E3 2011 Microsoft Press Conference
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:26 pm
Update - summary:
● Call of Duty: MW3 demoed.
● Gears 3 demoed.
● Tomb Raider demoed.
● Forza 4 trailer: over 500 cars, 16 cars on track, car clubs, Top Gear track, etc.
● Halo 4 announced via teaser trailer. New trilogy begins 2012, developed by 343.
● Halo: CE Anniversary announced for November. Developed by 343, Certain Affinity and Saber Interactive. Trailer shown.
● Summer of Arcade 2011: Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Bastion and From Dust.
● Minecraft announced console exclusive for 360. Utilizes Kinect, can be played with normal controller too.
● Star Wars Kinect demoed.
● EA announced that in 2013 FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods and another unannounced sports game will utilize Kinect.
● Kinect Fun Labs is now available. Enables finger tracking, body/clothing/object scanning, etc.
● Dance Central 2 announced, allows players to port all of their songs from the first game as well as a 2 player multiplayer mode.
● Mass Effect 3 will utilize Kinect (voice commands in combat and in conversations demoed).
● Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will utilize Kinect (combat and weapons management demoed).
● Crytek's Codename Kingdoms called Ryse, first-person Gladiator combat game with Kinect support.
● Kinect Sports: Season 2 announced (golf, baseball, skiing, darts, tennis and American football).
● Fable: The Journey announced for Kinect.
● Kinect Disneyland Adventures announced.
● Doublefine's Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster demoed.
● New Dashboard (Metro UI) coming later this year with Bing search integration to enable searching through all Xbox content, can control with your voice.
● YouTube and UFC coming to 360.
Some other stuff:
● Cloud Storage for Game Saves and Live Profiles.
● Witcher 2 coming to 360 this year.
● XBLA trailers: viewtopic.php?p=2042833#p2042833
● New Dashboard: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=25697
● Halo trailers and info: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=25682
● Forza 4 trailer: viewtopic.php?p=2040182#p2040182
● Mass Effect 3 vids: viewtopic.php?p=2041090#p2041090
● Tomb Raider vid: viewtopic.php?p=2040195#p2040195
● Gears 3 vid: viewtopic.php?p=2042851#p2042851
Pre-show: 5:00 PM
GTTV counts down to E3 with the exclusive first look at NINJA GAIDEN 3, THQ’s Danny Bilson presents the first-ever footage from SAINTS ROW 3, Xbox’s Phil Spencer reveals the SUMMER OF ARCADE lineup for Xbox Live, and Bethesda presents the first live demo of PREY 2.
Live stream: GameTrailers
Microsoft Press Conference: 5:30 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
Live streams: Xbox.com | Xbox Mobile (for mobile devices) | GameTrailers | G4TV | GameSpot | IGN | GamePro | YouTube
Major Nelson will also be tweeting the show live here: http://twitter.com/#!/majornelson
When the show is over, all the news will be posted here!
I didn't prepare a competition, but if you want something to pass the time you can try to guess what the Summer of Arcade lineup will be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xb ... g_releases