Posts Under E3’10 Category

Amidst the beeping of Pac-Man: Battle Royale and the colorful fury of  Naruto and Dragonball Z titles, one station at Namco Bandai was brooding with anticipation. With an enormous statue dedicated to its main character and a screen popping with eviscerating fury, I found myself drawn into the darkness of a demo showcasing Splatterhouse. Talking [...]

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One booth that was the talk of the town during E3 was the slice of expo-real estate dedicated to promoting Lucha Libre AAA: Heroes Del Ring. Aiming to engage players by throwing them into the almost mythological world of masked wrestling, the game’s promoters set up an actual ring and had several of the sport’s [...]

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Last year, Activision managed to find a way to breathe new life into the rhythm/music genre which felt like it had already reached it’s apex.  Up until then, every title gave faux-rockers the same opportunity to wail on their plastic instruments, and admittedly, it started feeling rather stale.  Looking to capitalize on the popularity of [...]

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Thanks to the communication skills of our resident PR experts, I had a chance to take in a Behind-Closed-Doors demo of Deus Ex: Human Revolution over at the enormous Square Enix booth. A prequel to the illustrious Deus Ex of yesteryear, this installment finds itself in the hands of  Eidos Montreal,  and boy do those [...]

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Something I’d been looking forward to ever since seeing my E3 schedule, once I arrived at the demo for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West I found my curiosity at this upcoming title reaching a boiling point. Set 150 years in the future, Enslaved tells the story of a young wind-farmer and a solitary wasteland warrior [...]

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To be honest, I really didn’t know what to expect from Pipeworks and SPIKE Games entry into E3 courtesy of Deadliest Warrior. Based around the successful television program of the same name, the game pits eight historical combatants against one another to finally answer the hard questions life has thrown at us over the years; [...]

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We’ve been spending the entire week running around at E3, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have the time to find some exclusive achievements.  While checking out D3Publisher’s Puzzle Quest 2, we were offered a first look at the game’s full achievement set. The achievements for this game show off quite a fun attitude [...]

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Heading over to the 2K booth I was greeted with a pleasant surprise in the form of a demo session showcasing 2K Marin‘s latest foray into First Person Shooters, but with a patented 2K twist. What else should you expect from the wizards behind the atmospheric Bioshock 2? X-COM is a re-imagining of sorts for [...]

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Yes, that was supposed to say Warp, due to the opening of the Ubisoft show. This year’s Ubisoft Press Conference was much more interesting that last year’s: there was no James Cameron speaking for an hour in monotone about Avatar: The Game and the movie. It was fun and action packed, and Ubisoft showed quite [...]

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We’ll admit it – We like sports, and we don’t care who knows.  At the Microsoft briefing on Monday morning, an announcement was made that takes serious strides toward integrating the Xbox 360 into the lives of an entirely new audience.  With Sportscenter anchors Trey Wingo and Josh Elliot on the big stage, it was [...]

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