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Follow E3 ‘09 Live

This year’s E3 holds many a promise. Secret Microsoft demos, unexplained early starts hinting at groundbreaking announcements (or possibly an expectation of bad time keeping), leaks galore for some of our favourite gaming franchises and a massive, towering pile of garbage.

With so much going on, it’s important for the clued-up gentleman gamer to have at hand the latest sources of information, so as not to appear misinformed at the next gaming-related chat over brandy and cigars at the Gentlemen’s Club.

You might therefore want to keep an eye on TeamXbox, who will be twittering E3, as well as 1up’s liveblog and twitter feed here. Either way, you’re sure to be a hit when next talking to the ladies about the latest developments in gaming entertainment.

Sony pulls a dick move, no one is surprised.

Sony are dicks. Even the most hardcore fanboy secretly admits that their favourite electronics company is prone to acting like a bunch of douche bags. ATRAC? MiniDisc? UMD? How much money has Sony made their faithful consumers waste in the name of hopeless, self-serving proprietary formats? You get my point.

Unfortunately, Sony’s latest trademark dick move is one which will affect an entire generation of nostalgic movie buffs. By buying up the publishing rights to Ghostbusters: The Video Game and subsequently announcing said game as a PS2/PS3 exclusive, Sony have at least temporarily denied the film’s massive gamer fanbase their long awaited thrills.

I say temporarily because if there is one thing Sony likes more than dead-end formats it’s money, and they must therefore surely realise that the already completed Xbox 360 version of the game will earn them more on store shelves than if buried in a safe at Sony HQ. The exclusive will therefore likely be nothing more than a timed exclusive.

Still, I guess one can’t be too harsh towards the PlayStation maker: with its latest war cry in the console wars being “Dominance! *(in three-to-five-years)” they could be forgiven for trying to get three extra people to buy their laughably overpriced console. As an avid gamer and child of the 80’s however, I can’t help but wish they’d chosen a less meaningful franchise to exploit for their stunt.