E3 2012: The Notable No-Shows

E3 2012: The Notable No-Shows

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Blog On: 12 Jun

E3 2012 has come and gone, and while there were plenty of great games at the show, there were some high profile titles that were notably absent from this year’s conference.

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E3 2012 was Definitely Good for SimCity

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 08 Jun

While everyone seems to sort of agree that this year’s E3 was fairly lacking of any epic announcements, that doesn’t mean everyone had a bad time. Say what you will about the rest of E3, but for the SimCity reboot, it was a good week. This isn’t just my opinion, even though I happen to [...]

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E3 2012: God of War Ascension multiplayer hands-on

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On:

I came to Sony’s E3 booth hoping that Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale would be a fun (if unoriginal,) multiplayer brawler. It wasn’t. Instead, I found myself repeatedly playing the demo for God of War: Ascension’s multiplayer, which seems like it will be the fun, innovative, unpredictable multiplayer arena fighter than Battle Royale should’ve been.

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E3 2012: Resident Evil 6 hands-on

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On:

Ever since Resident Evil 4, RE fans have been divided between (smart) people who saw RE4 as the savior of the rapidly aging franchise and those who saw it as the game that killed that the traditional survival horror genre. Personally, I loved RE4; as much as I loved the “classic” styled RE games, RE4′s [...]

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E3 2012: BOOBIES! (Dead or Alive 5 hands-on)

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 07 Jun

Considering the poor reception that both Metroid: Other M and Ninja Gaiden 3 got, it would be pretty easy at this point to write Team Ninja off. The team hasn’t had a hit since its former leader, Tomonobu Itagaki, left the company in 2008 on very non-amicable terms. Don’t count Team Ninja out yet though: [...]

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E3 2012: Sly Cooper Thieves in Time hands-on

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On:

I was a little worried when I heard that the next Sly Cooper wasn’t being developed by the franchise’s creators at Sucker Punch, but honestly, if I had not been told that the game was being made a different dev, I never would have noticed — Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time plays exactly the way [...]

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E3 2012: Little Big Planet Karting Hands-On

Posted By: Angela Min In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On:

Little Big Planet Karting at first glance is a re-skinned version of Mario Kart. The basic premise of the game is to race around the track with your friends (or bots) and beat them with the various items you pick up and your ability to not run into any traps while you accelerate and drift.

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E3 2012: Assassin’s Creed 3 hands-on

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On:

There is no game that I am more excited for than Assassin’s Creed 3. I came to E3 this year with high expectations for Ubisoft’s latest historically themed murder simulator, and the short time I spent with the game today has only managed to validate all the hype.

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E3 2012: Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition hands on

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Wii On: 06 Jun

The Wii U tablet has the potential to change the way we all play games, but like the Wii-mote before it, it’s still pretty questionable whether anyone will be able to use that potential, or whether they’ll simply turn it into a gimmick. Nothing demonstrates that idea better than Arkham City: Armored Edition, which demonstrates [...]

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E3 2012: Hands-On with Epic Mickey 2

Posted By: Angela Min In: Console News, Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 On:

Epic Mickey always looked pretty amazing to me, but I never actually went out and bought the game. This mostly has to do with the fact that I haven’t touched my Wii in two years and I don’t own a Kinect or Move. With that being said, I found the demo for Epic Mickey 2 [...]

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E3 2012: Pikmin 3 hands-on, first impressions of the Wii U controller

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Wii On:

Pikmin 3 was the highlight of Nintendo’s mostly bland E3 press conference, so I made sure that it was the first game I played when I visited Nintendo’s booth this afternoon. As you’d expect from a game created by legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, the game was a lot of fun to play, but I’m [...]

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E3 2012: Need For Speed: Most Wanted Demo Hands-On

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News, Nintendo DS/3DS, PC, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita, Wii, Xbox 360 On:

Being a Need For Speed fan I’d really like to give this game glowing reviews but as a journalist I simply can’t. The game was enjoyable to play for the very short demo but it was also very easy to beat which for a racing game I find boring.

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