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Remember back at last year's E3 when Kaz Hirai showed how the PSP could be used as a rearview mirror in Gran Turismo? Sony hasn't made secret its plans to increase connectivity between the PS3 and the PSP. But now, the company is trying to get gamers to rank how appealing certain PS3/PSP features would or could be. Remember, this isn't Sony confirming anything, but rather, feeling out the Joe Q. Gamer. Included in the survey: More »
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the kick off of the final E3 as we used to know it. Part videogame industry expo, part freakshow, we were barraged by the hypnotic lights and the well-tanned thighs of booth babes trying to compensate for shit graphics and me-too gameplay for three solid days. More »
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If you followed our E3 2006 coverage last year, you'll remember that the Sony PlayStation booth was, in a word, gargantuan. Even at Tokyo Game Show, the PlayStation 3 and PSP area was simply massive, with a room bigger than all the apartments I've ever lived in just dedicated to trailers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=227191&view=rss&microfeed=true Bioware has recently posted its Mass Effect X06 gameplay vid. I checked out this title at E3 was extremely impressed with how the game handles dialogue scenes. Instead of just toggling through text, players can choose what to say as if it were a real conversation. This looks like a winner. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=220732&view=rss&microfeed=true Shown at the Square-Enix E3 press conference, but oddly never released to the public until now, this pure CG trailer should give you a taste of what to expect from the action oriented spin-off of the more traditional RPG, Final Fantasy XIII. Michael McWhertor More »
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Think after E3 Nintendo just sailed through the summer, chilling out, maxing and relaxing by the pool? No. Nintendo worked. And here's proof. Reader Matthew sent along this comparison for us to compare. Besides the obvious addition of people, notice how Nintendo ditched the company logo in favor of "WiiSports." Brian Ashcraft More »
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Just because your father likes to make an ass out of himself at E3 press conferences does not mean he can get you a PLAYSTATION 3. A PlayStation 2? That, he can swing. But, forget about that new Sony console, sonny. More »
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While the humor has long worn off, the meme still exists in the internet's deepest bowls. Somewhere someone is clacking our "Riiiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer" and cackling. Alone. We have since moved on and found different things to make fun of. But for those who missed the follies... More »
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Besides fornicating, playing games and drinking booze on someone else's penny, we had one goal for E3: To hate on Left Behind: Eternal Forces. And we really, really wanted to hate it. Unfortunately, we did not. The game is actually pretty fun. BUT, our goal, we lost sight of our bitterly cruel E3 objective. Pathetic! And even more pathetic, our inability to spew venom on this PC game has ended up on the box. Reader Dan sends this scan along with an LA Times quote juxtaposed with our typical idiotic blather: More »
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One of our eagle eyed Kotaku readers spotted one of the first PlayStation 3 billboards standing proudly erect in the great city of Los Angeles, not far from junk food institution Pink's Hot Dogs. While he didn't have kind words for it, I actually kind of like it. It's not as striking as the Play Beyond imagery that Sony had installed at the L.A. County Convention Center during E3, but it's not an eyesore either. At least they aren't using that garish Spider-Man typeface for everything. More »
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At E3, Silicon Knights' Too Human didn't meet the hype, and the game's demo wasn't quite ready. Following its outing, the game got pushed back to next year, and the title didn't make an appearance at X06 in Barcelona. Rumors swirled, and Silicon Knights president Dennis Dyack commented on an IGN developer blog, writing: More »
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The "Massive Damage" meme? Old. Uttered by the producer of Genji 2 at Sony's E3 train wreck of a presser, it's officially no longer funny. (It still makes us giggle, but whatever.) The quote has haunted that producer and ultimately has resulted in him not giving any more interviews, apparently. We wonder if he even leaves the house. More »
