Cue another success in the Out of Nowhere department.  I saw Flower during the media briefing and was mildly intrigued, but had easily forgotten it two days later when we arrived for our meeting with Sony.  Resistance 2 was already happening, Little Big Planet was also full of players, Killzone 2 had a running line of media…hell, everything seemed to have a queue (protip: don’t schedule appointmen...[Read More]

Have you ever been so immersed in a game that you actually get motion sickness and have to leave the room?  Me neither, but that happened to two other people as I sat in on four presentations of Mirror’s Edge.  That reality alone is enough reason to suspect Mirror’s Edge might be a game far, far different from anything else on the show floor.  I had read Play’s cover story and seen the trailer, bu...[Read More]

I had a clear mission on Thursday morning. Little Big Planet, Sony’s darling crown jewel of their PSN lineup, had a packed kiosk on the show floor for the duration of E3.  Even though I had an official appointment with Sony later in the day, I still wanted to get my hands on it as soon as possible.  This lead to me, quite embarrassingly, camping the show floor well before it was set to open for th...[Read More]

Just the other night we were able to spend dinner with our friends at Logitech where they were showcasing some of their upcoming products. You may have already read Eric’s Impressions of the force-feedback enabled steering wheels (which, by the way, are eerily accurate in their feel and amazingly high-quality), but I’m here to tell you a bit more about my side of things: the DS, PSP, and Wii acces...[Read More]

NYKO Long are the days when NYKO made only a few great products a year. The time is now when NYKO has been completely kicking butt with their lineup of great 3rd party products and solutions to your greatest videogaming needs. At this year’s E3 there were only 2 completely new products on their lineup, the Intercooler TS for both the 360 and PS3 and the Media Hub+ for the PS3 but over the last cou...[Read More]

Samba de Amigo Wii It took me until around 2:30 on Thursday (around the time when the convention was winding down) to be able to play Samba de Amigo because the game was such a hit and thus crowded for much of the time. This cult classic from the Dreamcast has been completely reborn on the Wii and it’s as fun as ever this time around. You can play with either the WiiMote and nunchuk or for the fir...[Read More]

Going into E3, there were few titles other than Mirror’s Edge that I absolutely had to get my hands on. This proved to be difficult; however, as it was not on the show floor and we had no suite appointment with EA.  Still, a little determination and a lot of begging eventually got me into EA’s room and right in front of Mirror’s Edge…and six other people who actually had ap...[Read More]

So IGN just released the official Mega Man 9 “box art”, and it’s super-professional.  The art style is truly indicative of the content of the game, communicating both gripping suspense and rich emotion.  It’s almost as awesome as the European Mega Man 2 box art in fact. The Mega Man 2 European box art kills me.  I love the bowling pin arm almost as much as I love the random...[Read More]

Three cheers for a game series that consumed three solid months of my college life. Then enter Animal Crossing: Wild World for the Nintendo DS, and I’m right back to playing constantly again… though I tired of it more quickly. Now we’re doing the same thing a third time with marginal changes once again, and I’m beginning to wonder how interested I’ll be in this new version. Regardless, there are s...[Read More]

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 There are few Command & Conquer fans that are as devoted to the franchise as editor-in-chief Steve and myself. To us, Command & Conquer is the defining RTS series and since the original title, we’ve enjoyed the series like none other. Though I really haven’t loved the more recent titles such as Generals and Command & Conquer 3, I still enjoyed the tit...[Read More]

I still have a shrink-wrapped, unopened copy of Fable for the original Xbox sitting on my shelf at home, and I am still forlorn over the fact that I have not yet been able to find the time to play it. You see, sometimes when you’re always reviewing games, it’s tough to find a way to make time for “pleasure” gaming. But after spending some time with Fable 2 today, the original has been bumped close...[Read More]

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Castlevania has most certainly become a staple series on the DS and it continues to thrive further with a new game on the horizon. Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia takes an interesting turn in the timeline of Castlevania by placing the vampire killing in the hands of a non-Belmont. And, continuing with the theme of change, this game is also the first where you actually...[Read More]