Nintendo’s E3 Conference should have been a Monday Morning “Bored” Meeting.  There was nothing exciting about that what so ever.  I guess Animal Crossing was their show stopper!  If your looking for what video games they previewed and mentioned about we’ll list it here:

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
• Call of Duty World at War
• Guitar Hero On Tour Decades (DS)
• Pokemon Rangers Shadows of Almia
• Cooking Navi
• Shaun White snowboarding (Wii)
• Animal Crossing (Wii)
• Wii Sports Resort
• Wii Music
• GTA Chinatown Wars (DS)

The best game on this list has to be GTA Chinatown Wars.  The game will be set in a modern day Liberty City set in a new DS engine.  I’m not quite sure how well the GTA series will be on a beautifully colored Aquamarine DS.  The contrast of blood would stand out though.

Image Via Kotaku

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It looks like the rumors that Microsoft will be handing out price cuts for E3 are true. According tho the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will be taking $50 off the price of the Xbox 360 Premium package this Sunday. I’m sure with this news breaking, we will probably see more price cuts Monday. Some rumors have also indicated that accessory prices may also drop.

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written by Will Snizek \\ tags: Dropping, Journal, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox 360, Monday, news, package, Premium, price, Sunday, tho, tomorrow, Via, Wall Street, Xbox

We expect an exciting press conference this Monday from Microsoft at E3. There are plenty of rumors out there, so we’ll try to only report the ones we feel are credible. The biggest rumor we expect is the announcement of Halo 4. Word on the street is that the game will NOT feature Master Chief as the main character. If this is true, it could possibly hurt the franchise. I just hope the lead character will be up to snuff.

Other things we expect:

• ‘Rock Band 2′ will be featured.
• ‘Dragon Age: Origins’ should be talked about.
• Microsoft will add some hype to ‘Dead Space’
• Perhaps we’ll hear something about Fable 2 having online co-op.
• Xbox 360 price cuts and new SKU!

With any E3, it’s hard to say exactly what will happen, but we’re fairly certain that at least a few of the things I mentioned above will take place.

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written by Will Snizek \\ tags: announcement, character, Chief, Conference, E3, franchise, game, Halo, master, Microsoft, Monday, NOT, press, Rock Band, Rumor, Street, word

My husband and I spent the weekend watching the A&E show ‘The Two Coreys’ this weekend. I spent Monday chatting around the water cooler with co-workers about this horrible, horrible train wreck of a show. There is nothing much better than watching others’ misery. The harrowing, nail-biting scene was a showdown at a deli between the two to clear the air. They both started talking about being molested! Really? Why you mad at your friend, Haim? He’s got nothing to do with it. Feldman copped to being molested as a child also. My first thought, IT WAS MICHAEL! Feldman imitated the MJ in the most bizarre way for years. It was uncomfortable to see him with a fake Jerri Curl, fedora, white socks, black shoes, and a single glove. White people ain’t supposed to do that. I would say Feldman was doing black-face but that wouldn’t be quite accurate either. Michael Jackson was doing white face. Anyway, I digress.

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With the news presented of Apple’s iPhone 3G at an Apple technical conference in San Francisco on Monday, many sources noticed Steve Jobs’s health as well. “Concern over APPLE Steve Jobs’s physical appearance…” read a headline on the Drudge Report, which linked, without further comment, to photos showing the Apple CEO on stage at the Apple conference.

In response to a question about his health Tuesday, an Apple spokeswoman said Jobs was hit with a “common bug” in recent weeks but he still felt it was important to participate in the Apple conference. The spokeswoman said he’s now on the mend with the aid of antibiotics.

Jobs’s health is occasionally the topic of chatter because he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer four years ago, for which he underwent surgery that Apple said was successful. (Apple didn’t disclose that Jobs had been ill until after he was on the mend.) Mr. Jobs is also widely considered nearly irreplaceable at Apple, where he has been the architect of a dramatic resurgence in the company’s fortunes over the past decade. Fortunately for Apple, no replacement is needed.

Via WallStreetJournal

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SCEE has announced that they have stopped production on PS3’s The Getaway (the third in the series) and Eight Days, according to GameIndustry.biz. Little was known of Eight Days besides a trailer shown at E3 2006 and only a handful of in-game screenshots of London were ever released for The Getaway.

The first Getaway and its sequel, Black Monday, were full of gameplay problems as it disposed of a functioning HUD and relied on visual cues for the gamer to determine health, ammo, etc. The gun-play was off, as well, and while nicely recreated, London was devoid of life outside of the main missions. Regardless, the story was its superior trait and those familiar with Guy Ritchie flicks (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) got its charm.

Via GameIndustry.biz

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Georgia, along with several other states, has been on the prowl lately to encourage entertainment producers to set up shop in the state. The incentives they’re putting forth “allows Georgia to once again compete in an industry we used to be famous for,” said Sen. Mitch Seabaugh in a press release on Monday.

Most importantly, is that video games are part of the tax break initiative; 20% tax credit for qualified productions and a cute 10% tax credit added if they promote Georgia in their final product.

“Georgia is one of the few states whose entertainment incentives support the video game industry,” said Bill Thompson, deputy commissioner of the Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office in Georgia.

While the state is making a complete entertainment push, game developers stand to benefit the most as the nature of producing video games is different from film and music — it tends to happen in-doors — where they need glitzy lights and known landmarks to record and advertise.

Via Press Release

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