Archive for June, 2009
Wii Sports Resort E3 Trailer
Sports stars in Tron hit the Resort, with Wii Motion Plus!
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Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box E3
While absent from the Press Conference, the follow up to Professor Layton and the Curious Village will be coming our way this August!
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Bit.Trip Core E3 2009 Trailer
Core looks far more difficult than the already super hard Beat. Regardless, I’ll be there day one.
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Liveblogging the Sony E3 2009 Media Briefing
The final Press Conference of the Big Three. There is supposedly big hardware announcement from Sony, so lets see what they have!
2:08pm: Show seems to be starting.
2:10pm: Interesting reel to introduce the thing. They’re actually showing a reel of games. None of the other 3 did that…
2:13pm: Jack Tretton takes the stage. Making jokes about leaks. 364 games coming on Playstation Platforms. Sales data.
2:17pm: PS2 is getting 100 new titles. 22 Million PS3s sold last year. Expanding into even more countries. That’s good. 24 million users on Playstation Network.
2:21pm: Evan Wells co-founder of Naughty Dog takes the stage to demo Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Multiplayer beta at midnight tonight. Single player demo shown. Scale looks immense.
2:26pm: MAG demo. 256 player demo. That’s shocking. Showing objective based game types. Will be running live on the showfloor. Coming this fall
2:32pm: PSP time. Going after Teen and Tween Girls. Hannah Montana Bundle (crowd cheers).
2:34pm: Kaz Hirai takes the stage. Sony asked many people around the world how to make the PSP better. Next step in PSP evolution. PSP Go announced. “First we call it the worst kept secret of E3, but we also call it the PSP Go!” Size built for Digital Consumer. 50% smaller, 40% lighter. 16gb internal memory. Built in Wi-Fi. Download titles. They’re launching a PC PSN launcher called Media Go. Sense Me analyzes your music, and makes playlists. Development tools become 80% cheaper. PSP Go will be available for 249.99 October 1st.
2:42pm: Father of Gran Turismo Kazunorui Yamauchi takes the stage to announce Gran Turismo PSP. Runs at 60 Frames Per Second. Full featured. 800 cars. 35 tracks, 60 layout variations of those tracks. 4 player Ad-hoc racing. Trailer. October 1st.
2:49pm: Hideo Kojima takes the stage. Snake is coming back to PSP. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Setting is 10 years after Metal Gear Solid 3 (in the 1970s). True sequel. Kojima is writing the script and directing. MGS4 team will be working on it. Trailer time. Real footage of a nuke going off. Quotes of world leaders. Snake just took his shirt off. Sneaking. The “Missing Link” in the Metal Gear series. Neat, he just tied a balloon to a sleeping guy, sending hem into the air. 4 Snakes? 2010.
2:57pm: Jack is back on stage. Ooooh Resident Evil Portable. Little Big Planet PSP. New Jak and Daxter, Motorstorm PSP, New Socom PSP, Monster Hunter, Tiger Woords. Pixeljunk, Madden, Fat Princess. Star Wars something, Petz.
3:05pm: Talking about Home. 6.5 Million people Worldwide. 100 virtual items a month. Video to show Home growth. Transition into PS3 content.
3:08pm: PS3 Montage. Uncharted 2, Infamous, Madden, Final Fantasy XIII, MAG, Batman, Brutal Legend, White Knight Chronicles, Ghostbusters, Ninja Gaiden 2, Mafia 2, Buzz, Saw, Tekken, Tiger Woods, Dark Void, Heavy Rain, Battlefield 1943, PSN titles. Queen Singstar, DC MMO, God of War 3.
3:13pm: Rockstar Exclusive PS3 title: Agent. Espionage in the 1970s! Rad.
3:14pm: Assassins Creed II demo. Desmond is back. Italian Renaissance. Night-time lighting looks beautiful. Ooooh. The Flying machine looks amazing as well. Exclusive weapons if you connect to the PSP title. Game is massive. Assassins Creed 2 comes out this Holiday.
3:22pm: New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer. English voices. Huge over worlds.
3:25pm: Final Fantasy XIV (14)? Uh… Oh. It’s Online. Sequel to FFXI (11).
3:27pm: Dr. Richard Marks and someone else take the stage to introduce Sony Motion Controller. It’s a wand. Sphere on the end can be tracked by Eyetoy. Looks kind of awkward. Strike that. Very Awkward. The Crowd laughs. Ruh-Roh. A laser whip. Hmm… Character control. A dead skeleton spawns and falls against character. This needs more time…
3:39pm: Little Big Planet data. Disney partnership with LBP!
