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Entries from LAist tagged with 'gaming'

November 13, 2008

Last month, local record label Nettwerk hosted a sneak preview of EA's first-person parkour-inspired action-adventure Mirror's Edge at The Sync in Hollywood, with a demo station offering a chance to play as the lead character, Faith, as she leapt across rooftops and engaged in hand-to-hand combat: Mirror's Edge aims to "convey the strain and physical contact with the environment", according to senior producer Owen O'Brien, and to instill a freedom of movement not yet seen......

Continue Reading "'Mirror's Edge' Gaming & Listening Party w/ Lisa Miskovsky @ Nettwerk's The Sync, 10/20/08"

September 11, 2008

Now that the U.S. is catching up with the rest of the world's mobile phone addiction, we can use our nimble thumbs to engage in some quality worldchanging. We've learned a lot about what's possible with mobile from Google, Apple, and Nokia in the past year alone. Now is the time take the baton and move forward. Tomorrow and Saturday, the Big Brain Boy's Mobile Media Summit will feature presentations from some of the world's......

Continue Reading "Hollywood Hill to Host Mobile Media Summit This Weekend"

May 16, 2008

Strewn across local news stations and gaming websites alike, film titan Steven Spielberg is gaining relatively high momentum regarding the lending of his name to Boom Blox, the newest children’s release title from Los Angeles-based EA Games. LAist recently got a chance to play around with the cute little block-shaped animals in what’s called in modern tech parlance, the “casual entertainment” sector of the gamersphere. Stepping out of the hardcore gamer paradigm, its quite apparent......

Continue Reading "Hollywood and the Video Game World"

December 15, 2007

Holidays have you indulging a little more than usual? Just in time for those New Year resolutions and post-holiday diets, the Wii Fit is expected to be released in North America in January. Released earlier this month in Japan, Wii Fit sold over a quarter million units in the first week. The game was designed for families to exercise with activities like stretching, yoga, step aerobics, push ups, jogging and much more. The additional......

Continue Reading "Get Ready for Wii Fit in the New Year"

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