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The Game Critics Awards list of the best games of 2008 has just been announced and the winners for the Best of E3 2008 include Fallout 3, LittleBigPlanet, Spore, Gears of War 2 and Madden NFL 09.

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Not many attendees were impressed with this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). During an interview held Thursday, (July 17, 2008) Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s senior managing director and general manager of entertainment analysis and the development division, told MSNBC that even though many fans of long running Nintendo franchise games such as Mario, Zelda or even StarFox were upset he felt that E3 was no longer a place for those types of game.

Click through to find out what game companies thought of E3 2008…

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There’s been no shortage of doomsayers predicting that this year’s E3 was the end of the road for the once-mighty expo. Not so, according to a post at Gamespot. The show will go on, at least for another year…

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Maybe it’s time to start rewriting some of those rote gamer cliches. You know, like, “Your mom is such a gamer.” Statistically, thats not so far-fetched.

According to the ESA’s (Entertainment Software Association’s) annual report released during E3 2008, 40 percent of all gamers are women older than 18 and a quarter are older than 50. That’s up from 38 percent and 24 percent, respectively, from the 2007 release (PDF). The average age of gamers also ticked up to 35 from 33.

This is the sort of data that plays right into the…

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Every E3 there are plenty of announcements and everyone claims their is the biggest, most important and whatevertheheck else. There were fewer hardware announcements than most years with more concentration on games, developing console interfaces and content options.

Not too surprisingly, most of the staff picks for their favorite E3 2008 announcements were somehow related to Microsoft’s Xbox 360. There was, of course, a sole dissenter.

Give it a read and then let us know what your favorite announcement was from E3 2008…

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Did you watch Nintendo’s E3 conference? Then you probably cringed a few times. The Minus World has an awesome list of the top five most embarrassing moment’s of Nintendo’s press event, including Cammie Dunaway’s tales of snowboarding woe and the awkward moments of silence from the crowd at each “big announcement”. The funniest of the moments happens at number two, aptly titled: “Nobody Knew How To Actually Control Anything”:

“Reggie demoed a jet ski mini game by waving his arms wildly and erratically steering like a kamikaze alcoholic stunt car driver and we were left more confused than informed. Next time hire somebody who actually plays video games to, you know, actually play your video game.”

Nice. I have to say, I thought the most embarrassing moment was Reggie’s statement that he was “The Regginator” but I suppose that was funny (or crazy) enough to qualify as “awesome” instead of ‘embarrassing”. Oh well. Check out the list for the rest - with a few wonderful pictures to illustrate the hilarity.

Read [Minus World] Via [Kotaku]

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• Live Blog: Sony’s E3 2008 press conference
  “ Bookmark this page and plan to press REFRESH a lot (either by hitting F5 or CTRL+R). We’re Live Bloggin’ Sony’s E3 press conference. It starts at 11:30 a.m.…” MORE »
• Live Blog: Nintendo’s E3 2008 press conference
  “ Bookmark this page and plan to press REFRESH a lot. We’re Live Bloggin’ Nintendo’s E3 press conference. It starts at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time (Noon Eastern time), Tuesday,…” MORE »
• Ion reveals Drum Rocker premium Rock Band drum set
  “Since the first Guitar Hero was released back in 2005, we’ve all had to clear out some room in our closets to store our beloved plastic instruments. As time went on, the number of music peripherals has doubled. Wired…” MORE »
• How To: Link your Playstation Underground and Network IDs to create a Portable ID
  “ With the E3 2008 announcements and Playstation network upgrades, Sony has chosen this week to allow its users to link their Playstation Underground IDs and their Playstation network IDs. Calling it a Portable ID,…” MORE »
• Live Blog: Microsoft’s E3 2008 Press Conference
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In the wake of changes for the other consoles, Microsoft announced at E3 2008 the new Xbox experiences that will be available to the owners of the console. Changes will bring stuff that the other consoles have to the 360 and will also maximize the console’s personalization possibilities.

One of the things that is going to be available is instant access to more than…

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Kirby was not forgotten during E3 2008. Our favorite pink eating machine will be featured in a remake of the SNES title Kirby Super Star for the Nintendo DS called Kirby Super Star Ultra. The game will be released on September 22, 2008, and will feature everything we remember in the original plus updated graphics, fully rendered cut scenes, multiplayer and some DS-influenced mini games.

The basic gameplay in Kirby Super Star Ultra has Kirby going from one end of the stage to the other while absorbing different abilities from enemies. If you don’t feel like eating them you call always…

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At E3 2008, Activision and a representative of id announced that they are working on a follow up for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Details at the moment are hard to find, outside of the press conference given at E3.

For those of you who haven’t been too involved with the evolution of Wolfenstein, id took the franchise for a turn that made it more popular in 1992 with…

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