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Preview: The Continuing Story of Mass Effect 2
LOS ANGELES — As I watched a Bioware employee churn through foes in a presentation of the upcoming RPG Mass Effect 2, one thing became abundantly clear: I’m going to have to play through the first one...
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Hands On: Red Steel, Rabbids, and Other Ubisoft Delights
LOS ANGELES — Ubisoft’s booth alone could suck up a great deal of an E3 goer’s time, with lots of quality games for every platform. Here are my quick impressions of everything I played or saw from the...
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Leaks, and How To Not Have Them
Here’s Sony’s Jack Tretton, speaking to Chris Morris at CNBC, on leaks: People don’t respect confidentiality in this industry. It’s tough enough to keep a secret within your own company, much less when...
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Q&A: Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto on Mario, Zelda, Project Natal and More
LOS ANGELES — Shigeru Miyamoto has a lot on his mind. In a one-on-one interview at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the head of Nintendo’s game design department and creator of Mario touched...
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Miyamoto Wants New Zelda Exclusive to MotionPlus
LOS ANGELES — If Shigeru Miyamoto has his way, the next Legend of Zelda game for Wii will require the Wii MotionPlus add-on. In a roundtable Q&A session last week at E3, the head of Nintendo’s game...
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Miyamoto: Why I Spiked Mario Galaxy 2‘s Story
LOS ANGELES — Super Mario Galaxy 2 won’t have as deep a storyline as its predecessor, says Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Super Mario Galaxy, the 2007 game that marked the iconic mascot character’s...
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Exploring the Moral Toll of War in Army of Two
LOS ANGELES — A locker full of weapons. A panicked security guard waving a revolver. We, two armed mercenaries, could shoot him and take the guns. But at what cost? Army of Two: The 40th Day, coming...
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Q&A: Yoshio Sakamoto, Yousuke Hayashi on Metroid: Other M
LOS ANGELES — The unlikely pairing of family-friendly Nintendo and the team behind the bloody, sexy Ninja Gaiden games is delivering us the latest in the storied Metroid franchise. Should fans be...
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Team Ninja Gets Back in Game With Metroid: Other M for Wii
LOS ANGELES — When Nintendo needed a development team to handle one of its few hard-core game properties, it knew where to turn: ninjas. In what was easily the most surprising announcement of this...
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Chaotic Multiplayer APB Will Make You a Smarter Criminal
LOS ANGELES — It’s easy to imagine a massively multiplayer Grand Theft Auto where every cop and every criminal in the city is played by a human being. It’s more difficult to imagine such a videogame...
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