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Microsoft wants you to forget the rumours and scuttlebutt – it is insisting there will be no new Xbox reveal at E3. According to tweets from Bloomberg news’ technology reporter Dina Bass, Microsoft’s head of corporate PR David Dennis has said there will be no new console to be shown …
Read More »E3 ties with MCV as event media partner
A partnership has been signed between this year’s E3 and MCV. The agreement is part of the LA event’s ever-growing reach, with its aim being to attract more accredited retailers and media from outside the US. Across our different formats, MCV attracts a combined professional and elite gamer readership of …
Read More »Now Microsoft denies new hardware for E3
Microsoft has followed Sony’s lead in declaring that it will show nothing new” in terms of hardware at this year’s E3. Yesterday Sony’s French CEO Phillippe Cardone was quoted as saying that Sony is under less pressure than it’s rivals and will probablybe the last to announce something”. Now another …
Read More »‘Cancel your E3 plans’, says SOPA activist Red 5
Studio not prepared to support trade show while its organisers back tough piracy measures
Read More »Gaikai: MS or Sony to bow out of console market at E3
Either Microsoft or Sony will shock the E3 crowds this summer by announcing that they will not release a next-generation console. That’s the claim of cloud computing firm Gaikai. The company’s chief product officer Nanea Reeves told Industry Gamers that: "Not all of the current console makers will have one …
Read More »Sony’s Hirai: "We are not making any announcements at E3"
Sony is sticking to its guns and insists there will be no talk of what it plans to do beyond PS3 at June’s E3. Speaking in response to our story last week that senior publishing execs are expecting new console announcements at E3, one of the format-holder’s most senior execs …
Read More »Shock PS4 announcement ‘set for E3’
New report claims that all three next gen systems will take stage at LA extravaganza
Read More »OPINION: New format war could tip balance back to traditional gaming
There will be a chunk of readers who think two new consoles at June’s E3 is at best too premature, or, at worst, expensive folly. Certainly I, like many others, heard a little voice in the back of my mind whispering too soon” when I found out a new Xbox …
Read More »Finished Wii U to showcase at E3 2012
Planned release of next-gen console 'in next fiscal year'
Read More »OPINION: The Queen vs E3
Now there’s a headline I never expected to write. The date clash between E3 and our esteemed monarch’s 60th year on the throne is a grand inconvenience.And one most of you hadn’t seen coming until we pointed it out. One person we canvassed told us: ‘But there’s nothing we can …
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