Our yearly E3 wrap up is here. Justin and Keenan return to Gamer's Tavern to discuss the best and worst of E3 2015. Keenan talks about his experience at E3 2015, his Street Fighter 5 story and reveals exclusive behind the scenes details on Shenmue 3. You don't want to miss this episode hit play now.
Video content discovery solutions provider Jinni, announced today a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to enhance entertainment discovery on Xbox video game and entertainment systems. Jinni’s proprietary Entertainment Genome™ uses deep knowledge of every show and movie in the Xbox Video catalog to help the Xbox recommendations system intuitively and accurately connect Xbox users to content they’ll enjoy. By using the rich set of attributes in the Jinni Entertainment Genome, Xbox recommendations go beyond the standard genre similarity. When paired with other Xbox signals, such as a user’s viewing history, this sets a new bar in content discovery. “Creating the most amazing entertainment experience means always putting the customer experience first,” said Dave Alles, Xbox General Manager. “Our goal is to make it effortless to get you to entertainment you’ll truly love. Pairing Jinni’s Entertainment Genome™ with other key advances such as Conversational Understanding, makes finding something to watch on Xbox as fun as watching it.” “The inspiration for Jinni has always been putting the user at the center of the entertainment experience, by making finding great content intuitive and fun,” said Jinni Co-founder and CEO, Yosi Glick. “We are happy to be a part of the legendary Xbox entertainment experience.” About Jinni Jinni is the first and only taste-and-mood based engine powering entertainment discovery. Using content genetics and nuanced understanding of user tastes, the Jinni engine powers a uniquely intuitive and personalized experience that increases content consumption and consumer satisfaction. The Jinni service is powered by the Entertainment Genome™, containing thousands of genes that are assigned to each title to describe mood, style, plot, setting and more; this is a rich alternative to the usual genre language, which benefits both the quality of the content delivered as well as the intuitive semantic-based user experience. New titles are automatically indexed via analysis of user reviews and synopses, using a proprietary Natural Language Processing solution.
Earlier in the week we got our hands on the Halo 4 Multiplayer at New York ComicCon. All 4 days the lines were more than an hour wait until the last second, And it was truly worth the wait! The game feels polished and puts armor abilities to much better use than reach. Great load out selection and it is balanced so it still feels like a halo game while offering a good selection that fits most any play style. The controls are responsive and every thing feels right. For me the best experience was playing on the halo 3 map Valhalla its a great example how the game differs from previous halo games. With new weapons, armor abilities and the new vehicle the mantis you really get to see how every thing ties together. In all it is a more tactical game compared to previous games nothing feels to over powered, and everyone has a chance. Over all a great demo and cant wait to pick it up next month.
