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Just a copy and paste from another forum I'm doing this on.

Tuesday the 10thI'll update every so often, feel free to post updates as well.

Microsoft Conference Highlights
  • Sonic 1 and Golden Axe are being released on Live tonight (Just announced in the E3 conference from MS)
  • Switchball (Download the early version here: http://www.atomicelbow.com/ ) is coming to Live
  • Madden 2008 still has an absolute crap play selection method in place
  • About 10-15 new HD videos have also just been released on XBox Live that they just previewed
  • Disney + Microsoft = Disney movies coming to Live
  • August 24th - Xbox Elite in Europe
  • Project Gotham Racing 4 shown off - Showing off the inclusion of motorcycles and the weather effects
  • WHAT THE ****... Cliffy B just showed off Gears of War for the PC - 5 new campaign levels, new weapons, new achievements. (Damnit)
  • Call of Duty 4 looks AMAZING. They've made Chernobyl look better than the game STALKER ever dreamed.
  • GTA4 - All footage from both trailers was done on a 360 :D
  • Call of Duty 4 - Special BETA MP opportunity for 360 owners Goto: http://www.charlieoscardelta.com for info (when it works)
  • Assassin's Creed gameplay. Looking amazing, but has a ways to go.
  • A... live action teaser for Halo 3? WTF?
  • A Halo 3 themed Xbox will launch... (Think of military green applied to a 360) along with a bunch of fanboy material for Halo 3
  • Well holllly crap, they showed off the first footage from the Halo 3 single player campaign. Looks to be quite action packed.
And that's the end of the show. I didn't catch everything, but I got some of the important stuff here.

Post-show updates:
The Halo 3 trailer is now up at http://www.bungie.net in a variety of sizes.

Oh, ha... Apparently a Blue Dragon demo is also now available on Live. Where's my 360 at Microsoft?! Update your status on my repair!

I had missed the RE5 footage thanks to my net going down, but I later saw it. A good deal of trailers are up on www.gametrailers.com already with the hi-def versions still to come online and on Live.

Sony's conference is tomorrow night, and Nintendo's is tomorrow afternoon.
 
So far just looked at the Halo stuff, which as we all know is the only stuff that matters ;). I'm freaking amazed. I think I've watched each vid a dozen times by now, and studied each screen for 5 mins a piece. Now I can't figure out which screen I want as my background.

On a different note, that short by Neil Blomkamp kinda made me ecstatic at first, but then pissed as I came to realize what it probably means. The live action Halo movie was supposed to be directed by this guy right, but now he's doing live action shorts instead. What would be the point in having the same guy make Halo short films, and then eventually make a Halo feature length film? I'm thinking these are a substitute for the movie. Of course something is better than nothing, but its still pretty disappointing if what I think is true.
 
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micro's press thingy was very boring. very bad. much golf claps, if any. no price drop. no surprises. halo 3 single and multi player looks cartoony like halo 1 and 2. call of duty 4 looked way better, almost photo realistic. i was about to buy a 360 but i think i'll upgrade my pc here and there and enjoy most of the same fps as 360 owners + crysis.

I WILL NOT MISS THAT GARBAGE CALLED HALO 3.
 
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The end of the year is going to be a good year for the 360. If I'm not mistaken there are releases such as Mass Effect, GTA IV, Stranglehold, Bioshock, MoH: Airborne, Halo 3 (though not looking forward to that one personally) and hopefully Call of Duty 4, Rock Band and Assassins Creed.

About Rock Band, the fact they have the original version of The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again is just pure awesome.
 
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vista only i guess. There was a rumor that if vista was struggling sales wise they would release halo2/gow for vista only to try a boost the switch over.

::care

Gears of War is coming to PC! \o/

Seriously, why would Microsoft hinder the sales of GoW by making it Vista only? Three GoWs = Vista (price that is)
 
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Gears is coming for both XP and Vista, with XP receiving the whole "Live" aspect soon as well.


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Trailers in HD:There's was a ton of new content released on Live last night. Major Nelson has the full recap of all of the goodies now available.
Trailers and Pics (Bringing it Home - DAY 1 - Meaning that the subsequent days will bring a whole lot more to come) - http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/07/11/bringing-it-home-2007-day-one.aspx
Movies (Disney) on Live - http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/07/11/disney-now-on-video-marketplace.aspx

There are also demos for NCAA Football 2008, Blue Dragon, and Ace Combat 6.

Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe released for the Arcade.

Computer and Video Games has a toooooon of coverage. Probably the most I've seen from any site so far: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news.php
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Placeholder for the Nintendo Conference - 12PM EDT

  • Reggie is happy. Shouts out some numbers about Nintendo's dominance with females and other demographics.
  • Wii Zapper (Xapper?) ... Which will apparently revolutionize FPS's. Except that it's basically just a Wii-mote in a gun shell, and oh, they had one with the NES.
  • Super Smash Brothers Brawl - December 3, 2007 - Can use any of the four available controllers
  • Footage of Zelda on the DS; Metroid on the Wii
  • 5.6 million Virtual Console downloads
  • 5.5 million people have connected via WiFi with their Wii
  • New channel - Show off your Wii, have them judged, and take other Wii's you like?
  • Online gaming with games like Madden 2008, Fifa 2008, Mario Strikers
  • More of Nintendo tooting their own horn
  • My stream cut out...
  • I missed about 15 minutes or so, but apparently there was another montage
  • New Sims game for the Wii, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, new Brain Age, new "eye workout" game, "My Word Coach" vocab building game, My Life Coach (well rounded person overall) (WTF is up with these games?!)
  • Yet ANOTHER montage
  • At this point I took a little break
  • Wii... Aerobics. Diverse? Yes. Bound to be a huge seller? Nope.
  • Showing off the Wii balance board (tied in to the above game)
  • Balance board measures body weight distribution, balance, and BMI.
  • Wii Fit - mini games that use the balance board featuring mini games that improve balance and fitness, looks like a lot of fun strangely enough
  • Montage - Conference over
Sony's Conference Will Take Place Later Today!
 
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Further Updates for Wednesday the 10th
My feeds for the PS3 conference did not work, the only info I got (outside of posts) was from here: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8253734&publicUserId=5875338j

A tooooon of new trailers up at GameTrailers.com including:Complete list - http://gametrailers.com/e32k7.php
 
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