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After last year’s string of pre-E3 leaks left more or less no surprises for the actual platform holder conferences, there’s an increasing belief that Microsoft has something big up its sleeve for tomorrow’s official E3 press briefing. With Nintendo set to unveil the said-to-be impressive 3DS at its press briefing …
Read More »E3 2010: 3DS super-wide display confirmed?
Very few specifics are known about Nintendo’s 3DS, the new handheld it will unveil next week. We know it will boast a glasses-free 3D display, and be backwards compatible with the old DS software – but Nintendo is keeping back many details until its E3 press conference next week. However …
Read More »E3 2010: Gaikai wants full service ‘by 2011’
Cloud gaming service Gaikai is heading to E3 one step closer to phase-one launch – but the company behind the revolutionary tech is aiming to expand the business fast. In a new interview with Develop, Gaikai co-founder Andrew Gault expressed his optimism in focusing the business on rapidly-streamed in-browser game …
Read More »Asian collaboration lecture set for GDC Europe
A key lecture offering insight into the success of Chinese game companies is set to take place at this year’s GDC Europe event. Tencent Games vice president of business development, Bo Wang, will bring to the conference advice on how western developers and business can collaborate with Asian firms. The …
Read More »E3 2010: MS to ‘top Natal announcement’
We’d begun to worry that this year’s E3 might not deliver the kind of big surprises we saw at the 2009 event – but Microsoft reckons it has something big up it sleeve. In an email to registered members of Xbox.com, the platform holder states: E3 is the world’s largest …
Read More »Deep Silver has the X Factor
The publisher of the X Factor game unveiled by MCV last week has been named – it’s Koch Media. After a no-doubt grueling round of auditions and pitches, Koch’s Deep Silver publishing label has met the approval of brand owner FremantleMedia, Simon Cowell’s production firm SyCo and, we assume, fellow …
Read More »Read the E3 edition of MCV online
You can read the digital edition of this week’s MCV magazine – the E3 special – by pointing your browser here. You can read it online or download the PDF. Our E3 spectacular features interviews and features with Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Sega, EA Sports, Square Enix, THQ, Codemasters, as well …
Read More »E3 2010: Rock Band 3 line-up revealed
EA and MTV Games’ music sequel Rock Band 3 will get a range of new Mad Catz peripherals to accompany the game’s release this Q4 – with the option of using MIDI instruments to play. Rock Band 3 was previously confirmed in March and will be available on Xbox 360, …
Read More »Capcom dusts off killer franchises
New instalments of popular gaming franchises are in the works as Capcom revitalises its portfolio. The company has brought several cherished brands back to the High Street in the last few years, including Bionic Commando and the best-selling Street Fighter IV. Now it plans to up the ante and revive …
Read More »OPINION: It’s that time again
E3 always manages to produce something special.Whether at its most disastrous (that brief ‘98 pit-stop in Atlanta; the ‘hospital corridor’ of 2008) or its most prosperous (Sony’s ‘Go big or go home’ price-drop warning in 1996; 2005’s unveiling of next-gen machines and boomerang controllers), the show always offers excitement and …
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