Can’t get enough of Gears? Yeah me neither, though this very well could be a title that I’ll wait and see with. Announced today at Microsoft’s E3 2012 Press Conference it appears they are going prequel with Gears. Now I’ll hold my judgment until the game is released, until then I’m merely raise and eyebrow and hope for the best.
In the midst of a fairly quiet (and Usher-esque) conference by Microsoft at E3 2012, fans were pleasantly surprised by the appearance of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the popular comedy series South Park. The two were happy to announce — after some teasing in December of last year — that their first RPG, featuring the characters of South Park, is in development.
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The passing of the baton from Bungie to 343 Studios has seen a lot of news in the past year, with a lot of concern from industry authorities to fanboys and everything between, but if the live gameplay demo shown earlier today is any indication, all that concern is wholly without foundation.
Halo 4 looks, in short, incredible. The look of the title is still notably Halo, but with a glossy sheen we’ve never seen in the franchise; Halo has been clean, its been reliable, but its never been gorgeous. It is now.
Hey fans, our good friends at Twisted Pixel (‘Splosion Man, The Gun Stringer, etc.) are making a speedy splash at E3 this year. They just announced their latest game LOCOCYCLE, which should just be a bucket of velocifun. Check out the press release below!
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For those of you that still read, the Microsoft E3 Press Briefing Highlights:
Another Tomb Raider trailer has been released to correspond with the onset of E3 2012.
Once again, the trailer exhibits a novelty: seeing the traditionally unbreakable Lara Croft in her most vulnerable state to date. Promising a glimpse at the tribulations that produced the formidable badass she is today, the reinvented Tomb Raider looks ready to impress.
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Trauben’s Overall
The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the largest and most daunting conferences to cover, and the menagerie of high-tech gadgets and gizmos is staggering. After a day at CES the scope and scale of the electronics industry is unmistakable.
The variety, however, is sometimes a little more in question.
The electronics industry is a pack of hungry companies and developers fighting over finite market share. Much of the time a company presenting a product has their competitors right next door presenting a similar-but-not-quite-the-same product, and the two rivals each assure the consumer or reporter that theirs is the Unique Solution with Innovative Design and High-Quality Material and any number of other perks rating capitalized titles which the discerning customer will surely appreciate. The alternative is monopoly, of course, but I’d rarely realized, for example, just how many companies boast about their mobile device cases or headphones or television designs.
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Nyko, a steadfast name in the 3rd-party gaming peripheral market, has been busy expanding their business focus this year. At this year’s CES, they unveiled their Yo Gabba Gabba! line.
The first, flashiest item that caught our eye was the Yo Gabba Gabba! Muno Time combination clock/radio with integrated portable charger. Looking somewhat like an animated red pickle, the charger is listed as supporting iPod, iPhone, Nintendo DS and 3DS devices. The alarm feature can play songs off the connected portable device or one of the included songs like “Don’t Bite Your Friends”.
The second Yo Gabba Gabba! product is the Brobee Hip Pack. Primarily designed as a mobile device carrying case, the Hip Pack has multiple internal pockets to keep cords and other peripherals off of your portable device screen. A screen cleaner comes included in the pack. Both products will be released in the summer and prices have yet to be released.
Nyko also had a few of their new portable device offerings as well. The PlayStation Vita received a lot of love with the Power Grip, Speaker Stand, and Game Case Pro among the more interesting offers.
According to the BBC, major file-sharing site Megaupload has been shut down – and its founders are facing criminal charges by the United States’ federal government.
Predictably, the site’s founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Prosecutors claim Megaupload has cost copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue, despite Megaupload’s claims of diligently responding to complaints of pirated material. Co-founders Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland New Zealand along with two other employees at the request of the United States. Three employees remain at large.
