Archive for June, 2011

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 9:32 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – The Sims Social Hits Facebook

EA are putting The Sims on Facebook with The Sims Social. [Sound of head hitting desk repeatedly] Full Press Release after the jump.

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 9:14 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster Fact Sheet

E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster Short Version: Play as Elmo, Cookie Monster, Oscar, Grover and others reading a children’s book. Featuring active co-op design for sibling or parent-child play and “important life lessons”. Full fact sheet after the jump.

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 9:03 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – The Gunstringer Fact Sheet

E3 2011 Fact Sheet for The Gunstringer In Short: Use your awesome puppetry skills to control a cowboy through a story where he’s seeking revenge. Use the Kinect to move the marionette cowboy and compete against others with online leaderboards. Yes, I said Awesome Puppetry Skills. And I said Marionette Cowboy. I know. Fact Sheet after […]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 8:49 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Kinect Sports: Season Two Fact Sheet

E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Kinect Sports: Season Two In Short: Kinect Sports extended with tennis, golf, baseball, skiing, darts and American football, along with online play. Fact Sheet after the More tag.

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 8:45 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Kinect: Disneyland Adventures Fact Sheet

E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Kinect: Disneyland Adventures Short Version: Minigame Collection crossed with an explorable Disneyland Park to go around. Characters to meet, things to collect, Mickey to hug. Full Fact Sheet after the jump.

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 8:29 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Kinect Star Wars Fact Sheet

E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Kinect Star Wars In Short: Remember when you would wave your hands around as a kid, pretending to be a Jedi Knight with a Lightsaber? You can do that now with the Kinect. No, you don’t look silly, honest… Full Fact Sheet available after the jump.

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 8:13 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Battlefield 3 Heading Out 28th October

Battlefield 3 is heading out to the world on the 28th of October. Andy McNab is involved with it. Wow. People at E3 itself will be able to try and battle their way through Paris from their Stock Exchange to wherever mysterious people-hating terrorists are hiding with a dirty bomb, along with some fighting in […]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 7:57 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Mass Effect 3 Set For March 9th

Mass Effect 3 will be out to play on the 9th of March 2012, according to BioWare. Continuing the existing storyline, you (Commander Shepard) lead a counter assault to take back the Earth. And for those with a Kinect, you will be able to enjoy voice commands in combat and vocal choosing of speech branches […]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 7:31 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – EA Sports Announce Football Club For FIFA 12

EA Sports have announced a new online component to FIFA 12, the “EA Sports Football Club”. People playing FIFA 12 will have their performance measured through the service and can be compared against others. There’s also mention in the PR about things like virtual leagues, and the best thing is that it’s all completely free […]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On June 8, 2011 at 6:56 am Comments Off on E3 2011 – Insomniac Games Announce Overstrike

Insomniac Games have announced a departure from their usual franchises at E3. As well as Ratchet & Clank and Resistance, they’re also creating Overstrike, a 4 person co-operative adventure where members of Overstrike 9 must stop terrorists from killing everyone. Cue high-tech gadgetry and killing things. Full press release after the jump.