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And our GC06 Leipzig coverage is done! Oh, I've got other experiences to relate, and some of what I intended to write I ultimately didn't. I played the Wii... it was a surprising disappointment. I played God of War 2.... it's great, and exactly like the first. There were many booth babes and German sausages. There was much beer. But ultimately, I'm long gone, and I've said nearly all I have to say. More »
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From the moment I'm introduced to Ensemble Studios' Bruce Shelley, I can tell my bumbling, "Is that pinata gay?" style of gaming journalism just isn't going to fly. A gruff but pleasant bear of a man, he carries upon his broad shoulders the impenetrable gravitas of a Kentucky tobacconist, or a man who feels very passionately about bottle caps, or any other aficionado of a passion the appeal of which completely eludes me. More »
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Fun Leipzig anecdote, from an anonymous but totally journalistic source! Upon witnessing the bedraggled state of IGN's GC06 team at the Nintendo press conference last Wednesday, said source asked why they looked so wasted. "Dude," one IGN editor confessed, "Last night, after we landed, we hit the strip club, and watched two strippers suck hot wax out of each other's ass!" The IGN team then spent the next five minutes exchanging high-fives. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197559&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember when I said Battalion Wars 2 was ugly? "How ugly is it, Florian?" you might well have asked yourself. More »
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I actually sat in on this exact session with Assassin's Creed producer Claude Langlais and watched him narrate the E3 video demo to a totally silent audience of journalists. But what I didn't pick up on was the fact that there's not one, but two 360s there. But Assassin's Creed hasn't been announced for the 360 yet. More »
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You'd think I'd speak English well enough to be able to ace English Training for the DS Lite. Ironically enough, though, this was not the case — I didn't account for the fact that it's an English training game in German. More »
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It's the GC 2006 Exhibitor Party in the Volkspalast Leipzig — an evening of pedestrian decadence swaddled in a level of mundanity surprising from such a creative industry. More »
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Within the cool, secluded confines of another Wii booth in Leipzig, I had the opportunity to play Wii Sports Golf under the strenuous tutelage of another icy-eyed German booth babe. More »
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One cool thing that Activision is doing is pulling people out of the crowd to play Guitar Hero 2 on stage. If they can face the public ridicule and manage not to blow note after note through the nervous trembling of their pudgy, grease-moist sausage rolls, they get a free Guitar Hero 2 t-shirt. You can see that they are playing a co-operative duet: one player rhythm, one player lead. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196887&view=rss&microfeed=true Batting her firefly eyes through lashes powdered in lilac, the slim, tall Germanic girl took me by the hand. Her name was Ina. Een-ya. Although more athletic than voluptuous, the parabola of her perfect spine pushed her stomach and pelvis forward, as though they were sensually crying out to be crushed against my own. On my part? I throbbed with longing. I'd waited long for this. As she pulled open a curtain and led me forward into the darkest rooms, drawing me in behind her, I knew that all my heart's desires were about to be fulfilled. More »
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Microsoft's Games for Windows dude Michael Wolf emailed me yesterday morning. He saw my post about Viva Pi ata. He wanted to win me over to this bright, beautiful world of animals and sunshine, and he did not want to leave uncorrected my impression that Viva Pi ata took place in a nightmarish world populated entirely by coulrophobia-inducing, chocolate-filled specters. More »
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The fetid, stinking, swollen horde, about to swoop down upon the show floors of GC 2006. Moments later, the barriers burst open, drowning me in a jelly-like effluvium of reeking gamer. It was very much like being swallowed by a large, living bratwurst. More »
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Major Nelson — pictured above or maybe to the right limboing and insanely waving while screaming into a Mr. Microphone — dropped an exciting, electrifying, arousing, possibly titillating feature of the Xbox Live Vision Camera whilst demonstrating it at Microsoft's GC06 Tiki Tent: remote-controlled genital stimulation. More »
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I had the opportunity to try out Viva Pinata at one of Microsoft's 360 kiosks in Leipzig today. It was pretty, and I appreciate the way that Microsoft is trying to bring nightmarish surrealism into the lives of small children everywhere. More »
