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Now that my eyes and ears have settled down after being bombarded by the glorious conference known as E3 2010, I wanted to go over a few of my favorite things. Rain drops and roses and whiskers on kittens…wait, that’s not what I meant. I wanted to go over a few of my favorite things I saw at the show. In no particular order, here are 10 cool things I saw at E3 2010.
- Nintendo 3DS: Forget PlayStation Move, Xbox Kinect, and Sony’s 3D stereoscopic gaming. This is the technology everyone at the show was buzzing about. Although I want to see how well it works for hours of entertainment, it’s brilliant for minutes at a time.
- Kirby’s Epic Yarn: Charming and stylish art coupled with clever make Kirby’s Wii debut a triumphant one.
- Disney Epic Mickey: Charming and stylish art coupled with clever make Mickey’s Wii debut a triumphant one.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: I bumped into BioWare’s Dr. Greg Zeschuk and he gave me a personal demo of the game. Never mind that I missed a meeting because of this. Similar to if someone asks if you’re a god, if Dr. Greg asks, “Do you want to see the game?” you say yes! He’s awesome. The game is also awesome…and could be the end of me.
- Return of the “Big” E3: After a few years of mini-E3 in Santa Monica, people weren’t sure if E3 would return to its former glory. All the money spent on making this year’s show a spectacle shows that it’s back. You’d never know that the economy is in a major recession and the gaming industry is way down in terms of year-over-year revenue. E3 2010 was loud and proud! The only thing missing was Sony’s ridiculous parties.
- Child of Eden: This was — by far — the most interesting motion-control game I saw at the show. Of course it would take someone like Tetsuya Mizuguchi to make motion this cool.
- Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom: I was disappointed that The Last Guardian wasn’t at the show, but I found a substitute that’s more than worthy. This game reminded me of Ico with more involved combat. I’m really looking forward to this one.
- Crazy Activision Concert: A chick in a bikini climbed up a 50-foot stripper-pole…and a ridiculous amount of artists performed.
- Dance Central: Harmonix’ upcoming dance title was surprisingly fun. I gave it bonus points for having Bell, Biv, DeVoe’s “Poison”, but I was impressed by how well it used Kinect in a fun way. Sorry Dance Dance Revolution. This game makes you look silly.
- Razer Onza Controller: I was super excited about this product when I first heard about it in January and even more excited after I spoke with Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff about it. After playing with one at E3 2010, it’s the peripheral I want most for Xbox 360. Sure it has a wire, but it also has some unique features and the superb build quality Razer is known for.
Well, there’s my list. Obviously I didn’t get to see everything at the show and tomorrow’s column will consist of me whining about the things I didn’t see. For now, I’d like to know what caught your eye at E3 2010. What games and hardware have you amped?!?
@3DS
I thought I read about some people getting headaches from playing for a small amount of time (30-60ish minutes). But other than that one time that I read that, I am still very interested in really getting to see is what this machine can do.
@Kirby's Epic Yarn
Looks like a really cool concept for what will hopefully be another awesome Kirby game.
@tokz: I'm not sure the ref knew what the call was either. I'm gonna just go with the old "inadvertent whistle" theory from the NFL cause it makes about as much sense.
I was hoping to see some more of DCU but that game seems like its the new Starcraft 2. It will be heard about for decades, and a release date will never be known.
Sidenote
I got in for the beta of APB, Has anyone else played it yet?
@nightshade
yeah it makes sense but then the ref wouldn't admit to a mistake like the ump who robbed galarraga. As a matter of fact i think i heard the FIFA council isn't even going to ask what he saw there. WTF is going FIFA?!?!
Site was down for like 30 minutes. That really sucked. Perhaps it's time to explore better web hosts.
iOS4 is out and available for download. I'm not sure if i want to lose my jailbreak yet but if you have upgraded it. please let me know what you think. I'm sure everyone else would want to know too.
Speaking of people in sports getting jobbed, this really pissed me off:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/…
If you need more detail, let me know. But I HATE Bob Nutting.
@rpad
maybe it is time for a new one. this is like the 2nd time close a month where this happened. I think the web host can't handle the awesomeness of your site. :)
@ tokz
Downloading and installing now.
@n8r
haha, i saw and heard about that on the radio. You can't even talk smack about the Pirates roster moves even if you're in the Pierogi race either?? That's some BS but the kid is also a big L for having his mom go to the media and bash them for firing her kid.
@tokz_21 Yeah, I'm going to do some research now. I'm not very knowledgeable about current web hosts.
@ tokz
I wonder how many people heard that and thought "What the hell is a pierogie?".
Either way, the Nazi-ass tactics of the Pirates front office needed to be exposed. Hell, I feel like I'm gonna be banished from PNC Park and Pirates.mlb.com just for expressing this.
(That last joke was multi-layered… like an onion.)
Wow. Customer support finally responded to my support ticket about the site being down.
@n8r
if you get banned from PNC or Pittsburgh games, you should do it in like this English fan did.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100621/wl_africa_af…
@ tokz
Dude, I would LOVE to tell Bob Nutting off.
@hardware
I am really looking forward to the 3DS just because of the demos that i read were available. You can’t go wrong with LoZ:OoT or Star Fox 64. I think Mario Kart 64 would look pretty awesome on this. If this encompasses everything already on the Dsi which i wanted to get the XL but held off once i heard of the 3DS; I will own this day one.
@games
Kirby, Zelda, Epic Mickey, Goldeneye, Killzone 3, Gears of War 3.
@new WWE champions
I watched bits and pieces of the PPV. I thought the Jericho v Bourne match was pretty good, certainly a show stealer. The invasion happened again and thus caused the PPV to end like 25 minutes early. This is getting on my nerves btw if i were paying for the ppv i pay for the hours of 7-10p for that ppv i should get some credit for it ending early or make wwe extend it to like 3-5 mins before 10p.
@USA being jobbed
It was pretty weird. I saw it live and still don’t know what the call is. I think the ref called a foul for the guy touching the ball with his face but who knows. The US needs to win and they get in and this match will be an afterthought.
@Toy Story 3
Was Awesome. It had some sad parts in it and almost made my cry. I saw it in IMAX 3D which wasn’t necessary but my sister’s had never seen a movie in IMAX’s huge screen so it was more for them. I could’ve watched this in a regular theater and probably will.