Gametrailers has started off the pre-show feed, which will merge into the stream for the full conference airing live:
Full video feed:
http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/livefeed/microsoft
www.youtube.com/E3 (IGN cooperation)
Eurogamer live text feed:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/microsoft-e3-2010-conference-live-report
Neogaf thread with tonnes of other sources:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=398224
My live summary:
Conference has started! Looks like it's starting with Call of Duty: Black Ops. Treyarch guy on stage now, getting a live gameplay demo. Guy shoots a friendly, then fails to save a friendly, then lets himself get killed and skips ahead ("in the interest of time") to a section where a heli is to be captured. Heli is captured and flown around. Have to say it looks pretty good, graphically.
Dan takes the stage. Exclusive deal with Activision: all DLC and Maps will launch first on Xbox.
Quick note: the youtube.com/e3 stream is a slightly better view, showing a wider screen.
Dan points out that 360 is the best place to play the big three shooters, Gears Halo and Call of Duty.
- Next: Short intro about Kinect, and Hideo Kojima takes the stage! Is going to show some MGS Rising / Kinect stuff. With first gameplay to be shown. Introduces Shigenobu Matsujama (sp?) as his young producer. (He's only slightly better at English, but he is). It's going to be about cutting and taking (suits the metal ninja theme of this game). Raiden-Ninja cuts up big robot and extracts a set of power cells from it that he then destroys by squeezing it. Gameplay shows almost Double Dragon type fighting where the sword can actually cut through anything, environment, enemies, melons. Completely unclear what it has to do with Kinect though which is a shame.
- Phil Spencer, Microsoft Game Studios. Mentions some of the Microsoft exclusives (Fable 3, Crackdown 2), and Kinect. "From this point on, every game, demo and experience you will see is 360 Exclusive".
- CliffyB up next on the stage. Will show Gears 3, four player co-op. Starts to look a little like a certain other four player co-op game (I mean Lost Planet). I see some nice god rays. Otherwise, it's a veritable zoo out there. Some monster parts deflect bullets, Death Ray is unreliable and used externally. Looks like it could even work as 8 player coop, seeing a lot of characters. New mode announced called 'Beast', will be shown during this week.
- Peter Molyneux up next. Ha ha, there's a sort of circular world map that looks a tonne like Populous. The rest looks much like Fable 2 though.
- New partner game announced, uses Crytek engine: Codename: Kingdoms. Looks nice but no gameplay shown.
- Halo up next. Full series sold 34 million so far. 2.7 million people played the Reach beta. World premiere of the Campaign, game ships this september. Clearly co-op oriented again. Covenant drops from the air in capsules, futuristic landscapes, lots of spacecraft, and fairly old school hard rock in the background. Going inside a base under attack, more extended melee moves (yeah, much like Killzone), boarding a shuttle like craft that is launched vertically, seems to be leaving the atmosphere, and now suddenly you're playing a space shooter!
- Marc Whitten up next, to talk about Xbox Live. Kinect (he pronounces it connect) takes interaction to the next level, revolution for games and everything else.
Signing in: Wave, recognises you. Wave again, you're logged in, and get a shortcut-type special Kinect menu that can be easily controlled without a controller. Voice control is in, you activate it by saying 'Xbox', then the name of the item on the menu (names are shown after 'Xbox'). He says 'Zune', and holds his hand over Alice in Wonderland (much like old Eyetoy games), and then shows going to his favorite scene. 'Xbox Pause" pauses the game, "Xbox Play' resumes, 'Xbox Stop'. Xbox Play music plays music straight up, shows skipping songs. 7 Million songs available on Zune right now.
Same interfacing available for all the other stuff (last fm, netflix, etc.). Live will come to Windows Mobile 7 too.
Time for some completely new experiences.
- Video Kinect: using a hot lisping girl to show video kinect (smart). Shows mix of Xbox Live and Messenger friends. She has a twin in Texas, with which she's going to demo this. Names Lollip0p and Velveteen ... ? Straight from here you can start watching films together in a screen in the middle. You can watch all sorts of stuff together ... Kinect video tracks you with webcam. 'Xbox End Chat' ends the chat.
- Kinect also available on Windows.
- ESPN on 360 next. Skips to a TV type stuff, Josh Eliot and Trey Wingo on stage (sorry if I mess up names). College Football, Basketball, Soccer (thanks Greene), and more, most of them in HD, something like 3500 events shown next season. Everything voice controlled. "Xbox Replay", real-time polls, trivia and other stuff. ESPN scores and stuff that you can access while watching other stuff (looks much like internet TV). Available to Gold members at no extra cost.
- Sunglasses guy is back (shame, he looked better without last time - he sounds so unfriendly and bored!). Six Kinect launch games coming up:
1. Kinectimals. Voice controls, petting, show and tell, hide and seek, quite nice actually. Can go get a toy, a jump rope. Good!
2. Sports. Manipulates the audience with a Wave, lets fireworks going on, lets them cheer for him and stop, and start again. Showing hurdles next. They fake a close finish, shows a replay. Sunglasses guy calls it a Track and Field type game (that's not a good recommendation for me
it looks good though). Showing trailer next, a soccer game, bowling, javelin, table tennis (!), boxing, beach volleyball.
