E3 '08 - The 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit is Over
(via Planet Xbox) -- So yesterday was the last chance for game developers and publishers from around the world to impress gaming press. Now that the show is officially in the books we began to wonder if their goal was met, did E3 '08 live up to the hype?

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5 months ago 

LittleBigPlanet for Game of the Show
(via N4G.com) -- In the final 10 minutes of the podcast, everyone at the roundtable elects their GOTS. LittleBigPlanet was declared victorious with 4 votes.

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5 months ago 

Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed
(via Slashdot) - Zafsk writes to tell us Gamespot is reporting that in a surprise move from E3 2008, EA's CEO John Riccitello announced that the long debated BioWare MMORPG is going to be a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic sequel of sorts. Currently the KOTOR MMO is slated for a 2009 release.

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5 months ago 

Almost everything you want to know about the New Xbox Experience
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, E3 Looking for simple answers to your Xbox 360 dashboard redesign questions? Here are a few points to take away from the new Xbox experience: "There's nothing to announce" right now regarding a keyword search for the Marketplace. We hope for some kind of searching option or a better layout for content Playing games from the hard drive will work fine for multi-disc games; in fact, you can pick which discs you want to rip (but a disc swap for the correct disc in the drive is required) As an example, Joystiq was told that Devil May Cry 4 is approximately a 4 or 5GB installation and takes about 10 minutes to copy onto a harddive: PS3 installation is roughly 18-25 mins You'll need to keep the disc in the drive the entire time.

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5 months ago 

Tretton Talks About Kaz's Influence on the Playstation Universe E308
(via Kotaku) - Speaking with a group of game writers earlier this week SCEA head Jack Tretton talked briefly about how Sony Computer Entertainment has benefited under the shift from Ken Kutaragi to Kaz Hirai. Specifically, he talked about the promise that Sony's regions would be a bit more antonymous under Hirai.

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5 months ago 

Flock
(via Game Spy) -- Flock (X360)Capcom encourages you to get the flock outta here in this clever downloadable game.

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5 months ago 

PixelJunk Eden Slated for July 31 Release
(via Gaming Today) - The perplexing PixelJunk Eden had its release date announced today on VideoGamesBlogger: July 31, 2008 is when the next PixelJunk game and the second PS3 title to include Trophy support will be available. As I said before, I’ll be picking up the game based on how good PixelJunk Monsters was; I trust Q-Games, and if nothing else, the game will serve as another great-looking downloadable game in my PS3 library.

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5 months ago 

Damnation
(via Game Spy) -- Damnation (X360)The trustbusters are on the march in Blue Omega's bizarre "vertical shooter" set in a very wild, wild West.

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5 months ago 

What Are You Playing This Weekend? Lazy Sundays
(via Kotaku) - Being surrounded by the latest and greatest future releases the video game industry has to offer might lead one to think that my thirst for gaming has been quenched. Not so. Despite having access to E3's massive library of games, I experienced but a fraction of what was playable at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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5 months ago 

Final Fantasy XIII Does Not Depend on PS3 Sales
(via N4G.com) - As we all know, havoc and dismay and a lot of questions ensued after Square Enix's big surprise at E3, many pinning Square Enix's decision on the lower install base of the PS3 (14 Million) compared to the Xbox 360 (19 Million). However, a glance at last generation sales trends for sequels, this assumption is not accurate.

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5 months ago 

E308: The Joystiq / X3F reader meetup recap-o-pix
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: Fan stuff, E3Last night, we went out of E3 in style and on our own partying terms by hosting a Joystiq and X3F Reader Meetup event in Santa Monica, California. The turnout was great (something close to 300 readers attended), we ate some pizza, chit-chatted some, gave out a couple hundred pounds of swag and the highlight of the meetup was Rock Band 2.

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5 months ago 

Rare Wants Banjo To Become Xbox360 Mascot
(via Gamer Reports) - CVG has posted an interview with Rare's Senior Director Mark Betteridge to celebrate Banjo's 10th anniversary in Europe. Rich Cousins, the producer of the latest Banjo game, joins the interview as well. From the beginning, Batteridge makes it clear that he wants to turn Banjo into the Microsoft bear, as it were.

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5 months ago 

Damnation - One To Watch E308
(via Kotaku) - The best thing about going to E3 are the little surprises - games you either didn't know about or hadn't paid attention to that simply knock you off your feet. Blue Omega Games' Damnation is just that sort of game. Due to be published by Codemasters for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, Damnation combines third-person shooting with acrobatics in a unique steampunk setting to create a game that has amazing potential, both online and off.

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5 months ago 

E3: The Full Gamasutra Report
(via Gamasutra) - As the dust settles behind E3, Gamasutra presents a full breakdown of the eventful week, including all the interviews, all the press conferences (and our analysis thereof) - all the highlights and lowlights from the week that saw a drastically new look for the Xbox 360, a price drop for the PlayStation 3, and a very 'musical' Nintendo.

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5 months ago 

E308: Day 2 Roundtable
(via GamerTagRadio) -- This was recorded yesterday while driving to the Rock Band bash featuring Rodsmack & Assassin10k from (The10k.com). Also what Jay from UncleGamer had to say about Wii Music?

