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The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 7

Mark Wilson — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:00:42 MDT

UPDATE: Re-uploaded and fixed.

The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 5

Mark Wilson — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:20:00 MDT

UPDATE: We fixed this interview segment. You now get the whole thing!

The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 6

Mark Wilson — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:53:08 MDT

The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 4

Mark Wilson — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:49:00 MDT

The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 3

Mark Wilson — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:34:30 MDT

The Miyamoto Interview Collection, Part 2

Mark Wilson — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:26:48 MDT

3 Biggest Flops at the 3 Biggest Pressers

Mark Wilson — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:54:51 MDT

The bigger they are, the harder the fall...luckily they have billions of dollars in cash to break their landing. Here are the three biggest flops at the Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft press conferences:

Microsoft announces the new Halo Edition Xbox 360...to crickets.
Sony announces their new PSP with video out. Video. Out.
Nintendo announces a Mario Kart wheel. Welcome to Nyko 6 months ago.

E3 2007: Kotaku Has Landed

Noah Robischon — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:35:28 MDT

Amidst no great fanfare - there wasn't even a banner outside the hotel - the gates to E3 2007 have opened. I sneaked a look around the Fairmont Miramar Hotel, which is where Electronic Arts, Activision, Konami, Ubisoft and plenty of others will be holding press conferences on Wednesday afternoon.

In years past, these companies spent millions of dollars on fortress-like booths with banks of flat panel screens and deafening sound systems. Now they'll be holding forth in a ballroom that looks as though it might be cleared out to accommodate the Juergenson wedding party later that evening. The room has been split down the middle with a divider - press conferences take place on one side, the press room is on the other.

At the B4 cocktail party on Sunday (hosted by fortyseven communications) most people were saying that this stripped-down E3 vibe does not bode well for the future of the show. But most also agreed that there would be no going back to the carnival-like atmosphere of years past.

The lack of booth babes and blaring preview trailers competing for attention is going to be a major part of the E3 story this year, let's just hope that it doesn't come at the expense of the games. Lucky for you, Kotaku has a phalanx of writers en route to LA right now who are going to deliver every tantalizing morsel.

The E3 Exhibitors Shortlist

Kim Phu — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:40:00 MDT

It's all going down the tubes.

On top of the fact that E3 is being held in the same place that Barney's New York has their annual warehouse sale (the clothing feeding frenzy that causes rich men and women to drop drawals right in front of each other in order to save up enough time to grab even more other designer crap that doesn't really fit), the list of exhibitors has now been revealed, and it's not pretty.

Most of the big players seem to be there but it's a big way off last year's exhibitor list which exceeded 400. There are also only two independent developers listed, id Software and Foundation 9 Entertainment, which is disappointing seeing as one of the biggest reasons for the down-scale was to give smaller devs a chance in the spotlight.

In total, 32 companies will be exhibiting in the new and "improved" E3 and only 3,000-4,000 (compared to last year's 60,000) people are expected to attend. The upside? It's now by the beach, but as far as I know, the geeks as a species don't tan so good. Kim Phu

E3 Exhibitor Numbers Dwindle [CVG]