It’s not enough that Don Mattrick merely sounds like Criswell, the spit-curled American TV psychic known for his demented ‘predictions’. The interactive entertainment boss left this year’s viewer thinking he knew nothing of the future at all - not that it stopped him talking about it. Had someone announced a new virtual currency called the Microsoft Lozenge, which in the absence of interesting videogames to spend it on could be sucked on to make ESPN taste like hot dogs, it wouldn’t have seemed out of place. At least we’d have had a laugh.
It’s not enough that Don Mattrick merely sounds like Criswell, the spit-curled American TV psychic known for his demented ‘predictions’. The interactive entertainment boss left this year’s viewer thinking he knew nothing of the future at all - not that it stopped him talking about it. Had someone announced a new virtual currency called the Microsoft Lozenge, which in the absence of interesting videogames to spend it on could be sucked on to make ESPN taste like hot dogs, it wouldn’t have seemed out of place. At least we’d have had a laugh.
Speaking at Microsoft's E3 2012 conference, corporate vice president of Xbox Live Marc Whitten introduced Microsoft's bid to more fully integrate its range of devices, and those of its rivals: Xbox SmartGlass.
Speaking at Microsoft's E3 2012 conference, corporate vice president of Xbox Live Marc Whitten introduced Microsoft's bid to more fully integrate its range of devices, and those of its rivals: Xbox SmartGlass.
A multiformat massively multiplayer game is the first of a series of experimental games that will lead up to a final full game release from the new Guildford-based studio in around three years' time.
Ubisoft's E3 conference kicks off at 10pm BST tonight, and you can watch the whole thing right here on Edge Online.
“Ha ha! I bet you’ve got a really small dick,” LOL-ed the American teenage boy over the crackle of the headset and the sound of intermittent machine-gun fire.
“Actually, I haven’t got a dick,” I replied equably. This sent him off into further hysterics. “Dude, what’s wrong with you?”
“There’s nothing wrong with me. I’m a girl.”
I still remember the shocked silence that followed this, intercut with the laughter of my team-mates.
Nintendo has revealed Miiverse, a social network for Wii U which company president Satoru Iwata says creates "a new method of empathy between players."
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