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Two Turntables And A Sequel

Is DJ Hero 2 best played as a battle?


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Babysitting Mama Controller Comes In Only One Colour

UGO’s Tracey John got a plush baby in her arms at E3. The baby contained a Wii Remote, the better to let her control Babysitting Mama.


The Bloodiest Game Of E3?

I didn’t play the original 1990s arcade game Splatterhouse. I told Crecente last week that the new one I played at E3 felt like a more violent God of War. Be careful, he warned me.


The Halo: Reach Techno Music Was Intentional

Watch the E3 live gamplay footage of Halo: Reach and, 67 seconds in, you might hear…. is that techno music? That’s part of the game’s soundtrack? Why, yes it is!


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Brushing Up With Okamiden

Okami is a PlayStation 2 classic. The game is getting a spin-off called Okamiden for the Nintendo DS. Does it look like it’s a worthy successor to the original?


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The ‘E3′ Of 20 Years Ago Also Had Its Share Of Motion Control

World Cup, fancy hands-free motion-sensing controllers,the Big Three battling for console dominance – as it was at E3 2010, so it was at the annual gaming expo’s predecessor, the Consumer Electronics Show 20 years ago.


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The Astral-Projection Car Swapping Of DRIVER San Francisco

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The big new twist in DRIVER San Francisco is that the entire game takes place inside the comatose hero’s head. What’s that mean? Car swapping!


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Pirates Of The Caribbean: Armada Of The Damned Is More Than A Pegleg Fable

If the creators of the next Pirates of the Carribbean game had shown me the game’s ship combat, I might not have been looking at their game and thinking “Fable clone.”


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Why Sony’s Sorcery Moved Us

Shown exclusively during the Sony E3 2010 press conference, SCEA’s Sorcery made enough of an impression on us to score a Best of E3 nomination for Best New Game. How’d that happen?


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Dead Rising Creator Has A Request For Us

Keiji Inafune is worried that you might think that Capcom doesn’t want to work with Western game developers anymore, that the studio that made Mega Man, Street Fighter and Resident Evil would happily just back games made in Japan.