Whoever said you can’t keep a secret these days was wrong. The new Nintendo console is not called Café, Beem, Stream or even Wii 2 or Wii HD but rather Wii U. Simply because it’s a console with something for everybody. You, specifically. There’s enough tech behind it to power visually demanding games and it’s …
“Hey, Sony are doing their E3 show tonight, can you cover it?” were Matt’s last ill-fated words to me. So, following on from our Microsoft E3 conference wordage, are these words. Much like Microsoft’s show, which had a heavy Kinect theme – because we all know standing up and waving your arms around is a …
“There’s plenty of life left in the Xbox 360†said Microsoft last week. What they forgot to add is that you’re going to need a Kinect to squeeze that extra milage out of it. Just about every game shown during their E3 conference uses the device in someway from head-tracking in Forza Motorsport 4 (queue …
E3 doesn’t kick off until tomorrow, but that hasn’t stopped publishers showing off several shiny new games prematurely. It’s hard to imagine that the PR people were worried about them being ignored at the show – some quite big name titles have been bandied about over the past few days. A handful of journalist have …
And so the official name for Natal is now Wave. Actually, that’s a lie – it’s now Kinect, a word that Microsoft Word’s spellchecker really doesn’t like. So, the rumours of it being renamed as Wave turned out to be false. That said, it might have gone under the moniker of Wave behind the scenes …
E3 kicks off next week. Because we have a fear of air hostesses (and in-flight meals) we won’t be attending. We will though be covering the conferences from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and writing a round-up of all the other good stuff announced. Microsoft start off the conferences on Sunday 13th June, followed by a …
Back in the day, it would have been E3 time about now. Having taken in a bit of July in recent history, it’s in June this year. Getting to the point: it looks like there could be quite a lot of new hardware. PlayStation Move and Natal will both be looking for a bit of …
Forza 3 developers Turn 10 had a surprise visit on their E3 booth…from Gran Turismo developers Polyphony Digital. This is what Turn 10’s Che Chou posted on his Forza Motorsport blog page: “Perhaps the most surprising [visit] to me was when a couple developers from Gran Turismo makers Polyphony Digital came by to personally get …