Mexico City – May 26, 2009- After a wildly successful 2008 show, Electronic Game Show will return to Expo Bancomer Santa Fe in Mexico City from Oct. 23 to 25, 2009.
Electronic Game Show 2009 will be the eighth year for Latin America’s largest videogame event. In addition to the three-day show in October, this will be the first year for EGS Business, to be held Aug. 26-27. The new business-oriented event is designed to provide publishers and retailers with a conference tailor-made for their business needs.
“The tremendous growth of the Latin American videogame market really necessitated the creation of an event just for retailers and publishers,” said Jorge Lizarraga, CEO of the show-organizer company Oelli. “With access to both Electronic Game Show and EGS Business, the Latin American industry will have the networking opportunities and tools it needs to continue pushing into new frontiers.”
Key companies including Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Activision and THQ have already signed on as exhibitors at this year’s Electronic Game Show.
“EGS has been instrumental in the growth of the Mexican videogames industry,” said Erick Baca, Xbox and SDA Marketing Lead. “Microsoft has been a participant of the event since the beginning and we have seen EGS evolve according to the needs of the industry allowing us to reach our business goals and at the same time increase the awareness of the industry in the market”
2008 marked the first year Electronic Game Show was held at Expo Bancomer Santa Fe, located in Mexico City’s most important business district. The move to the new location, prompted by rapid expansion in the Latin American videogame industry, allowed for a larger exhibition floor than previous years, as well as expanded activities.
More than 26,000 consumers and journalists in attendance last year had the opportunity to explore a number of high-profile pre-release titles including Gears of War 2, Little Big Planet, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.
Electronic Game Show has become one of the largest and most influential events in the digital-entertainment industry. EGS is now the largest videogame event in Latin America. Consumers and journalists at EGS see the newest and best in videogames, consumer electronics, digital entertainment and more.
More information from the Namco Bandai camp, details us a sample of what to come.
In the most recent press release we get word of some pretty big ambitions for Dead to Rights®: Retribution.
“The seamless combat system for Jack blends gunplay, hand-to-hand and an AI-controlled partner Shadow to provide full freedom for players to choose how to get through any combat situation. With no loading or change in menus between each set of mechanics, the player can easily access all three toolsets and decide what to use at any time. While the systems all work well individually, the ability to seamlessly move between and combine the mechanics is the core of the system. Players can choose to combo an enemy and pull the trigger to finish them off, move from cover to cover to ambush an enemy, utilize Shadow to hold an enemy while Jack takes them out with a final shot – the encounter can change each time and it’s all up to the player to decide.
Thrusting players into a mature neo-noir crime drama as vice cop Jack Slate and his canine companion Shadow, Dead to Rights: Retribution introduces new gameplay elements that unify the third person shooting and brawling genres for a brutal and relentless new action-driven experience. Introducing an innovative new hybrid combat system that seamlessly blends gunplay with hand-to-hand combat and AI partner, the gameputs the full combat potential of a highly trained, highly agitated law-enforcement officer into players’ hands.”
I’m glad to offer you a look of the latest Developer’s Diary.
“NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today released a new developer diary video for Dead to Rights®: Retribution, a ground-up reinvention of the multi-million unit selling crime action series developed by Volatile Games. The new video provides a look at the game’s seamless combat system in motion, which is at the heart of the gameplay system for main character Jack Slate.”
This weeks Playstation store update is going to be Odd, and your name is Abe…!
This weeks Playstation Store Update brings us two retro PS1 classic that IMHO gave the 2D puzzle platformer a real revitalization. Prior to Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus all we had was mario and sonic just to name two big dogs of 2D console platforming greatness.
The thing is that the Oddworld franchise had a more mature under tone and offered deeper puzzles. Something that also put Oddworld on a league of it’s own were the visuals and sound effects. You could talk to your fellow Oddworld Inhabitants by directing them to follow you, stay put or fart on them? Yup I said FART..! LMAO
It was only about six years ago that I told our agent at the time, “Larry, don’t you get it!? Our classic Abe games are history. The systems that played them are gone and they aren’t coming back. Ours is a disposable medium and we don’t have a Turner Classics channel.” He looked at me with this defeated expression and said, “Dude, that’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard you say.” He believed me, and I too believed it at the time.
Six years later and I have to admit it’s great being proved wrong.
We couldn’t have been more thrilled when we learned that the PlayStation Network was willing to offer our classic Abe games to an entirely new generation of gamers. Finally, gamers who never got the chance to meet and play him when he first came out on the PSone system, will now get that chance to meet the guy who graced many magazine covers and proved the unlikely hero that captured people’s hearts.
Namco/Bandai just sent out word on it’s multi platform title Inversion. According to the press release:
revolutionary gravity-wielding combat, zero gravity environments, vector changes, and a unique destructible cover system. INVERSION is planned for release in 2010.
Hit the break for all the skinny on this fast paced and unique action shooter.
I just got word on a few updates for The Saboteur. Also stay tuned, I’ll be uploading some eye candy in around 48 hrs. So make sure you check back. Hit the break for the press info and vid….
I’ve been playing a whole lot of Demon’s Souls since it launched last week and I agree with all of the reviewers out there. This game is unforgivingly hard as hell. That being said, the game is so unique in gameplay and it’s online connectivity, you would be short changing your self if you own a PS3 and/or your a western role playing gamer.
Over on Fourzerotwo’s blog he goes a bit more into the details of the upgraded graphical techniques that are implicated into the new MW2 game. From what I’ve seen here, it looks like companies are really getting smarter on getting more graphical performance out of these current generation consoles.
Now granted I really don’t like to enlist in promotions for free games or like to sign up for shit in order to get “a chance” to win a game. This promotion is safe secure and does not spam you with crap you don’t want.
With Tekken 6 arriving in stores for a 10.28.09 release date, I thought it would be nice to show you a portion of the game that will probably get little to no press.
Today as I did my rounds on the US, Japan and UK Playstation Stores I came across the “FREE” Wipeout HD Dynamic Theme. I can’t believe that both the Japan/UK PSN Stores offered their demographic a nice taste of what a dynamic theme looks like with out it’s PSN Users having to come out of pocket.
Last week I posted the last update from Mathew Everett Community & Content Manager Pandemic Studios, you can read it here. Today I received this weeks update for The Saboteur and it’s full of information on the status of this great title. Read the rest after the break.
Operation Flashpoint has gone gold and will be on schedule for an October release for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The first video was released today and shows off some multi-player game play, sweet.! Hit the break to see the visuals.
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