E3 2010 (Information and Facts, Trailers, etc)

[Insanecyclone]

Rumor thread http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93547

I'll update the OP with stuff later or a mod can, doesn't matter to me, long as dates and times are posted.

Streaming sites
[[removed]]
http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/
http://www.justin.tv/directory/gaming


Let's get this ball rollin'

[SephYuyX]

EA: 5pm EST
Ubi: 8pm

Nintendo: 12pm tomorrow
Sony: 3pm
Kinect: 7pm


New 360 is $299.
Elite down to $249, and Aracde down to $149.


Nov 9. for Kinect, no price yet. There will also be a bundle then.

[Rowe]

I don't see a Trailer yet so I'll post here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVM558UI0y4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5yyWZ2Z6Ps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4oLZR3Qx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVb4UnqO7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAY4vNJd7A8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6JTvzrpBy0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ocudTnZ7IY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrnFZbYAxNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKccQssHvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFeIO1r1sUk

[SephYuyX]

Also they showed trailers for Dust and Limbo, two MS Live games, before the conference even started, and I thought they should have been headlined within the presser, they seem to be really fun games. I cant seem to find a trailer for either of them though.

Found 'Limbo' trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4HSyVXKYz8
http://www.limbogame.org/


Annnd found 'Dust: An Elysian Tail' too.
Damn game made by a furry, but the style and gameplay looks beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSAQwbbig8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7vE6l1MN0
http://www.elysiantail.com/

[Atreides]

direct links for EA and Ubi in case anyone else needs/wants:

EA: http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/livefeed/ea
Ubi: http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/livefeed/ubisoft

I had to spam reload to get them to load, but they should work once you get in.

[Kurokikaze]

Not sure if posted anywhere: New 360 250GB details sheet -

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...ox360specs.jpg

EA GT page finally loaded for me. 29 minutes till the conference!

[Franzer]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...ct_pricing.jpg
posted on kotaku a few minutes ago

Microsoft says "We haven't yet announced pricing details for Kinect," but retailer GameStop is taking a stab at pricing the new Xbox 360 accessory, putting a $149 USD sticker on pre-orders. The new Xbox 360 bundles may be a better deal.

While Kinect by itself may fall under "too much," if you're jumping in for the first time, it's a more attractive $100 investment.

GameStop prices a Kinect Arcade bungle at $299.99 USD and a Kinect Elite Bundle at $399.99 USD. GameStop also puts a $59.99 USD price on two games, Kinect Adventures! and Kinect Sports.

[BRP]

Microsoft Conference Trailers







Xbox Reveal

[6souls]

M$ wrap-up

http://www.neverknowtech.com/storage..._0137-w800.jpg

* Media Briefing starts with a Call of Duty Black Ops trailer and demo. Releasing November 9th, 2010.
* All game-addons and map-packs for all Call of Duty games for the next 3 years will come on Xbox LIVE first.
* Trailer of Metal Gear Solid Rising. Looks amazing.
* Live demo of a 4-player game of Gears of War 3. Will introduce new mode called 'Beast'.
* Fable 3 coming October 26th.
* Crytek making a 360 exclusive: Codename Kingdoms.
* Bungie showing latest on Halo Reach with new trailer. Coming September 14th.
* Kinect live demo. Showing how to use the 360 interface with hand gesture and voice. Wave to the 360 to sign-in, face recognition. Navigate menus with your hand, control movies: navigate a virtual time-line with your hand or with voice commands like "Xbox Pause", "Xbox Play", "Xbox Stop".
* Xbox LIVE coming to Windows Phone 7.
* Video chat with other Xbox LIVE or WLM (MSN) users. If you move, the Kinect cam will follow you so you stay in shot.
* ESPN in HD on Xbox360 for all Gold members at no additional cost ... controlled with Kinect. Sports trivia questions while watching.
* Live demos of: Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Joyride, Kinect Adventures. If a second person walks in front of Kinect while playing, it will detect and auto-switch to a split-screen multi-player mode.
* Kinect: Ubisoft's Your Shape.
* Kinect live demo: Harmonix Dance Central
* Kinect launching in the US on November 4th. 15 titles at launch, compatible with all 360s. Will be available worldwide this holiday season.
* Star Wars Kinect game - Coming next year.
* Forza Kinect game. Walk around the car, inspect all parts, step in the car. Graphics look good.
* NEW Xbox 360! WiFi-N, 250gb HDD, "sleeker", "smaller", "whisper quiet", same price ($299 in the US). Shipping to retailers today...will be available in stores later this week.

http://www.neverknowtech.com/home/20...e-wrap-up.html

[BRP]

Streams and shit. List from NeoGaf

Streams
GameTrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/
YouTube (IGN Partnership): http://www.youtube.com/E3
1UP: http://www.1up.com/e3/
G4tv Online: http://g4tv.com/e32010
(more streams will be added)
Xbox (UK): http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/e3
Nintendo: http://e3.nintendo.com/
Konami (Registration Required): http://www.konami.com/e3/


--TV--
Spike TV
G4TV

--Liveblogs--

http://www.eurogamer.net/e3

[Bwelch]

lol

[Rowe]

@4:18 Ok since when can a Jedi do a Kamehameha?

