[RobotRocker]

So the news topic doesn't get destroyed and we can play by play all the press conference drama. Here is an E3 topic for you to post wildly in.

The press conferences according to Joystiq are

[Drem]

Didn't Microsoft go first last year also? Sony is last, so they are going to have to do some amazing things to counter all of the news Microsoft and Nintendo are going to generate and get over all of the bad press they've gotten before.

I heard Capcom is going to be announcing 3 or 4 big games. I'm expecting a new Onimusha, since it's supposedly one of Capcom's most profitable IPs and we haven't seen a next-gen entry. The other will be a new Power Stone, Rival Schools, Megaman Legends, etc. etc. whatever you want but they probably aren't going to make.

[Takashi]

And we're off!(engadget link because nintendo is provably hammered right now). Surprised they didn't went and released the Wiimote SP.

EDIT : If this is what i think it is, it's basically solving the "you can't make a proper lightsaber game" problem.
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[sam]

i...don't know about that.

like, if you need to buy an add-on thing for specific (presumably 'hardcore') games that support it, surely most people would just buy whatever microsoft are doing for the 360?

could be fun though! presumably they'll have some interesting stuff designed for it.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Rumor has it Capcom's going to announce Dead Rising 2. We'll see how that goes. If they do announce it I hope it's set in an amusement park.
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[Takashi]

[RobotRocker]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/888/888781p1.html

MTV announces the full Rock Band 2 track list. No Freezepop. Which is a break in tradition for HMX.
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[RobotRocker]

MS Conference has started. IGN has the best feed.

Edit: Starting with Fallout 3. WOOOOO!

Running Edit: F3 looks underwhelming. First ever live gameplay of RE5 now.

RE5 Gameplay is alright. March 13th Globaly though.

Petey is up with fable 2. Its finished by the way acording to Pete. Also, it starts with you getting shit on. I wish I was joking.

Fable 2 doesnt look good aside from co-op shenanigans. Gears 2 now.

Gears 2 looks INCREDIBLE. 5-Player Co-Op also.

Oh god. Avatars and a new Dashboard. Oh god.

The Avatars are by RARE.

PORTAL: STILL ALIVE JESUS CHRIST EXCLUSIVE

Also, a South Park Game

Netflix on 360. MS are really killing PSN.
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[Cossix]

Haha they made the zombies white

[sam]

resi 5 march 12.

that live demo was kindof great! okay the game looks almost identical to resi 4 but hey.
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[Drem]

I've just been having Engadget's text update page automatically reload every few minutes and I check back on it to see if there's anything interesting.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/engadget-and-joystiq-live-from-microsofts-e3-2008-keynote/


So, Microsoft revealed a new 360 dashboard is coming in the Fall. That picture makes it look like the new Vista window switcher, and doesn't actually look that great. Maybe it's better if you see it in motion.


Edit: Microsoft also announced that they are the best, so I guess that ends all of the arguments about the console wars.

[RobotRocker]

Codemasters have made something so horrific it needs a separate post for it. "You're in the movies". Fuck you.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

10:39 am PT: You can play stealthily, aggressively and... oh, Todd has gone for the aggressive route. He pulls out a rifle, and targets the body parts of a nearby enemy. He fires a shot, with a slow-mo shaky cam shot showing limbs exploding violently. We're going to like this game. Some cute marching band music plays in the background, rendering a truly surreally violent encounter. Todd switches to a laser rifle and targets the torso of another enemy. Pow, splatter, smile.
10:40 am PT: The world's scale is enormous, with dilapidated strcutures and roads covering the entire field of view. Todd whips out a rocket launcher and wreaks havoc, followed by an EMP grenade which shuts down a robotic baddie.
10:41 am PT: "You can be a good person, a bad person and anyone in-between. A helicopter lands, kicking up dust. The "fatman," a mini nuclear bomb catapult is the response. The camera follows the warhead in slow-mo all the way to its destination. "It's a pretty effective weapon."

is Fallout 3 supposed to sound like an FPS?
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[Krabjuice Gaiden]

Twenty dollars says that Lips is going to involve a DRM scandal.
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[RobotRocker]

There is a dancing Master Chief on the GS feed. Insanity.
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[Drem]

[Maztorre]

Jesus is the American games press completely made up of sour repressed bastards. No clapping during Duffy?

[RobotRocker]

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

[RobotRocker]

Square Enix on stage. Brace for Fanboy Rage
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[RobotRocker]

FF13! OH FUCLKING SHOIT JESUS CHRIST

MS WINS MS WINS OH FIUCKING CHRIST
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[Krabjuice Gaiden]

So guys, FFXIII on the 360.

lol sony
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[Drem]

Considering Sony touted FFXIII as an exclusive, I'm sure they must have already known about losing the exclusivity. I just wonder if they have anything to recover from it.

[The Troops]

Shipping on six discs.

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Drem]

12:07 am PT: Don: "Wow, that's incredible. FF13 is an astonishing addition to our growing away of RPG titles... it joins a long list of former PlayStation franchises finding a new home on Xbox 360. Enjoy the rest of E3!"

Ouch. And they've got an entire day to themselves, so the news sites and forums can fester with Microsoft news alone.

[Maztorre]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Teflon]

How the hell is Lips going to know what to do with my Heino vinyl?

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Drem]

Konami has the last conference, and I get the feeling we might see MGS4 for the 360. It didn't do too hot on the PS3, right?

[Mr. Mechanical]

Man MGS4 on 360 would just about make my year but I kind of don't see it happening.
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[RobotRocker]

According to MS. Portal: Still Alive is exclusive to 360 and wont be appearing on Steam.

So both PS3 and PC Fanboys have been trolled. Glorious.
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[Drem]

Which is sort of odd. Wasn't Valve just recently touting a couple of weeks ago about how PC is the true next-generation system and the future of games? Did Orange Box do a lot better on the 360 or something? Or Microsoft could have thrown a lot of money at them.


Or it's nothing that special.

[winkerwatson]

According to the Eurogamer text they aoid mentioning releasing Final Fantasy in Japan.

CONSPIRACY
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[bruin]

FFXIII is a big fucking deal. Not sure how much I care. I mean I'll play it but I'm not frothing. I also wish GAF would load.

Gears of War 2 looks fucking insane. Fallout 3 looks kind of bad. RE5 looks a lot like RE4 but whatever. Fable 2 didn't have a great showing but I'm still looking forward to it. (This stuff is up on GameTrailers now.)

Complete RB2 track list is pretty fuck yeah

www.bungie.net has a countdown (one day eighteen hours) in Halo font and colors. I wish they were working on a new IP.

New Galaga by the Pac Man CE team is pretty fucking exciting

No Alan Wake or Peter Jackson Halo game |:
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[Drem]

Apparently the Major Nelson Xbox 360 blog has some news that didn't appear in the Microsoft conference.

[The Troops]

[tacotaskforce]

FFXIII 360 not coming to japan. Also development on it only starts when development on the PS3 FFXIII ends.

Party's over. We can all go home now.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Man it's like it just keeps getting better and better.

Who wants to bet the big Bungie announcement will be some sort of prequel to the Halo series?
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[BotageL]