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E3 2012: Gentlemen start your hype engines
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The official start is June 5 but like every year, most of the major ones occur a day earlier with the whole thing lasting from June 4-7. Major Press Conferences (all times Pacific): May 31, 2012 Konami - 10:30PMJune 4, 2012 Microsoft - 9:30 AM Electronic Arts - 1:00 PM Ubisoft - 3:00 PM Sony - 6:00 PMJune 5, 2012 Nintendo - 9:00 AM___________________________________________________________ Microsoft's Press Conference Highlights: * Halo 4 shown off. Takes place about 4 years after end of Halo 3. Prometheans new main villains. Nov. 6, 2012 release date. * Splinter Cell Black List official debut. Similar to classic Splinter Cell games and takes places in the Middle East. Kinect voice commands new feature. Spring 2013 release date. * EA to add Kinect controls to Madden and FIFA starting this year. * New Forza debuted called Forza Horizon. * New Gears of War officially debuts called Gears of War Judgement. 2013 release date. * Microsoft pushing for connectivity similar to Nintendo's plan for the Wii U called "SmartGlass." * New details on South Park RPG game. March 5, 2013 release date. * Reboot of Lara Croft shown off and 1st DLC pack is a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360. * Resident Evil 6 shown off and 1st gameplay demo revealed. 1st DLC also time exclusive for the Xbox 360. * Black Ops 2 official E3 debut and gameplay footage shown. Continues tradition of timed exclusives for DLC on Xbox 360. Sony's Press Conference Highlights: * Official E3 real-time demo and debut of Beyond from the makers of Heavy Rain. Storyline takes place over a period of 15 years. * Official E3 debut of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. Smash-Bros type game, Vita version announced, cross-play compatibility confirmed. Big Daddy confirmed as a 3rd party character. Vita version will use touch controls. * Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified announced for PS Vita. Fall 2012 release date. * Assassin's Creed spinoff called "Assassin's Creed III Liberation" announced for PS Vita. Female assassin as the main playable character. Cross-connectivity items between PS3 and PS Vita versions and October 2012 release date. * Sports Champion 2 for the Move revealed. *New IP called "Wonderbooks" shown off. PS Move interactive series of books with a Harry Potter-related book being the first available. * God of War Ascension footage revealed and shown off. March 12 2013 release date. * The Last of Us footage shown off. Nintendo's Press Conference Highlights: * Pikim 3 official E3 debut for the Wii U. Rock type Pikmin as a new character. Challenge Mode revealed, multiple control options. * New Super Mario Bros U official E3 debut. Squirrel suit and Baby Yoshis with different abilities as new features. 4-players possible at the same time. * Batman Arkham City: Armored edition Wii U version confirmed and shown off. "Bat" mode is a Wii U exclusive feature. * Scribblenauts Unlimited officially revealed for the Wii U. Plays similar to the handheld versions in the series. Multiplayer, shareable user creations, ability to create objects as new features. * Mass Effect 3, Tekken Tag Journey 2, Tank Tank Tank, Darksiders II, Trine 2, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge, Asassin's Creed 3 Wii U games confirmed. * Wii Fit U officially revealed. Gamepad compatible. * Luigi Mansion 3DS, Paper Mario Sticker Stars, and New Super Mario Bros 2, Castlevania Mirror of Fate, Epic Mickey, Kingdom Hearts 3D, and Scribblenauts Unlimited officially announced or shown off for the 3DS. * Lego City officially revealed for the Wii U. Open-world type game involving Lego characters. * ZombiU shown off. Tablet acts like a sonar and inventory device, first person zombie shooter game, motion controls. Gamepad controls switch to 3rd person view. * Nintendo Land officially revealed. Mini-games set in a theme park using Nintendo and Mii characters. Launch pack title for the Wii U. |
Hoping to see mirrors edge 2, as well as darkstalkers 4.
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Konami's Press Conference Highlights:
* Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2 debut trailer * This year's Pro Evolution Soccer will use the Fox engine from Hideo Kojima studio. * Official E3 trailer for Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. * Castlevania Mirror of Faith will officially debut on June 5th. * Zone of the Enders HD set officially revealed.________________________________________________________________________ Electronic Art's Press Conference Highlights: * Dead Space 3 officially debut with co-op and icy world setting confirmed. February 2013 release date. * Annual Madden and FIFA shown with Madden 13 having a new Infinity physics engine and FIFA 13 having gameplay changes. * New Sim City game shown off called "Sim City Online" for Facebook and another Sim City game set for consoles. February 2013 release date. * Battlefield Premium confirmed as a "CoD Elite" like subscription for Battlefield 3. * New PvP battles and difficulty arriving for Star Wars The Old Republic MMO. Free version capped at Level 15 and arrives in July. * Medal of Honor Warfighter official E3 debut. 12 different "Tier One" groups playable in multiplayer. October 23rd release date. * EA now has the UFC license * Crysis 3 official E3 debut. February 2013 release date.________________________________________________________________________ Ubisoft's Press Conference Highlights: * Far Cry 3 official E3 debut shown. Huge gameplay world with lots of exploration possible. * More Splinter Cell Blacklist revealed. Co-op and Spy vs Mercs confirmed. * The Avengers game officially revealed and is called "Avengers: Battle for Earth" involving other Marvel heroes and villains. * Rayman Legends E3 debut and shown off for Wii U. Wii U Pro controller confirmed to be useable in the Wii U version. * Wii U exclusive M-rated Zombie shooter revealed called "ZombiU." Previously called Killer Freaks before the change to zombies. * New Rabbids game called "Rabbids Land", Just Dance 4, a sports game, and Assassin's Creed 3 all confirmed for Wii U. * Assassin's Creed 3 official E3 trailer and gameplay shown off. * Shoot Mania revealed and meant as an e-Sport type game. Online first person team shooter. * New IP show off called "Watch_Dogs." Open-world type game set in New York based on the idea of anyone and anything can be hacked for data. Multiple playable characters it appears from the demo.____________________________________________________________________________ Highlights from Nintendo's pre-E3 Direct: * New controller was announced called the Wii U Pro and its similar to the Xbox 360 controller and Classic Pro controller. * The tablet controller has been redesigned to offer more comfort when holding especially the back grips * Miis now act very similar to the friends list on Xbox Live where you can talk and see what others are doing * Miis also will appear in a lot more games now but players have the option to disable them for certain games or when they feel like it. * Heavy emphasis on "social media" and interaction to go along with a huge rehaul of the online system as part of the huge emphasis on the new Nintendo Network__________________________________________________________ Highlights from Nintendo's 3DS conference show: * |
Valve, give me something with a 3 you fucks! L4D3, HL3, Episode 3.
