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Nintendo sent out a press release today (May 28, 2009) with scant details concerning its upcoming E3 2009 press conference taking place at 9 a.m. (PT), June 2, 2009, at Club NOKIA in Los Angeles, CA (which we will be Live Blogging). The most significant part is that three speakers… Continue Reading »

Natsume’s betting on one of its most popular and established series this year at E3 2009, Harvest Moon. Of the ten games being shown off, four are either entries in or spin-offs of the farming simulation. I guess it knows what its fans really want. The games are all Nintendo… Continue Reading »

It’s time to once again get ready for the annual event of much gaming goodness known as E3 2009. Here’s a list of the announced company press conferences and keynote address. We’ll be Live Blogging several of these conferences, so watch the site for constant updates all week. For a… Continue Reading »

The brains behind OnLive are confident in their ability to make OnLive work as planned but, unfortunately, we won’t be seeing the service at E3 2009. It seemed awfully strange that OnLive would miss out on one of the biggest gaming conferences in the country but OnLive’s Chief Operating Officer… Continue Reading »

A press release sent by Innex today (May 14, 2009) announced the upcoming release of the Komodo Adapter, a “3-in-1 Virtual Retro Adaptor that allows gamers to connect NES, SNES, and N64 controllers directly to the Nintendo Wii video game console.” Now you can put your old controllers back in… Continue Reading »

It’s no secret that the Electronic Entertainment Expo has been in a state of flux for the past couple of years. These days the companies that don’t show up for the event make as much news as the companies that do. Conspicuous by its absence from E3 2008 was the… Continue Reading »

Welcome to the latest installment of Gamertell’s 2Bits, where writers debate opposing sides of video game issues. For this round, Gamertell writers ponder the Entertainment Electronics Expo (aka E3) and whether or not it should be an industry-only event or open its doors to the public. While most debates have… Continue Reading »

E3 2008 was an unmitigated disaster. This singular sentence summed up the reaction that gamers felt towards this version of the long-running video-game based trade show. Once an event celebrated as much for its extravagance as its large variety of video games on display, the 2008 version of the Electronic… Continue Reading »

Honestly it really wouldn’t matter. The entertainment industry is built on information and hype. Public or not, the information would get out to the public. It’s just a question of how quickly the word would actually get to the public. With E3 public, anyone who is able to go to… Continue Reading »

E3 should not be open to the public. It is a convention for people in the gaming industry. Period. Though it would be nice to let anyone go to this convention, if they allow that to happen then E3 will basically end up becoming the next Comic-Con which means thousands… Continue Reading »