E3 Refocuses, Becomes Invitation-Only Conference
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On July 10, one of the year&#39;s major video game conferences, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), will open in Santa Monica, California.
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Microsoft showed several expected games during the company's E3 press conference.
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I'm writing this from CES 2007 &#151; the latest and greatest Consumer Electronics Show, where 140,000 attendees crowd 2,700 exhibits packed into 1,660,000 square feet of space in more halls and hotels than I'll bother to count. There's a lot of noise here, and a certain amount of signal; though the ratio of the former to the latter is no less lopsided than it always is. Everybody's not only showing their good sides, but paying millions to crow about it through mass quantities of advertising and PR. \
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Tycho:  Last year's iteration of Tiger Woods had a fairly serious glitch in multiplayer, in that the game could not be played in multiplayer mode.  Or, it worked sometimes, but there was no way to know how or when - what combination of dances and burning herbs would right this aloof mechanism.  It was most likely the rush of new owners securing tee-times on simulated links, but after a week of trying to use the product without success I decided that I had better things to do than try and contextualize EA's grave miscalculations.    The few times we were able to jump on and actually get in there were the kind of epic, unadulterated "guy fun" one sees lionized in hilarious summer comedies.  Golf as a sport (and as a videogame) has the strong undercurrent of shared misery that one usually finds only in dive bars.  The recently released demo for this year's product - on both PSN and XBL, now - recalled those moments to us, independent of the rage that bookended each round of powerfully communal spirit lodge golf.  This year's product has a huge focus on Gamernet, a kind of user created content initiative that will hopefully see them approach the performance of their online infrastructure with more conviction.     GameFace, their face making thing, has seen a significant jump this year as well - it can take pictures from your console's camera and create actual face geometry, and I understand that photos can even be uploaded online and then brought down on the console for processing.  We were able to get some pretty good results with the earlier versions of the tool, but this is very much appreciated.  Of course, in the wrong hands, every tool is a weapon.     Ubisoft is now saying that Haze is an exclusive exclusive for the PS3, and not one of them timed or partial exclusives one might see in the lesser houses.  Truly monogamous games are rare these days, and this is certainly a surprise, but this thing has been hopping back and forth for months.  There was even a leaked document that showed this "exclusive" being released a week later for PC and 360, though all traces of the document were soon obliterated.  Assassin's Creed was (as you'll recall) a PS3 exclusive as well.  For a week, at any rate.        I'm really excited for Haze, but I'm not sure if that's a universally held belief.  The writer made a good impression on me at E3 several years ago, and Free Radical makes a good impression on me whenever they make a videogame.  It's also a four player co-op experience with a unique, asymmetrical multiplayer proposition that you've probably read about.  But, as with Bioshock, I'm really in it for the story - and, also like Bioshock, I think anything that limits its potential audience is a serious mistake.
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DemoFall participants look to make it easier to book meetings.
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300-plus people lineup at the EB Games in Universal City. And then the PictoChatting begins. November 21, 2004 - Who says Nintendo doesn&#39;t know how to throw a party?
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TechWeb - The annual convention, held in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9, will showcase new gaming and telematics products, mobile and wireless technologies, home networking, innovative electronics, and more.
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As part of its new move to open its network to new devices, company is inviting gadget developers to swap ideas at a two-day conference this March in New York City.
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Electronic Arts (EA) began the summer by pledging at June&#8217;s Worldwide Developers Conference to bring six A-list games to the Mac platform. But the world&#8217;s largest independent game publisher was pursuing other opportunities with Apple long before that.
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This week's E3 conference will be a more modest affair than in years past, but hopes are high for a strong slate of new games.
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Washington Post Staff Writer, Mike Musgrove, who also writes the @play column, will be online to discuss last week's E3 summit, the annual trade show for the video game industry.
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Fan conventions aren't just for sci-fi buffs anymore. Films such as 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Napoleon Dynamite' are inspiring off-line communities, too.
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The more things change  for E3, the video game industry&#39;s premier trade show, the more  they stay the same -- if preshow news from Sony Corp. is any  indication.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland security will host a invite-only conference two months from now that will bring together security experts from law enforcement, Internet service providers, and the technology industry.
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Telling video game developers at the Game Developer Conference to resist producing hit sequels and games of horror and revenge, Nintendo's top designer wants to bring joy to the widest audience. By the Associated Press. Plus: Keynote disappoints in GameLife.
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CES 2005 Quality content coming to new format. Van Helsing too
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Blog: A recap of what went on at the 'Second Life' convention this weekend in Chicago.