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Confession: When we checked out Left Behind: Eternal Forces at E3, we liked it. And we really wanted to hate it. The Christian RTS for the PC has been criticized for violence and creeps out folks with its religious bent. Game site Firing Squad interviews the game's associate producer Greg Bauman, who says the title's point is to "wipe out the other guy" like any other RTS. Those comments are peppered with Bauman stating, "Eternal Forces is a great alternative to the gratuitous content that is so commonplace in the market these days." A contradiction? Bauman asserts, "We think that given the choice, any gamer would pick the game that was more fun to play, not necessarily the one that contains excessive violence." Amen. The game drops from Heaven late October or early November. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=204108&view=rss&microfeed=true Kyle Shubel is a famous man. At E3, the producer unveiled not only one, but two catch phrases: "Giant enemy crab" and "Massive damage." The game is Genji: Days of the Blade, and actually looks somewhat interesting (once you expunge the E3 press conference from your mind). Shubel talked with Game Informer, pointing out that the giant crabs (heikegani) are real creatures and are two meters in size. Now, whether they found warriors in ancient Japanese battles is another issue. Shubel adds: More »
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Here, a Japanese gamer has assembled his collection of gaming great's signatures for all to see (gallery after the jump). Included are the likes of Mario maker Shigeru Miyamoto, Sonic creator Yuji Naka, Hudson's human mascot Takahashi Meijin, Namco founder Masaya Nakamura and Nintendo's resident odd-ball Benimaru Itoh! More »
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When Sony unveiled a motion sensor "tilt" controller at this year's E3, the critics jumped down the company's Blu-ray lined throat. But, we've been working on this for years, replied Sony. Other haters wrote off the controller as a Wii-mote, rip-off. That's not true, replied the company. More »
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It's no cake walk being Sony. Post-E3 the company has been spewed with hatorade. The Guardian's respected Gamesblog jumps to shield Sony from stories circulating of late that stretch the truth a bit as evidence of Sony's downfall. The Guardian's Keith Stuart writes: More »
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Forgive the LiveJournal confession: Until yesterday, I didn't have a DS. Well, I did have a DS, a regular one, which was left at that squalid hotel Gawker Media put us up in. I don't know how even the likes of Xbox dood J Allard, Mario nerd Cliffy B and Final Fantasy mustache Hironobu Sakaguchi were able to stay there. Booze, perhaps. More »
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Psst! Previously, Warhawk developer Incognito claimed to have "officially" known about the PS3 tilt controller a few weeks prior to E3. Well, forget that nonsense! Sony Santa Monica's Brian Upton now says it has been planned for ages. And by ages he means a really, really, really long time. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=185064&view=rss&microfeed=true Thanks to Metafuture for scoring this once-in-a-lifetime footage of a historic E3 media event. Florian Eckhardt More »
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The biggest mystery at E3, the thing that got everyone talking was not the Wii or the PS3. Rather, it was what the hell happened to Toshihiro Nagoshi's skin. Somewhere between bringing us classics like Super Monkey Ball and Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), the acclaimed designer got locked in a tanning booth. In the center of the Earth. For years. More »
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Capcom's Keiji Inafune (Mega Man, Dead Rising) *hearts* the 360, telling a group of E3 journos, "We've probably only hit about 60 percent of the Xbox's 360's potential." And if you think upcoming titles like Gears of War look tasty, Inafune states that's not half of it. Sure, as the generation progresses and developers get more familiar with the console, games really start to look special. Inafune adds: More »
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A mysterious music maker named Kinyo created Funender.com account to host his or her Sony E3 press conference songs: Giant Enemy Crab Song and Ridge Racer Remix. What do they sound like? Quotes from the Sony's presser with electronica beats. Personally, I think the Crab Song's better than the Ridge Racer Remix. I'm all Kaz'ed out. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Remember this Wonder Woman? She was tossed out of E3 for wearing bikini briefs. She claimed she was wearing proper shorts, and who's to argue with Wonder Woman? Apparently, Staples Center security as the lass was promptly thrown out on her bottom. More »
