Monthly Archives: June 2012

E3 Video: Medal of Honor – Warfighter

EA’s selling point for their revived Medal of Honor series is that it’s set a lot closer to the modern world than “those other” shooters. That means taking you into hot spots like Somalia’s pirate infested coast to pursue your … Continue reading

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E3 Thoughts: EA Games Press Conference

EA Games had the second of today’s pre-E3 press conferences and somehow had time to promote three first-person shooters and a couple sports games called Madden NFL and FIFA. Readers of this blog may have heard of them. The publishers … Continue reading

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E3 Thoughts: Microsoft’s Press Conference

Microsoft led off Monday’s rush of pre-E3 press conferences and observers may be forgiven if they got the idea that Microsoft forgot the XBox 360 is a video game console. Sure, Microsoft opened their presentation with new Halo 4 footage, … Continue reading

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E3 Video: Xbox SmartGlass

CNet has captured Microsoft’s “SmartGlass” portion of their press conference earlier today at E3. In a nutshell, Microsoft wants to extend the Xbox connectivity to your smart phone or tablet and it doesn’t look half bad.

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E3 Video: Watch Dogs

The nearly ten minute debut of Watch Dogs, a new IP from Ubisoft that plays on information as a weapon…and then some. It’s like a mash up of The Net, Sneakers, a little Cyberpunk, and Eagle Eye blended in gently … Continue reading

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E3 Video: Halo 4 gameplay footage

Here’s the Halo 4 gameplay video Microsoft showed at the opening of the company’s pre-E3 show:

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Review: Kid Icarus: Uprising (Better late than never, right?)

“Kid Icarus: Uprising” is the first Nintendo release to bear the Kid Icarus moniker in more than two decades and its blend of humor, mythological references, dynamic visuals and old-school sensibilities are almost enough to make the title one of … Continue reading

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