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[sora87]

I'm waiting for Sega to announce their own now. Surprise comeback of the decade.

 

[Lulubop]

Gimme that FF15 announcement SE.

 

[Majine]

Day9, huh? Interesting...

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Everybody gonna try to be a PC gamer after this e3 watch lol

 

[ScepticMatt]

PC 2 incoming?

Intel already tried that with Itanium, "one of the great fiascos of the last 50 years""

 

[deadman69]

PC games are dead.

What is dead may never die.

 

[MrRudiMentary]

Will this conference's equivalent of the Wonderbook, Kinect or TV announcements be new Office software?

 

[Salsa]

cool

 

[XShadows69]

OMG

Spoiler

THIS ISN'T REAL

 

[Zia]

Will this conference's equivalent of the Wonderbook, Kinect or TV announcements be new Office software?

Dean Hall.

 

[Goldenmoney]

so now nintendo is like the only one not having a press conference (i assume they'll be doing a direct again though).

 

[deadman69]

Will this conference's equivalent of the Wonderbook, Kinect or TV announcements be new Office software?

microsofts not involved so it will have to be libreoffice.

 

[Theonik]

Intel already tried that with Itanium, "one of the great fiascos of the last 50 years""

All things considered it's kind of a shame they blew it so hard, because the x86 architecture really is awful especially at this point.

 

[Nzyme32]

Will this conference's equivalent of the Wonderbook, Kinect or TV announcements be new Office software?

I guess that depends on what they show. Currently their official site says new game reveals are on the table, and so far the only hardware company is AMD which is the sponsor. There are no software companies involved, just gaming companies. Seems a decent start

 

[lukeskymac]

Intel already tried that with Itanium, "one of the great fiascos of the last 50 years""

I take everything from John "The mouse is a toy" Dvorak with a fist of salt, even the stuff I know it's true.

 

[mrlion]

OMG

Spoiler

THIS ISN'T REAL

Part of me wants it to be real...I want Netscape back :/

 

[Theonik]

Part of me wants it to be real...I want Netscape back :/

They call it Firefox

 

[Syf]

Day9 hosting will be awesome

 

[BlackJace]

FF XV for PC would be preeeetty dope.

 

[TC McQueen]

FF XV for PC would be preeeetty dope.

No major announcements for that game are coming until Gamescom, so that's not going to be in this press conference.

 

[Tenebrous]

OMG

Spoiler

THIS ISN'T REAL

Imagine how amazing it would be if Newell came on stage and said.

"For 8 long years you have waited, and today, we're happy to bring you... Half Life: Heroes of Black Mesa."

 

[BasilZero]

Apparently, the participants include



Square Enix is the one that is genuinely surprising.

I am surprised too. I wonder if we will see more support from them?

 

[Samurai G0SU]

.

^

 

[Kayant]

Nice I probably won't be able to watch these lives like in the past

Spoiler

Work

but looking forward to seeing some interesting things.

Oh and hopefully the humble bundle offer with be a good one.

 

[roytheone]

AMD is sponsoring it. We (PC Gamer) are organizing it. We talked for years about how E3 should have a PC-focused event, and it never happened. So we decided to do it ourselves!

Ah, thanks for the clarification, this defiantly gives me a little more faith in a good outcome. I am still very skeptical though, I have been burned to many times by promises of "pc specific press conferences" that turn out to be complete disasters. I do agree that E3 should have a more PC-focused event, so I really hope I am wrong and you guys pull it off. Best of luck with the preparations!

 

[Sarobi]

PC 2 incoming?

Holding my breath for a $399 price tag

 

[demosthenes]

This is awesome. Day9 I'd a plus too.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

Wow just wow! Can't wait to watch day9 is easily my favorite streamer

 

[Denton]

AMD is sponsoring it. We (PC Gamer) are organizing it. We talked for years about how E3 should have a PC-focused event, and it never happened. So we decided to do it ourselves!

