Hi folks, Sorry for jingling your naughty bits and having you hang on. Edie arrived home late last night, and promptly slept for 9 hours, only to awake and find that her laptop charger went Penn and Teller on her. She’s going to get a replacement...
The original story is from Portfolio.com: N. Evan Van Zelfden in Los Angeles warns, watch out World of Warcraft. In an interview at E3 this week, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello said that EA is working on the next version of Star Wars...
Just got off the phone with Edie, who managed to record a walkthrough of an upcoming game with the Lead Designer. Yes, I’m being vague. It’s a good one folks, a doozy you may say. Edie asked me to tease you with it, so here ya go: Coming...
E3 2008 East Coast Half Day Mark. So some more news has trickled in. And when I say trickle I mean: ever had a night where it hurts to pee, and it comes out like it’s turned to honey? Where’s all the damn news?!? It’s like everyone’s...
Shigeru Miyamoto is on a short list of people who are gaming gods to me. Tim Schaffer, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, Casey Hudson, Shigeru Miyamoto. A gaming god is a person who makes games, does not apologize for their love of the games, does not allow...
Morning guys and gals, Edie’s gone over most of Sony’s stuff already, and we discussed Nintendo’s (snorefest? smugfest? take your pick) Press conference on last nights show. So I’ll just focus on what we DIDN’T cover: ...
Morning everyone, it should be a fun day today with Nintendo and Sony responding to Microsoft’s quite strong press conference from yesterday. But that wasn’t the only thing that happened yesterday, let’s start with EA’s new announcements. (more…) Read More →
Hi folks, Seems Microsoft’s team jumped the gun and accidentally released a video giving some of the press conference away. Check out the video, but here’s my train of thought: Fable II is in October Gears of War 2 has 5 Player co-op...
Fresh from Nintendo’s Press Site we get this: Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space. The Wii...
Before the term “Surfing the web..” was even close to being an understand colloquialism, there were these places called “bulletin boards” which was really nothing but a computer that accepted “dial-up” calls from other...
This is quite a week. It starts today with Microsoft’s presser, tomorrow is Nintendo and Sony’s. By Friday, The Dark Knight opens. It’s almost too much. Almost. For E3 this week, keep your eyes on GameHounds.net. I’ll be...
Hi folks, Cooper Hawkes here with an exciting announcement. Platform Nation is part of a contest with Sierra to give away various pieces of Assault Heroes swag. We got the hats. Here’s the details: One More War to Fight: Assault Heroes 2 Contest Description:...
Hi folks, When Devin of 360sync.com asked for help with this, I jumped on it so fast I think I made his head spin. Or at least made him ponder: “That’s great! Who are you?” Seriously though, we’re in, and damn proud of it!...
Could we have more disclaimed stories in one day? First, despite earlier reports — and despite Call of Duty 4’s own GOTY website — Infinity Ward’s FourZeroTwo has rebuked rumors that the new Call of Duty 4 maps will be later than originally...
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