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E3 2011 Microsoft Press Conference

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:26 pm
by Garth
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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! :mrgreen:

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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

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:39 pm
by jiggles
:mrgreen: E3 starts here, baby.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:47 pm
by Mafro
Kudo :x I don't know why, but he annoys the gooseberry fool out of me.

Really looking forward to seeing more Gears 3. Not arsed about any Kinect games.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:50 pm
by Eighthours
Mafro wrote:Kudo :x I don't know why, but he annoys the gooseberry fool out of me.


I think it's because wearing sunglasses indoors automatically makes you a douche.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:52 pm
by KK
I wonder who's going to have the best quality stream this year. YouTube should be able to handle the demand better.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:53 pm
by NickSCFC
I'm only bothered about seeing the Kinect games and I'll base whether I buy one or not on what I see tonight.

There's already more than enough third party AAA content coming in the next 12 months to keep my 360 busy.

Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5pm)

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:55 pm
by Dblock
Eighthours wrote:
Mafro wrote:Kudo :x I don't know why, but he annoys the gooseberry fool out of me.


I think it's because wearing sunglasses indoors automatically makes you a douche.


Burn!

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:59 pm
by blackoutHERO
Anybody have a link already for after the conference where you can watch the repeat? Going to miss the second half and want to try get the link without any spoilers.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:02 pm
by Buffalo
Going to miss it :fp: Someone text me updates!

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:05 pm
by NickSCFC
Any iPhone compatible stream?

No sound on my PC :(

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:08 pm
by Mafro
Buffalo wrote:Going to miss it :fp: Someone text me updates!

PM me your number m8.

NickSCFC wrote:Any iPhone compatible stream?

No sound on my PC :(

There's this link in the OP http://xbox.icmsp.com/xbox/sxcf65bd50xs/en_US/index.cml

Not sure if streaming will work on the iPhone, though. Depends if they use Flash or HTML5.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:08 pm
by cooldawn
KKLEIN wrote:I wonder who's going to have the best quality stream this year. YouTube should be able to handle the demand better.

YouTube have a live stream?

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:09 pm
by Christopher
Buffalo wrote:Going to miss it :fp: Someone text me updates!


No worries man, I'll keep you update, but someone else will have to between half 5 and six whilst I travel home.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:12 pm
by Buffalo
Going to the old dears for me tea instead 8-) Then got my only game playing mate coming over for the Sony gig later on tonight, bit of a house bant.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:12 pm
by Mafro
suzzopher wrote:
Buffalo wrote:Going to miss it :fp: Someone text me updates!


No worries man, I'll keep you update, but someone else will have to between half 5 and six whilst I travel home.

I've got that covered :lol:

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:15 pm
by cooldawn
I've already got Gamespot's Microsoft live stream on the go.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:16 pm
by Buffalo
Marfo 8-)

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:17 pm
by KK
cooldawn wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:I wonder who's going to have the best quality stream this year. YouTube should be able to handle the demand better.

YouTube have a live stream?

According to the list in the opening post. If not, GameTrailers was good last year.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:23 pm
by cooldawn
KKLEIN wrote:
cooldawn wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:I wonder who's going to have the best quality stream this year. YouTube should be able to handle the demand better.

YouTube have a live stream?

According to the list in the opening post. If not, GameTrailers was good last year.

Hmmm...although Gamespot has been pretty good for the last few years I'm now wondering if it's worth trying the IGN YouTube stream on my PS3 instead.

Re: Microsoft Press Conference - 5:30pm today! (pre-show @ 5

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:30 pm
by KK
cooldawn wrote:Hmmm...although Gamespot has been pretty good for the last few years I'm now wondering if it's worth trying the IGN YouTube stream on my PS3 instead.

I wish the PS3 was able to do YT vids in HD. The quality is never good enough for full screen. And when you move the cursor, things tend to stutter.

That's what I want announced for E3. A better web browser, because the one in the PS3 is beginning to struggle with the demands of the internet. It doesn't even work properly for Sony's own site FFS.