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27 May 2005
It's fair to say that I was extremely impressed with the Xbox 360 at E3. The controllers are virtually perfect (and will be available for the PC), and going back to a (relatively) grainy PS2 after playing Full Auto at 1080i was palpably painful. A couple of hours into E3, we realized that all of the games were playing on dev kits (read: Apple G5 towers). Reports have started coming out that at HDTV resolutions, the Xbox 360 will not be able to render the games at full quality, which means that the final games will almost certainly not look as nice as they did at E3. Which is a damn shame.
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20 May 2005
E3 is over. We yelled ourselves silly for three days and played about a krillion games. Some of the most interesting things were the Game Boy Micro (so small, but so comfortable), Shadow of the Colossus, and just about everything about the Xbox 360. There's a lot more, but I'm a bit exhausted and all of the muscles in my body (especially my throat muscles) are a bit tired.
This was totally awesome. I can't wait until next year.
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18 May 2005
Day 0 of E3 is over. We survived some serious turbulence on the flight over the Rockies, and met boo_radley from Metafilter and his friend Dan. Plus, we met two people on the plane who are going to E3 (one of whom was the VP of Sales for Turtle Beach).
One of the rooms at the Westin is the perfect gaming room, because it's right between two executive conference suites. We saw big groups going in and out of them a few times yesterday, but at night the doors were propped open and there was no one around.
Yesterday at the invitation-only presentations, Sony introduced their Playstation 3, Nintendo showed off the Revolution and surprised everyone with the Game Boy Micro (that thing is tiny), and several interesting games were demoed. I'm looking forward to the conference. T minus four hours!
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13 May 2005
I hope that I don't regret allowing any of the E3 folks to moblog to the front page here. The new design makes it really easy to integrate new sources of posts, like the E3 moblog, or the "standard" moblog.
The old location of the E3 moblog is also available, if this page is too ugly for you.
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19 Apr 2005
WE'RE GOING TO E3!!!!
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28 Feb 2005
This is something that I normally would just put in my links feed (to the right, if you've never noticed it before), but it's just so exciting that I wanted to gush about it here. Not only are there going to be playable versions of all three upcoming next-gen home consoles at E3, but Nintendo might be giving us a little extra to look forward to: a next-gen Game Boy. Plus they may reveal PalmOS-for-the-DS at E3 as well.
(BTW, some of the comments on that link make me laugh).
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6 Feb 2005
The information on the next generation in game consoles is becoming more firm. We know that they'll all be playable at the next E3. We know all about the technology behind the PS3's Cell processor. And now we're starting to hear information about official names. Continuing with their tradition of sticking with development names, the Nintendo Revolution is rumored to become the "Nintendo Revolution". And afraid that X-Box 2 would sound less edgy than Playstation 3, Engadget is reporting that Microsoft's next console will be the "X-Box 360".
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7 Jan 2005
The day before New Years, I went to MoMA in New York with the inlaws. We had reservations for dinner, but we were a little bit early and were sick of walking, so we stopped at a random (extremely nice, mid-high-range) restaurant and sat down in their quiet bar for a pre-dinner drink. We were chatting casually, and Mrs. D asked me "what are the big games now?" I told her that this was a huge season for sequels: Half-Life 2, GTA: San Andreas, and Halo 2, in particular. The very curteous bartender, a man with a thick french accent, stopped what he was doing, bent over towards us, and asked "Excuse me, but did you say you play Halo? I love that game."
I've never played the game, but it obviously has had a huge impact on people who otherwise might not consider themselves gamers. I cant figure out how to segue from that story to a link about an international Halo superstar, but let's pretend I did it smoothly.
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4 Jan 2005
I installed The Sims for M last week and she spent the rest of the day playing it. In what would seem entirely unrelated news, she's also peppered our entire apartment with little labels that have spanish translations for the objects: el piso, the floor; la estufa, the stove; el marido obsesivo-obligatorio, the obsessive-compulsive husband; etc. Well, apparently there are ways to combine these two desires to allow her to learn a foreign language while playing The Sims.
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23 Dec 2004
The newest Nintendo Revolution rumor is that the new console will not have a D-pad or buttons on the controllers. Anyone's obvious first thought is: "touchpad?" A totally dynamic controller would be pretty cool, if it was still comfortable.
Also, Nintendo has confirmed that the console will be shown at E3 2005.
