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Although of the official keynotes and press conferences for E3 2008, that doesn’t mean you still can’t enjoy the informational goodness they provided.

Here’s a quick-link list of our coverage of all the the press conferences and two keynote addresses from E3 2008. Enjoy!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

• Nintendo press conference: [Live Blog] [Recap]
• Sony press conference: [Live Blog] [Recap]
• Ubisoft press conference: [Recap]
• Capcom press conference: [Recap]

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

• E3 Keynote by Gov. Perry: [Recap]
• Take-Two press conference: [Recap]
• “State of the Industry” keynote by ESA CEO Mike Gallagher: [Recap]
• Konami press conference: [Recap]

Capcom officially ended the second day of press conferences for E3 2008 (4:30 p.m. PT, Tuesday, July 15, 2008) by going in a completely different direction.  Rather than showing the audience some screenshots of their new title Flock or discussing the gameplay and the controversy surrounding Resident Evil 5, they instead decided to premier the mini trailer of Lost Planet: The Movie and talk about it. 

After showing the CG’ed trailer the company rolled out some of the people working on the film to discuss it which included, Avi Arad (producer of the first two Spider-Man films) and (the voice of Solid Snake himself, and writer/co-writer of the first two X-men film) David Hayter.

Most of the conference ended up being a…

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Headed up by Sony CEO, Jack Tretton, Sony’ E3 2008 press conference (July 15, 2008) was an on-stage affair with plenty of monitors and montages.

The biggest news was that the company is moving most of its focus to the 80GB PS3 and dropping the price to $399.99. There was also plenty of talk about downloadable content (in terms of videos) through the PS Network on PS3 - starting tonight - that can be transfered to PSP.

Here’s a quick recap of the stuff and goodness that was Sony’s press conference that took place today courtesy of our Live Blog…

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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. Pacific time (2:30 p.m. Eastern time), Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

While you are waiting, make sure you check out the rest of our E3 2008 coverage.

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Click through, bookmark the 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, July 15, 2008.

While you are waiting, make sure you check out the rest of our E3 2008 coverage.

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Electronics Arts (aka EA) held its E3 2008 press conference today (3:00 p.m. PT, July 14, 2008) and, as usual, they had plenty of stuff to talk about.

Or, really, they had plenty of people there who talked about stuff. EA’s format was for exec John Riccitello to introduce developers and let them talk about the games.

The biggest announcement was that EA will be producing id’s game, Rage. There was also another Will Wright Spore sighting and a new game in the Sim franchise, SimAnimals.

Here’s a more complete list of happenings gathered from various Live Blogs…

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Check out our minute-by-minute Live Blog of Microsoft’s E3 press conference. Also check out the rest of our E3 2008 coverage.

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Follow along as Gamertell’s editor tells you far more than you ever wanted to know about drinking a bottle of Bawl’s latest product, G33K B33R. From first taste to pee breaks, click through for the sip-by-sip recount…

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As an active member of several women gamer sites, I know there are a lot of women who game online and offline both with computers and consoles. So where does Kate Muir of Times Online get the idea that console gamers are boys and that my console is merely a toy?

This has been the topic of the week in the forums of some women gaming sites and I couldn’t agree with them more as they question where the heck Muir got her information or if she even games or knows what she’s talking about. In her article, Muir writes “Xboxes were toys for very big boys indeed,” and that men (at least in the UK) are “infantalised by night in a virtual world,” clinching her stereotypical views with…

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Xfire announces an opportunity for Xfire users to chat live with up and coming independent game developers at 5 p.m. EST (2 p.m. PST) on January 24, 2008. The developers will answer questions about game design and all the obstacles and challenges an independent company must face to break into the game industry.

Then on January 25, 2008, at 5 p.m. EST (2 p.m. PST), users can attend the 12th Xfire Debate Club meeting. The topic of discussion is the current state of independent games where users can learn about the issues involved in the development and making of a game as well as ask their own questions and talk about what the future may hold for the indie game genre.

For current and new Xfire users, participation in the debate club meetings will increase their chances of promotion of up to 8 total ranks and ten indie game prize packs will be given away during both sessions. Each pack includes one copy of Chronic Logic’s Gish, one game from Amaranth Games, one game from Rampant Games and a one Xfire T-shirt.

Moderator for the event is freelance game journalist John Bardinelli of JayIsGames. Guests include:

• Jay Barnson of Rampant Games
• Geoff Benson of uTime Games, Inc.
• Xinghan (Jenova) Chen of thatgamecompany
• Corvus Elrod, a contract writer for games and animation
• Amanda Fitch of Amarantha Games
• Nils-Holger Henning of Bigpoint
• Chris Pasley of Kongregate
• Josiah Pisciotta of Chronic Logic, LLC

Xfire is a free instant messaging and server browser program for PC gamers that offers peer-to-peer file download capabilities and in-game messaging that is compatible with most of today’s popular games. Those wishing to attend the panel can log onto the Xfire website and download the free program and register for the debate club.

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