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The Asia Game Show, which was held in Hong Kong, China, from December 23 to December 26, has officially become the world’s largest gaming convention, with over 472,000 people attending the exhibition last month.
Gaming is pretty much part of mainstream culture, at least when you consider the huge conventions t... |
3 January 2012
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Microsoft is expected to announce the next generation Xbox 720 console at the 2013 edition of E3 and release it onto the market either later that year or in early 2014, at least according to a batch of new rumors that have surfaced on the web.Current generation consoles are certainly feeling the drawbacks of their ag... |
21 October 2011
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The E3 2011 conference has just closed its doors in the lovely Los Angeles, and, just like usual, the gaming media is debating over which company actually "won" E3 by making the biggest announcements and capturing the attention of all attendants.Last year, it was a pretty cut and dry affair, with Microsoft and Sony p... |
11 June 2011
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Microsoft has yet to confirm officially that Kinect is coming to Windows 8, but I have a pretty good feeling about this, especially since a company representative told me last year that the software giant was hard at work porting the NUI technology beyond Xbox. The E3 2011 demos that the Redmond company presented, e... |
8 June 2011
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Nintendo is getting ready to debut the successor to its massively popular Wii home console tomorrow at the E3 2011 conference, and the newest rumor hints that the device could simply be called Nintendo.
The Japanese company formally admitted, after months of rumors and speculation, that it will present the success... |
6 June 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: I will be in Los Angeles, California during next week, reporting on the biggest gaming related expo in the world E3 and this weekend most of my time will be used playing the pack-my-bags-tight-game and enjoying the worry-about-airplane-safety experience.Strangely going to a place where I am likely ... |
3 June 2011
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The well-known retailer Target has attached a price of 299.99 dollars to the Xbox 360 home gaming console on its official Video Game section of its online store, suggesting that the Microsoft-made platform might be preparing for a price cut at the upcoming E3 trade show. At the moment the 250 GB hard drive version o... |
31 May 2011
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The E3 annual trade show is just a short two weeks away and already companies have said much about what they plan to show on the floor and behind closed doors, but analysts still believe that there are a few surprises that gamers can look forward to. Eiji Maeda, who is a senior analyst at SMBC, has made predictions ... |
26 May 2011
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Price cuts to platforms like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony's PlayStation 3 are coming, at least according to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who talked about the current generation of platforms.
While the gaming industry wasn't severely affected by the recession, consumer spending power has decreased, s... |
11 May 2011
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Rayman Origins has received its first actual details, confirming that this long-rumored project is still being developed by Ubisoft.
Game Informer magazine ran a wide cover story on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Revelations, but also reserved space for Rayman Origins, an often-rumored game, which received ... |
10 May 2011
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Activision held its earnings call yesterday, but declined to actually reveal its next Call of Duty game, limiting itself to saying that it's going to set a new standard for the blockbuster franchise.
Many Call of Duty fans were expecting the announcement of the next game in the series, presumably Call of Duty... |
10 May 2011
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Ubisoft has just revealed the next game in its Assassin's Creed franchise, called Assassin's Creed: Revelations, which will be released this November and playable at next month's E3 conference.
The Assassin's Creed franchise is definitely one of Ubisoft's most important series, managing to... |
6 May 2011
12:21 GMT |
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The recently confirmed Nintendo Wii successor will be playable by everyone at this summer's E3 conference in Los Angeles and, according to the president of the Japanese company, will offer lots of new things over its competitors and even the old Wii.
Nintendo decided to officially confirm that it is working o... |
26 April 2011
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After a huge amount of speculation and rumors that appeared in the last couple of weeks, Nintendo has confirmed in an official statement that it will be announcing a successor for its Wii home console at this year's E3 conference.
Nintendo has been rumored to be preparing a Wii 2 or Wii HD console that will t... |
26 April 2011
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Rock Band and Dance Central developer Harmonix has announced that it plans to make an important announcement at the E3 trade conference, which will take place in the early days of June, presumably announcing a new project linked to its two main series.
