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E3 2012: Noobz World Premiere Review – By Gamers, For Gamers, For Better Or Worse
If you’re going to play (pun intended) to an audience, you may as well do it right. Blake Freeman’s Noobz debuted tonight in downtown Los Angeles a block away from the convention center that’s currently housing the world’s largest gaming expo. Many on the media side of the red carpet premiere still had E3 badges slung around their necks as they stepped up to question the actors and VIPs involved with the film. Noobz is strictly a movie for gamers. There are overt references to games and its culture. Jason Mewes wears a shirt at some point that says “gamer.” in stark white-on-black and works in a GameStop-esque retail closet. Adam Sessler plays himself. Unfortunately, in its attempt to pay tribute to the audience it represents, it doesn’t quite come together.
E3 2012 – OnLive And Razer To Make The Cloud Gaming Storm A Little Bit Bigger
By IDC’s check, chances are (well, only by margin of about 48%) that you know what cloud gaming is, which in the case of OnLive is running a bunch of games in their data center and then broadcasting the video results to your computer or TV through a console. Kelly and I dropped in on the OnLive and Razer joint conference this morning to hear what they had to say about its future.
E3 2012: Darksiders 2 Hands-On
We got a chance to get our hands on THQ’s Darksiders 2. So what did we think?
E3 2012: Is Nintendo Ready To Shed The 3DS?
The star of Nintendo’s E3 press conference today was the unveiling of WiiU. While what we saw of their console was sometimes traditional and sometimes exciting, I can’t help but feel that Nintendo is putting most of their eggs into the WiiU basket. Nintendo’s handhelds, which have saved the company from complete annihilation during the N64 and Gamecube eras, came up short here with the 3DS getting only a scant amount of play time. They promised a “few minutes” of coverage today with another standalone event tomorrow as a faint mea culpa, but one can’t help but feel that the 3DS was a gamble that isn’t quite paying off. Here’s why.
Goodbye Zune, Hello Xbox Music
My favorite announcement at Microsoft’s E3 press conference wasn’t even a game. Sure, there are legions ready to tear Microsoft asunder for announcing as many services like ESPN and Univision as they were games like Halo 4 or South Park, but that’s really just part of the equation at this point. You simply can’t have a powerful, internet-enabled piece of silicon without some extra responsibilities these days. Before E3, I’d started writing a piece on the life and death of Zune and with today’s announcement, Zune is now officially dead. Read the rest of this article…
“We’ve Heard It A Few Times” – 343 On Halo 4’s Resemblance To Metroid
In its thunderous open, Microsoft showed off just one of the many fruits of 343 Studios’ work on Halo 4 with a brief introduction to the single-player campaign during their E3 2012 press onference. As we covered in our live blog, the jungle level they had shown seemed awfully reminiscent of Retro’s first-person reboot of the Metroid series. From the more complete visor, to the glowing bug-like enemies and an alien super soldier with a small avatar/chopper in its back. All the time I watched this, I was having flashbacks to Metroid Prime’s exploratory levels.
E3 + FleshEatingZipper = Happening. Right Now.
We have arrived! After a number of hours on the road, we have arrived at the Electronic Entertainment Expo and we’re super-excited to show you what we’ve got going on!
Curt Schilling Is An Asshole
He's not smiling so much now.
Companies close. People are laid off. Families are displaced. Careers are lost. With all of capitalism’s successes, there is a dark side to failure that can affect us all in ways that are incredibly intimate. It’s simply part of the game. In 2006, former Major League Baseball pitcher and board game/MMO enthusiast Curt Schilling founded Green Monster Games (later 38 Studios) to produce games that he wanted to play. Six years later, the company was closed abruptly with nearly four hundred jobs lost in a debacle that has the entire gaming industry buzzing. So what went wrong?
Doritos Locos Tacos – The Definitive FleshEatingZipper Review
I’m not sure who’s responsible for combining one really cool thing with another, but they need to get on it more often. Taking Nacho Cheesier Doritos chips and converting them into a taco shell seems almost as cool as adding Star Wars to LEGO. Oh, sure, these have been out for a while – heck, I’ve even had a few – but I don’t think we could really examine the food’s impact on society until we’ve had multiple exposures. So how awesome is the Doritos Locos Taco? Well…
Building Oceana: The Verge’s Minecraft Pyramid – Final Week
The completed outer casing of Oceana
This is part of an ongoing series chronicling the construction of Oceana, an epic Survival-built megastructure on the Vergecraft server. Be sure to check them all out!
Week One – Week Two – Week Three – Week Four – Week Five – Final Week
This was a red letter week for our favorite digital pyramid as we hit several major milestones in its creation and step into a whole new phase of construction. Now that Oceana is complete as a structure, we shift toward the individual modules that will make the pyramid a self-sustaining city. So what did we get done this week? Let me show you…
