E3 Pictures / Wrapup / Impressions / etc - SOON
Posted by inpheaux on May 13th, 2006 at 7:38 amWell, I just got back home from my week in LA. While boarding my flight out of LAX, a guy next to me was having some guarded conversation with his wife. They kept looking at me intently and going back to their conversation. As I had just finished three incredibly exhausting days, and was not [...]
E3 Day One Pictures
Posted by inpheaux on May 11th, 2006 at 9:37 amI promised I'd find time to do a proper E3 Daily recap, but yesterday afternoon I quickly found that I had seriously over-exerted myself and was accordingly the most exhausted I've been in years.
So while I don't have a ton of time to say everything I want to at the moment, as we're getting ready [...]
E3’s Main Event - The Wii Line
Posted by inpheaux on May 11th, 2006 at 9:17 amE3 is all about epic larger-than-life things. It's about taking everything normal and making it 50 feet tall so no one can miss it. Of all the things I saw during the first day of E3, one was clearly the largest: The line for the Nintendo Wii exhibit.
Nintendo's exhibit has two main parts this year. [...]
Nintendo @ E3 - Playing = Believing
Posted by inpheaux on May 9th, 2006 at 11:52 pmThismorning's Nintendo Press Conference had a rather simple focus: Software. It wasn't big on release dates or prices or new Wii features. In fact, the only new thing we learned about the Wii was that the controller has a speaker in it now, and that the formerly poorly named "a" and "b" buttons have been [...]
Square Enix @ E3 - All Final Fantasy, All the time (plus mobile phone games)
Posted by inpheaux on May 9th, 2006 at 5:29 pmI meant to find time yesterday evening to write up a report on Square-Enix's Press conference, but right as I sat down to start it, the Sony press conference started up. Luckily, I'm in the middle of a five-hour flight across the country right now, and that's plenty of time to write a recap.
Squeenix's Press [...]
Sony @ E3 - Games, Specs, Prices, Dates
Posted by inpheaux on May 9th, 2006 at 1:03 amI've got a plane to catch in about six hours, so lets make this quick. Sony's incredibly long press conference ended a few hours ago, and in between the long long long segments of clip after clip of drones explaining how the PS3 is going to "COMPLETELY CHANGE YOUR WORLD, MAN", Sony managed to squeeze [...]
Thismorning’s unscheduled downtime
Posted by inpheaux on May 8th, 2006 at 11:30 amJust wanted to update everyone about our couple hours of downtime. It looks like someone got excited and pressed the wrong button on our datacenter's DHCP server around 0300 EDT, and no one knew there was a problem until we told them. No big deal, though, all we lost was our sweet year and a [...]
Even More Indie Games You Should Know
Posted by inpheaux on May 8th, 2006 at 1:07 amWelcome to the first columnar edition of Indie Games You Should Know, our monthly collection of Independent Games we feel you should be made aware of. Indie Game Awareness is important, because while yes, there are zillions of commercial videogames out there begging for you to play them, they aren't generally free or cheap. And [...]
Pre-E3 - Shadowrun is Coming
Posted by inpheaux on May 7th, 2006 at 11:16 pmWe heard about it first last summer, when an artist at one of Microsoft's assorted studios dropped the name Shadowrun in an innocuous interview with IGN. Since then, it's largely been quiet out there on the Shadowrun front, save for a teaser image over at FASA's website that popped up last week. It was safe [...]
Pre-E3 - New Spore footage released
Posted by inpheaux on May 6th, 2006 at 3:28 pmTwo quick bits of good news and bad news regarding Maxis' upcoming super-game Spore.
Good news: someone leaked a press video reel, which will be showing up on tv next week. It starts off with the same sort of generic amazing Spore footage we've seen before, with some character creation and flying around and such, but [...]