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Attendees check out the Indie Games Showcase area during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning.

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Lead Designer Ian Wright, center, shows off Microsoft's Fable II action role-playing game to Hilary Goldstein of IGN.com during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning. The game is being released in October exclusively for the Xbox 360.

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A traditional controller, on display during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning, is used in conjunction with a head-mounted controller to play Dark Game. The head-mounted device vibrates from different sides to identify your opponent's position during a portion of the game where you can't see your character.

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Attendees walk past "Pi–ata Cascase" by Ryan Stevenson from the game Viva Pi–ata by Rare, UK, during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning. The work was selected for the Into the Pixel Collection, an exhibition of the art of video games, on display at E3.

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Attendees walk past an exhibition of video game art titled Into the Pixel Collection, on display during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning.

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"Persian Emissaries," a painting from the game 300: March to Glory, is displayed at the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning. The work was selected for the Into the Pixel Collection on display at E3.

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Attendees enter the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning.

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Sean Baptiste of Harmonics Music Systems, left, and Ryan Iyengar of Konami play Rock Band during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning. Baptiste says the new version comes out in September for the Xbox 360.

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Graphics Engine Programmer Donovan Hutchence of Sony plays the closed-beta version of their new Home platform during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning. Home is a new online social-gaming service where gamers can interact in a virtual world before and after playing games together.

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Chelsy Berry of Take-Two Interactive plays Power Pros Baseball for the Nintendo Wii during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning.

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Jeremy Hache, left, of the G4 television network gets a demo of Madden '09 from Anthony Stevenson of EA Sports during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday morning. The new version features changing weather conditions like snow that will effect game play.

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Hilary Goldstein of IGN.com tries out Microsoft's Fable II action role-playing game during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning. The game is being released in October exclusively for the Xbox 360.

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Ernie Medina, left, and Scott Edwardson play the Nintendo Wii resort game during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning. Medina is co-founder of the XRtainment Zone in Redlands which is a fitness gym for "exer-gaming."

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Nathan Rose, left, and Belinda Cheng of Disney Interactive demo their company's game, Ultimate Band, for the Nintendo Wii during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday morning. They said the game will be released for the holiday season.

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Capcom Senior Programmer Daryl Allison talks about user generated content in two of their games, Age of Booty and Flock, during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday. Users can create maps for the games which they can share with other users.

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Electronic Arts Development Director Stephen Lim shows off the creature editor for the game Spore during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday. Users can download the creature editor and create their own animals which become part of other people's games. Spore is scheduled to be released September 7.

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Vinny Caravella, left, an editor for the gaming website Giant Bomb, and Shant Boyatzian of 2K Games try out Capcom's upcoming Street Fighter IV during the E3 Media and Business Summit at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Tuesday.
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