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One of the weirdest moments of 2009 was the reveal of the Nintendo Vitality Sensor by the Japanese company, at this summer's E3 trade show. The company said that the new device would be able to read the pulse of a player and could translate that into some interesting gameplay mechanics, some of them based around... |
23 November 2009
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This year, E3 saw Nintendo drowning the crowd in Super Mario titles. The convention offered us some insight into the New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 or Bowser's Inside Story, but other Nintendo names have been shy to come on stage. The Legend of Zelda had a brief and stage-fright-covered performa... |
19 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Nintendo is one of the biggest companies in gaming today, thanks to its permanent innovation and the fact that it manages to market its products extremely well, no matter how strange they may look or feel. But with the recently announced Wii Vitality Sensor, which was introduced to gamers at this year's Electro... |
12 August 2009
04:37 GMT |
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This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles took a big step into the direction of its more successful iterations as all of the big companies arrived and made some pretty interesting announcements, the likes of two new Metal Gear Solid games or Left 4 Dead 2. But one press conference from which... |
10 August 2009
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A lot of video games are scheduled to appear this fall, from certain-to-sell sequels like Modern Warfare 2 or Uncharted 2, to extremely interesting new projects, like Brutal Legend. But one new property that stands out from the rest is Gearbox's Bordelands. Even though the game promises to take players on a fun... |
9 July 2009
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The Game Critics Awards have announced that the PlayStation 3 exclusive title Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been awarded the Best of Show award for the recently finished E3. The game has been judged to be better than Brutal Legend, Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, and Splinter Cell: Conviction.Uncharted 2 also picke... |
24 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the biggest game designers of all time, giving his parent company, Nintendo, a lot of high grossing franchises like Mario or The Legend of Zelda. He has been working for quite some time in the industry and his opinion is highly valued by a lot of people.The famous game designer has recently... |
22 June 2009
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The Game Critics Awards nominations have been announced and apparently the best liked titles at E3 this year have been Brutal Legend, the rock adventure created by Double Fine, and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the Naughty Dog created videogame. The awards are being voted on by gaming critics from 29 press outlets and ... |
17 June 2009
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The Entertainment Software Association declared this year's E3 a success and already announced plans that the 2010 edition of the E3 trade show would take place June 15-17 at the same Los Angeles Convention Center. Apparently, the current format of the show will be maintained for the foreseeable future.This year... |
9 June 2009
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This week, the E3 blow out happened. Almost all of our news articles came out the Los Angeles Convention Centers, as the biggest companies in videogaming showed off the titles and devices that would shape our experiences in the coming year. Here are the biggest pieces of news of the last few days.Monday was all about... |
6 June 2009
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One of the overlooked moments at this year's E3 conference has been the keynote given by Michael Gallagher, the president of the Entertainment Software Association, an organization that is supposed to look out for the interests of the videogaming industry. Amongst the topics that he touched on were piracy, the w... |
5 June 2009
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In a move set to make even more money off of the hugely successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise of movies and video games, Disney has announced that it will publish Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned. Developed by Propaganda Games, this new title will act as a prequel, as it is set before the movie... |
28 May 2009
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The E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) Conference will take place at the beginning of June in Los Angeles. But as you may know, the city is quite close to Mexico, where the swine flu has been rampaging for quite some time. The ESA, the company behind the conference, has revealed that the show will go on and that the ... |
26 May 2009
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The timer featured on the Konami teaser page related to the next Metal Gear game has reached the end of its countdown. And it has revealed a new one, which is set for 120 hours.But the content on the site has been changed a little and apparently those who looked at it closer were able to discern the message ‘5@... |
22 May 2009
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The swine flu is all over the news, affecting quite a lot of countries and leaving them quarantined. But, even though the E3 conference is still taking place, as its organizer, the ESA, isn't afraid of it, it seems that developers and publishers are. Capcom has recently issued a statement, through the voice of ... |
22 May 2009
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It seems that publisher and distributor Atari will not be exhibiting its videogames at the E3 trade show, which is set to take place between June 2 and 4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.A spokesperson for Atari has talked to Joystiq and apparently said that “other selling and marketing initiatives” a... |
15 May 2009
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The current generation of consoles has completely rewritten the whole gaming industry. This is largely due to the Nintendo Wii, which, through its motion-sensitive controllers, has managed to introduce an entirely new concept into the creation of a video game. Seeing as how the gamble paid off and the Wii is the bes... |