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A wandering through some of Leipzig's more less-traveled halls revealed an entire art show devoted to Pong. There were dozens of variations of Pong on display, from the original game to psychadelic clones to Rockstar's Table Tennis. But I found myself spending a lot of time oggling the crazy Pong-playing gizmos that had been hacked together. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196362&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday, I saw the Halo water wheel at Leipzig, and my first thought was, "God, I hope I'm around to see the first guy kills himself on that." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196357&view=rss&microfeed=true This is the Team Fortress 2 trailer that Valve showed at Leipzig yesterday. What I am experiencing is a far more welcome boner than the SOCOM 3 one. Florian Eckhardt More »
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This human pin-wheel was the main decorative attraction of Microsoft's Leipzig booth today. That befuddled looking doofus isn't a paid model — he's just some random passer-by. The booth babe cheerfully encourages him to keep on grinding with his Sisphysusian toil. I'm just guessing, but I think it's supposed to be a Halo waterwheel. Florian Eckhardt More »
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At the Sony press conference - which turned out to be less a press conference and more of a free dine and wine where a bunch of gamers sat around on bean bags and played Loco Roco to the cooing of their own personal booth babe - I had the opportunity of trying out SOCOM 3: US Navy S.E.A.L.S. at the Sony booth. More »
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Buried amid news of Microsoft's stranglehold on soccer and the new Games for Windows accessories announced at Leipzig was a slew of prices and dates for some pretty sweet Xbox 360 accessories. More »
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The flotsam and jetsam of the Microsoft press conference in Leipzig: More »
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Although Microsoft's presser was hardly exciting, a number of new peripherals were announced for Windows machines. More »
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This is going to hurt Sony's soccer constabulary: Microsoft announced at today's GC Liepzig Convention that they have managed to get a complete lock on football for the 360. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 and FIFA 07 are going to be exclusive 360 titles for 12 months after street date. More »
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Roughly paraphrased from Microsoft's press conference, about Viva Pinata: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=196047&view=rss&microfeed=true Graeme Boyd, Microsoft's Live Community Manager, is standing next to the Press Conference Arena, wildly waving his arms around like an idiot. He's doing this for me, because I am one: I am navigating Liepzig's gamer labyrinths as if I had an inner ear infection. Graeme has taken pity on me. I immediately like him. More »
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Today in Leipzig, the Games Convention kicks off. With Nintendo giving the keynote, we're expecting huge announcements on either price, drop date or both. Our roving reporter Florian Eckhardt will be on the scene, so check back for Flor's gloriously snide coverage of the action. Remember: If you're not getting all your GC news here, then you're probably getting it somewhere else. Brian Ashcraft More »
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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=195945&view=rss&microfeed=true I posted much earlier today about Peter Molyneux's cool GC talk in Leipzig about next-gen fighting. Well Game Videos has upped his whole talk so you can experience it first hand. So what do you think? Fencing? Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=195887&view=rss&microfeed=true Midway just announced what games they are going to be showing at the Games Convention in Leipzig this week. There's some pretty exciting stuff on the list including Stranglehold, Mortal Kombat: Armegeddon and Unreal Tournament 2007. More »
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Little known fact about me, I spent a big chunk of high school and college fencing. I wasn't great, but I was good enough to go to the Junior Olympics in two weapons and qualify for Nationals in all three. I also taught introductory lessons at Johns Hopkins. More »
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Microsoft predicts that PC/Xbox 360 cross-platform gaming is going to explode by 2008. The first cross-platform game, Shadowrun, is expected to hit in early 2007, said Msoft's UK third-party manager Steven Blackburn at a Games Convention session, but he doesn't expect the "floodgates to open for all titles" until 2008. More »
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Eurogamer took some time to wander the Games Convention show floor before it officially opens tomorrow. They bee-lined it straight for the PS3 booth where they were able to confirm that there were indeed no Playstation 3s or controllers in site. There was, however, a bunch of monitors with a strange logo on them. Anybody have any clue what this is about? Brian Crecente More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=195823&view=rss&microfeed=true THQ's Leipzig booth sounds like it's going to be rocking. The publisher will have playable for the first time, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. Yeah, that was sarcasm. Seriously, is that the best they can do? In THQ's defense they will have some games people actually care about as well like Frontlines: Fuel of War, Company of Heroes and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. More »
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