3. Kinect Joyride: controls like the Burnout demo. Boost by stretching, drift I missed (looks like leaning out with the hip). Stunts. Five unique gameplay modes, including stunt mode.
4. Kinect Adventures: Reflect Ridge ... shows dynamic split-screen, shows some dynamic action fotos, raft is up next, two girls playing 'River Rush'. You can post these pictures to facebook and so on.
5. Trailer for fitness game 'YourShape' by Ubisoft. It actually shows some of my gaming fantasies as a trailer (not real gameplay), that will work the way I'm hoping it once things are using 3D glasses. Now on-stage demo: in a virtual world menu, it actually modelled her sweater and whole body. Body is scanning you, checking your various muscles. Menus follow your body, and it automatically calibrates at this time. Knee up exercise shown, has clock, calories burnt, coach instructions, Lag looks bad, though not as bad as I thought for a movement because the image is actually mirrored behind the demo player. Combat training next, which is more like a game. Next Taichi, which works pretty nicely by showing certain tracked muscles. Shows a lot of promise.
6. Harmonix up next, with Dance Central. Looks great, definitely the game for me. Lag looks to be no big issue at the moment. More than 600 moves and 90 routines. Designed to work for all levels, and has a learn mode as well, called 'break it down' mode. They brought out a nerd for this to show that it's really accessible for anyone. Two players added in the background while he is playing ...
Phil back on stage, wrapping it up. Launching in North America on November 4th, with 15 launch titles, and world-wide before the holidays.
Finally, the Lucasarts game, showing 'actual, controller free gameplay'. Some deflecting laser shots, hacking storm troopers, force stuff, etc.
- Dan Greenawalt and Forza 3 up next. Supports full Kinect, including steering, looking around, has a new gamemode that has a long line of increasingly faster cars. They're heavily into the new Ferrari. You can use Kinect to investigate teh car, touch bits of the car to get more info, walk/lean around, kneel down to look at the brakes, lean/walk to the back and look at the engine, open the door and get in, close the door, look around the dashboard, touch information points and such. Looks pretty nice, coming 2011.
Don Mattrick on stage. Celebrates 10 years of Xbox, and says this is the biggest year for Xbox. Pulls an old fover off an Xbox slim. 250GB harddrive, built-in WiFi 802.11N, completely as it was leaked on the Italian site, same price. Shipping to retailers today, available later this week, and free for everyone in the audience shipping to them today. The audience seems to like that.
SHOW OVER
Full video feed:
http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/livefeed/microsoft
www.youtube.com/E3 (IGN cooperation)
Eurogamer live text feed:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/microsoft-e3-2010-conference-live-report
Neogaf thread with tonnes of other sources:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=398224
My live summary:
Conference has started! Looks like it's starting with Call of Duty: Black Ops. Treyarch guy on stage now, getting a live gameplay demo. Guy shoots a friendly, then fails to save a friendly, then lets himself get killed and skips ahead ("in the interest of time") to a section where a heli is to be captured. Heli is captured and flown around. Have to say it looks pretty good, graphically.
Dan takes the stage. Exclusive deal with Activision: all DLC and Maps will launch first on Xbox.
Quick note: the youtube.com/e3 stream is a slightly better view, showing a wider screen.
Dan points out that 360 is the best place to play the big three shooters, Gears Halo and Call of Duty.
- Next: Short intro about Kinect, and Hideo Kojima takes the stage! Is going to show some MGS Rising / Kinect stuff. With first gameplay to be shown. Introduces Shigenobu Matsujama (sp?) as his young producer. (He's only slightly better at English, but he is). It's going to be about cutting and taking (suits the metal ninja theme of this game). Raiden-Ninja cuts up big robot and extracts a set of power cells from it that he then destroys by squeezing it. Gameplay shows almost Double Dragon type fighting where the sword can actually cut through anything, environment, enemies, melons. Completely unclear what it has to do with Kinect though which is a shame.
- Phil Spencer, Microsoft Game Studios. Mentions some of the Microsoft exclusives (Fable 3, Crackdown 2), and Kinect. "From this point on, every game, demo and experience you will see is 360 Exclusive".
- CliffyB up next on the stage. Will show Gears 3, four player co-op. Starts to look a little like a certain other four player co-op game (I mean Lost Planet). I see some nice god rays. Otherwise, it's a veritable zoo out there. Some monster parts deflect bullets, Death Ray is unreliable and used externally. Looks like it could even work as 8 player coop, seeing a lot of characters. New mode announced called 'Beast', will be shown during this week.
- Peter Molyneux up next. Ha ha, there's a sort of circular world map that looks a tonne like Populous. The rest looks much like Fable 2 though.
- New partner game announced, uses Crytek engine: Codename: Kingdoms. Looks nice but no gameplay shown.
