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Yesterday’s E3 festivities were fantastic. I went to the excellent B4 party held by47 Communications and caught up with all sorts of groovy friends. Game Informer’s Andy McNamara dropped a ton of weight and looks fantastic. I’ve dubbed him Andy Mc Lite. BioWare’s Dr. Greg appears to be hitting the weights. His biceps were pretty impressive. Naturally, I accused him of using steroids and/or HGH. After the party some of my industry friends from Japan wanted to get a large American burger, so we went to The Counter. The gaijin portions kicked their asses.
Socializing aside, it was great confirming a bunch of pre-E3 rumors. Most of what you’ve been hearing is true. Some of the best stuff I heard about and two games that are supposedly awesome won’t even be at the show. It looks like those games/products will be Tokyo Game Show 2011 or E3 2012 announcements.
Since I’m going to be hopping around downtown Los Angeles all day, kindly chat it up in the comments section. Please let me know any hot E3 rumors that interest you and I’ll try to follow up on them. I’m also counting on one of you to keep me up to date with Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. I wish I could be up in San Francisco for that as it sounds exponentially more interesting than Microsoft’s presser.
What are these 2 games?
SO wish I could tell you, but I've been sworn to secrecy and don't want to mess with the Japanese on such matters.
The Yakuza have a gaming cartel?
-M
Ah..so the best 2 games aren't Western games then…interesting.
I hope one is Last Guardian as it hasn't made an appearance at E3 yet and I want it to be at TGS then.
LOL, MS's landing page showed Halo 4 confirmation as well as CE remake confirmation. Live interface changes, etc. Wonder if that was a mistake?
I really hope for MS's sake that is not all they are bringing to the table.
You so want more Windows Phone 7 gaming.
I do. Hopefully in about 6 months a project or 2 me and some friends are doing for iOS will be finished and ported to WP7(8). Could be huge!
woot Steve Jobs on stage now Ray. WWDC sold out in 2 hours.
So far Lion is everything we have discussed on RPAD.tv. Full screen apps, autosaving, resume, launchpad. Pretty blah since I think OSX is great the way it is and doesn't need to be like an iPad.
I can seriously see myself never purchasing an Apple computer again because of it. I'd like to see lion running and make sure I can set it to not use the "great" features.
They read everything that was written and programmed it all in a day or two just for us. haha
lol Win8 isn't looking any better. We are going to all have start running Linux PCs soon.
New notifications in IOS5. Just like ANdroid with the pull down top bar. Very nice.
Lion is available only through Mac App Store for $30. Available to public in July. I'm a dev, so I might try and get it for my laptop since it is available today for devs I think they said.
Tabbed browsing in Safari on iOS. neat.
iCloud is going to make that 200mb tier on ATT a money-sink if you can't opt out of the push.
Meh. Not getting LTE at the EA presser. They have Wifi set up, but I worry about a shared connection. Let's see how it goes!