What with CES 2010 having come and gone before you can blink, the first electronic show that includes videogames is simply a memory. However, unlike Christmas, these shows happen more than once a year; whereas Santa Claus has only a solitary night to impress and deliver, games companies have to match that feat at least ten times. Santa doesn’t know how good he’s got it. With varying degrees of importance comes varying degrees of hype, expenditure and the symbolical annihilations that are the booth babes; where the visual delights of E3’s of the past have attracted huge industry interest and, up until 2008 at least, the LA-based expedition was undoubtedly the greatest (games) show on earth. In a chronologically arranged fashion, here’s an ‘essential guide’ to what’s on in the subsequent 326 days. (more…)
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Show and Tell
Posted in Feature, List, tagged Activision Blizzard, Alan Gershenfeld, BioWare, Bobby Kotick, Body Harvest 2, Civilisation, Crackdown 2, Crash Bandicoot, D.I.C.E. Summit, David Perry, Develop In Brighton, Duke Nukem Forever, Dungeons & Dragons, E3, Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Electronic Entertainment Expedition, Epic Games, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Fable III, Fallout: New Vegas, Final Fantasy, Game Developer Conference, GameHorizon Conference, Games Convention Asia, Gamescom, Gamezville, Gears of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, Grand Theft Auto V, Halo Reach, Halo: Combat Evolved, Ian Livingstone, id Software, Jim Crowley, Mad Catz, Mark Cerny, Mark Rein, Mass Effect, Mega64, Michael Capps, Montreal International Game Summit, Nintendo, Nordic Game Conference, Obsidian Entertainment, parkour, Peter Molyneux, Peter Moore, Project Needlemouse, Rachet & Clank, Saints Row 3, Sega, Sid Meier, Silicon Knights, Sony, Steve Wadsworth, Super Mario Galaxy 2 on February 8, 2010| 1 Comment »
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