Not to be outdone by Microsoft's announcement of the Xbox One this week, Sony also used the Electronic Entertainment Expo to unveil and demo their next gen gaming console, the Playstation 4, a $399 machine undercutting the Xbox One by $100 and launching with a handful of titles and features designed to appeal to a core audience of dedicated gamers...

A recent published study done by researchers at the Duke School of Medicine reports gamers "see the world differently" than non-gamers. We're not talking about vision of the 20/20 variety, but the ability of the eyes and brain to track visual movement, which researchers discovered is much more acute amongst those who called themselves "very intensive gamers."

There's just so much happening all at once on the show floor at E3. Imagine Las Vegas, Disneyland, and a gigantic rave all rolled into one and you've got an idea of the sensory overload packed into the LA Convention Center each year. One moment a zombie is reaching out for you from behind a chain link fence, you turn the corner to almost fall into a group of attendees breaking out into synchronized dance, then suddenly there's Mario and Luigi mugging it up with gamers. Here are a few of my favorite random sightings capturing the experience which is E3...

The 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, was brimming with excitement, for this year's show was to be the coming out party of two brand new console platforms aimed for release this holiday season. First up, Xbox: Microsoft unveiled their upcoming Xbox One gaming and entertainment console with much fanfare. We got some hands-on time on the E3 floor, alongside some behind-closed-doors insights of what we can expect this November...

Turtle Beach's super-sized headphone display above certainly caught my eye (alongside a few other attendees, who ran to pose inbetween). With my jaws still agape, I was wrangled in by their E3 team to give their best gaming Ear Force XP 7 headphones a go. 

The most anticipated E3 news this year might have been everything Playstation 4 and Xbox One, but the most noticeable smiles and sounds of gaming glee were heard from the Nintendo section of the show, most notably amongst those playing the new Mario Kart 8...

A popular spot for E3 attendees to rest their sore feet was the Square Enix booth, where the heralded Japanese developer screened various incarnations of their popular Final Fantasy series, now into it's 15th edition. Because it's just not E3 without the spiked hair, overdramatic dialogue, and techno-swordplay action of Final Fantasy...

 "There's always money in the banana stand," and there continually seems to be money and amusement in revisiting the 8-bit past, as showcased by these Arrested Development themed graphics adorning genuine NES gaming cartridges...

With summer rapidly approaching (and for some of us, already here!), I'm starting to think about the ways my kids will be spending their summer time. And since my two boys are arguably obsessed with video games, I have to consider ways to manage their gaming. Do you have a system for limiting or granting access to video games?

The highly anticipated Xbox One was announced this week and with it arrived Microsoft's big push to commandeer your living room as the hub of all your home entertainment needs well beyond just video games. The keynote notably highlighted the console's ability to understand voice commands such as, "Xbox, Watch TV," "Watch HBO," "Xbox, Go Home", switching between options almost instantaneously. But the question that arises is, does anybody really want to be talking to their devices?