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Chillingo shows off new titles at E3

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2011)

Chillingo held its E3 demo this year in the same area as EA, which makes sense considering that EA outright purchased it last October. The publisher of Angry Birds and Cut the Rope has a very impressive stable of titles due in the next few months, and I got to both see and play with them at E3. ...

Parrot AR.Drone to get price, release date at E3

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2010)

The folks at Parrot recently sent around notice that they'll be attending the E3 conference here in LA in about a month or so; at that show, they finally expect to announce a price and release date for the iPhone-controlled quadricopter that some of our readers have been craving ever since it was ...

E3, GDC Austin to have mobile game tracks

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2010)

The Electronics Entertainment Expo, known as E3, has joined the list of game conferences to set up tracks and areas specifically for mobile gaming, a market currently driven by Apple's mobile devices. The high profile June conference, in which gaming companies and developers all show off what ...

TUAW at E3: Real Tennis 2009

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2009)

The last preview we've got for you from E3 last week isn't really a preview -- Real Tennis 2009 was the first game due out from Gameloft that we played in their party bus outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, and sure enough, it's out right now in the App Store for $4.99 (all of the games we ...

TUAW at E3: Guitar Rock Tour 2 and DJ Mix Tour

by Mike Schramm (Jun 9th, 2009)

While we really liked Gameloft's Castle of Magic at E3, these two music games in their lineup didn't impress nearly as much. Guitar Rock Tour 2 is a sequel to Guitar Rock Tour, and as you can tell from the picture at right, it's more or less a Guitar Hero knock-off: hit the notes as they pass the ...

TUAW at E3: Castle of Magic hands-on

by Mike Schramm (Jun 8th, 2009)

Gameloft was kind enough to show us their whole upcoming stable of iPhone and iPod touch titles at E3 last week, and the most impressive game we saw in their "party bus," parked outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, was Castle of Magic. It's a 2D platformer with colorful and great-looking 3D ...

TUAW at E3: The Sims 3 for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 4th, 2009)

The Sims 3 pretty faithfully recreates the Sims experience on Apple's handhelds, albeit in a more streamlined version. While the handheld port avoids a lot of the new complexity of the latest PC release, the core Sims experience is still here -- you can create a Sim, give it a personality and a ...

TUAW at E3: Mass Effect Galaxy on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 4th, 2009)

EA brought a few iPhone games to the show in Los Angeles this week -- first up, we got a look at the Mass Effect entry for the iPhone, recently titled Mass Effect Galaxy. The game takes place in the same universe as the popular console game (and its sequel), but it focuses around a separate, ...

TUAW at E3: Robocalypse: Mobile Mayhem for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jun 3rd, 2009)

I'm spending the week at E3, and while iPhone games are somewhat few and far between (odds are that we'll see most of the App Store's goods next week at WWDC), there are a few gems to find out on the floor. In the Vogster booth, I got to play Robocalypse: Mobile Mayhem. It was originally seen on ...

CES expands iPod, iPhone exhibit space at next year's show

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2009)

I'm lucky enough to be heading out to E3 next week, so I'll be puttering around the show looking for great iPhone apps and games to tell you all about, but it looks like CES might be the place to be for iPhone software in 2010: the show is going to expand the exhibit space for Apple's mobile ...

TUAW Hands-on: Spore Origins for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 18th, 2008)

In the Electronic Arts booth here at E3, nestled in among the raucous noises of various first-person shooters, is a completely white room with a few cell phones on tables. This is the EA Mobile space, and it was here that we got to play Spore Origins, the iPhone version of Will Wright's sure-to-be ...

John Carmack id tech 5 demo from WWDC

by Mike Schramm (Jun 13th, 2007)

Here's the demo of id tech 5, id Software's new graphical engine, running on a Mac at the WWDC keynote. It looks very nice (it should, at 20gb of textures), and Carmack says the engine will allow programmers to come in and get the game right first, and then let their artists loose on it. Levels ...

An Apple IIe at E3

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 15th, 2006)

Forget the Nintendo Wii (pronounced "wheeeeeeeeeeee!"), Sony PS3 (or the "Rockefeller Machine" as I call it), or Xbox 360 razmatazz... The real action at this year's E3 was hidden deep in the bowels of the show: an Apple ][e. Apparently the ][e had been gutted, and replaced with a net-aware time ...

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