This week Stephen, Brian, and Grey get together to talk about the latest news and take a bit deeper look at red dead redemption again this week.

Life Inside The Box – 100 – Just another Podcast [ 44:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We wrap up our audio coverage of E3 with the last day report from Los Angeles with Stephen and Brian.

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Day two came to a close and the guys rushed back to report the latest games they played, including monday night football, Jumpgate Evolution, Dungeon Fighter online, and APB.

Life Inside The Box - E32010 - Day Two [ 47:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Running a little late due to technical issues, Stephen and Brian recap thier day one experiences on the e3 floor for day one tuesday. They talk about the nintendo press conference and the games they saw on the show floor.

Check in thursday morning for they day two recap.

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While gamer denizens of the internet are currently debating if Sony or Nintendo had the better press conference today, (Sony had Twisted Metal, Nintendo had Kid Icarus; Nintendo had an 800lb primate and Sony had Gabe Newell.) most seem to have agreed that Microsoft’s event all things considered was not up to the usual blitz the company behind the 360 usually has.

I mean granted it is hard to top one half of The Beatles, Steven Spielberg and the bottom of an Avatar’s shoe but this year was light on everything that wasn’t on-stage Kinect demonstrations.

The odd thing about Microsoft’s conference was that while they got their biggest hardcore guns out first with Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gears 3 and Halo Reach so that the rest of the time could be spent on their bigger focus, both Nintendo and Sony seemed to do that as well to a smaller extent and managed to come out okay.

What I mean in this case is that Nintendo got the new Zelda demo out of the way (the thing, the ONLY thing really that most gaming journalists talked about at all when talking about what they were looking forward to from Nintendo in the weeks leading up to this E3) so that the rest of the conference could be spent not only on what you didn’t come to see, but to not get anxious and write “Yeah yeah this is cool but WHERE’S ZELDA?!?!” on your twitter feed during the announcements of a new Kirby and Donkey Kong Country game and then feel let down once it turned out Zelda was the same game it’s always been.

Sony did something similar with Killzone 3 (even though I was wondering throughout their presser where The Last Guardian was at and that never really came up at all during the event, guess they’re saving that for TGS this fall) and spent dividing the rest of their conference into designated chunks. Like, this chunk is about 3D, this chunk is about Move, this chunk is about how much we love EA oh please EA we love you MAKE LOVE TO ME EA GIVE ME EXCLUSIVE CONTENT.

Microsoft though once it started on showing off Kinect games, never really got much interest back from most of the audience from looking at the reactions. More than that, when people talk about Kinect now it seems they talk more about the spectacle surrounding Kinect than the games themselves. Nobody’s talking about Kinect Sports but everyone is still talking about the seperate Kinect events that required what the internet now refers to as “Space Ponchos” to wear as Cirque du Soleil took control of most of the event.

The Kinect event seemed similar to earlier Microsoft events like the first 360 unveiling on MTV back in 2005 where more hype was made about the 360 as a brand rather than a machine that played cool games. More time was spent in that special on J Allard talking about how important it was that the 360 looked like an anorexic model inhailing than how Rare’s games were coming along.

Speaking of Rare’s games, the fact that many watching the conference were doing so if only to see what Rare was going to show off in relation to it’s game making prowess after not really making any games since 2008′s Nuts and Bolts, only to find out that all Rare was showing off was Kinect Sports, was a bit of a downer as well.

Sony generally seemed excited about the games they were showing off and using Move to springboard the games onto the audience. Microsoft on the other hand seemed to want people to understand KINECT like it was a revolutionary concept. And unlike last E3 where most of the audience was on board with that line of thinking, it seems that this year many aren’t interested in embracing Kinect and “donning the space poncho” as the term would seem to be. – The Ben

By Brian Perry

Nintendo seems to be listening to thier fans this year and have brought a list of goodies for the hardcore gamers that have been watching closely for thier day. And it appears to have been this morning in the Nokia theater.

With New game announcments including Zelda Skyward Sword, Mario Sports Mix, GoldenEye 007 for the wii, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, a New Donkey Kong Country, and a Kid Icurus 3DS game, Nintendo touted it’s fall lineup in defense of thier competetors assualts on the motion control gameply that has been it’s hallmark.

For updates from the show floor as they happen be sure to watch the Life Inside the Box twitter feed

This week we plan on bringing double the coverage to E3 this year with both Brian and Stephen making the trip down to LA to bring you the best and most interesting news from the E3 floor. Make sure to watch our twitter feed LFEINSIDETHEBOX for the latest information, and the chance to get your questions answered by twittering us what YOU want to hear about.

It’s E3 week and the shows about to begin as the guys sit down and talk long and hard about Red Dead Redemption, and make some predictions about whats going to be shown at E3. Also they have a long and hard look at 2k Marin’s new Xcom game and what it says about the industry today.

Life Inside the Box – 098 – Pre-E3 2010 [ 1:15:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Aaron Greenberg recently posted on his Twitter today that:

Just in from research team (NPD): Halo 3 has outsold Resistance 1 + 2, Uncharted 1+2, Killzone 2 and God of War III COMBINED….wow

Not really E3 related but it has gotten many of the Sony faithful to reply back in disdain. Still he…wait he got that from NPD. That’s right NPD numbers for May should have been in today. What’s going on he-awww shit.

The NPD Group will miss its traditional release day for monthly U.S. video game industry sales results next week, as it delays its May report to accommodate “a significant upgrade to the IT architecture,” the company said today.

NPD traditionally releases sales and revenue data covering the retail U.S. console game industry on the second Thursday of each month, but NPD told Gamasutra it will be “delayed by up to three weeks.”

Dang it, and the numbers were going to come right at the start of the E3 news parade. Well at least they’ll make for some nice news a few weeks from now when all the news from E3 is exhausted. – The Ben

This week the guys are back with a brain teaser of a question, should we be allowing enemies to surrender in games? Plus the guys dig into the latest news on Deus Ex 3, after the usual what you been playing section.

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