E3 has come and gone this year. It was a fairly lackluster year, no new hardware from microsoft or sony and wii u failed to truly impress graphically.

League of Legends

I wanted to take a moment to talk about a game. League of Legends is a strategy game similar to a real time strategy game but minus the micro managing and add in some 3rd person action. The objective of the game is to take out the opposing teams nexus which is their main building in their base. There are minions that spawn at regular intervals that do decent damage to towers and structures. You control the Champion which is an individual that has 4 special skills on cool downs that you need to use in a specific order to optimize your damage done, there is a lot of strategy in choosing which spell to use when. There is currently 50 million registered users which means you will almost always find people to play with. The game is available for free at leagueoflegends.com so give it a try and ill see you on the field of justice!

Samsung Televison with Kinect Like Functionality

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This is the tv for people who want the cutting edge. It has all the features you come to expect from high end televisions today including 240hz refresh rate, active shutter 3D, and full array led back lighting. But what is really impressive about this tv is the built in camera and the motion and voice controls. Basically what samsung has done here is integrate Kinect like functionality into a television. Now it won't have all the features of a Kinect but it does allow you to use the remote less and try some fun new games. Currently it's somewhat  slow to respond but there is great promise in what they are offering once it is refined. This model can be purchased for 2599$ anywhere home electronics are sold right now.

84 inch 4K tv

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What you see above is the new standard for visual quality in the television industry. The thing that makes this tv special besides the 480hz refresh rate and Cinema 3d which does not require the use of expensive and often uncomfortable active shutter glasses is the actual resolution of 4k which is 4 times the number of pixels of 1080p which is the current top resolution. What this means for the consumer is that you can go much larger and not have it look blurry at closer seating positions as well as allows Cinema 3d to use full 1080p Instead of halving the resolution to each eye as it does currently. Retail on this tv is rumored to be in the 8500 to 10k range, however as more and more people buy tvs such as this the prices will come down and they willl make them in more sizes.