E3 2013 – Microsoft, What Were You Thinking?
Hey, Microsoft, did you see Sony’s E3 Press Conference last night? Pretty harsh, huh? Did you notice how Sony systematically exposed every one of the Xbox One’s weaknesses? Did you see how the PS4’s price point, connectivity requirements and used game strategy are far more user-friendly than the Xbox One’s?
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FEZ E3 2013 Podcast! #2, Day Zero – The Conferences
A raucous day indeed!
It’s been a super busy day for us on day zero, the Day Of The Conferences! First up was Microsoft where they introduced all those Xbox One games they forgot about. Everyone except N explores EA’s massive screens, no one cares about Ubisoft and N witnesses the Sony slaughter first hand. In this very special show (all of them are special, but this one in particular), N plays for Microsoft and explains that Sony didn’t really blow Microsoft away, but they certainly have a tough road ahead.
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“Open-World,” “Cloud-Powered” and “Traversal-Driven” This Year’s E3 Buzzwords
Hot girls make you want to click right?
Every year you hear the same word or phrase being constantly repeated by developers, publishers and console makers. There wasn’t a clear winner this year so we are going with the top three we hear around the conferences. Read the rest of this article…
The Xbox One At E3 2013 – 5 Ways Microsoft Showed Their Ass
The Xbox One presentation left me flaccid
We had the opportunity to sit down at the Microsoft Xbox Press Briefing today and while a lot of the stuff Microsoft presented was pretty cool, they also did quite a few thing which left me feeling like they were flailing about, reminiscent of a brain damaged octopus who’d been tricked into eating a ghost chili while trying to roller skate on a sheet of ice.
Everyone in the world knows that my choice of console is the Xbox, and has been since the brand debuted, so what is my problem with the big M? I’ll tell ya!
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E3 2013: 3 Reasons Why EA’s Presser Was More Exciting Than Microsoft’s
It’s a special kind of day when EA has one of the best conferences.
Typically, the best press conferences are shown by the big dawgz (Microsoft, Sony). After being “wooed” at Microsoft’s blunder bust, I began to worry about EA’s presentation. But what started out as a nervous and cautious gut feeling, ended up being the best damn presser I saw. Read the rest of this article…
E3 2013 – Mirror’s Edge 2 Has Us Seeing Red
Faith fans rejoice! At the end of their splashy presser today, EA announced Mirror’s Edge 2, for release “when it’s ready.” To me, this was the best news of EA’s conference.
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Microsoft’s Approach To Indie Game Development May Unravel The Xbox One
The battle of the indies continues.
If you’re a small game developer, chances are you weren’t terribly excited by today’s big conference. Sure, Microsoft brought Phil Harrison on stage (which is still weird to see) to let everyone know that smaller, downloadable games from independent studios would still come out for the system. Of course, to prove this point, they showed off a port of the world’s most popular indie game – Minecraft – and their pitch pretty much ended after that. What a shame, because this was their time to prove their value and they got it dead, dead wrong.
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The 5 Biggest Surprises Of Microsoft’s Xbox Conference
A lot of predictable announcements, but plenty of gems to examine here.
There’s something magical you get when you attend a platform maker’s press conference. Yeah, sure, televising them everywhere has sort of diminished the point of being there a bit, but it’s where platform holders like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo can make crazy announcements about the future of gaming. Rumors and speculation took the air out of some of Microsoft’s announcements, but there were some that caught our eye. Here are just a few of the big ones.
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Microsoft Xbox E3 Conference 2013 Live Blog! Join Us At 9:30AM PST
Get ready for some gnarly Xbone announcements!
Join us at 9:30AM Pacific Standard Time for our epic live blog of the Microsoft Xbox press conference direct from the Galen Center! Or a little earlier, it’s cool. We’ll have some refreshments on some foldout tables. Microsoft is slated to announce some gaming stuff and not ESPN garbage, so this should be super fun! The page will refresh automatically; you don’t need to refresh!
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FEZ E3 2013 Podcast! #1, PrE3, Part 2
The boys are back in town!
In our first five-way (sexy!) podcast in almost a year, all of us are in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo! Johnny, Keith, Kelly, N and Rob join together to highlight their conference predictions and their adventures getting out to downtown LA, including a flaming truck! No joke! Join us each night as we broadcast, broadcast, broadcast!
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