused to ...
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Seriously? That was kind of lame in my opinion.
Peter Moore calls E3 'soulless,' calls for public event (2)
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Filed under: E3, Business His face may be broken, but EA's Peter Moore likes to speak his mind, and what's on his mind lately is last week's E3, a gathering that he thinks can be fixed by opening it up to the public. Whoa, maybe all of that ink has gone to his brain, or has he already forgotten the madhouse that the annual used to be, when everyone and their brother seemed to find ...
Mirror’s Edge: on the margins of the nanny state (1)
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The unnamed futuristic city of Mirror's Edge is safe, clean and technologically sophisticated. But if you send an email to your friend, it will be intercepted and read by the police before being passed on. This is the situation Faith, the game's protagonist, finds herself in. While no one in the city is oppressed, surveillance is ubiquitous. Keeping secrets is practically impossible unless you are the government. In effect, it is the spitting image of ...
Feeling Flower (1)
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Jenova Chen, Co-Founder of thatgamecompany, explained Flower was not in the usual emotional spectrum of video games. If all you care about is the gameplay, Flower is a tilt controlled game where you guide an airborne flower petal from one flower to the next. When distilled into the tilting Flower doesn’t sound like anything special. But, Flower is something special and one of the most interesting games I played at E3. Flower begins in a ...
Nintendo's Desire for More Gamers is Anything But 'Casual' (1)
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LOS ANGELES -- Katsuya Eguchi might have the toughest job at Nintendo. As the head of the Kyoto game maker's Software Development Group No. 2, Eguchi (pictured right) produces the company's flagship "expanded audience" titles like Wii Sports, the pick-up-and-play experiences that are bringing new gamers in by the truckload to Nintendo's fold. The Wii's unprecedented success -- well over 25 million units sold in less than two years -- is in great part down ...
LittleBigPlanet started off as a music game (1)
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The original idea behind LittleBigPlanet, the largely user-generated platforming title from Media Molecule, was to give musicians a chance to jam with each other online over the Playstation Network. As it turned out, using the Playstation 3 as a conduit for collaborative improvisation and rehearsal was a trickier problem than expected. Luckily, a whole lot of new concepts arose out of the experiment, including the collaborative gameplay features that now figure as the title's central ...
Sony's Fat Princess Causing Controversy (2)
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It’s not always easy to predict which video games are going to upset people. One of the games that debuted at last week’s E3 was Sony and Titan Studios’ upcoming PSN title Fat Princess, a cartoony, capture-the-flag game in which the object is to rescue your princess from the enemy’s dungeon. The hook is that the enemy is plumping up your princess with cake, making her more and more difficult to haul back.It’s cute. It’s ...
E308: DS Fanboy plays God with Populous DS (2)
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Filed under: Features It's been a very long time since I played Populous. In fact, the only version I ever got to play was the SNES port (the game first released on the PC, Atari ST-1 and Amiga) back in the day. But, I did play that port quite a bit in my youth, so seeing the game hit the DS is very exciting to me. Populous DS very much feels like the game of ...
Watch the direct feed Mirror's Edge demo (2)
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Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters It occurred to us that despite all our passion for first-person parkour-inspired game Mirror's Edge, you probably still don't get the appeal unless you've seen it in action. "A girl running around on rooftops fighting crime?" you ask with a sneer. "I liked it better the first time, when it was a guy, and it was called Batman." We understand distrust of the ...
E308: Mega Man 9 video lets you start memorizing a level now (1)
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Filed under: Video Our operative (me) couldn't even get through the Plug Man level featured in the E3 Mega Man 9 demo. The heroes at Gamersyde, however, succeeded in that task, and recorded the event as well. That means a whole level of Mega Man 9 for your viewing pleasure, in only slightly shaky cam-vision. Or at least as much of a level as was available: the bosses were not present in the demo, with ...
Nintendo failed to notify third-party devs of MotionPlus prior to E3 (8)
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Filed under: Gaming We weren't terribly impressed with Nintendo's recently unveiled MotionPlus add-on, but we're even more disappointed by this. Reportedly, scads of third-party developers revealed at E3 that the Big N's latest Wiimote accessory was just as much a surprise to them as it was to any of us. In other words, Nintendo didn't bother giving its external devs any advance notice in order to get the ball rolling on compatible titles, or so ...
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Stupid move, but somehow I doubt that this will have much impact to Nintendo. I've seen that most people only buy the 1st party games anyway...
E3 2008: Red Faction is back, and it’s fun as hell (1)
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Do you like to blow things up? Do you like to watch buildings come down? Then you probably bought into the hype of Red Faction 1 and 2, both of which promised a lot of that, and delivered, well, not as much as we’d have liked. Fortunately, Volition has been spending the last four years making the game that should have been made back in 2001. More screens and impressions inside. I was one of ...
Capcom to sell intentionally awful Mega Man 9 shirts (7)
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Filed under: Culture, Retro, Nintendo Wii, Fashion In keeping with the retro-y spirit of Mega Man 9, Capcom decided to commission I Am 8-bit artist Gerald de Jesus to create the most awful faux box art possible for the game. Capcom then put it on T-shirts for its staff to wear at E3. The idea was to mimic the atrocious cover of the original Mega Man for NES (widely considered to be the worst box ...