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Nintendo Gal is giving away all of her E3 schwag to the reader who submits the best Nintendo-related Haiku to her site. You have until June 9 to enter and can submit up to three entries. More »
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Remember when weekend editor Michael McWhertor broke the Halo 3 story when random chance in a godless universe led him to witness the millisecondal donning of a Halo 3 t-shirt by one of Bungie's now-probably-totally-fired employees? A t-shirt stretched across a gelatinous programmer's frame; the greedy, flickering eyes of a Kotaku staff writer — and then a career was over forever. It was a great moment in whatever passes for journalism in blogging. And now you can own a simulacrum of the very t-shirt that spun one Bungie employee into career limbo forever! More »
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Japan's biggest game publication Famitsu took a post-E3 poll on what gamers Japanese players were excited about, what consoles they wanted to buy and what they thought of the PS3's pricing. The answers, after the jump, might surprise you. Brian Ashcraft More »
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We've written far, far, far too much about the little leopard man seen by Joel and I playing Wii Orchestra and the like at E3, but I just couldn't pass up this tip. A Nintendo insider informs us that Ashura Benimaru's fashion statement wasn't completely visible. That's right, even his underwear had a leopard print. More »
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All agree that the Revolution was a kick-ass name. Perhaps, a little too kick-ass says Mario maven Shigeru Miyamoto. The legendary game designer told CNN's Chris Morris: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=176120&view=rss&microfeed=true I just watched GameLife's 1Up sponsored E3 video bonanza. Initially I thought that they lost had lost their touch, had become a victim of their fleeting success. But after watching the spastic, jerky ham-handed reporting of the group I'm happy to report that they are still just as charming... and sucky. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=176099&view=rss&microfeed=true Thank God for Major Nelson and his compulsion to get Xbox 360 trailers in the great unBoxed masses. Mosoft's Live director spent god knows how lone encoding a bunch of Xbox E3 videos to work on your iPod and, get this, your Playstation Portable. More »
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So, you've read our E3 coverage, but perhaps, you're still wondering "what is E3 really like?" Shucks if I know. Joel had me ironing his collared shirts all week. Thankfully, our Weekend Editor Mike (guy in Pikachu costume) has written a tell-all, providing the low-down on what "really" went behind the scenes. But since nothing actually interesting went on behind the scenes, Mike made a buncha crap up, tongue planted firmly in cheek. —Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175593&view=rss&microfeed=true From the 'Worst of E3' department, leave it to the denizens of Kentia Hall to make a game called Ambulance Vs. Zombies look this boring. How designers this incompetent could somehow light upon the greatest idea for a video game in the history of... hell, let's just say it... the universe and then mess it up this bad is beyond me. - Florian Eckhardt More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175377&view=rss&microfeed=true MTV News' Stephen Totilo send me word that MTV Overdrive has just posted up a pretty amazing video. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175426&view=rss&microfeed=true Just in case you missed it, here's a wrap-up of some of the better video interviews we did during E3. The interviews include Shigeru Miyamoto talking about DS/Wii connectivity and how the 360 can succeed in Japan; Peter Moore talking about the PS3 price and innovation; EA's Neil Young talking about video games as art and the company's plans with Spielberg; and a look at the man behind Wario Ware. —Brian Crecente More »
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E3 is a full week behind us and, including Kotaku, most gaming journalists/fanboys have weighed in with their collectively jaded opinions on what blew and what blew them away at E3. Big winners include EA's Spore, Irrational's Bioshock, Ubisoft's Assassins Creed, and Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy, but here's the full rundown of this week's "Best Of"—and "Worst Of"— More »
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Bust out the Adidas kicks and Kangol caps. Xbox-centric Gamertag Radio interviewed legendary rapper Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels as he checked out Gears of War at E3. D.M.C.'s not really a gamer. He talks and talks about things like being an honorary Dominican for five years. Non-sequiters abound, D.M.C. talks a lot. More »
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