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Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 This year, we were again present at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) that took place on 7-9 June 2011 in Los Angeles. As in previous years, the expo was held in the Los Angeles Convention Center. While the show floors were bright and impressive, with long lines waiting for hours just to try out the latest gaming consoles and high profile game demos, much of the real action took place in… Posted by Jenny Rouse on 24 September 2011.

Gemini Rue The classic period of film noir stretched from early 1940s to late 1950s. These films—usually psychological thrillers and crime dramas—generally involved conflicted antiheros (private eye being a common character type) and their struggles against an nihilistic world. In the 1970s, the genre moved into the neo-noir period, which often focused on identity crises and the ramifications of a… Posted by Jenny Rouse on 15 February 2011.

Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 It was back in 1999 when we last attended the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). With the expo back in Los Angeles and once again an industry facing event, we dropped in on E3 2010 to see how much had changed over a decade. We were pleased to find a number of upcoming adventure game releases, both classic and new. We visited Telltale Games for the lowdown on its newest projects, and we dropped… Posted by Jason Mical on 03 September 2010.

Machinarium In its original form, the Czech word "robota", later translated into the English word "robot", was first popularized by the author Karel Čapek—although invented by his brother Josef Čapek—in the 1921 science fiction play Rossum's Universal Robots. Since its early use in that visionary drama as a descriptive term for humanoid biomechanical machines forced to labor, the word has progressively… Posted by Bruno de Figueiredo on 18 September 2009.

Inhabited Island: The Earthling Inhabited Island: The Earthling is a PC adventure game based on the popular science fiction novel Prisoners of Power, first published in 1969 by the renowned Soviet authors, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. There had been 2 other PC games released previously related to the same novel -- Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power and Inhabited Island: Prisoner of Power. Neither of these earlier adaptations… Posted by Mervyn Graham on 04 July 2008.

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