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Felicia Day plays with Project Natal

Felicia Day, she of Buffy and The Guild fame, was caught playing with Microsofts new Project Natal tech during E3 2009.
For those who missed it, Project Natal is a technology designed to allow you to play games without a controller. Taking cues from the Wii it removes control systems relying on watching the user move [...]

Fairytale Fights

You wouldn’t know it from watching the demo or browsing all the delicious screenies below but Fairytale Fights, a hack-in-slash platforming fighter, is powered by the Unreal Engine; YES the same one turning the Gears of War. It was an easy game to miss at this year’s E3 but as I was picking thru a [...]

Nintendo at E3 2009

E3 2009 has now been and gone and Nintendo had more than a few surprises in store, including a host of new games and one or two pieces of slightly less exciting hardware.
Some of the games answer the criticisms aimed at Nintendo for pandering to the casual audiences – giving the more dedicated fans the [...]

Splinter Cell Conviction trailer

Splinter Cell Conviction has been through a few different phases of development, disappearing for over a year – and now it seems it’s finally coming out.
The game focuses on Sam Fishers fall from grace. Based upon the trailer he has been set up for some crime or other and he now needs to clear his [...]

Monkey Island is being Re-released

Ron Gilbert has blogged about two forthcoming re-releases of Monkey Island and then he analyses the good and bad design decisions in the original Monkey Island. It’s a good read for an old-skooler like me.

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