June 3, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Longtime attendees to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) may have noticed some significant changes this year.

Much like the landscape of downtown Los Angeles, which for the second year in a row is home to the annual video game industry trade show, the event continues to evolve. While the location now sports high-rise buildings and new theaters where there was once just pavement patches for parking, the show too has transformed with the times.

But unlike the new City of Angels, the show is just new and different for the sake of being different. Fortunately, some of the video game giants have realized that they can take advantage of this new improved city, notably Nintendo, which staged its press conference at a the new Club Nokia complex and theater. This was welcome relief for those of us in the media used to trekking out ...Read More

January 10, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show could be remembered as the year of the even flatter TV, or even the year of the recession – but in fact 2009 might just down in history as the year that the show really rocked out.

While Las Vegas has no shortage of lookalikes, many of whom even sound sort of like the acts they’re imitating, it was hard not to catch a performance or two on the show floor this year. And not just from a handful of musical performers that graced the various press conferences.

The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show will be the year that the attendees got in on the action, thanks to the popularity of video game series such as Electronic Arts’ Rock Band and Activision’s Guitar Hero.

The latter game was even used as part of the “opening act” for the Frida...Read More