It's that time of year again, and time for the traditional E3 Keynote thread.
- The old thread said there was only going to be one thread. This is no longer true.
FyreWulff's suggestions for this year to keep things speedy:
- No gigantic GIF posting inline; please link
- No Youtube embedding (save that for the specific game threads)
Fyre will attempt to transcribe the keynote into the IRC room as usual, but if you want to do so yourself you are welcome to attempt it.
Companies
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Keynotes will be summarized in spoilers after the keynote occurs.
Microsoft
Monday, June 14th
10:00am PST 11:00am MST 12:00pm CST 1:00pm EST 8:00pm GMT
Keynote summary:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer
- Microsoft has temporary DLC exclusivity on CoD games from Activision
- Metal Gear Solid: Rising gameplay footage
- Gears of War 3 gameplay footage with 4 player co-op
- Halo Reach new footage of outer space battles
- Fable 3 trailer
- Crytek's Codename: Kingdoms
- ESPN sports coverage, free for Gold members
- Large focus on Kinect, featuring Kinect Sports, Kinect Adventures, Kinectimals - 15 games at launch
- Kinect fitness game from Ubisoft
- Kinect Dance Central from Harmonix
- Kinect Star Wars game trailer
- New Kinect 360 interface, motion/voice controlled browsing and movie watching
- No official price point for Kinect yet
- 360 "slim" version shown, same price as current models and shipped today
Post-conference discussion threadEA
Monday, June 14th
2pm PST 3pm MST 4pm CST 5pm EST 10pm GMT
Keynote summary:
- No detailed summary yet - Madden, Crysis, fitness game
Ubisoft
Monday, June 14th
5pm CST 6pm MST 7pm CST 8pm EST 12am GMT
Keynote summary:
This summary isn't quite in the right order.
- Child of Eden, unofficial Rez sequel from its original creator (360, PS3)
- Assassin's Creed showing multiple assassins
- Shaun White skateboarding game with real time "rail bending" (all consoles)
- Laser tag game - literally a standard laser tag toy with PC connectivity for stat tracking(?)
- Heart rate/vitality sensor peripheral, used in a controlled breathing game
- Retread of the Kinect fitness game from the Microsoft conference
- Ghost Recon gameplay
- Driver sequel gameplay and trailer
- Rabbids Travel In Time CG trailer
- 2D HD Rayman trailer (360, PS3)
- Project Dust
- TrackMania sequel including other genres - ShootMania and QuestMania
- Michael Jackson dance at the end, apparently game related though nothing was shown
Nintendo
Tuesday, June 15th
9am PST 10am MST 11am CST 12pm EST 5pm GMT
Keynote summary:
- Zelda Skyward Sword gameplay and trailer
- Mario Sports Mix trailer (basketball, hockey, volleyball etc.)
- Wii Party (similar to Mario Party)
- Just Dance 2 trailer
- Golden Sun Dark Sun trailer (DS)
- Goldeneye remake trailer
- Disney's Epic Mickey
- Kirby's Epic Yarn trailer
- Metroid Other M trailer
- Donkey Kong Returns trailer
- 3DS unveiled, analog nub, top screen wider and 3D
- 3D video capability, partnered with Disney and Dreamworks etc.
- 3D camera on the front
- Kid Icarus trailer (3DS)
- Lots of developers on board with 3DS
- Prospective titles revealed including Metal Gear and Kingdom Hearts
- closed with demos of 3DS and Zelda to the audience
Sony
Tuesday, June 15th
12pm PST 1pm MST 2pm CST 3pm EST 8pm GMTMicrosoft (NATAL)
Tuesday, June 15th (Broadcast on MTV)
12:30pm PST 1:30pm MST 2:30pm CST 3:30pm EST 8:30pm GMT
Event summary:
Was not as game related as many had thought. Attendees were given white ponchos with lights in the shoulders and were treated to a surreal jungle scene including a fake elephant/projector and a family on a couch suspended 50 feet in the air. Some Kinect trailers were shown.
Konami
Tuesday, June 15th
6pm PST 7pm MST 8pm CST 9pm EST 2am GMTStreams
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G4TV.com claims to be streaming most of them.
http://www.youtube.com/e3 <-- Youtube streaming. Not sure if it's actually going to use YT's servers or IGN's...
http://e3.nintendo.com/ <-- Nintendo's site for streaming their conference.
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Huh.
MS, take notes.
PSN : Bolthorn
Now IP? Good.
Cliché story? Less impressive.
Hang on, since when did two control systems require two full games?
The big glowing ball on the end of it.
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http://www.youtube.com/e3
That, and the way he is holding the glowy ball controller is the only difference. I mean, other than that, it looks like the black version of the Wii control to me.
The game itself actually looks like it could be alot of fun though.
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