Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: When Modern Warfare 2 isn’t always guns a-blazing Posted byby GamesBeat June 5, 2009 2 min A lot of things impressed me about the Modern Warfare 2 demo: the great blizzard/snow effects. A snowmobile chase that would make Bruce Willis...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: EA Took Me to Hell and All I Have to Show is This Lousy Update Posted byby GamesBeat June 5, 2009 2 min My tour of the EA booth felt like a trip through hell. Because it was. Seriously — the demo for action-adventure game Dante’s Inferno...
Categories Posted inin Technology Nintendo CEO: Wii care about your heartbeat, but not your iPhone, the recession or free games Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2009 8 min Satoru Iwata is very excited about your heartbeat. The chief executive of Nintendo wants to capture it on his new Wii Vitality Sensor, an...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: THQ Big Sword Bonanza Posted byby GamesBeat June 4, 2009 1 min Yesterday, I discovered THQ fancy one killing weapon over all: big ol’ swords. The two games I checked out Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and...
Categories Posted inin Technology Dean’s video report on the latest trends and great games of E3 Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2009 1 min Here’s a video I shot with Alexa Lee of Ooyala at the Microsoft Xbox 360 booth at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles....
Categories Posted inin Technology GameGround snags $4.1 million from Sequoia for gamer services Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 3, 2009 1 min Several prominent Israelis have formed a new game company, GameGround, with $4.1 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. The company was started in 2007...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: Mobcast Episode 005 Posted byby GamesBeat June 3, 2009 1 min Here we go with our first from-the-show E3 Mobcast. Check back tomorrow for another episode, with more special guests! Bitmob.com – Mobcast #5: We...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: Sony Press Conference Awards Posted byby GamesBeat June 3, 2009 4 min And now we come to the final press conference of the Big Three. Sony had some shockers (Final Fantasy 14?!) and snoozers (do we...
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture E3 reminds me of why I hate gamers Posted byby GamesBeat June 3, 2009 3 min To begin, I ask to pardon the "rant" style of this post. I don’t intend to get on a tangent, though based on the...
Categories Posted inin Business CO-OP: E3 Special 01 Posted byby GamesBeat June 3, 2009 2 min It’s the first official day of E3 and this is our first of three E3 special episodes, but the real announcements started yesterday. Driving...