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E3 2011: No Kinect support until FIFA 13

New hardware, new games, flashing lights, corporate big knobs and lots of excited yet excruciatingly tired journalists. It’s E3 as we know it and 2011 ticked all of the boxes. But now that the curtains are being drawn on this year’s event, what impression has been left? To my mind …

Can you spot the key word uttered by David Yarnton on this week’s cover that pinpoints the exact industry gear-change this E3 represented? Look again. It’s such a common word to most of us. It’s ‘gamers’, a word Nintendo treated like the plague in its well-fought seven-year crusade to change …

EA Games president Frank Gibeau has once again stated that Mirror’s Edge 2 hasn’t been killed.” We’re actively looking at how to bring it back in the right way,” he told GTTV. We love that franchise. The DICE guys really created something, I think, special the first time around. You’ve …

EA Games boss says it is 'actively' looking to bring it back

Outspoken American developer David Jaffe says differing cultural identity is the reason for Twisted Metal’s limited appeal in Europe. Speaking to Eurogamer at E3, the co-founder of Eat Sleep Play and co-creator of the franchise said: My layman’s sociological view of Europe is that you guys tend to respond to …

E3 2011: Jaffe hopes PS3 Twisted Metal will prove more successful in Europe

Genius development engineer John Carmack has admitted that Rage has taken his studio longer than he would have liked, and put the delay down to its drive for top tier technology and tools. That’s the biggest thing when we look back on this generation,” said the co-founder of id Software, …

E3 2011: Carmack wants creativity, not tech, to take precedent

E3 2011: CCP says Microsoft service isnâ??t MMO friendly