Kaz Hirai promoted to Sony CEO

There have been rumbling that this would happen in the previous weeks but now it is official. Former head of the games division, Kaz Hirai, will be promoted to CEO of Sony effective April 1st. Current CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, will be stepping down and taking on the role of chairman of the board.

Sony is struggling as a whole right now. The games division, Kaz's former home, has historically done well for Sony. While the PS3 isn't doing poorly, Sony isn't in the same leader position they had during the PS2 years and the PSVita isn't exactly setting the world on fire. What new faces might we see at E3 this year with Kaz being gone?

via: THR

When the next generation of gaming is coming and why I'm not looking forward to it

his coming holiday season the Xbox 360 will be turning 7 and the PS3 and Wii will be 6 years old. The previous generation lasted only 4 years for Microsoft, 5 years for Nintendo and 6 for Sony. This console cycle, while still delivering some really great games, is getting long in the tooth.

So the question on everyone's mind is, when will the new console hardware be revealed and when will it launch?

Nintendo has already revealed their next console to break fanboy's hearts even further, the Wii U. But for the hardware anyone wants to play games on, we look to Microsoft and Sony. Microsoft took a full year lead last go around and as bad as Microsoft would like to do that again, Sony will probably make it difficult.

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Watch: Amazing PS3 commercial: "Michael"

Check this out. Sony has made a commercial featuring real life, or semi-real PlayStation characters. Don't be spoiled and go watch it now. Watched it? Good. The premise is a lot of the Sony icons in a bar, each sharing their 'war stories' about the gamer that controlled them, Michael. Hey, thats my name. The end result is really cool so go give it a watch.

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Game Review: Resistance 3

Resistance: Fall of Man launched on the PS3 to generally favorable reviews. Resistance 2, in my personal opinion, was not a good game. Many agreed citing the two weapon limit as a major downfall. Resistance 3 could very well be the last in the series, so does it live up enough to the original or has this been a slowly sinking franchise?

The general premise of the Resistance games, being 50's Earth invaded by aliens, is pretty damn cool. The rest of the story however, I could do without. It's not that it's actively bad, it's just there and that's it. Resistance 3 doesn't do much to improve this. They do give the main character a wife and kid so I guess you should care about him?

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What original games were at E3 2011?

E3 2011 was a year of few surprises. We are getting late in the console life cycle so it's less likely for publishers to introduce big new franchises. So this year there were many sequels and very little original IP. I'm as excited for Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 3 and Elder Scrolls V as the next guy but I wanted to see what new names showed up at E3 2011.

This is not an exhaustive list. There were a few games I left off and likely a few I missed completely. If you know any games that deserve some recognition please leave some suggestions. If there are enough games I may have missed I'd be obliged to do another post to give them their due. Without further delay, here are the original games of E3 2011.

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