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E3: My Thursday at LA conference

The video game industry's annual get-together in Los Angeles ends today, and I've got another day packed with appointments. I'll run 'em down quickly here so you know what to expect from me in the coming days. So, what am I seeing? I'll start Day 3 of E3 off with [...]

By | June 17th, 2010|0 Comments

E3 Wednesday: 2,144 words about 14 games

If you felt cheated and robbed my quick-and-dirty recap of Tuesday at E3, go pee, wash your hands and make yourself a snack. Here's an exhaustive accounting of nearly everything I saw and did on Wednesday at the video game industry's annual confab in L.A. I'll be posting more detailed stuff on a lot of these games in the days and weeks to come, but I wanted to get this out there while it's still fresh in my mind.

By | June 17th, 2010|1 Comment

E3: What I’m up to Wednesday

"Civilization V," "X-Com," "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and "Rock Band 3" are just a few of the titles I plan to check out on Wednesday at E3.

By | June 16th, 2010|0 Comments

E3 Tuesday recap

So I can get some sleep, I'm going to avoid recapping Tuesday as exhaustively as I did Monday. I spent the time I normally would have devoted to a comprehensive recap of Tuesday writing my column on the 3DS, Kinect and PlayStation Move for Friday's paper. In lieu of a [...]

By | June 16th, 2010|5 Comments

Quick thoughts on hardware of E3

The future of video gaming crystallized this week at the video game industry’s annual E3 trade show, and, not surprisingly, it’s an expensive one. Here’s a quick rundown of new hardware shown off by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. All three had been previously announced, but this is the first time [...]

By | June 16th, 2010|1 Comment

What I’m doing Tuesday at E3

I'll be catching the keynote presentations from Nintendo and Sony early, then meeting in appointments with a handful of publishers.

By | June 15th, 2010|0 Comments

Joe Montana’s E3 surprise

In the roundup of stuff I saw and did on Monday, I left out the fact that Electronic Arts brought Joe Montana on stage briefly to talk about the streamlined playcalling in this year's "Madden." Joe looked a little uncomfortable on stage. He seemed to struggle with whether to look [...]

By | June 15th, 2010|0 Comments

Recapping Monday at E3

During what I'm going to call Day 0 at E3, I watched Electronic Arts and Ubisoft preview a couple of dozen upcoming titles for the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But the real buzz at the show was from Microsoft's morning press conference. A raging headache and only two hours' sleep on Sunday night kept me from Activision's bash at the Staples Center.

By | June 15th, 2010|0 Comments

Headed to E3, big game news ahead

I'll be spending a good chunk of this week in Los Angeles at E3, where I expect to get my eyes and hands on a lot of the new games and hardware we'll be playing with over the next year.

By | June 14th, 2010|0 Comments