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15 items in list • Created Jun 8, 2011

My ten best from E3 2010

10 items in list • Created Jun 18, 2010

2K's PR partner upset with venomous reviews of Duke Nukem Forever

Jun 14, 2011

http://twitter.com/#!/TheRednerGroup/status/80834594424897536 "too many went too far with their reviews...we r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn't based on today's venom" The Redner Group ( http://www.therednergroup.com/ ) is a public relations firm that works with 2K Games on marketing of their products. According to their website, The Redner Group specializes in public relation...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ---Microsoft's E3 Press Conferenc

Jun 9, 2011

After having one of the most successful years for the brand, Microsoft enters this year’s E3 Expo riding the waves of the very successful launch of their Kinect peripheral, a device that Microsoft sees as a re-launch of the Xbox 360 system. The first wave on Kinect titles has been released, and there have been some successes, and some failures. The early half of 2011 has yet to see an impactful...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ---Nintendo's E3 Press Conference

Jun 9, 2011

Nintendo’s E3 was perhaps one of the most anticipated amongst the gaming world. The 3DS launch early this year game some a taste of the future of the long established video game company, and the known reveal of the first new console since 2006 caused much excitement. Nintendo would have the most to gain, or lose, coming into this E3, as it has to sell the idea of moving on from the Wii to a mar...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ---Sony's E3 Press Event

Jun 8, 2011

Sony came into this year’s E3 Expo riding a wave of uncertainty. The PlayStation Network outage in late April put a bad taste in the mouth from many. For three weeks, there was a period of uneasiness among the market. No one knew what was happening, and just what information was leaked out for the world to abuse. Sony’s response to the matter has been questioned at several points, from the medi...

Some hands on time with the PlayStation Move

Aug 26, 2010

I had a chance to spend three hours today with the PlayStation Move as part of a in-store demonstration. On hand was one Move controller and Navigation controller, and software that included Tiger Woods 11, Sports Champions, Time Crisis, TV Superstars, The Shoot, Kung Fu Rider, Start The Party, EyePet, Beat Sketcher, and echochrome ii. The first thing that blew me away, was how light the Move c...

Why do we buy a game?

Aug 23, 2010

A simple question, why do we buy a game? As a gamer, the question seems simple. Every year, people around the world spend billions of dollars a year on games, the systems to play them, and the extras that go with it. In a span of less then half a century, gaming went from the newest fad, to one of the largest entertainment medium’s in the world, going from its first $1 billion year of revenue i...