Every year, a group of journalists and critics from 31 media outlets doggedly plays more games than humanly possible to suss out the cream of the crop from E3. It’s grueling work. Seriously.
And then, a few weeks after Video Game Nerd Prom, those same critics announce winners from a select group of categories. That moment is today, …
Masahiro Sakurai’s been teasing the Nintendo faithful for years. As one of the masterminds behind the Smash Bros. fighting franchise, the game director was responsible for putting Pit, star of the old-school NES game Kid Icarus, in 2008’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl. This move not only delighted fans of the plucky angel hero but it …
When Peter and I got to the Nintendo meeting rooms behind the Japanese gaming giant’s huge E3 booth, Satoru Iwata was pecking away at one of Apple’s Macbook Pro laptops. He folded it shut and quickly stood up to greet us, but I found it telling that the president of Nintendo’s worldwide operations would be using a Cupertino-built …
Every year, the Electronics Entertainment Expo becomes the epicenter for all things video game. With new services, new consoles and new games announced by the boatload, E3 holds tons of dizzying highs for gaming enthusiasts. In fact, we wrote about a few. What sometimes gets lost in all the buzz, though, is all the worrisome evidence …
Let’s get this out of the way – Sony will dominate the next generation motion control wars.
Calm down, fanboy. I’ve been a long-time supporter of Microsoft’s Xbox platform, so it pains me to say that. But I’ve seen a few things the public haven’t been privy to and spent extensive time with both platforms. While Sony …
With another E3 in the books, Peter and I took some time to compile a list of what surprised us the most at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. This year’s show boasted over 100 exhibitors and many more hundreds of titles to see and play, all split between the South and West halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center. After …
THQ Wireless and Infrared 5 are set to unleash a new force in an upcoming update to Star Wars: Trench Run for the iPhone. In an exclusive demo, Infrared 5 shows us Trench Run 2.0 with Brass Monkey SDK integration. Brass Monkey is a patent pending technology from Infrared 5 that connects multiple devices over a Wi-Fi network.
In this …
The cool thing about Disney Epic Mickey is that it puts you in a living breathing cartoon world and gives you the power to change the way it looks and behaves. The upcoming game merges action, role-playing and platforming elements and takes place in the Wasteland, a sort of limbo for obscure and forgotten Disney characters of the past. …
That didn’t take long.
Microsoft’s latest Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 S, has been torn down and tested. With a new 45nm chipset that houses the CPU, GPU and eDRAM, the Xbox 360 S consumes half the power of previous generation Xbox 360 consoles.
Idling, the 360 S consumes roughly 70.4 watts while previous gen 360 consoles have …
While the new Xbox 360 S technically cannot RROD, it doesn’t mean it’s incapable of breaking down. The slimmed down version is ~17% smaller than the previous generation Xbox 360. Overall dimensions and weight are as follows:
Xbox 360: 310 x 80 x 260mm at 3.5kg (7.7lbs)
Xbox 360 S: 270 x 75 x 264mm at 2.9kg (6.4lbs)
According …
On Monday, Microsoft revealed a radically different, slimmed down “whisper quiet” Xbox 360. How does the new Xbox 360 S stack up compared to Sony’s almost 1-year-old PS3 Slim?
(More on Techland: E3 2010: Unboxing The New Xbox 360 S)
Size
Xbox 360 S: 270 x 75 x 264mm/2.9 kg
PS3: 290 × 65 × 290mm/3.5kg.
Models
Xbox …
Announced a few months ago, 2K’s reimagining of the classic PC strategy game changes genres to become a first-person shooter. But the 2K Marin dev studio insists there’ll still be strategy involved. The game takes its title from an organization gathering disparate pieces of info regarding a secret alien invasion. The demo we saw …