It is cool, I remember reading those articles thinking how long before someone finally does it, nice to see you guys decided to take action yourselves.

 

[Compsiox]

I told you guys this would be the last E3


But really. I have no words. This will be the best fucking E3 ever. I feel like crying. Not even kidding.

 

[GravityMan]

We need less of them, not more

The problem isn't that there are too many conferences, it's that the existing conferences are too long and filled with too much unnecessary BS. Conferences should be 60 minutes long max, with content delivered in a hard-hitting "straight to the point" fashion to minimize the risk of boredom, and a little non-cringe-worthy natural humor sprinkled in to keep the mood light. It's not that hard.

 

[Doc Lobster]

Thanks for the enthusiasm, y'all. One thing worth clarifying is that we've intentionally not labeled this thing as a press conference. Announcements, game reveals, and new trailers are going to be a part of this event, but we're moving away from the scripted, corporate-feeling format that some E3 press conferences have adopted in the past and hoping to do something more relaxed and natural. We've watched these things for years - hopefully we can put our money where our mouth is and build something that's fun and worth everyone's time, not a collection of marketing.

More words on this thing over here: http://www.pcgamer.com/why-an-e3-event-that-celebrates-the-pc-is-long-overdue/

 

[BlackJace]

No major announcements for that game are coming until Gamescom, so that's not going to be in this press conference.

True

 

[Suzushiiro]

Pretty much solely watching this because Day9 is hosting and Day9 is fucking amazing.

 

[ScepticMatt]

All things considered it's kind of a shame they blew it so hard, because the x86 architecture really is awful especially at this point.

As you probably know, Intel is already using RISC internally, and I doubt that the overhead (for non-mobile) is that big with the billions Intel throw at it.
That said I'd welcome performance-tuned MIPS/ARM cores.

 

[Nzyme32]

Thanks for the enthusiasm, y'all. One thing worth clarifying is that we've intentionally not labeled this thing as a press conference. Announcements, game reveals, and new trailers are going to be a part of this event, but we're moving away from the scripted, corporate-feeling format that some E3 press conferences have adopted in the past and hoping to do something more relaxed and natural. We've watched these things for years - hopefully we can put our money where our mouth is and build something that's fun and worth everyone's time, not a collection of marketing.

More words on this thing over here: http://www.pcgamer.com/why-an-e3-event-that-celebrates-the-pc-is-long-overdue/

Exactly what I wanted to hear, fantastic! Quite curious to see how PC gaming could be represented at such an event when there is so much content, genres and sizes of developers and publishers.

 

[Tregard]

Thanks for the enthusiasm, y'all. One thing worth clarifying is that we've intentionally not labeled this thing as a press conference. Announcements, game reveals, and new trailers are going to be a part of this event, but we're moving away from the scripted, corporate-feeling format that some E3 press conferences have adopted in the past and hoping to do something more relaxed and natural. We've watched these things for years - hopefully we can put our money where our mouth is and build something that's fun and worth everyone's time, not a collection of marketing.

More words on this thing over here: http://www.pcgamer.com/why-an-e3-event-that-celebrates-the-pc-is-long-overdue/

I look forward to it, given the partners mentioned it should prove very interesting. Obviously the more E3 there is to get hyped about the better

 

[DieH@rd]

Good move. PC gamers needs some love during E3.

edit - and yes, Day9 is great.

 

[Tregard]

AMD
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT - New Overwatch characters
BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE - DayZ
CLIFF BLESZINSKI - Project BlueStreak formal announcement
CLOUD IMPERIUM GAMES - Star Citizen footage
DEAN HALL - DayZ related again I'd assume
DEVOLVER - Hotline Miami 3 (Could literally be anything)
HUMBLE BUNDLE - Humble E3 Bundle
HEART MACHINE - Hyper Light Drifter stuff
PARADOX INTERACTIVE - Magicka 2?
SQUARE ENIX - Kingdom Hearts PC Ports! (Probably Just Cause 3 or something small)
TRIPWIRE INTERACTIVE - Killing Floor 2

Some predictions/context/guesses

 

[Theonik]

As you probably know, Intel is already using RISC internally, and I doubt that the overhead (for non-mobile) is that big with the billions Intel throw at it.
That said I'd welcome performance-tuned MIPS/ARM cores.

