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Need for Speed: Nitro thoughts

Posted February 6th 2010 by Jacob Barnes.

At last year's E3, I had a chance to test out Need for Speed: Shift. It was probably the most realistic racing-sim I've ever played, apart from driving a real car. But with Need for Speed: Shift, like many of EA's Wii games, EA Montreal had to custom-build a version based on the specifications (see: limitations) of the system. The result isn't comparable to a next-gen racer, but it still has merit as a fun, worthwhile arcade racer.

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Community

Posted September 19th 2009 by Jacob Barnes.

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E3 Game Impressions

Posted June 9th 2009 by Jacob Barnes.

I ended up playing roughly 23 games at E3 this year.

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Press Conference Afterthoughts

Posted June 3rd 2009 by Jacob Barnes.

Let me start by saying that no company "won" E3. It is difficult to judge them, for me at least, because I haven't gotten much sleep lately and I've been more wowed by the initial atmosphere itself rather than watching the live streams on a computer. I'll probably put together some video of my perspective of the conferences and other events later. I think all of the n-philes staff (at the hotel at least) went to Microsoft, Ubisoft and Nintendo's conference. And technically we didn't get invited to Sony's, but a few of us decided to sneak into the conference uninvited, which was pretty easy. I think just about anyone can get into one of these conferences, besides Nintendo, if they blend in with the crowd and walk into the theatre. So I guess I'll give you all a rundown of the big four, excluding EA because nobody cares about them.

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Pre-E3 thoughts/predictions

Posted May 16th 2009 by Jacob Barnes.

Six months ago I didn't know I would be writing for a video game news site and I hadn't even thought about e3 after Nintendo's embarrassing press conference last year. Hitler and I are on the same page on that subject. But this year's show promises to be the best one ever, or at least better than '07 and '08. Needless to say I'm slowly starting to get excited about all of this.

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