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Take- Two’s press conference (10:45 a.m. PT, July 16, 2008) was shaping up to be an exciting start to day three of E3 considering they weren’t going to talk about a movie for an hour (I’m looking at you Capcom).  With the announcement of the Grand Theft Auto series coming… Continue Reading »

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… Continue Reading »

In keeping with the overall theme of E3 2008, Nintendo’s press event was a little on the anticlimactic side. We had the usual “everyone’s a gamer” shtick, plenty of impressive sales charts, a few embarrassingly wacky Wii game demos, and a couple of big-ish announcements - so it was quite… Continue Reading »

Ubisoft tried to fill the E3 bases today, batting third in the press conference (2:30 p.m. PT, July 15, 2008) batting order following Nintendo and Sony. The company trie dto play it a bit more gamer-y, having Ubisoff America’s President, Laurent Detoc, sitting on the stage and playing with his,… Continue Reading »

At Sony’s E3 2008 press conference today (July 15, 2008), it was announced that Sony is “getting behind” the 80GB PS3. Also, in September 2008, the Core Pack 80GB PS3 will cost only $399.99. This should help keep Sony’s 10-year commitment to each of its system alive and kicking, especially… Continue Reading »

You know how you can talk to your DS’s tiny microphone and look like a crazy person? Soon you’ll be able to look slightly more sane and sing to your Wii. At its E3 2008 press conference, Nintendo introduced the WiiSpeak microphone. It’s not an attachment to the WiiMote, which… Continue Reading »

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. Continue Reading »

Microsoft had a medium intensity press event this year, at least that’s what I’m calling it. There were no insanely awkward moments like last year’s “Peter Moore sucks at Rock Band ” intro, but the event was full of game demos, trailers, and a couple of rather exciting reveals. For… Continue Reading »

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… Continue Reading »

Square Enix held its E3 2008 press conference today (12:30 p.m. PT, July 14, 2008) and it had a rather unusual format. Well, unusual for E3. More like a sports press conference than a staged videogame conference extravaganza/laser light show, game producer Yoshinori Kitase and Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto sat… Continue Reading »