Good morning, legions! This is Kris, coming to you live from the comfort of her living room. Each year I settle in and watch the E3 conferences live in TV, and live blog my thoughts. It sounds a little silly, but if you don’t have the time to watch the conferences in full for yourself, I talk about everything going on as I watch, so it serves as a decent summary, I think. And it’ll be a lot quicker than watching 1-2 hour long conferences. They’re still rather long, and they’re on my personal blog, so I’ll link them here. Today I have yesterday’s conferences, Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft.
The biggest news out of there: Natal is now Kinect. It will be out this November with 15 launch titles (which look exactly like Wii launch titles, joy). Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood looks AWESOME. There is a new Xbox 360 – it comes with a 250 gig HDD, is slimmer, black, quieter, and has built-in WiFi. It will run $299 just like the Elite…although the Elite has dropped 50 bucks as of this morning (so has the arcade). The new ‘box shipped yesterday and will be in stores later this week. Everyone at the MS conference got the new ‘box for free, probably to make up for all the shitty casual titles they had to sit through for Kinect. Microsoft was mostly Kinect stuff, and a really awesome Halo Reach trailer. Also some nice looking Gears of War gameplay. EA showed off a brand new, totally sexy trailer for Old Republic, but didn’t show any gameplay (there’s supposed to be some at the game; G4 will air it tonight during their evening round ups). Crysis 2 is coming to consoles…in 3D. Ubisoft made a game that teaches you how to breathe and destress, which you could do for free on your own.
Nintendo starts soon.