13 May 2009
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Harmonix is still hoping to build up more hype around The Beatles: Rock Band by not revealing the complete tracklist for the game until very close to the actual release date, which is set for September 9.Some hoped that a complete reveal might come as close as the E3 trade show, which takes place next month, but thos... |
13 May 2009
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Activision has recently unveiled its financial results for the last quarter of the last fiscal year and during that event, a conference call with investors and analysts revealed more information about the plans that the publisher has for the future. And one of the best-known games getting a big reveal in the coming w... |
11 May 2009
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In case you haven't been aware in the last few days, the Swine Flu is one of the world's most dangerous viruses and threatens to engulf the whole wide world in a pandemic. With the core of the outbreak around Mexico, slowly but surely the virus has spread around key points in almost every continent. But ev... |
30 April 2009
14:11 GMT |
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It seems that Twitter is beginning to change the gaming world. Recently, it was used by a student to break the news that Lionhead was set to unveil its most recent project at E3, with the rumor indicating that the game would not be Fable III, but a totally new project.It seems that Andrew Lindsay, who is the animatio... |
23 April 2009
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There have been a lot of calls lately, coming from both game developers, like the guys who have created LittleBigPlanet, and from analysts of the videogame market, for Sony to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 home gaming console by about 100 dollars in order to bring it closer to the price of its closest rival, the... |
24 March 2009
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The Entertainment Software Association, the entity organizing the E3 trade show, is saying that the videogame-oriented event is set to attract about 40,000 visitors this year and that over 90% of the space available for participant companies has already been allocated to about 100 companies.Last year, E3 was a rather... |
20 March 2009
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Gaming, as has been the case with many other branches of the entertainment industry, has had a cult-like following for quite some time. This massive number of fans and gamers from all across the world have sometimes gathered to watch companies unveil their new titles or future ones, thus taking part in fully-pledged ... |
18 February 2009
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E3 might be bigger and more visitor-friendly this year, but one of the most important video-game creators in the world, Blizzard, has chosen not to return to the show, probably still remembering the rather lackluster 2007 and 2008 editions of E3. Talking to gaming magazine, Edge Bob Colayco, who is the public relati... |
9 February 2009
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Ahh, the E3s of old... I never attended but I always gawked at the photos on the various gaming sites showing the wide spaces filled with gamers, the extravagant and extraordinary booths, the lovely ladies who presented the games of the upcoming fall and winter. It was somehow sad to see the downsized 2008 edition of... |
3 February 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 as it is commonly referred to, used to be a veritable showcase of gaming extravaganza, where companies heavily promoted their games and made big announcements about their future projects. Sadly, the last couple of years, after having changed ownership, E3 became more of a high... |
10 December 2008
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The Entertainment Software Association is now officially confirming that the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3, will be different in 2009. The trade show will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center, but the public will not be invited to attend, as some people speculated.The ESA says that the show w... |
24 October 2008
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This year's E3, the trade show organized by the Entertainment Software Association, was a bit of a disappointment. Microsoft did not make any big announcement, other than revealing that the next Final Fantasy would not be a PlayStaton 3 exclusive, while Nintendo annoyed some fans by putting Wii Music at the cent... |
21 October 2008
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Can success doom an event? I bet this is the question that the organizers of the Leipzig Games Convention are trying to answer right about now. Their show has been said to have been batter than this year's E3, mainly because it managed to serve both fans and industry insiders. The organizers, the very Germa... |
1 September 2008
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The Game Critics Awards is a group of journalists part of 36 North American media outlets. They are game columnists in charge of scouring the floor of E3 to see which releases are the best of the show. Of course, once their deliberations are complete, they are ready to share their knowledge with the masses. The award... |
6 August 2008
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EA Sports top man Peter Moore has joined the ranks of those calling for a return to the old way of organizing E3, with visitors allowed to enter the show and watch the games being demoed by developers and publishers.The president of EA Sports did not hold back on the criticism. He said that "There was a palpable sens... |
28 July 2008
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All is not well when it comes to E3, which took place last week in its usual Los Angeles setting. More and more industry leaders are expressing public discontent regarding the way the show is run and most are pointing an accusatory finger at the Entertainment Software Association.John Riccitiello, Chief Executive Off... |
21 July 2008
