LA Noir - Rockstar Games Rockstar Games has promoted their detective yarn LA Noire as being a truly cinematic experience. Turns out they were being quite literal.

The gritty game has been chosen as an Official Selection at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival in April, becoming the very first video game to be shown at the event.

"What Rockstar and Team Bondi have accomplished with L.A. Noire is nothing less than groundbreaking," gushed Tribeca Enterprises' Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore. "It's an invention of a new realm of storytelling that is part cinema, part gaming, and a whole new realm of narrative expression, interactivity, and immersion. We are poised on the edge of a new frontier."

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And the winner is... Ten years ago, the thought of a battle in the portable gaming market was ludicrous. Nintendo had held such a dominant position in the space for so long that it seemed impervious to any sort of challenge.

The field was littered with failed opponents, but things started to get a little more interesting in late 2004, when Sony jumped into the market with the PSP. By the time Apple launched the App Store in 2008, a full-fledged war was underway.

That fight is still raging today, and while Nintendo still holds a leadership position, it's nowhere near as secure as it was at the start of the century. Sony, which failed to live up to expectations in round one, is about to launch a new handheld

Free Realms - Sony What do you do when your online world has 17 million
registered users?  You venture to
pastures new in search of more.

Consoles are still the great unconquered frontier for online
virtual worlds.  Despite the considerable
success of Square Enix's Final Fantasy XI, released for the PlayStation 2 in
2003, virtual worlds on consoles haven't seen anything like the explosion of
popularity they've attained on the PC, where a World of Warcraft or a Club
Penguin can attract in excess of ten million players.

Sony Online aims to change that. In January, they launched
DC Universe Online, a superhero-themed game released simultaneously for the PC
and the PlayStation 3.  Now, they've
ported Free Realms