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By Joseph Tresca

This spot won the Gold Lion at Cannes. It’s great to see Video Games are influencing Advertising in such a profound way. When Blade Runner was first released, it became the leading vision of what the future would probably look like and it held this distinction for many years. It seems Half Life [...]

Now don’t get me wrong, it certainly could have been the fact that Nintendo hired some beautiful women to show off their newest hand held phenom, and you might make the argument that this has some how skewed my perception of just how amazing it was to hold it in my hands, but I’d say that Nintendo’s 3DS was bar none the most impressive piece of kit at E3 this year.

Namco Bandai’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was on display and fortunately I had the opportunity to give the demo a spin. Ninja Theory, the developer of Heavenly Sword for the PS3, have put together a unique adventure title that was a joy to play.

t was the last hour of the last day of E3 and I knew exactly what game and peripheral I wanted to play before heading back to New York where Eyeballistic’s day to day operations take place. So I made my way over to Socom 4 in one of the Playstation Move showcase booths. I stood on a short line and I was assured by a Sony representative that I would be the last person they would let in before closing out the show.

If you know that the latest rendition of Mortal Kombat would, from a chronological standpoint, be named Mortal Kombat 9, then there is a good chance you’ve been paying close attention to the series since its earliest days as a 2D fighter.