- Halo up next. Full series sold 34 million so far. 2.7 million people played the Reach beta. World premiere of the Campaign, game ships this september. Clearly co-op oriented again. Covenant drops from the air in capsules, futuristic landscapes, lots of spacecraft, and fairly old school hard rock in the background. Going inside a base under attack, more extended melee moves (yeah, much like Killzone), boarding a shuttle like craft that is launched vertically, seems to be leaving the atmosphere, and now suddenly you're playing a space shooter!
- Marc Whitten up next, to talk about Xbox Live. Kinect (he pronounces it connect) takes interaction to the next level, revolution for games and everything else.
Signing in: Wave, recognises you. Wave again, you're logged in, and get a shortcut-type special Kinect menu that can be easily controlled without a controller. Voice control is in, you activate it by saying 'Xbox', then the name of the item on the menu (names are shown after 'Xbox'). He says 'Zune', and holds his hand over Alice in Wonderland (much like old Eyetoy games), and then shows going to his favorite scene. 'Xbox Pause" pauses the game, "Xbox Play' resumes, 'Xbox Stop'. Xbox Play music plays music straight up, shows skipping songs. 7 Million songs available on Zune right now.
Same interfacing available for all the other stuff (last fm, netflix, etc.). Live will come to Windows Mobile 7 too.
Time for some completely new experiences.
- Video Kinect: using a hot lisping girl to show video kinect (smart). Shows mix of Xbox Live and Messenger friends. She has a twin in Texas, with which she's going to demo this. Names Lollip0p and Velveteen ... ? Straight from here you can start watching films together in a screen in the middle. You can watch all sorts of stuff together ... Kinect video tracks you with webcam. 'Xbox End Chat' ends the chat.
- Kinect also available on Windows.
- ESPN on 360 next. Skips to a TV type stuff, Josh Eliot and Trey Wingo on stage (sorry if I mess up names). College Football, Basketball, Soccer (thanks Greene), and more, most of them in HD, something like 3500 events shown next season. Everything voice controlled. "Xbox Replay", real-time polls, trivia and other stuff. ESPN scores and stuff that you can access while watching other stuff (looks much like internet TV). Available to Gold members at no extra cost.
- Sunglasses guy is back (shame, he looked better without last time - he sounds so unfriendly and bored!). Six Kinect launch games coming up:
1. Kinectimals. Voice controls, petting, show and tell, hide and seek, quite nice actually. Can go get a toy, a jump rope. Good!
2. Sports. Manipulates the audience with a Wave, lets fireworks going on, lets them cheer for him and stop, and start again. Showing hurdles next. They fake a close finish, shows a replay. Sunglasses guy calls it a Track and Field type game (that's not a good recommendation for me
it looks good though). Showing trailer next, a soccer game, bowling, javelin, table tennis (!), boxing, beach volleyball. 3. Kinect Joyride: controls like the Burnout demo. Boost by stretching, drift I missed (looks like leaning out with the hip). Stunts. Five unique gameplay modes, including stunt mode.
4. Kinect Adventures: Reflect Ridge ... shows dynamic split-screen, shows some dynamic action fotos, raft is up next, two girls playing 'River Rush'. You can post these pictures to facebook and so on.
5. Trailer for fitness game 'YourShape' by Ubisoft. It actually shows some of my gaming fantasies as a trailer (not real gameplay), that will work the way I'm hoping it once things are using 3D glasses. Now on-stage demo: in a virtual world menu, it actually modelled her sweater and whole body. Body is scanning you, checking your various muscles. Menus follow your body, and it automatically calibrates at this time. Knee up exercise shown, has clock, calories burnt, coach instructions, Lag looks bad, though not as bad as I thought for a movement because the image is actually mirrored behind the demo player. Combat training next, which is more like a game. Next Taichi, which works pretty nicely by showing certain tracked muscles. Shows a lot of promise.
6. Harmonix up next, with Dance Central. Looks great, definitely the game for me. Lag looks to be no big issue at the moment. More than 600 moves and 90 routines. Designed to work for all levels, and has a learn mode as well, called 'break it down' mode. They brought out a nerd for this to show that it's really accessible for anyone. Two players added in the background while he is playing ...
Phil back on stage, wrapping it up. Launching in North America on November 4th, with 15 launch titles, and world-wide before the holidays.
Finally, the Lucasarts game, showing 'actual, controller free gameplay'. Some deflecting laser shots, hacking storm troopers, force stuff, etc.
- Dan Greenawalt and Forza 3 up next. Supports full Kinect, including steering, looking around, has a new gamemode that has a long line of increasingly faster cars. They're heavily into the new Ferrari. You can use Kinect to investigate teh car, touch bits of the car to get more info, walk/lean around, kneel down to look at the brakes, lean/walk to the back and look at the engine, open the door and get in, close the door, look around the dashboard, touch information points and such. Looks pretty nice, coming 2011.
Don Mattrick on stage. Celebrates 10 years of Xbox, and says this is the biggest year for Xbox. Pulls an old fover off an Xbox slim. 250GB harddrive, built-in WiFi 802.11N, completely as it was leaked on the Italian site, same price. Shipping to retailers today, available later this week, and free for everyone in the audience shipping to them today. The audience seems to like that.
SHOW OVER
