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Eventually, all Microsoft Games will Employ Kinect
For Microsoft, the E3 2011 recipe read much like E3 2010’s—Kinect, and lots of it. The head of Microsoft’s Game Studios noted the company’s focus on the device and said at some time in the future, all first-party games from the Xbox 360 maker will include Kinect support. “It’s not a mandate that everything we…
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Mission Critical Deals
Two actors pose atop vintage armor in the World of Tanks display outside the Los Angeles Convention Center’s South Hall at E3 2011. Image by Isaac Viel. Sorry folks, no snappy film quotes today, just this badass pic to get us back on track coming out of the big week at E3. On with the…
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UFC Undisputed 3 Seeks a Bid to Fighting Game Tournaments
UFC Undisputed may be a sports simulation, but the series has roots in fighting games, says the game’s producer, and UFC 3 will pay tribute to those roots when the game releases in January. Developer Yuke’s Future Media Creators told me at E3 that the point of UFC Undisputed 3’s competition mode is to get…
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Barely Feeling the Force in Kinect Star Wars
For as long as brothers have swatted one another with wrapping-paper tubes, Star Wars fans have wanted something, anything, to give them the sensation of wielding a lightsaber, repelling blaster fire and cutting down Stormtroopers in a streak of blue. That, too, is the goal of Kinect Star Wars and all who are making it…
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UncategorizedWatch Us Go Croc-Hunting in Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater
We only played a tiny bit of the Nintendo 3DS remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but what we did told us one thing. This is definitely a Metal Gear Solid game. We struggled with the controls. Hey, it’s a Metal Gear. Those controls are never that easy to handle. Unfortunately, the demo…
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The Latest Ace Combat Gets to the Choppah (and the Bombah)
The aircraft of the venerable Ace Combat series all have been of the fixed-wing variety. The most notable variance in the latest installment Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the inclusion of helicopters, as many saw when the game’s first trailer showed an Apache Longbow used in gameplay. “If we just wanted to make a jet…
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UncategorizedLeaving Los Angeles, and E3 2011
If you’ve never experienced E3 before, right as you feel like you’ve caught up with the breakneck pace of announcements, presentations and demonstrations, the show is over. It’s one of those weeks that seems to pass in the blink of an eye. Here then, are 3,444 such blinks, glimpses of E3 from start to finish,…
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UncategorizedTake a Tour of BioShock Infinite‘s Thrill Ride in the Sky
Watching the BioShock Infinite demonstration at E3, I formed the mistaken impression that the thrill-ride skylines of Columbia had, within the game’s story, always been intended as a primary mode of personal transportation. They aren’t, as Irrational Games’ Ken Levine explains in this four-minute video featuring lots of gameplay. Originally the skylines were a means…
By Owen Good
