The original Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age for the Game Boy Advance were two titles that received critical acclaim and eventually grew into cult hits.  The games featured graphics and sound that were otherwise unimaginable on a handheld and without a doubt pushed the Game Boy Advance to its technical limit.  It’s been seven years since The Lost Age came out, and ever since the long-rumored third entry in the series was unveiled at last year’s Nintendo ..read more

Nintendo fans put their heads down in disappointment last year when Nintendo’s E3 2009 Press Conference simply focused on their casual audience of gamers.  The Legend of Zelda was expected to make a timely appearance, but instead, everyone was met with a poster that featured Link and a ghost facing opposite sides.  It wasn’t until a year later that the cat was let out of the bag.

Nintendo opened their much-anticipated conference with footage of Zelda through the years and ending ..read more

I have no luck traveling. While traveling back to New York from visiting the family in Denver for Christmas, I found myself stranded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, unable to catch my connecting flight.

I shouldn’t have been surprised when that same bad luck found me while traveling to E3 this year.

Since you might like to know what it’s like to travel to E3, here’s a taste of my travel day.

June 13th

11 am: Enjoying the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC (I’m ..read more

Dead Space and Dead Space: Extraction were two tense, very well put together survival shooter games published by our new old friend EA. Extraction was a Wii-exclusive prequel that set the stage for the hero of the hour Isaac Clarke, an engineer who most likely spent a lot of time at his local shooting range to relieve the stresses of work. There, he undoubtedly honed skills that allowed him to turn his engineering equipment into deadly limb-severing instruments ..read more

The long anticipated and oft-speculated Project Natal has finally been revealed to the world at this year’s E3. Microsoft aim to not only change the way games can be played, but also the way we interact with our consoles, communicate with our friends, and consume our media. Several games were shown at the media briefing, we’ll cover those in a separate article. This piece will focus on the hardware and what it can do for ..read more

This year’s E3 may be the most important since the 2006 E3 before the launch of the PS3 and Wii since we have a number of hardware announcements that will affect these platforms for the next few years. Sony and Microsoft have new motion control peripherals that are seeking to bring a new audience to the PS3 and Xbox 360. Nintendo and Sony have successors to their current handhelds to announce and/or reveal. Then there are the third ..read more