During one game demo, McHale interviewed two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional snowboarder Shuan White on stage.
The Swedish developer isn't talking about the game's new multiplayer options, but it offered a live demo of the game's single-player campaign on a movie theater screen.
Which makes the fact that you can now download a demo for the game a nice touch in a world too bereft of demos.
In a demo of that game, a young girl played with a pet tiger cub named "Skittles, " who licked the screen and obeyed her voice commands.
Levine said that demo of the game showed what Elizabeth could do from a narrative standpoint, but that he still wasn't comfortable with how she behaved.
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The demo: a game being developed by Gaikai that pitted players using a tablet computer and a smart television against one another in a rich, 3-D environment.
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For example, the company recently developed a campaign for Electronic Arts that was able to target Xbox 360 owners with an interactive ad for NCAA Football '11 that allowed them to download a demo of the game to their console.
The experience went from one of exploration in the tech demo to one of gimmickry in TF2 -- the game's VR Mode is little more than a new window for viewing the game, and has almost no impact (at least in our demo) on gameplay.
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There was a demo that involved playing strategy game StarCraft II on a desktop computer.
Coupled with the brand new Frostbite 3 game engine, the characters portrayed in the demo came across as real.
Players who download the demo and subsequently purchase the full game will be treated to a custom 2013 SRT Viper GTS, with a rare livery which celebrates the release.
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Another demo showed how these differing viewpoints create interesting game dynamics.
In the demo, Namco showed me a smooth-looking game played between an iPhone user and a laptop user.
The company gave fellow Forbesian David Ewalt and I a private demo at CES on Thursday of a simple prototype AR game.
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That said, if you snagged yourself a Rift dev kit and have no intention of actually developing games with it, the upcoming UDK release also includes a "VR Mode" version of the software's sample Unreal Tournament game, as well as a summer version of the Epic Citadel demo we were shown at CES 2013.
And after countless demo versions, media CDs, and press releases about the game, it does seem likely that they're nearly ready to launch.
In the demo we learn the reasons for this, and that the game takes place four years after the events of Guns of the Patriots.
The ability to provide an immediate demo without the time and storage costs of downloading the entire game engine is obvious, both for gamers and for content partners.
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The next-gen game engine was being shown off at GDC 2013 with a flashy new demo (seen below the break), as well as a version of its "Elemental" demo running on a PlayStation 4 dev kit (shrouded behind a curtain, of course).
To show off the game, Bach brought a young girl named "Sparrow" on stage to demo her most recent creation.
When I regularly covered the video game industry, I frequently brushed up against a concept known as the tech demo.
The game will release on March 22nd in Europe, and in February Capcom releases a playable demo.
People were more excited about a Zelda tech demo (pictured) and the mere mention of a Super Smash Bros. game at E3 two years ago than they have been about anything since.
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Remember that demo that had proved A:CM had once been a more polished-looking game?
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In one demo, I saw a short animated clip from a hypothetical high-definition Zelda game.
The demo comes with a tutorial mode designed to teach new users how to play the game.
Obviously Gaikai wants to make a splash with quality titles, but the reasoning goes further than that -- if gamers play a demo through the service and decide the title's not for them, that game's publisher ends up paying for a negative outcome.
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Granted, this tech demo is not interactive, but it was created using performance capture and a brand new game engine designed by Cage.
Its release was preceded by a huge demo campaign on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which helped to increase the anticipation for a game that was already receiving an immeasurable amount of hype.
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