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E3 2013 - MICROSOFT UNVEILS ITS NEWEST XBOX GAMES: GUNS, EXPLOSIONS, BLOOD, OH MY!

6/10/2013

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By Alicia Hollinger

Los Angeles, CA (Pop CultureToday) 6/10/2013 – While girls just wanna have fun, apparently boys just wanna kill. Or so it seems from the new line-up of games announced at the Microsoft press conference today at E3. If you wonder why the crowd at E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center is usually about 98% male, it's probably because sometimes it feels as if one is entering a war zone. Gunshots, explosions and blood, oh my! But obviously it's what sells because each year, there is more. Violent games are into double digits in sequels and getting more sophisticated and realistic each year. I was told a few years ago by a representative of a war game company that the military actually recruits from the online performance of players of its game. Funny, if it ended up being a 90 year-old grandma getting those high scores...

The Microsoft XBox press conference opened with a presentation of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for XBox One. This game takes you into Afghanistan with all the super-realistic fun and thrills of going to war without the risk of actual death or loss of limbs and promises "deeper stealth action," while Ryse "Son of Rome" takes you back in time, allowing you to fight as a leader of men in the Roman Empire, and Wargaming's World of Tanks, is well, fighting in tanks. And then there is Dead Rising 3, a blood-filled zombie fighting game where "anything and everything is a weapon" and "the world is filled with hundreds of weapons." Witcher 3 Wild Hunt  boasts a multi-region open world and dynamic and tactical combat. And more shooting and killing in Battlefield 4, Second Assault....
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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World of Tanks XBox 360 Edition
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Ryse: Son of Rome
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Dead Rising 3
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Battlefield 4: Second Assault
Quantum Break, a new game exclusive to the XBox One, at least has a female protagonist and a compelling sci-fi premise about a "desperate hero who has survived a failed science experiment that broke down time."
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Quantum Break
Project Spark for XBox One and Windows 8 also seems to offer a bit more than pure violence, allowing users to create their own worlds, characters and essentially, their own game. Everything "has a brain that can be changed." You can turn a rock into a pet, morph it later into a rock man or "rock-mech." This game allows players to use their imagination, creating everything from detailed terrains to "flying goblins" if they so choose.
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Project Spark
The XBox One technology that makes use of "the Cloud" does allow for some amazing graphics though. Black Tusk from Vancouver joins the team with a new game, and the game-world staple, Halo, (now expanding its franchise with a Steven Spielberg live-action TV series,) also announced a new game for XBox One to hit in 2014. And lastly a new futuristic sci-fi shooter was announced, Titanfall. As cool as these new games are, they are definitely targeted toward a male audience and take advantage of the use of weapons and violence. It would have been nice to see at least one non-violent, more female friendly game... 
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Halo for XBox One
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Titanfall
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Titanfall
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E3 2013, LA'S BIGGEST GAMING EXPO OPENS JUNE 11-13 AT THE LA CONVENTION CENTER

6/5/2013

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By Alicia Hollinger

Hollywood, CA (Pop CultureToday) 6/5/2013 – As gaming insiders get an exclusive first hand view of the newest and coolest in gaming, so will the the general public, as Spike TV broadcasts live multi-platform coverage of all the action taking place at this year’s expo.

In a world where media is expanding like a spider web, the concept of the buzz-friendly word, “Transmedia,” has been born, and gaming has become an ever important integral ancillary asset to film, TV, comics, and pretty much everything pop culture. As usual, the day before the opening, big news is expected from some of the world of gaming biggies: Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Sony, in hopes of thrilling game geeks and fanatics with potentially life-changing game technology… Gaming is quickly becoming more important to its fans than the movie or TV show they may be based on. Or real life.

“E3 All Access Live” will kick-off its multi-platform coverage on Spike TV, in HD, from Los Angeles one day before the event is open to the public on Monday, June 10 (Noon-5:30pm ET/ 9:00am-2:30pm PT) and continue at 5:30-11:00pm ET / 2:30-8:00pm PT. Spike.com will stream five more live hours on Tuesday, June 11 (Noon-5:00pm ET/ 9:00am-2:00pm PT). The live special will also be supported through additional digital pre and post shows as well as through online simulcasts.

Want more E3 info? There’s an app for that. Both the Apple Store and Google Play supply free apps with convenient maps and lists of exhibitors. Or catch the E3 Insider on the actual E3 website for more inside peeks (http://www.e3insider.com)

E3 annually attracts leading computer and video game companies, business partners, media and industry analysts from more than 100 countries as well as software developers, buyers and retailers, programmers, distributors, entertainment industry representatives, financiers and venture capitalists, importers and exporters, manufacturers, resellers, researchers, educators, financial and industry analysts and worldwide electronic and print media.

Show Hours:
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:00PM – 6:00PM
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:00AM – 6:00PM
Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:00AM – 5:00PM

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