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While I wasn't able to attend E3 this year for various reasons (not that I wasn't invited, mind you), I watched the press conferences and kept an eye on media releases and coverage of the show. While there wasn't a lot announced that we hadn't seen before, it was good to see software take the stage after last year's hardware-fest, some Canadian ( Read more... )

Microsoft finally let the cat the rest of the way out of the bag today (I guess those cellphone pics leaked to the web from the factory were the last straw ( Read more... )

The 2006 sales numbers are in and are up substantially over last year, as in the rest of the world. It was easy to see back at E3 that this was going to be a big year, just from the number of titles (and high-quality ones at that) being shown. It was also, of course, helped by new hardware and also the Xbox 360 really starting to take over the ( Read more... )