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Rumors were ragging before E3 that Bungie was about to release some information regarding an upcoming project. Gamespot even said it had reliable insider information that detailed a new game in the Halo franchise which focused on squad based action and not on Master Chief. But Monday, the Microsoft press conference c... |
17 July 2008
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Nintendo has not yet held its annual E3 press conference, where a big announcement regarding the Nintendo Wii or a Nintendo-made game is expected, but it has released some information on a new hardware accessory for its gaming console.The add-on is called MotionPlus and is designed to fit perfectly on the lower end o... |
16 July 2008
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Everybody seems to love Banjo Kazooie, otherwise Rare's franchise wouldn't get a third installment this November. They do risk a bit with the game's mechanics and the "build whatever vehicle you want" thing, according to some of the more traditional gamers, but we all know that, in the end, any change ... |
15 July 2008
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Everybody agrees that whenever two supernatural worlds collide, chaos emerges and only one category of people has something to win out of it: gamers. And it seems that we're up for one of the biggest treats in recent times, since the new Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe looks incredibly great at E3 and we're 1... |
15 July 2008
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When does something become "official"? Usually, when the company in charge of the product talks to the public and the press and confirms what people have been talking about for some time. Well, when it comes to Microsoft, things don't generally work this way. The software giant tends to play upon rumors, first i... |
11 July 2008
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EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich believes that the PlayStation 3 is set to continue its run of good sales numbers and will again outsell the Microsoft Xbox 360 in June. He made the remarks when commenting on the numbers regarding May, that have been recently released by the NPD.With Grand Theft Auto IV making less of an i... |
16 June 2008
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IG Fun LLC, the international publishing arm of Indiagames Ltd, India's benchmark online and mobile games company recently announced, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, that it will bring BioShock, one of the most awarded PC & Console games in the history of gaming, on the mobile platform. IG Fun secured... |
13 February 2008
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Namco Bandai (America) has recently revealed to the press (and in a proud manner too) that the online demo of their highly-anticipated flying sim, Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation has debuted as the #1 downloadable demo on Xbox Live during Microsoft's E3: Bringing it Home Experience. The official report speaks ... |
27 July 2007
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Just a little while ago we finished talking about Silicon Knights' lawsuit filed against Epic, for not complying with the terms of the two companies' agreement over the Unreal Engine 3 used in SK's Too Human for the PS3. Now, a piece up on GameDaily.biz has some details on why SK decided not to show an... |
20 July 2007
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GTA fans worldwide were surely keen on finding out more on the much anticipated GTA IV from Rockstar. As it turns out, Take-Two's presentation of the game at E3 was rather short and didn't bring many new details on the game. You'd think that for a game of such magnitude they'd have something aweso... |
13 July 2007
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Third-party video game publisher, Atari has just announced the company's line-up of products for the E3 Media and Business Summit, taking place July 11 - 13 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California. As the official report informs, the Atari booth (518 and 520) will feature games spanning multiple genres and ... |
10 July 2007
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There was no question about Sony eventually cutting the price on their PS3, but so soon...? The advertisement you see on the left may just be the first confirmation of a price cut for the PS3. Analysts were betting on a Christmas price cut for the machine, autumn the earliest. But, the DVD Talk forums discovered this... |
6 July 2007
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NCsoft has just revealed its lineup for the E3 Media & Business Summit July 11-13 in Santa Monica, where the company will provide a preview of its most anticipated online titles slated for a release in both 2007 and 2008. Below, you have a few words from Ncsoft's CEO of North America, Robert Garriott and a littl... |
4 July 2007
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If you don't have a ticket to the E3 convention this year (and I believe you don't), there is a way to still take part in this grandiose event, even from the comfort of your home. Just as last year, Microsoft is allowing Xbox 360 users to find out exclusive E3 details through its second annual E3: Bringing ... |
3 July 2007
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According to a rather small Spanish website, Microsoft's Xbox 360 Elite will be launching in Spain on the 24th of August for the price of €449.95, bringing it to 302 in Pounds, as I've picked up on this story via 360Gamer. Now, leaving aside that Microsoft wouldn't, under any circumstances, leak vital ... |
26 June 2007
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Mostly, we hear of leaked features of a new gadget, leaked photos or leaked info on a video game. This time around however, someone managed to leak Microsoft's E3 lineup of events, which may not sound appealing as a headline, but will surely make your day if games such as Gears of War 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, or D... |
18 June 2007
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Earlier this week we talked about the PSP-phone from Sony Ericsson. No, today's news isn't about the PSP-phone, but the new and improved PSP that I was furious to hear nothing about in a long time. Thankfully, sources close to Sony have made available some juicy details about the new portable system. Everyt... |
10 June 2007
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