The Electronic Entertainment Expo is a week's worth of executive sniping and news, parties and celebrity, and of course video games. The artists and executives for Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony struggle to rise above the din of explosive trailers and bombastic speech. The fervor surrounding this year's dual launch of the next PlayStation and Xbox only made things worse, churning carefully planned press conferences into indistinguishable white noise. With one very clear exception. Standing on a stage set up in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena last Monday, Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton ignited an uproar of applause with a series of promises directed straight at competitor Microsoft. The PlayStation 4, he said, won't impose any new restrictions on the use...

Applause Executive: Thank you. Thank you. And welcome to E3 2014. We at Company believe this will be the best Electronic Entertainment Expo yet. And after learning about our bold and ambitious catalogue of Entertainment Solutions, we think you'll agree. In the past year, the Next-Gen Entertainment Device has established itself not simply as the future of video games, but the future of the living room. Company has claimed Faulty Statistical Percentage of the media market space, shipping over Inflated Sales Number. But don't take our word for it, here's what real people have to say: Cinematic screen displays effusive quotes from Commenters With Screen Names Referencing Popular First-Party Games. Executive: Let's dig into what makes Company the future of living room entertainment. C...

During last month's unveiling of the Xbox One on Microsoft's Redmond campus, developers showed off how the Kinect can track eye movement to monitor how attentive a player is, use "blush technology" to monitor a player's heart rate, see movements in the dark and even extrapolate a person's mood by watching their face closely. What Microsoft officials didn't detail, and continue to decline to talk about, is exactly how that data will be used and if any of it will leave a player's home to either be processed by Microsoft's cloud service or collected for other reasons. While Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 also has a camera, it is not required for the console to work, Sony officials told Polygon. Because the Xbox One will also deliver ads, stream movies and provide cable television access,...

We're not sure if you heard, maybe you didn't, but there's a new Xbox coming soon. Well, not soon, but this year, for sure. On The Besties this week, we dive deep and come back with the pearls. 07:30 - Best cell phone feature we're excited to use 17:25 - Best use of FMV that may not be 19:00 - Half time: Ghost dog 29:30 - Best news for publishers in the next generation 38:50 - Best feature that only Russ Frushtick cares about 47:30 - The winner is... Theme song by Ian Dorsch Get the show: Download MP3 Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Subscribe on iTunes

The Wii U launched in November and like the upcoming next PlayStation and next Xbox, the most interesting thing about the console isn't the games it can play, but rather the philosophical approach to interactive entertainment a console's design espouses. The Wii U is designed to complement the living room and internet experiences. It is a console built to play nicely with competitors like websites, smartphones and television. The Wii U's chunky second-screen GamePad has an interactive TV guide that can be used as a sort of super remote that allows you to not only find a show and start watching it without having to pick up a TV remote, but also research the show's history, cast and even chat with friends as you watch. The Wii U borrowed from sites like Facebook and Twitter, creating...