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Will be helping as usual. Epic copy-pasta ahead. Will probably tab all hi-res pics by default since this time of year gets media heavy and pages will load like snails.
Hope we get a lot of WiiU info this year, as well as this Nintendo Network. Bungies new game would be nice. |
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Also, I'd love to hear news on TimeSplitters 4, but I know I've got more chance of winning the lottery, than that happening. |
Timesplitters 4 was officially canceled a few weeks ago I believe. Well "not in development" anyway.
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Also looking forward to Fifa 13, and hopefully some info on the new splinter cell.
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Not actually hyped for E3 at all, which could be a good thing. Was pretty pumped going into the last two years and they disappointed for the most part. Might be pleasantly surprised here. |
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Kalyx, keep me posted on the good shit. You pretty much know what games I like to play so. Rep will be headed your way a lot in here. Smelly Meatball as well. |
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No idea what I'm hoping for. Whatever, really. I can't say I have a wishlist or anything. I'm hoping someone can post links to live feeds, when they get set up and stuff. Nintendo and MS usually do streams from their sites. Just have to wait for them to put the page up. |
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see TimeSplitters 4. But I don't think it'll happen anytime soon :'(
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Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2 confirmed to be getting its debut at this year's E3.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...shadow-sequel/ Sony currently rumored to be adding in a new streaming and cloud gaming service for the PS3 and upcoming PS4 with an official announcement occurring at E3. Its expected to be a partnership with Gaikai or OnLive to provide the service. http://n4g.com/news/1003520/rumour-s...ing-deal-at-e3 |
Nice. Lords of Shadow was a fantastic game and got left on a cliffhanger.
Hope they get the voice cast back for a 2nd go around. |
Jet Set Radio is getting a PS Vita version and will be shown off at E3 by Sega.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ystation-vita/ A new Harry Potter game for Kinect was confirmed and will be shown at E3. http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ect-announced/ The title screen and some footage for the E3 demo of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was discovered as an Easter Egg in the game's website. http://www.screwattack.com/news/meta...een-shown-what Capcom teases they are planning a huge announcement for E3 and it involves the same team who worked on Street Fighter X Tekken. http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ases-e3-plans/ A new Star Wars game confirmed to debut at E3 with a teaser being shown on May 29 and primarily is about Bobba Fett. http://www.spike.com/press/2012/05/2...ame-franchise/ |
Early rumors about Darkstalkers 4 said it would use a modified SFxT engine.
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Hope the Boba Fett game is good. Bounty Hunter was pretty decent back in the day.
Just wish they'd finish Battlefront 3 already. No idea why they seemingly don't want to capitalize on one of the best selling star wars games of all time. |
Blame Lucas Arts since according to Free Radical, the management for the studio is basically incompetent and forced both the project to be canned and the company itself had to restructure itself just so it wouldn't collapse from its own stupidity at the time.
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Battlefront 2 was Jesus.
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Yeah it was, but being on PS2, I only ever played offline. Would love to Tie Bomber some real life players. Plus, that ground to space transition in the cancelled version was fucking sick.
Guess I'll have to get by with that EVE MMO shooter that's coming out. |
If you see Battlefront 2 on a Steam sale, grab it. The servers are still pretty damn busy and it works fine in Windows 7.
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And don't get your hopes too high about that EVE FPS. The devs have a reputation for promising the world and delivering an ice cream sundae.
Sure, an ice cream sundae is delightful, BUT THEY SAID YOU COULD HAVE THE WORLD. |
I played it online only a few times. It was pretty cool, especially the space battles (my favorite portion). It's my favorite Star Wars game.
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Must be pretty sweet on PC, with the 64 player battles.
Still don't know why today's consoles can't replicate that, especially with shit like MAG out there. |
They could if they wanted, but it's lower down on the priorities behind making it look as flashy as possible so then the consoles can't handle all those detailed models on screen at once.
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MAG looks pretty damn good, and it has up to 256 player battles.
Best is when the DLC came out and you could have 3 factions at once in one battle. Highly underrated game. Does need more vehicles though. |
No Bungie nor anything about their "Destiny" project will occur at E3.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/bung...3-its-presence |
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http://i.imgur.com/Gqjt6.jpg
Saw it on Reddit. Hoping that posting it will stop it from burning my retinas further. |
I can't stand Reggie.
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I like him. It's like a sausage was left in the fridge too long and gained sentience.
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Another Need for Speed game is getting the remake treatment as Need for Speed: Most Wanted is getting a remake announced for E3 according to EA. The weird thing is the game was released originally on the Xbox 360 (along with last gen consoles, mobile devices, and handhelds).
http://www.screwattack.com/news/need...itchtv-listing |
That's not weird at all these days.
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I loved Most Wanted, I hope they do it justice.
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Who made those and why?
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