First Look from EGM: Korean developer Webzen's Huxley is looking to take on the behemoth of World of Warcraft. PC and Xbox 360 players sharing a persistent dystopian world, blending RPG progression with FPS combat. Expected 2007.
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Gaming Rewind: 2006 Live
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Gaming Rewind: 2006 Live
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It's 2006. The PS3 costs $599. Your horse has armor. Let's do this. | 20 years late. Somehow still breaking gaming news.
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A big hitter for Nintendo's DS portable arrived today. First 2D Mario in 15 years. Senior Editor of Gamespot, Jeff Gerstmann, gave it a superb review, 9.0/10.
"...A new classic ... that lives up to the Super Mario Bros name."
Fans buzz is overwhelmingly positive on GameFAQs.
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E3 2006 is over. With 60,000 attendees across three days. 400+ exhibitors, it is the largest Electronic Entertainment Expo in the event's 12-year history. The ESA has not commented on the format of next year's event. What were your favorites of the show?
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Assassin's Creed, a new IP from Ubisoft Montreal, is shown behind closed doors at E3. The game is set during the Crusades and features an open-world city where NPCs react to the player's actions. It is in development for PS3.
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Irrational Games shows BioShock behind closed doors at E3. The studio, acquired by Take-Two Interactive in January, describes the game as a spiritual successor to System Shock 2. Instead of a space station, the game takes place in an underwater city. Coming to Xbox 360 and PC.
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Reports of a massive line for Wii Sports at E3, in excess of 3 hours to get in to try the game. The line spans a large part of the show floor.
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Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega's 15th anniversary title, is playable at E3. The build is 40% complete.
GameSpot's Jeff Gerstmann & Ryan Davis: "Easily the best looking Sonic the Hedgehog game we've ever seen."
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@YtSkizzy @20YearsAgoLive Nintendo hasnt really had a successful home console since the SNES; they are hoping to turn it around with this one, but the internet seems quite skeptical. Someone on NeoGAF called it "two GameCube duct-taped together."
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@20YearsAgoLive The controller skeptics went quiet after E3 opened. The tennis demo in particular is drawing huge crowds. It has the longest line on the show floor, with 3 hour wait times.
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@untitledfold_er Not something you see every day. Usually people just read the paper or listen to their iPod on the train. Nintendo might be onto something with the portability pitch.
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@nostalgia_ The DS belongs on this list. The Wii is still a question mark. A lot of people at E3 are impressed but the name alone is costing them goodwill. Nintendo hasn't had a successful home console since the SNES and motion controls are a tough pitch to the core audience.
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@nostalgia_ This still stands as Bill Gates favorite video game.
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The conference closes with footage of Halo 3. The trailer shows combat on earth with the message that this is the way the world ends and the text: Finish the Fight: 2007.
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Bill Gates takes the stage and announces a new platform called Live Anywhere that will roll out when Vista ships. It will be a big part of Vista. It will have cross-platform capability. Mobile phones, Xbox 360, and PC will share tools.
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The rumors are true. An impressive looking new trailer of Remedy's Alan Wake is shown, at the end, it's confirmed to be an Xbox 360 and Windows exclusive.
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Peter Moore take's off his jacket and rolls up his sleeves, showing off his old ink, and his new addition, the GTAIV logo. Announces Grand Theft Auto IV will arrive on Xbox 360 on Oct 16th 2007 in North America. There was no mention of an exclusive to 360.
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The HD DVD player for the 360 is shown. It will be ready this holiday season.
"The initial US run of HDDVD players from Toshiba sold out in the first days ... retailers cannot keep first movie titles ... in stock ... the excitement behind HDDVD will only continue to grow."
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Jim Veevaert from Microsoft Game Studios gave a demo of Viva Pinata. It appears to be a Harvest Moon-style farming sim, where you take care of animal-like Pinata creatures. Due to arrive this holiday.
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A pre-rendered trailer of Blue Dragon is shown, the first game from ex-square director Hironobu Sakaguchi's new studio, Mistwalker. Moore talks up their next game, Lost Odyssey: "[Lost Odyssey] will rank as one of the most innovative in years."
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Will Wright demonstrates Spore on the E3 show floor. Six stages of evolution in a single game, with an impressive creature creator. Spore won Game of the Show at last year's E3, and early reports are favorable for it to win again. Scheduled for release in 2007.
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