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5 months ago 

E308: Harmonix Says Microsoft Have Been Great Partners
(via Gamer Reports) - Harmonix, the company behind Rock Band, has stated that Microsoft have been great partners. Apparently, this partnership was partially responsible for the release of Rock Band 2 on Xbox360 first. The lead designer of Rock band, Dan Teasdale, said Harmonix is "not really delaying the other stuff.

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5 months ago 

E3 '08 - Next Knights of the Old Republic to be MMO
(via Planet Xbox) -- At the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit gaming website Kotaku got a chance to talk with John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, who dropped hints that Bioware's next game in the Knights of the Old Republic series, will be an MMO.

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5 months ago 

E3 2008: Media Molecule Talks About LittleBigPlanet's Press Conference Presentation
(via Gaming Today) - If you watched Sony’s press conference earlier this week, you probably appreciated the way in which Sony presented its various bragging numbers. While Nintendo and Microsoft did it in boring PowerPoint slideshow style, Sony opted instead to have Media Molecule’s Alex Evans play through a level of LittleBigPlanet that was specifically designed to help illustrate the numbers that Sony was presenting.

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5 months ago 

Winner - Loot-a-Palooza: Day 7 - Xbox 360 Elite
(via Loot Ninja) - Day 7, the last day of Loot-a-Palooza, came and went. A lot of you entered to win an Xbox 360 Elite, but only one of you can win. And that winner is… Samminator with comment 37! Congrats! Thanks to everyone who entered all week long and helped us celebrate our second birthday! Stay tuned for more giveaways [.

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5 months ago 

E308: Sony 'disappointed' by FFXIII for 360
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: Interviews, E3 Sony Computer Entertainment America boss Jack Tretton discussed Sony's take on the recent announcement that Final Fantasy XIII will release simultaneously on the Xbox 360 with the PS3 with a round-table of journalists, including our own team at Joystiq.

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5 months ago 

News: Wii becomes best-selling US console
(via EuroGamer) -- PS3 doubles 360 sales for June.

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5 months ago 

June 2008 NPD Data
(via Loot Ninja) - The Wii came out on top, as you already know. June was a pretty strong month overall for gaming. Here's the console numbers: Nintendo DS - 783,000 Nintendo Wii - 666,700 PlayStation 3 - 405,500 PSP - 337,400 Xbox 360 - 219,800 PlayStation 2 - 188,800 The DS reclaims the overall top spot.

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5 months ago 

E308: X3F Wish Makers
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, E3, Videos Before we left to go to E3 2008 we each outlined our Top Three Interests for the big show. Nearly every one of our interests were available for us to poke and prod at but what about your interests? Asking you to list your E3 anticipations, we molded our content to suit your needs.

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5 months ago 

Space Chimps
(via DCEmu) - Newly released: Image: http://image1.play-asia.com/170/6s/pa.122386.1.jpg description Unleash your inner-chimp! Play as both Ham the Third and Luna with your space chimp crew to free the imprisoned aliens of the planet Malgor. You must use your brains and acrobatic brawn to survive thick alien.

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5 months ago 

Xbox 360 installs: Install takes 10 minutes, 30 percent load time improvements
(via N4G.com) - According to GameSpot, Microsoft has told reporters that a Devil May Cry 4 hard disk installation will take around 10 minutes on the Xbox 360 and will result in around a 30 percent improvement in load times. Reduced noise is also another benefit of the new option. Although you will STILL need to

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5 months ago 

Xbox 360 - E3 2008: New Dashboard Avatars Featurette
(via Game Trailers) -- Get an up close look at the avatars you'll be customizing with the Xbox 360's new dashboard.

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5 months ago 

Xbox 360 Netflix streaming: The official way is better
(via N4G.com) - In response to TG Daily's article about Netflix Xbox 360 streaming, HEXUS.gaming examine it more closely. "Whilst she's right in the fact that the service is available for free (if you already have Windows Vista and Vista media center that is - I don't), what she neglected to point out was how the official service is far easier than the current method, so for many there is still an advantage in upgrading to an Xbox live Gold account.

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5 months ago 

Secret Agent Clank – PSP - Reviewed
(via LazyGamer) - The last few weeks have been particularly straining with the amount of content, competition and reviews to get out, especially when Nick decides to go and get married, I go on a boy’s farewell weekend (For a friend off to Canada), and Nick also timely decides to go on Honeymoon (Just so thoughtless).

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5 months ago 

MAG getting here in Autumn 2009
(via LazyGamer) -- I am very very skeptical that MAG is going to pull it off to be honest, BUT if it does it is going to revolutionise online multi-player gaming in the industry. These trailers make this game look absolutely fantastic and if it wasn’t for the plan to allow 256 simultaneous players I would be

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5 months ago 

Silent Hill: Homecoming Gets Pyramid Head, PC Version E308
(via Kotaku) - Earlier this week I watched a Konami rep play through a bit of Silent Hill: Homecoming while we were awaiting the coming of Castlevania creator Koji Igarashi. The quick play through showed off the opening moments of the game, with protagonist Alex Shepherd waking up in Silent Hill and setting off on the search for his little brother.

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5 months ago