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Nintendo’s Not Worried About SmartGlass, Because You Only Have Two Hands
While E3 was occupying everyone’s attention last week, Nintendo held an analyst event for their investors. During the Q&A, one meeting participant honed in on something many of us have been wondering since Microsoft unveiled their SmartGlass, and posed the question: “Are you worried about SmartGlass? How does Nintendo intend to differentiate its hardware system?”…
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As Promised, Here I am Looking Like a Jackass Playing NBA Baller Beats
We saved my weirdest E3 appointment for last—checking out the rhythm/sports hybrid NBA Baller Beats from Majesco and HB Games about four hours before my flight last Thursday. The teaser videos may have looked ridiculous, but some of that can be attributed to overacting and over-editing. How does this Kinect game look when someone is…
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What Exactly is Madden‘s New Career Mode Giving You—and What Is It Taking Away?
The debut of Madden NFL‘s new suite of career modes—called “Connected Careers”—seemed to be drowned out by the noise of E3 and by the announcement that same day of the game’s new real-time physics engine. That’s a gameplay enhancement gamers could easily understand. Connected Careers wasn’t so easily reduced, and as such, its debut sounded…
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PlanetSide 2 Plays Like a First-Person Shooter, Not a Massively Multiplayer Compromise
The original massively multiplayer online FPS, PlanetSide, promised competitive first-person shooting on a massive scale. It got the scale right, but tech limitations made for gameplay that was a pale shadow of its more traditional shooter counterparts. With PlanetSide 2 technology has finally caught up to Sony Online Entertainment’s ambition. We’ve seen large-scale online shooters…
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Four Cool Things about Four ‘Free’ MMOs
The world of massively multiplayer online games keeps getting, well, more massive. We’ve come a long way since I first picked up the genre eight years ago. World of Warcraft may still dominate the traditional monthly susbcription market, but free-to-play multiplayer worlds of all kinds boast tens of millions of subscribers worldwide. At E3 last…
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A Case Mod That Takes “Mod” Seriously
PC designer Jeffrey Stephenson, whose work we have featured before, is back with his latest creation. There are case mods, and then there are ultra-mod case mods. This mod, is, well, mod. Have words lost all meaning for you yet? That’s all right. You won’t really need them to admire this sleek, svelte, sixties-inspired PC.…
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Permadeath and Other Players Make Wizardry Online One Hardcore MMO
Last week I openly wondered how Wizardry Online, a massively multiplayer online game, could possibly capture the spirit of the original grid-based first-person dungeon crawler that stole my heart so many years ago. The answer, I found during a quick hands-on session with the game last week, is tension. The tension that comes of knowing…
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted Through This Haunting English Countryside
The idea behind Sir, You Are Being Hunted is, well, exactly what it sounds like. Man’s greatest enemy is man. That’s something we see in quite a few games, really. Mostly they have guns in them. But what gives this particular in-development indie title a quirky, unique edge is its Britishness. Also its robots. Its…
By Kate Cox