Speaking with Industry Gamers, Greg LoPiccolo, who is a vice p... |
20 April 2011
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The games industry has been set ablaze by recent reports concerning a successor to the massively popular Nintendo Wii console, with many publications and websites citing inside sources and revealing details about the new device.
Nintendo's Wii home console is starting to show its age, with sales slipping each... |
15 April 2011
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The first actual image of Hitman 5 may have been revealed by its developer, IO Interactive, over the weekend as part of an investigation game it had hosted on its official forums.
Bear in mind that this isn't actually confirmed, as IO is still playing coy and continues its viral campaign.
The whole thing s... |
21 March 2011
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A successor to the Nintendo Wii, the so-called Wii 2 or Wii HD, may be revealed at this year's E3 conference in Los Angeles, at least according to analyst Arvind Bhatia.
Nintendo's Wii home console crushed its opposition when it came out, but now, as both Sony and Microsoft countered with new technologie... |
11 March 2011
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Michael Pachter, an analyst working for Wedbush Morgan, has predicted that Microsoft will announce a price cut for the Xbox 360 during the month of June, probably at E3, and that both Sony and Nintendo will then feel the pressure and also make their own consoles cheaper, allowing a wider number of gamers to pick them... |
8 March 2011
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Bungie's new video game, set to be published by Activision is very exciting, according to the company, but won't arrive this year.
During a recent investor's call, Activision decided to share a few details about Bungie's project, but still played coy and secretive.
"This is an opportunity wh... |
11 February 2011
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Grand Theft Auto V, the latest installment in Rockstar's hugely popular franchise, is set to be officially announced at this summer's E3 conference, at least according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia.
While Rockstar's latest games, Red Dead Redemption and the upcoming L.A. Noire are all fine an... |
4 February 2011
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Nintendo has announced that it will be participating in the Consumer Electronics Show in 2011, marking its first appearance at the exhibition event in 16 years, showing that the company is eager to use the event in order to promote its upcoming hardware, probably with a focus on the Nintendo 3DS handheld.CES will be ... |
25 November 2010
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The nominations for the video games shown at the E3 event have been announced for the Game Critics Awards. The most nominated game is Rage, the id made shooter, managing to score five possible awards, followed by the likes of Portal 2, Epic Mickey and Dace Central, each with four. EA Sports is dominating the sports c... |
30 June 2010
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Kicked off on Tuesday with a series of announcements from hot-shot companies like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has spawned a few Apple-related announcements, including the shipping date for Portal 2 for Mac, Capcom’s classic arcade shooter First Strike for the iPhone, an... |
16 June 2010
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We reviewed Alpha Protocol last week, giving it one of the best scores it had gotten from the gaming press, but we've kept playing the game this week, detailing our branching narrative experiences in a series of diaries. And, apart from a Weekend Reading feature linked with the Obsidian role playing action hybri... |
13 June 2010
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Nintendo has just announced, via its Japanese website, which is rather unusual, that it is set to launch a new handheld device in fiscal year 2011, which means before the end of March 2011.The fresh platform will be called Nintendo 3DS, which is a temporary name, and will apparently allow players to experience 30 FPS... |
24 March 2010
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Warhammer 40,000 is one of the biggest franchises publisher THQ now has and with the release of Dawn of War II in 2009 being a successful one, the company is also preparing a MMO set in the same universe, which is being developed by the team at Vigil. And Brian Farrell, who is the Chief Executive Officer at THQ, has ... |
8 February 2010
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There's nothing quite like a good gossip to set our hearts on fire, especially when it's juicy news about upcoming games. And if it's one thing that rumors need, that is further charcoal to liven up their fire. The latest issue of the PlayStation: The Official Magazine has reached its subscribers, and ... |
11 January 2010
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After getting a official word from the management, Project Natal's launch has been announced as coming before Christmas, and with this, more details have started flowing. Most of them come from the CES 2010, and some are more interesting than others. New Scientist has been awarded the honor of an actual demonstr... |
8 January 2010
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In spite of its attempts to put on a good show and look really brave, Take-Two has proven that a year in which it doesn't have a Grand Theft Auto game to publish is going to be an unprofitable one for the developer. Even with its Borderlands selling more than two million copies, the company ended up below zero o... |
28 December 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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