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June 21, 2010

Interview – Sam Roberts: Festival Director of IndieCade

Filed under: Features — Tags: E3 2010, IndieCade, interview — Michael Tucker @ 12:43 am

On the last day of this year’s E3 Expo I met with Sam Roberts at the unassuming Indiecade booth for an interview in which we talked about the festival and the games it aims to support. I expected to see a lineup of interesting titles and hear a spiel about independent games’ superiority to their mainstream counterparts.

Instead, I saw a lineup of outrageous, nearly mind blowing titles and had a fascinating discussion with Sam about the role independent games serve in the relation to the overall games industry.

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June 20, 2010

E3 Impressions – Knights of the Nintendo Roundtable

Filed under: Features — Tags: 3DS, E3 2010, Eiji Aonuma, Hideki Konno, Nintendo Roundtable, Shigeru Miyamoto, Skyward Sword, The Legend of Zelda — Aileen Viray @ 10:00 am

Nintendo Roundtable
As with previous years at E3, Nintendo again invited a select few to join them in one of the Convention Center’s Theater rooms for a developers’ roundtable event, the climax of a day beginning with their press conference and ending with Shigeru Miyamoto and company speaking with press in a smaller setting for an hour and a half.

Somehow we managed to get on the list this year, and it was hard not to feel like tagging along with an elite club, especially because of the strict rule that no recording devices were allowed.

Miyamoto brought out members of Nintendo’s own elite club – The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’s producer Eiji Aonuma, and Nintendo 3DS hardware producer Hideki Konno.

The talk that followed focused primarily on Zelda: Skyward Sword, the 3DS, and 3DS games – namely Nintendogs + Cats, Steel Diver, and Starfox, with most of the time restrained to those topics.

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June 19, 2010

Refresh Rate – TMNT IV: Turtles in Time

Filed under: Archives — Tags: Konami, SNES, Super Nintendo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT IV, Turtles in Time — Dan Rankin @ 7:27 pm

TMNT IV: Turtles in Time
There was a time when the turtles were bigger than pro wrestling. As it’s been a number of years since the pinnacle of their success, it’s probably best to specify that I’m referring, of course, to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Undoubtedly, there is a certain generation of people who don’t need that specification; when they hear ‘the turtles’, their minds make that immediate synaptic connection to the Ninja Turtles. But, as time passes, there is bound to be ever more gamers and movie fans who weren’t there to experience Turtle Power first hand.

Consider this your time machine.

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E3 Impressions – A Tale of Two Downloadable Titles

Filed under: Editorial Rants — Tags: E3 2010, Hard Corps Uprising, Konami, Space Invaders Infinity Gene, Square-Enix — Aileen Viray @ 1:51 pm

Downloadable Titles
Two of the top downloadable games I saw at E3 2010 are definitely Konami’s Hard Corps: Uprising and Square-Enix’s Space Invaders Infinity Gene. Child of Eden was stealing plenty of the limelight and my attention, but these games deserve some recognition.

Konami is releasing Hard Corps: Uprising on Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network this fall, and judging by the E3 demo, it’s coming along really well. The art shift makes it easy to call it a refreshing take on a celebrated franchise, whose concept and gameplay controls are still adopted from early Contra games – of course new features such as online co-op mode and leaderboards tag along for the nostalgia trip.

I couldn’t help but notice “working title” on the E3 sign with Hard Corps. Does that mean that they’re considering putting “Contra” back in the title? I’m going to guess probably not.

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Sin & Punishment 2 Draws Near

Filed under: News Feed — Tags: Nintendo, Sin & Punishment 2, Star Successor, Treasure, Wii — Jamie Love @ 12:58 pm

On the list of weekend surprises that go down in history, add Nintendo sending an email to remind me about the imminent arrival of Sin & Punishment 2 – Star Successor – June 27! Dig it!

The Big N even entitled the email “prepare to be punished,” but chances are many of you have the same email and I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. Still, I’m elated to see the push for a long awaited Treasure title, including the game’s website, which you can check out here.

I’ve vehemently hated the wait for this release, but this is one hell of a sweet game to get just as the E3 buzz is calming down.

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E3 Impressions – Vanquish

Filed under: Editorial Rants — Tags: Inaba, Mikami, Platinum Games, Sega, Vanquish — Aileen Viray @ 9:22 am

Vanquish is the new title from Platinum Games that SEGA is publishing on Xbox 360 and PS3 in October 2010. Producer Atsushi Inaba, who used to head Clover Studio (Viewtiful Joe, Okami, God Hand, etc.), co-founded Platinum Games where he has since worked on Bayonetta, Infinite Space, and MadWorld with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.

At the show I was lucky enough to be in a closed-door setting where Inaba demoed his new 3rd-person shooter for Gamesugar.

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June 18, 2010

E3 Impressions – Kirby’s Epic Yarn

Filed under: Editorial Rants — Tags: E3 2010, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Nintendo, Wii — Aileen Viray @ 4:07 pm

Kirby's Epic Yarn
Finding Kirby’s Epic Yarn playable on the show floor after hearing the announcement of the title at Nintendo’s Press Conference was a complete joy. Even the length of the lines could not deter me from a demo playthrough, and so I adamantly waited in line for my turn.

As proof that you never know who you might be standing next to at E3, I asked the man next to me if he wanted to join me with the game only to discover that he was out of Nintendo’s top game composers, credited with having worked on quite a few memorable titles.

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