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Dev vet Mike Mika has told Develop that the games industry doesn’t get Twitter. We think it’s actually time to put the “no shit Sherlock” tag into proper action.

“In boardrooms across the world, people are using Facebook and Twitter as a buzzword rather than really understanding why they work so well and what they offer to enhance a game,” he said.

Mika added: “In many ways, the games industry is waking up to what the web has offered for so long, and in doing so, it’s following some of the classic misconceptions.

“Just being where the action is doesn’t make you succeed. You need to integrate, understand, dissect. There’s no magic bullet.”

More through there.

LucasArts has teased a reveal for Monday via Twitter, stating that the announcement will be another “old school” title for fans to go gaga over.

It could be anything, really, considering how highly the company thinks of digital distribution.

Here are the tweets thanks to GamingShogun:

• Tweet One: ‘Amazing news coming Monday! Super excited! You have no idea how tough it is not to start yelling about it! But it’s secret! Until Monday!’
• Tweet Two: ‘I don’t want to tease, it is just tough not to say anything! I might be tempted, however. Have to think about it over the weekend. ’
• Tweet Three: ‘Okay, we will do hints. It is awesome news for our old school fans. (anything more direct might get me in trouble)’

Ah, lovely Twitter. You have become the place for gaming publishers and developers to tease the pants off of loyal idolaters.

According to a post on Twitter, EA could possibly be working on Skate 3.

Here’s the tweet from Schmitty, from Skate website Epicly Trife:

“I just got told ‘tonight we gotta celebrate’, one of the bro’s got offered to be in SKATE 3″.

A Kotaku reader suggests this skater to be Chet Childress. Hit the links to see for yourself.

As with all rumors, keep your hats on till you hear different.

WoW players now have access to a fully functioning in-game Twitter client in the form of TweetCraft.

It allows you to:

• Send/receive Tweets in-game (Immediate sending reloads your UI)
• Queue Tweets to send when it’s more convenient for you
• Upload in-game screenshots using TwitPic
• AutoTweet when you log in, enter an instance or get an achievement
• Extensible so that AddOn authors can register messages or events to AutoTweet

Amazing. Video after the break. Thanks, Offworld.

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Champions Online will have Twitter added via an in-game feature set when it releases.

Cryptic is currently testing the functionality of the service, according to the official website:

“We’re really excited to get in-game tweet testing out to our beta players. This feature is in initial testing stages and will most likely have issues. Beta players, please keep in mind that you are still under an NDA while testing this feature!”

The saturation is almost complete. Soon, there will be Twitter options included in caskets and voting booths.

Thanks, Massively.

BioWare has twittered that a performance enhancing patch for “lower-end devices” is in the works for Mass Effect Galaxy.

“In the next 10 days there will be a ME Galaxy patch on iTunes. Estimated 50% performance boost for lower-end devices with the patch,” reads the tweet.

If you haven’t played MEG yet, we can heartily recommend it; you shoot stuff and everything.

Nelson’s posted a picture of a Twitter-branded 360, meaning we now immediately want one.

But probably never will. We may get a Twitter tattoo, though, on our nether regions. For a “laugh”.

Microsoft’s announcement that 360 is to be integrated with Facebook, Last.fm and Twitter was “far and away the most important” news of E3, Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter’s told Gamasutra.

The analyst said “that the media completely missed its importance,” adding that it signals a new direction for the machine, that of a “functioning computer” in the living room.

Pachter also said that the move “gives the company a huge jump start on a hopeful Apple, which has as yet to make a dent in sales of its AppleTV (intended for the same purpose).

“Microsoft appears to me to understand that it can leverage its 30 million installed base advantage if it moves quickly, and Apple will have a long way to go in order to catch up. By far, this was the most important announcement of E3.”

Very interesting stuff. Hit it. And if you’re not using Twitter already, then get with the program, soldier.

BioWare has hinted that we may get details of the next instalment of Mass Effect DLC at some point this week.

“Getting the feeling some news about the next ME1 DLC may be coming this week. Keep your eyes peeled,” the company said via its Twitter feed.

Over the weekend, it was rumoured that the content would launch alongside the game when it becomes available for download on Microsoft’s Games On Demand service.

Bring it on, BioWare.

