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INTRODUCTION
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If you've ever been exhausted from scouring page after page to see what you missed when you come home from a long day at work, this will be your one stop shop for all the gaming news of the day.
The way it works is like this... every day at 4:00PM(EST) I'll come home and update the topic with the latest news of the day. Hopefully some other mods will enter their own stuff while I am at work, but there's no promises there.
Each entry will contain a short summary of the news and links to pictures, videos, press releases, etc where applicable.
If you see I miss major news, feel free to PM me the information and I'll update it into the post. After all, I am but one man.
Anyway, enjoy the show.
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CONFERENCE RECAP
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Thanks to Aselith for these links:
Microsoft: http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53259/mic...ference-video/
EA: http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53261/ea-...ference-video/
Sony: http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53264/son...ference-video/
Ubisoft: http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53262/ubi...ference-video/
Konami: http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53216/kon...ss-conference/
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SUMMARY
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MICROSOFT
360
● CDProjekt announces Witcher 2 coming to Xbox 360 Fall 2011.
● Konami announces MGS HD collection including MGS2 and MGS3. In Japan, Peacewalker will be sold separately. Elsewhere, Peacewalker will bincluded in the collection.
● Konami announces Zone of Enders HD collection including both games.
● Forza 4 Revealed: over 500 cars, completely re-done graphics engine and more. Releases October 11, 2011.
● Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sweet new footage.
● Insomniac reveals Overstrike, a new four-player co-op action game and the first Insomniac game to appear on 360 as well as PS3.
● Halo 4 announced! Watch the teaser trailer in HD here!
● Halo 1: CE developed by Saber Interactive and Certain Affinity. No separate MP component, Halo 1 maps are a Reach map pack. Switch between classic and new visuals in real time.
● Minecraft announced exclusively for 360. Utilizes Kinect.
● New Battlefield 3 Frostbite Engine trailer. Looks astounding.
● Check out the latest Mass Effect 3 gameplay video. Game also is now confirmed to use Kinect to 'augment' conversations.
● SSX has a new trailer showing its more tricky side. Check it out.
● Check out the CG Tomb Raider gore and shit video. At least I think it's Tomb Raider - doesn't resemble any TR game I ever played
● Batman: Arkham City continues to look amazing in this Catwoman specific trailer.
● Soul Calibur V is ready to re-enter the arena with this sizzling gameplay video.
● Check out Hideo Kojima's new Fox Engine that will be used for current gen platforms.
● Black Box is taking care of Need for Speed: The Run, which focuses on the world of underground racing.
● Check out this latest E3 trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2. Yeah.
● Check out this Summer of Arcade 2011 Montage, which will include: Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Bastion and From Dust.
● Trials was a surprise hit of last year's XBLA, and the follow up Trials Evolution looks like insane, frantic fun.
● Ubisoft and Ancel's Rayman Origins is about the most beautiful game yet shown at E3 2011. Mind blowing.
● Ubisoft announces Far Cry 3, a return to the jungle and style of the first game. Images and more at link.
● Ubisoft announces Brother in Arms: Furious Four, and Inglourious Bastards riff with takes a more dudebro approach to the franchise. Video here.
● Ninja Gaiden 3 looks even more deliriously violent than previous incarnations. Which is, of course, awesome.
● People have been murmuring about the new direction for Hitman, so now you can check it out for yourself in this video of Hitman Absolution.
● Check out this new video for Gotham City Impostors.
● New Star Trek game trailer to coincide with the new Abrams movie.
● Final Fantasy XIII-2 dated for December 2011 in Japan. Early 2012 for NA/EU.
● Major Nelson details a host of new Xbox Live features, including new dashboard, Bing and Cloud Storage
● Ninja Theory totally "gets" this franchise as we all can now tell from this "amazing" DmC trailer. Devil May Cry never looked more janky!
Kinect
● Minecraft announced exclusively for 360. Utilizes Kinect.
● Check out the latest Mass Effect 3 gameplay video. Game also is now confirmed to use Kinect to 'augment' conversations.
● Star Wars Kinect features insane lag gameplay and pod racing. If you've ever dreamed of a three second delay between your actions, this is the Star Wars game for you.
● EA announced that Fifa, Madden, Tiger Woods and another unannounced sports game will utilize Kinect.
● Kinect Fun Labs is now available. Enables finger tracking, body/clothing/object scanning, etc.
● Dance Central 2 has been announced. Allows players to port all of their songs from the first game as well as a 2 player multiplayer mode.
● Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will utilize Kinect. According to the video, it's for disassembling and reassembling weapons in some mode.
● Kinect Sports: Season 2 announced. Features even more mini-game versions of golf, baseball, skiing, darts, tennis and football. Joy.
● As if Fable needed to be even more casualized, Peter Molyneux's latest incarnation of the franchise is Fable: The Journey, which utilizes the technology to cast spells, swipe your sword and control your horse.
● Kinect Disneyland Adventures is announced, which allows every manchild to fulfill his or her dream of hugging the air while simultaneously pretending Mickey is there.
● Crytek's Codename Kingdoms has officially been Kinect-pwned, being reduced to some first-person Gladiator combat game called Ryse.
● SEGA's Rise of Nightmare horror game which works exclusively with Kinect looks, uh, interesting...
● Check out the first video of Fruit Ninja for Kinect.
● Here's video of Doublefine's Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, a game aimed obviously directly at parents and their children.