To quote one of our generation’s most eloquent and internationally recognised thinkers on the medium of video games, the Angry Video Game Nerd; “What’s the most important part about any game? Well, being able to fucking play it.” This makes sense. A game needs to be played to fulfil its purpose as a game, even if many games nonchalantly redefine what...

Sir Richard Branson – you know, the guy who looks like all three BeeGees at once who could buy your home town with his loose change – has launched Virgin Gaming. He decided to ram the announcement home by pulling up at E3 in an armoured truck which, it turned out, was carrying one million dollars in cash. This represents the total amount of money Virgin...

Sony Conference: June 15th 8:00pm GMT Predictions going in: a little hard to judge this time. The new subscription level of PSN played up like it’s a good thing is probably a given. Other than that? I’m curious how down played the failure of the PSP Go will be or if they’ll take their lumps and just admit it. Please don’t be as Move...

Nintendo Conference: June 15th 5:00pm GMT Here we are in time for the big one. Why is this the big one? Well the 3DS is going to be shown for sure and as for other predictions: another Zelda game has already been strongly hinted at and the Goldeneye remake. I just have my fingers crossed they don’t fall back on yet another new Mario game. It’ll be...

Jun 15, 2010

Ubisoft Conference: June 15th 1:00am GMT If I’m wrong about that start time it’s because I’m half asleep. Predictions going in: I imagine that Ubisoft will be focusing on butchering Assassin’s Creed into a multi-player experience and the new Ghost Recon, but let’s see. The conference opens with a man on stage with his back to...