The "new" E3 is this week with only 5000 people attending, no e3 babes, no million hardware companies and no over the top stands, it will be all about the games and the hardware they run on.
It will be interesting to see how the event pans out, while its a shame it will have lost its amazing look it could be a good thing and be about what it is supposed to be again
How it has changed: http://e3.gamespot.com/story.html?sid=6173765&pid=938257&tag=top_stories;title;0
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Press conference schedule:
Tuesday, July 10
Microsoft 8:30pm - 9:45pm
Wednesday, July 11
Nintendo 9:00am - 10:00am
Sony 11:30am - 12:30pm
Electronic Arts 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Activision 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Midway 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Konami 5:45pm - 6:45pm
Thursday, July 12
THQ 9:15am - 10:15am
Disney Interactive 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Ubisoft 10:30am - 11:30am
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Things to watch out for:
PS3
1. Heavenly Sword demo
2. Online and home stuff
3. Killzone 2 In some form
4. MSG4 And other MSG related things
5. God of War on the psp
6. Lair
7. Mercs 2
8. LittleBigPlanet
9. Devil May Cry 4 (I think this will be the one to go to 360 tbh)
10. Time Crisis 4
360
1. Halo 3
2. Mass Effect, release date?
3. Too Human
4. Even more live features, changes and content
5. GTA IV
6. Bioshock
7. CoD4
8. Assassins Creed
9. BioShock
Nintendo
1. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
2. SMB Galaxy
3. A new Punch Out
4. Online gaming plans
PC
1. Crysis
2. Fallout 3
3. The Witcher
4. Gears of War Pc version
5. Starcraft II
6. BioShock
Other stuff:
All the new controllers - 1st party
Fallout 3
Rock Band
The next sam fisher title
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
MMORPG
At least - Warhammer and conan
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Rumour mill
I think the biggest announcement that people think will happen is that metal gear solid will NOT be ps3 exclusive and be also coming to the xbox360 and if that deal has been done it will be a massive blow to Sony
There will be some form of Killzone demo, I should hope its not just a video again, but knowing Sony it will probably be video of in game graphics which will look amazing but not quite that of the first video but then when actual playable demos of it pop up it will look great but again not quite as good as the video.
Microsoft has already said an exclusive Sony only game will be coming to the 360 and everyone knowing tha the maker of MG will be leaving his company and sony only deal and rumoured to be going to work for Microsoft just like the Final Fantasy guy
PSP v2.0 may be reviled at the sony press conference
Mario Kart Could be shown off
I thought was allready general knowledge that MGS4 is not going to be PS3 exclusive.
I also wonder if they are showing off the Supreme Commander expasion pack.
Quote from: CypherI thought was allready general knowledge that MGS4 is not going to be PS3 exclusive.
I also wonder if they are showing off the Supreme Commander expasion pack.
Expansion pack probably not, been covered in another show recently and shown off, no, MGS4 has had nothing more then rumour, but the strong rumour of the creator going to MS has been around for about a year now and the fact he is not going to make any more
In your list where you say "9. Devil May Cry 4 (I think this will be the one to go to 360 tbh)" are you saying that this is the one you think MS has said was PS3 exclusive and is now coming to 360?
I ask this as DMC4 was anounced months ago to be multi-platform.
Quote from: TheMallratIn your list where you say "9. Devil May Cry 4 (I think this will be the one to go to 360 tbh)" are you saying that this is the one you think MS has said was PS3 exclusive and is now coming to 360?
I ask this as DMC4 was anounced months ago to be multi-platform.
Did not know that so it wont be that then, so looks to be metal gear then, that will drive the Sony Fan boys crazy and piss them off loads and Sony will be well hacked off as well
Cant wait to find out
Watch The microsoft Presentation:
http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html?tag=event_nav;live
Top news bits
Mass effect - November
PGR4 - Has BIKES, out in September
Golden Axe and Sonic are on xbox live NOW
Call of duty 4 was a playable demo, this looks really good, Very good graphics
http://www.charlieoscardelta.com/indexnew.php
There is an xbox beta you can sign up for
GTA - all the trailers were done on a 360 apparently
October 19th release date for Uk
Resident Evil 5 will come to the 360 and released next year
Assassins creed though, wow, so want my hand fixed as I want this game, this is going to be a really big game, will give some of the other wanted ones a run for their money
- November
Halo
They showed off some halo movie live concept video, the movie will look good if it goes in this style
(http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2007/191/halo360405_screen.jpg)
With Halo 3 there is a new Console - green and orange
No big Sony Game pinching announcement though
The new psp was a let down, people were expecting a better tuned control layout, hardrive and smaller
All they have done is made it lighter and a bit slimmer and added a digital video output port.
Sony laid claim to many exlusives but many they were just out right lying about them as a number are going to be multiformat
Unreal Torny 4 they said was Exclusive to ps3, they may have meant consoles becuase everyone knows it is coming to ps3, But oh wait, its coming to 360 next year, a little later but its supposed to look better on the 360 and more live features so taking longer.
They also added a small memory cache for the UMD which may increase performance.
Quote from: Deaths HeadThey also added a small memory cache for the UMD which may increase performance.
True, that and ther 333mhz games should be better but not for a bit
I think I will get god of war on the psp looks great