So E3 2012 has started today. You can watch the next conference live @ http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/ea-e3/ (EA) I actually missed the first conference which was Microsoft but I heard it was terrible, involved Microsoft forcing Kinect upon everyone and the games all were lackluster (apart from South Park). The notes I've put below I've compiled from various sources. Also, odds of Valve appearing are currently at nil. A handy chart if you need to know what's when in what timezone. Confirmed Conferences Microsoft (AIRED) EA (AIRED) Ubisoft (AIRED) Sony (6PM PT) Nintendo (June 5th, 9AM PT) Highlights General / Decent Highlights - Valve have announced the release date of CS:GO (21st August) and it will be priced at $15. It'll be available by Steam, PSN and XBLA. - Microsoft Smartglass announced - A new tablet - GTA V rumoured to come out in October, awaiting official announcement (if any) - Battlefield 3 Premium announced, available for $49.95 (£40) Microsoft highlights - South Park episodic games are going to be developed by Obsidian and Published by THQ. The first game will be the Stick of Truth ( http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6380101/e3-2012-south-park-the-stick-of-truth-official-trailer ) - Halo 4 announced - Microsoft Smartglass announced - A new tablet by Microsoft, designed to be your general home entertainment hub for controlling media devices or using it to watch / listen / use media. - A new Splinter Cell (SC:Blacklist) has been announced - even more actiony than the last game - John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden - New Gears of War and Forza - ESPN Announced for partnership with XBL, 24/7 sports - Xbox Music announced - a way to share music across their Xbox / tablet / phone platforms - More Kinect bullshit - IE 9 / 10 is coming to Xbox this year - New Tomb Raider - Usher performing terribly trying to promote the new dance game - Black Ops 2 - Everything else isnt worth mentioning EA highlights - CEO talking about how they keep developing even after you've bought and received the game - Dead Space 3 announced -- Dead Space 3 has ~new locations~ and ~new characters~ and will have drop in / out co-op -- The guys playing the game must be glad to have godmode on - John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden John Madden -- John Madden 13 now has runtime physics / ragdolls. -- Powered by Infinity Engine -- They bring Michael Irving on stage to talk about ~building American Football careers~ aka celebrity endorsement -- Leagues have been introduced which can have up to 32 players. The player can now be a player, manager and so on. -- You can retire at any point during the league and instantly create a new character and return to that point in the league. -- They've implemented a fake twitter feed for ~immersion~ -- Can manage your game / teams via your phone / tablets - Simcity social announced for Facebook - Allows you to share cities and the usual stuff -- They're constantly poking fun at farmville -- Coming out in a few weeks - Simcity 5 officially announced -- Uses a new engine called the "Glassbox engine" -- Supports Multiplayer -- Cities you create are all linked creating small econimoies -- Some lame thing to text to name "their first burger joint in game -- Godzilla confirmed to terrorize Japan - John makes a jab at Activision with the former owners of Infinity Ward - Battlefield 3 speakers come out -- Battlefield Premium announced -- Get access to a bunch of weapons and customization (20 weapons, no idea about the rest) -- You get access to all future DLC (5) -- Available for $49.95 (which admittedly isn't too bad) - Speaker for SW:TOR Comes onto stage -- Currently stating stats clearly trying to show shareholders that it's somewhat decent -- Currently talking about a bunch of stuff they've done regarding some legacy system and events -- Talking about a new hardmode + stuff coming in patches -- New species announced but actual species unknown -- New Planet -- Other shit no one particularly cares about -- Game is F2P up to level 15 - Medal of Honour: Warfighter speaker walks on stage -- Gameplay feature about being in somalia attacking pirates -- If we hadn't known this was MoH, would have swore it was some BF3 addon -- Longest gameplay ever -- At least fire particles look nice -- Global Warfighters feature announced for Multiplayer -- Multiplayer trailer being shown -- Basically Bad Company 2.5 - EA Sports speaker has come onto the stage -- Announced Madden Social (Facebook game) -- NHL Has a new skating engine -- Stuff regarding football is currently being shown -- Talking about live challenges replicating matches that happen in the real world -- 4 rather eh features -- Fifa 13 (obviously) announced -- Other useless fifa features -- Fifa 13 game trailer - UFC President walks onto stage -- New Franchise announced and partnership between EA Sports and UFC -- Nothing else otherwise - Need for Speed trailer is now playing -- Need for Speed: Most Wanted announced -- Powered by yet another engine which also basically has a stupidly indepth scoreboards -- Longest trailer ever -- Launching October 30th - Crysis 3 announced -- Currently playing ingame footage -- No other details other than coming out in Feb 2013. - Closing statement -- That's a wrap for EA. Ubisoft highlights - Started 4 minutes late - Bad opening intro, think they're trying to rival Usher for worst E3 performance - Hostess isn't as bad as Mr Caffeine - That faggot tobuscus is co-hosting via webcam - Hostess fucks up whilst talking, no one laughs - Farcry 3 announced, near nude cgi woman is now in the trailer -- Now live gameplay trailer -- Farcry 3 "coming soon" -- More feeling up of tribal woman - Now talking about Tom Calancy -- Splinter Cell CGI trailer -- Splinter Cell:Blacklist re-announced - Hostess apparently is getting "Girl Wood" - And Marvel Avengers has been announced -- Playing trailer -- So Tobuscus apparantly got girlwood as well. faget - Now talking about the Wii-u - Rayman confirmed for Wii-u -- Currently demoing it on the Wii-u dev prototype -- Demo over thankfully - For whatever reason they have some country guy slowly singing God Save the Queen -- ZombiU announced for the Wii-u. Set in London, no other info - Ubisoft CGI trailer regarding the Wii-u and some of the upcoming titles for it - Assasins Creed 3 revealed -- CGI Trailer is now playing -- GUD BLUSS AMURICUH -- Trailer over and a fair bit of cheering -- AC3 Producer is now on stage -- AC3 Game trailer is now on screen -- Trailer finally over -- Tobuscus still dumbly asking "fan" aka preset questions - They're now talking about e-sports.. -- Worst scripted thing between tobuscus and hostess -- And they've brought out world winner grrrrl gamers of CS:S -- And for the boys, Swifty (idiot) and two world champs at CS:S -- The game they're playing is Shootmania, from the guys of Trackmania. -- Guys win, game is pretty fucking shit -- Game is Free to play - Ubisoft Worlds Online announced -- Basically this is the F2P Hub with leaderboards. -- Games displayed so far look like glorified flash games - Ubisoft CEO walks onto stage about to showcase something -- So a developer walks on stage talking about a game -- Now having ingame footage, -- Appears to be a game where it's basically GTA Minus cars where you play a creepy stalker that learns about people online and then does something about them -- This game is pretty much one tier off becoming rape simulator 2012 -- So the main character shoots guns like no issue. -- Also involves car. Yep, GTA rape simulator -- New IP is called Watch_Dogs - Conference Over Sony Highlights - Various intros are playing -- Clips of Portal 2 and CS:GO have appeared in the trailer -- Ceelo is singing - Jack Tretton has walked onto the stage -- Mostly useless stuff, good PR stuff etc -- Sony announcing new IP from the guys that made Heavy Rain -- New IP is called Beyond -- Ellen page will be involved with this project -- Currently showing a CGI Intro for the game -- Full game is called Beyond - Two Souls - Jack is back - Playstation Allstars Battle Royale has been announced. -- Involved the characters that are PS exclusive -- Allstars will be available for the Vita and cross compat. with the PS3. -- They're now demoing it with cross compat. (4 players, 2 on PS3, 2 on Vita) -- The game is basically Super Smash Bros. Melee / Brawl with PS characters -- That segment is over, playing that "gamers are awesome" thing -- Big Daddy / Little whatsherface is also in this - Talking about Playstation Features -- Including Playstation Plus -- Yada yada value -- Playstation plus is now giving everyone who has plus games various games for free (US ONLY) -- PS 1 classics will be available -- Activision is partnering with Sony to put CoD on the PS Vita - Assassins Creed is now being showcased for the Vita -- Contains the first ever female assassin -- The Vita and PS3 versions can be linked to unlock a few things -- Crystal White Vita is being released is being released with this version of AC3. -- Stuff about AC being at sea and stuff - Farcry 3 speaker is now coming out -- 4 Player co-op has been announced -- Currently playing live 4 player ingame footage -- FC stuff over - Now announcing the President & CEO of Sony America -- Thanking PS fans globally -- Introducing a new booklike product
John Madden everywhere. But that's the EA conference wrapped up. I'll continue highlighting all of the stuff from the other conferences as well.
Minor correction: Halo 4 was already previously announced. Watch Dogs looks like it could be pretty good, assuming Ubisoft doesn't screw it up with its usual bullshit, and I'm fairly excited about Assassin's Creed 3. Also:
Suddenly, Gabe walks out with a smile on his face. Episode 3 full release, out today. No forewarning or marketing, or anything. All 5 teaser trailers and two full trailers are simultaneously released. Episode 3 only costs $20, $15 if you have the previous Half Life games. News media outlets are dominated by Episode 3 for a full 48 hour period. People rush out to buy Episode 3 on Steam, the amount of demand causing strain on Steam's servers and causing all downloads in non-Asian regions to slow to a crawl. Critics rave about its newly innovative gameplay and 20 hour long campaign. PC Gamer notes that "Valve's done it again". Metacritic rating averages, both from users and reviewers, are in the 95-100 score range. The critical sales success causes many companies to rethink their business strategies, bringing a genesis of good business practices and innovative and fun games. ... One can wish, right?
Been watching it since it started. Also Valve is on the vendor list, rumor has it that HL3 was announced officially. I've seen articles "hinting" at it from gabe, but we all know how much of a troll gabe really is.
I believe that they stated previously that they're not debuting anything big this year. I refuse to believe that, however. [denial] E3 IS SECRETLY AN ELABORATE ARG LEADING UP TO EP3 [/denial]
I don't think so. They don't have their own conference and nowhere has any information on it. Valve only have a booth and they've been showcasing Dota 2 / CS:GO there. If anything they'll be part of the Sony presentation at this rate.
[video=youtube;cByzDM18oNQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cByzDM18oNQ[/video] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Entertainment_Expo_2012 Wikipedia has a good list of what to expect...the list has actually doubled in size since E3 began.