August 22, 2008 – 5:00 pm
DigitalLife is a trade show that is put on by Ziff Davis Media at the New York Jacob Javitz Center, which typically included technology and video games, but seems to be cancelled for this year because of a bad economy. Vice President Paul O’Reilly said the following during an interview:
The poor economic conditions have created a very different and difficult dynamic for us this year, and we weren’t confident that we could present a show experience that was consistent with the successes of prior years.
I can say that as a previous attendee last year this show was dying, he goes on to say:
Hopefully, a bigger and stronger DigitalLife will return in 2009. We will make additional announcements about the future of the show when details are available.
I would love for his last statement to be true since this show is very accessible to everyone on the East coast and it would be great to have something that could rival E3 or CES on the East coast as well, but it seems like a big stretch especially after the news of this years cancellation.
[Via Cnet]
October 3, 2007 – 11:04 am
Myself and fierce Scuba went around Digital Life this past weekend and got to check out all the new stuff out there. He brought you his visions, now here’s how it went down from my eyes.
- Newegg had a pretty cool booth setup with gaming rigs all around. All consoles and PC were hooked to 40″ LCD HDTVs. The Xbox 360 Elite was running DiRT, the PC was running GRAW2 with a sweet PhsyX card in it, and the PS3 was running Heavenly Sword. However, the PS3 was hooked up with standard RCA cables and running in 480i. What kind of crap is that?
- Intel had some amazing gaming PCs setup running Quake 4 with a local multiplayer match setup. The games were running with at least 100fps during the games and looked amazing.
- RedOctane had a sweet booth with multiple Xbox 360 stations with Guitar Hero 3 demos. There were only 6 tracks available, and every station had the wired GH2 guitars. No new GH3 style guitars were to be found.
- There was a nice Gaming Arcade area setup with over 10 each Xbox 360 and PS3 running multiple games. Obviously the Halo 3 stations were mobbed all day.
- Toshiba had their new gaming laptops setup in their booth running Gears of War and BioShock. They had a tournament running every hour on Gears of War.
- Microsoft had a large booth showing off Windows Vista (not many people were in that part) and Games for Windows. They had Crysis, Hellgate: London, Gears of War and BioShock all running on pimped out Alienware machines. Crysis blew them all out of the water in terms of visuals.
We also sat down with some of the development team at Turbine who work on Lord of the Rings Online. I’ll have more information on that later today. Stay tuned.
October 1, 2007 – 10:53 am
Sony released the final box art for their new card-based game, The Eye of Judgment. Make note: Judgment has one “e” in this game. The bundle pack is above, and you can see a bigger image the box art after the jump.
I got a chance to play the game a bit at Digital Life and it works very well. The game utilizes the PlayStation Eye to read cards put onto the gaming board. Depending on where and which direction you place the card determines the actions taken. The graphics and video grabbed by the PlayStation Eye are both overlayed on the screen, which surprisingly works very well.
Where I see an issue with the game is online play. The bundle you purchase comes with a starter deck and one booster pack. For those of you who never played a card based table game, this isn’t going to get you very far against real people. Sony and Hasbro will be selling additional decks for the game. While being optional, if you do online with just the starter deck, you’re going to get your taint handed to you. We’re looking to get more information from both companies on how they will address this issue and we’ll get back to you.
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September 30, 2007 – 6:37 pm
This weekend, drunk pandas and I attended the Digital Life consumer electronics show in New York City on Saturday. Here is a quick recap of what went on and some of the cool things that are coming out.
- We arrive and are greeted by the VS Energy Drink crew outside and they forced lukewarm energy drink down our throats. Something about warm, grape flavored soda at 10 am is not delicious.
- There is a line of no less than 500 people waiting to get in and countless more paying the entrance fee. We are able to don our press passes and sneak through some fire exits and make it in ahead of everyone else. Ninjas indeed.
- drunk pandas and I make our way to the Guitar Hero III expo booth and pandas rocks out a high score on Pearl Jam’s Evenflow. High fives abound. Expect a GH3 giveaway from us coming soon. Red Octane guys were cool as shit.
- Next up was our America’s Army Virtual Soldier Experience. We have to register our names and address, so we will be getting recruiting swag in no time. The exhibit was bad ass. We sat on the edge of a Hummer in front of a large screen and got to fire real size M249-SAW replicas at the screen against some Iraqi terrorists in a rescue mission. The simulation was awesome, but this was a motivated booth. You can call it propaganda or recruiting depending on your point of view, but it was still fun nonetheless.
- We visited the Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar booth to get a good look at their upcoming game. Needless to say, we were both very impressed. Expect more on this very soon.
- We met with the EA games designers from Crysis. The game looked awesome, but to run this game, your PC needs to be a monster. DX 10 card will cost you about 500 bucks. I asked if and when they would port it to the 360., no comment.
There is much more to discuss and expect some new giveaways and some contests as a result. We made some awesome contacts and we will have much more that will benefit our readers as well as some exclusive interviews as well as some site changes.
September 28, 2007 – 10:23 pm
Yesterday the Digital Life expo began at the Javtis Center in NYC. Aside from some of the major companies that were there (Microsoft, Dell, Gateway, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba just to name a few) displaying new hardware and software there were a large number of other exhibitors displaying every peripheral and accessory for electronics and computers imaginable. They ranged from things like speakers, monitors, and wireless accessories to things like high-end gaming computers and a headset that you could wear that acts like a giant monitor that was being demoed with a 360. Read More »
September 26, 2007 – 4:49 pm
Today was the Launch Event for Guitar Hero III, held at Spotlight Live Night Club in New York City.
On hand were Kai Huang, president of Red Octane, as well as Jason Young, CEO of Ziff Davis. Young started off the event talking about how Digital Life had grown over the last few years, and spoke about how the first Guitar Hero had debuted at Digital Life four years ago. He then brought up an official from NYC to present Huang with a proclamation from the city declaring today Guitar Hero Day.
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September 23, 2007 – 7:51 pm
Your friends at Loot Ninja, namely drunk pandas and myself, have been awarded exclusive press passes to the gaming and technology in Manhattan, NYC this weekend. The conference will run from Thursday Sept 27 until Sunday the 30th. We will be there all day Saturday.
Here is the link for the conference in case any of you want to to attend though its 12 bucks for non press members. Look for the half drunk guys clad in Loot Ninja gear making a scene somewhere.