3:41pm: ModNation Racers. Play/Create/Share in the racing genre. Build Characters, Cars. Looks to play similar to Mario Kart. Track creator looks very cool, and easy. 2010.
3:51pm: Yes! The Last Guardian by Team Ico. Project Trico. A graphical Updated look at the leaked trailer. This looks incredible.
3:56pm: Gran Turismo 5 Trailer.
3:58pm: God of War 3 demo. Looks like God of War. March 2010.
4:07pm: That’s
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Liveblogging the Nintendo E3 2009 Media Briefing
Microsoft showed their hand yesterday, unveiling their answer to motion controls. Let’s see how the originators of console motion controls responds!
12:01pm: Looks like things are getting started!
10:03pm: People looking happy fill the screen.
12:04pm: Cammie Dunaway takes the stage. She seems to be trying to imitate Reggie’s style of seriousness. No more snowboard stories from her is welcome. “Everyone’s Game”.
12:07pm: A person who’s sold 200 milltion games. Mario montage on screen. They were talking about surprise… New Mario?
12:08pm: Move into the 4th Dimension? Mr. Miyamoto thinking of one new way to play a new Mario game that’s never been possible before. New Super Mario Bros. for Wii. Bill Trinen from Treehouse takes the stage. More players… 4 player co-op all on one screen. You can pick things up to throw, including your friends. In unrelated news my chair just broke making me fall backward. Man… This was a good chair… Thought you should know. So there are propeller suits. Alright.
12:13pm: Will Launch worldwide this Holiday. Wii Fit talk. 15 million sold. Wii Fit Plus. 6 new Strength and Yoga moves. Make a continuous routine. 15 New Balance games. Juggling, Skateboarding, ‘Perfect 10′, Jumping like Mario.
12:17pm: Reggie comes out. Interface is important. Talking about Wii Motion Plus. The screen shows some sci-fi athletes in Tron. Wii Sports actually. Golf, Basketball, Archery, Ping Pong, Canoe, Frisbee, Sword-Fight, and maybe one more. They’re demoing it again. Oh cool. You start by jumping out of an airplane. This is kind of awesome. Archery.
12:28pm: Reggie and Bill Trinen are going to play Basketball. I wish I got fireworks when I made a basket in real life. Red Steel 2 is ONLY with Wii Motion Plus. Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers. Kingdom Hearts something over howmany days.
12:35pm: Mario and Luigi Bowser’s Inside Story for DS. It’s Mario & Luigi RPG 3 technically. This Fall.
12:37pm: Golden Sun DS. Makes a return after 6 years. The Crowd would have liked Mother/Earthbound more. There haven’t been many claps at all.
12:38pm: October 13th James Patterson Interactive Novel. Looks promising. I like these Interactive Novel things. Cop: The Recruit from Ubisoft. Gritty Open world Racing? Neat. Awesome. I can finally run my own boutique, and sell more than 10,000 Fashions, plus walk it out on the Runway with Style Savvy. Radical!
12:43pm: Flipnote Studio DSi coming this summer. Make a Flipbook. Mario vs. DK Minis March Again. Level editor. Downloadable June 8th. Warioware DIY. Design your own Microgames! Upload photos taken on DSi to Facebook. Interesting. Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks (Link on a Train). That didn’t get any claps either…
12:50pm: Satoru Iwata comes out on stage. An entirely different way of play? Wii Vitality Sensor. Uh… You put your finger in it, and it checks your pulse. I quite honestly can see no practical use for this in any form. It will relax you into sleep. Exactly what I want from my games.
1:00pm More Mario announcement. 2nd Full 3D mario on the same console. Super Mario Galaxy 2? Yoshi! This looks fun. Finally claps from the Audience.
1:04pm: Reggie knows we want more. Talks about 3rd party. The Conduit. Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles. Dead Space Extraction.
1:08pm: New Edgy Nintendo Game? Team Ninja? They’re still around? Project M presents. Metroid. Other M! 3Rd Person Mertroid. This is pretty awesome. 2010. Take you deeper into Samus’ Story.
1:12pm: That’s it. Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Wii Metroid, and Mario 4 Dead (4 player Co-op). They didn’t announce Trace Memory 2 for the America’s though, so it’s not a complete victory. Still good though.
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