Tag Archives: E3

When 2009’s Demon’s Souls suddenly became a hit, it was a huge surprise – not just because it was a new and untested property, but because the game was incredibly, unforgivingly hard. Nevertheless, the audience spoke with its wallets, and so Demon’s Souls’ spiritual successor/semi-sequel, Dark Souls, will be even …

An excited Peter Molyneux took the stage at Microsoft%26rsquo;s press conference today to announce the next evolution in the land of Albion. Citing that Fable contained a %26ldquo;living, breathing world%26rdquo;, a trailer revealed that Albion was, once again, in trouble. Above: No word if yelling %26ldquo;Giddyup!%26rdquo; at your Kinect will …

While it seems like some press events have too little info, Nintendo’s conferences are so tightly packed with news that some cool game announcements just aren’t big enough to get the spotlight on the big stage. That was the case with not one, but TWO new Kirby games when Nintendo …

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has been met with some trepidation by fans of the survival horror. Not only is it a departure from the survival horror experience (it’s a team-based shooter), it also takes liberties with the series’ plot, even offering you the chance to off Leon Kennedy, star …

It seems that Activision is moving to revive its peripheral market with Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. And, to be honest, this is looking to be a pretty brilliant move indeed. Think back to when you were a little kid and all of those action figures you managed to collect over the …

Ultimate Fighting Championship honcho Dana White took the stage at Microsoft’s presser today to announce a new service for Xbox Live, enabling you to order pay-per-view events and a slew of other features. A teaser video demonstrated how you can order a new pay-per-view and then on the fly, choose …

With rumors running hot that Nintendo’s new console will utilize a more traditional controller, we assumed Microsoft would play down some of the sillier aspects of Kinectivity. Quite the opposite! TheXbox press conference (opens in new tab)relentlessly bombarded gamers with Kinect enabled features throughout. Above: Use the air, like you …

Last month, Sony’s Santa Monica Studio team took Starhawk’s multiplayer mode for spin, and lucky for us someone had a camera handy to film the entire in-house event. Here now is the recently released footage from that early play session, showing how brutal capture the flag can be on the …

With that in mind, we thought it’d be (moderately) entertaining to look back five years and recall those moments from E3 2006. Back then, these stories lit up the internet and fueled speculation for months – today, they’re ancient relics most of us barely remember. Halo 3 revealed Rumors had …

Ah, E3. The gamer’s Mecca. The portal to digital delights. The effervescent well-spring of all that is right, true, new and exciting in the world of video games. Everyone wants to go there, but only a few ever achieve that sacred, fabled goal. But don’t worry about it! We at …