[SephYuyX]

Found Limbo trailer.

http://www.limbogame.org/

[SephYuyX]

Found Dust: An Elysian Tail too.
Damn game made by a furry, but the style and gameplay looks beautiful.


http://www.elysiantail.com/

[BRP]

http://www.konami.jp/mgsr/en/index.html

[6souls]

Gamasutra's EA & Ubisoft recaps

http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/ima...1/28952/EA.jpg
At a Gamasutra-attended event at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles during E3, Electronic Arts kicked off the showcase with a loud, police chase-heavy trailer for Criterion's Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Criterion's creative director Craig Sullivan showcased the title, due to ship in November, which brings the Burnout creators to the Need For Speed franchise for the first time.

It uses Autolog features to showcase friends' prowess with comparisons of their achievements. Sullivan ended with a two-player cops vs. robbers showdown which brought crash-based takedown mechanics even further into the franchise.

Next up, EA CEO John Riccitiello stepped on stage, introducing the press event as simply 10 high-profile titles minus the staging glitz, intimating that the showcase was "more Sundance... than the Academy Awards."

The next title to be showcased -- although perhaps not very Sundance-like -- was Visceral Games' Dead Space 2. This title is scheduled for January 2011, and demonstrated impressively "visceral" real-time footage, with protagonist Isaac up against even more fiendish enemies.

Riccitiello then introduced the DICE and EA Los Angeles co-produced Medal Of Honor by saying the firm wanted to bring to the first person shooter "a higher bar for quality than has ever been set in the genre."

Finally, a live onstage 24-player demo showcased the DICE-created multiplayer -- the game's online beta is due June 21st and the game out in October, with a "Step Up To Tier 1" tagline apparently taking a pop at the competition in Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, with which it'll go head to head in the same launch window this Fall.

The company then unveiled the quixotically named "EA Gun Club", a reward-based system that rewards repeat EA game purchasers with early beta access to games like Medal Of Honor.

EA Sports boss Peter Moore then came out to detail the label's titles, revealing a new EA Sports Live Broadcast mode for EA Sports MMA, fighting online for real-life prizes with live commentators.

EA Sports Active 2 also got a showcase, adding a heart rate monitor and shipping for Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 with Kinect, and a web-based method of sharing data on exercise and heart rate.

Football hero Joe Montana came onstage to introduce changes to EA Sports' crown Madden franchise, including easier play calling.

The Sims Studio head Rod Humble came onstage next for an intriguing Will Wright-like musing on free will, discussing The Sims 3 for Xbox 360, Wii and DS shipping this October.

Next, EA Partners titles got their turn, with Crytek's Cevat Yerli on stage to show off Crysis 2 with a trailer set around Grand Central Station -- ending in a traumatic skyscraper collapse. The title is also confirmed to ship in stereoscopic 3D for console and PC this holiday season.

Next up, Bulletstorm, with Epic's Cliff Bleszinski and People Can Fly's co-founder showcasing the over-the-top first person shooter, which ships in February 2011, and a gloriously over the top gameplay demo flaunting wisecracking goriness.

Finally, a segment for the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO revealed that every player in the upcoming PC Online game will get his or her own starship - before an epic CG trailer teased the concept behind the title.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2...is_2_in_3D.php

http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/ima.../28956/ubi.jpg

The theme of Ubisoft’s Gamasutra-attended Los Angeles press conference this year was “games you can feel,” which they continually referenced throughout the presentation. There was a notable connection to Microsoft’s Kinect hardware, for which several games were demoed.

Hand Waving

Ubisoft opened with Q Entertainment founder and Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi taking the stage to demonstrate his new project Children of Eden. As he waved his hands across the screen, I knew that this was the platform for him – Mizuguchi has always been very into synesthesia, the marriage of sights, sound, and feeling into one package.

The game, which sported Kinect compatibility, looked and sounded gorgeous [YouTube trailer], but for myself, I couldn’t help thinking how much more precise the game would be with a controller. But that’s not the point, is it? The point is to feel spatially and bodily involved, and watching him perform for the crowd, I could tell that for Mizuguchi this is a new frontier.

The other major Kinect games announced from Ubi were MotionSports, a minigame sports collection, and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. Your Shape is interesting because it shows the promise of the Kinect camera for fitness, with rather sophisticated movement that allows for an extension of the company’s existing fitness and yoga product lines.

Touchy Feely

A couple of odd titles crept into the presentation, including a new spin on Laser Tag (called Battletag) in which a computer calls out the scores and objectives – but ultimately it’s still Laser Tag, and did feel a little odd at a game show, given that there is no video game component to it.