Twitter. We’re now so addicted to it we choose it over speaking to people in the same room. Rare’s clearly seen the potential, and has now signed up for the “service”. Hit this to get following.

Boss Gregg Mayles has already been pimping Natal jobs on that feed, as you can see here. So keep an eye on it.

With Xbox 360 becoming a home entertainment system that offers not only games, but Netflix and soon Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm, Shane Kim wants to assure gamers that the console is still all about games.

“It happens to be a great video game console,” Kim told Kotaku. “That’s not going away. We want to make people understand that we’re not leaving the gaming space.

“I definitely think that we can expand off that base, and that gaming is still going to be an important part of entertainment.”

Bill Gates previously stated that the creation of Xbox was so the company could strategically “get into the living room.”

More through the link.

GamerDNA has launched a new website called Tweet My Gaming and it provides a feed of videogame tweets from anyone and everyone who posts on the subject.

It does this by tagging game titles, capturing Twitter activity, and then updates the site in real time with the results.

The site also ranks games based on the most Tweets and currently The Sims 3 has the highest ranking.

You can check out the site here.

More through Kotaku.

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has revealed via his Twitter account that he could be set to make another announcement later today.

“Just finished the first day of the show but tmw is another anouncement,” wrote Pete roughly seven hours from the above date stamp.

We’re treating it as rumour for now, however Shane Kim did say more first party titles were on their way.

Let’s wait and see.

Twitter and Facebook integration are coming to Xbox Live this Fall. Your living rooms will never be the same.

Mixing with the NXE interface, users will be able to view photos, friends, updates, and add people from the application.

D’Toid has loads of screens for it.

Expect it to launch sometime this fall.

The Guild’s Felicia Day has just announced that now you’ll be able to see and interact with your Facebook and Twiter buddies friends over Xbox Live.

Both Twitter and Facebook will be launching on 360 this fall. We’re all doomed.

The news came out of Microsoft’s E3 press conference this morning.

Geoff Keighley has rather cryptically announced that Modern Warfare 2 fans “won’t want to miss” Microsoft’s E3 press conference that is now only three hours and five minutes away.

“Gloomy day in LA, but it’s off to the Xbox press briefing I go. Modern Warfare 2 fans won’t want to miss it,” he tweeted.

Now, why is that, we wonder? Stupidly excited, we are.

According to Sony rep Jake Osuwah, there are still plenty of “shockers” still to come from the company’s press conference tomorrow at at 11am PST (7pm BST).

“Pre-E3 announcements or not! There’s still lots of shockers planned for you guys @ E3, stay tuned…,” he said via Twitter.

In case you missed it, PSP Go! was seemingly inadvertently revealed over the weekend, plus the fact that there’s a new Metal Gear game on the way for the handheld.

I guess we’ll know tomorrow, eh? We’d be lying if we said we could wait.

Thanks, CVG.

The problem with Twitter is, sometimes what might look genuine is just a 14 year old sitting in his bedroom making stuff up whilst searching for porn torrents, and the following tweet by someone calling itself EpicGamesNews might just fall into that category.

“All set for the big announcement at E3. *MICROSOFT’S PRESS CONFERENCE*” says the tweet.

Well, if it is the musings of bored adolescents, or indeed Epic genuinely announcing a MS E3 reveal, will be no doubt be known later today.

Can we wait to find out? No we can’t.

Twitter king Geoff Keighley has informed the world that Microsoft’s E3 special announcement is “musical in nature.”

“For those of you asking, my sources say the opening is musical in nature,” tweeted Geoff.

We couldn’t possibly speculate. We’ll know soon enough.

Stay tuned.

You’ll notice there are now two new “things” on VG247. As you’re natural change-fearers, I thought I’d explain.

That E3 banner’s just a link to the E3 category. We’ll be blitzing the LA show next week, starting off with press conferences liveblogs on Monday and Tuesday and segueing into what will undoubtedly be a bewildering fuck-ton of information from the showfloor. Just click Mart’s hands for a big list of everything we post.

The Twitter links are Twitter links. We had to do it some time. There’s one there for normal site updates, and one for me personally. If you want to watch me dribble even more meaningless horseshit into the internet all day, I’m not going to stop you.

Taking note of all these things will make your E3 experience more pleasurable and general life-state more complete.

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