Oh sure, the boat's long sailed on this one I think unless Intel wanted to take another bash at it. They seem more willing to pour billions trying to work around its architectural pitfalls than to actually drop it which makes perfect sense after their relative failure with Itanium.
Of course, unless you are writing compilers or are working on x86 assembler (which describes a tiny minority of users) you aren't going to care much, so my post was more a hypothetical what have been scenario. But alas. I don't see ARM really coming into clashing with Intel outside the mobile space anytime soon.
Edit: This could be an interesting discussion but I only meant it to be an offhand comment so I'd rather not further shit on the thread.

 

[Nozem]

Hah, Day9 is a great choice for host. Will watch.

 

[KR_remix]

Thanks for the enthusiasm, y'all. One thing worth clarifying is that we've intentionally not labeled this thing as a press conference. Announcements, game reveals, and new trailers are going to be a part of this event, but we're moving away from the scripted, corporate-feeling format that some E3 press conferences have adopted in the past and hoping to do something more relaxed and natural. We've watched these things for years - hopefully we can put our money where our mouth is and build something that's fun and worth everyone's time, not a collection of marketing.

More words on this thing over here: http://www.pcgamer.com/why-an-e3-event-that-celebrates-the-pc-is-long-overdue/

But who will tell us about the visceral player driven social experiences with cinematic emergent gameplay?

 

[V-Faction]

Day9 feels like such a good choice. The background, the skills, the etiquette, the knowledge, the know-how... Just don't ask him to get a rope or hit legend or bring cats or...

 

[T.O.P]

But who will tell us about the visceral player driven social experiences with cinematic emergent gameplay?

lol

CLIZZ BLESZINSKI

Kinda lost track of the guy, do we have any idea on what he's working on?

 

[Compsiox]

lol



Kinda lost track of the guy, do we have any idea on what he's working on?

Scifi Fantasy arena shooter. Boss Key studios. He recently hosted a stream where they talked about a single gun for the entire time.

 

[KR_remix]

Kinda lost track of the guy, do we have any idea on what he's working on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzyiBgLxHfU

Project Blue Streak, an arena shooter.

The arena shooter revival is in full swing, and my favorite one

Spoiler

Tribes

is basically dead!

Spoiler

I guess it is really arguable whether or not Tribes counts as an arena shooter though.

edit:beaten

 

[ChoklitCow]

Day9 hosting will be awesome

I think I'm the only person that feels differently. I used to love his SC stuff, but as he has branched out it just doesn't have the same feel or knowledge level. I started to feel I was watching it just because it was Day9 doing something, not because it was any good.

Then I saw him interact in the Hilton lobby a couple of years with fans at Blizzcon. I know being swarmed can be rough, but I've directly listened to him turn people down for pictures and then immediately take a picture with another. Always left a bad taste in my mouth considering how for the people he was.

Hopefully I've just witnessed some rare occasions.

 

[Ashodin]

Sweet, I love Day9!

 

[Myggen]

Man, it's fucking weird that PC Gamer as a journalistic outlet is hosting something like this. Have some fucking integrity and at least try to pretend that you're not just the PR arm of publishers. Editorial probably has nothing to do with this, but it still feels really weird.

 

[tuxfool]

Man, it's fucking weird that PC Gamer as a journalistic outlet is hosting something like this. Have some fucking integrity and at least try to pretend that you're not just the PR arm of publishers. Editorial probably has nothing to do with this, but it still feels really weird.

If not them then who? It isn't like there is only a single company on stage.

Valve could potentially do it, but they hate E3...