Then there was Innergy, a sensor you put on your finger to help with your breathing and relaxation, assisted by cute computer graphics. The entire project looks very similar to what Wild Divine has been doing with biofeedback for ages.

Since it’s a simple USB dongle, it can be connected to any computer to maximize your stress reduction. The producer on-hand made the bold statement that “if you do just one 10 minute session per day, it gives your immune system a boost for up to 6 hours.”

Moving Units

Not everything was completely non-traditional though. Also demonstrated were a new Ghost Recon, this time subtitled Future Soldier, which marks the return of four-player co-op, Raving Rabbids Travel In time (Wii exclusive), Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, and Driver San Francisco, which all looked about as nice as you’d suspect and are both multiplatform.

Particularly interesting was Shaun White’s Skateboarding, as apparently the snowboarding prodigy spends his off-season winning skateboarding awards as well. The game has a bit of a story, in which “the ministry” is trying to eradicate fun and individuality.

The game uses a Saboteur-style technique, making a grey ministry-controlled world turn bright and colorful as White’s skateboarding illuminates the consciousnesses of everyone in the area. Or something to that effect.

More interesting than that is the ability to actively deform the geometry as you skate, extending rail grinds past their natural conclusions to climb up walls, and reach other rails, literally reshaping the landscape as you go. This is White’s third game with Ubisoft, and he says he’s now “getting a grasp of what’s really possible, and what I want to do with a game.”

Download Evolution

The title I was looking forward to the most was Eric Chahi’s Project Dust. The Out Of This World creator has been working on this digitally distributed, 2011-due game for the last two years, based on his travels photographing volcanoes.

The game looks to have realtime environmental deformation along with dynamic natural environments. While there’s no indication of how the game plays, the concept is certainly interesting – a race on the brink of extinction must learn to harnest the powers of the elements to change the world around it. Expect quite a few messages and environmental themes.

A new 2D-oriented Rayman was announced, Rayman Origins, which claims the involvement of Michel Ancel, who is rumored to have left Ubisoft.

An associated quasi-announcement was made that a “set of tools” had been developed to allow people to make games on their own, professionally or otherwise, but details were beyond vague. We can expect to hear more about that in the near future, I should think.

Last on the downloadable side, there was Maniaplanet, a PC online hub for its user-created content games, including Trackmania, and two new titles, Shootmania, an FPS game creator, and Questmania, an RPG maker.

Ubisoft’s Hardball

The impression I got from the entire presentation was that Ubisoft really wants to take over the game market. I mean, granted, everyone wants to win, but the breadth of Ubi’s offerings -- spanning casual, online, movement, and hardcore games -- was actually matched by its depth, at least from the external view.

Ubisoft is giving the impression that it is not dabbling in these arenas, not testing the waters, but going full force. Having worked in each of these arenas for a few years now, the dabbling phase is over, which is arguably what the company was doing for casual and social genres just a couple years ago.

Now, it feels like the company is ready to show its entire hand. Casual Kinect games were given the same amount of time as Assassin’s Creed and Ghost Recon, and though the downloadable titles were given much less time to shine, they were introduced by Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot at the end of the presentation, underlining their importance.

Notably absent was any announcement for PlayStation Move, but with Ubi such a multi-platform-oriented company, one can only presume those titles are just waiting in the wings.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2..._Dominance.php

[SephYuyX]

Move coming out sept/oct for 50$ (bulb stick) +30$ (controler) +40$ (eye)

Little comparison.

PS3: (no bundling, +10 to one time cost if you do the 100$ deal)
One time cost - 40$
Per controller set - 80$
Buying for two people initially - 200$ (some games require two bulb sticks however, so youll need 4 for two players, so 300$)

Wii:
One time cost - 0$
Per controller set (inc M+) - 70$
Buying for two people initially - 140$ (90$ if you include the set when you buy Wii)

360:
One time cost - 150~200$
Per controller set - 0$
Buying for two people initially - 150~200$

[Shojin]

should prob post this here too

http://nl.playstation.com/playstationplus/

Cross-game Voice Chat: invite your friends to chat online no matter what game you're all playing, even if they aren't members of PlayStation Plus.

Sounds like maybe just have to be psn+ to initiate, glad that normal members can use it too though.

[Shojin]

Buying for two people initially - 200$ (some games require two bulb sticks however, so youll need 4 for two players)

This is wrong, you only need 1 PS eye camera. So for 2 people the initial cost for everything would be $100 for the ps eye, move + game bundle, plus $50 for the extra move controller

[Tyrath]

This is wrong, you only need 1 PS eye camera. So for 2 people the initial cost for everything would be $100 for the ps eye, move + game bundle, plus $50 for the extra move controller

Don't the two part controllers come out to $80? $50 for ball $30, for the other. So that'd make the whole thing $180 + the eye which I don't think is in the bundle.