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Entries Tagged as 'E3'

Wii Speak – Speaker Phone

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Nintendo’s press coverage is on the move, currently they’ve demonstrated Wii Speak which will allow voice chat on your Nintendo Wii console. Although the Xbox 360 has had voice chat since its day one release, Nintendo is bringing it in a new unique way: community chat. Basically, the device which will go on top of [...]

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Tags: E3 · Nintendo · Wii

Sony’s Software Development Beta Projects

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

It seems we’ve seen a lot of great concepts from Sony for their PlayStation 3 product line but very little has managed to hit the software virtual shelves. We’ve heard of Sony’s Afrika for the PS3 back at E3 in 2006 and we’re looking at it for 2008′s holiday lineup. We’ve heard about Sony Home [...]

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Tags: E3 · Editorial · Microsoft · Sony

SimAnimals, The Next Gen Black & White

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Electronic Arts has announced SimAnimals, a game where you play the godlike hand and control the lifestyle of over 60 animals. In the game you’ll play the role of a disembodied hand which moves around and life animals, pick flowers and interact with the environment much like a past Lionhead Studios game: Black and White. [...]

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Tags: DS · E3 · electronic arts · Industry News · Simulations · Wii

Xbox 360: Play Games From Hard Drive

July 14th, 2008 · 39 Comments

Major Nelson outlined some of the new features coming to Dashboard and the Xbox 360. Besides the avatar feature, which is cute, we’re going to have the ability to install games directly to the hard drive and play them. This feature explains the recent press release about the 60GB Xbox 360 and the price drop [...]

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Tags: E3 · Microsoft · Xbox 360

Netflix and Xbox 360 – It’s a Deal

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re a Netflix subscriber and own an Xbox 360 you’ll be able to watch the entire library of Netflix programming on your console. This deal, recently announced at E3, puts Microsoft in a great way in terms of being the console to buy for multi-media entertainment against its Rival Sony. While the Wii can’t [...]

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Tags: E3 · Industry News · Microsoft · Xbox 360

Microsoft Avatar’s and Dashboard

July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Microsoft has come out and validated some earlier rumors about Xbox 360 Avatar’s and their 3D dashboard design. Apparently, this is to build more of a community and bring a bit of the Mii-like influence from the Nintendo Wii to the 360 hardware. It seems Microsoft is taking some of the concepts from the Nintendo [...]

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Tags: E3 · Industry News · Microsoft · Nintendo · Xbox 360

Wii Motion Plus: Hardware Fix?

July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Nintendo has already announced the Wii Motion Plus at E3. This device is supposed to fine tune the motion sensing capabilities of the Wii controller and make it a bit more refined for gaming. Sounds, to me, like a hardware patch, no? 1up is reporting: “The Wii MotionPlus accessory attaches to the end of the [...]

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Tags: E3 · Industry News · Wii

Video Games Are Entertaining, E3, Not So Much

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Most folks in the game industry are already writing off E3 as an actual event to be attending. Even Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is calling it “virtually useless” for both retail and investors. The writing is on the wall and the reasons are obvious. Publishers and developers didn’t want to invest the millions of [...]

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