E3
 

Microsoft's E3 conference can be streamed in full here. Highlights:

• The Beatles: Rock Band opened the show with appearances from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Giles Martin and Olivia and Dhani Harrison. Trailer. Full album downloads starting with Abbey Road very soon after launch. Stunning opening video.

• Splinter Cell: Conviction live demo.

• Alan Wake live demo.

• Final Fantasy XIII demoed on 360 hardware with English dubbing.

• Forza 3 unveiled. Over 400 cars and an advanced in game video editor with which this gameplay trailer was made. Stunning.

• Modern Warfare 2 demoed.

• Halo 3: ODST demoed and Halo: Reach, a new prequel from Bungie and Microsoft unveiled.

• Crackdown 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 unveiled.

• Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM apps for the 360 fully integrated with friends lists, photos, in game updates and music streaming/scrobbling.

• Full 1080p instant Movie/TV show streaming (connection permitted) and full Xbox 360 game downloads to become available starting with 30 of the best selling titles at $19.99 each.

• Kojima announced Metal Gear Solid Rising for the Xbox 360 seemingly starring Raiden.

• Then they finished with their new motion camera which is capable of face and full body recognition at 60 frames per second with a 3D stereoscopic and infra-red camera for 3D environment recognition and depth plus a specialised mic with voice recognition. You can control the 360 interface with your hands and voice Minority Report style. There's a decent Time article on the camera, currently entitled Project Natal, here and Jonny Lee, the guy behind the infamous Wii 3D head tracking hack, has blogged about the hardware having been hired by Microsoft.

• Peter Molyneux unveils Lionhead's Milo which utilises the new motion camera. Peter Molyneux has been working on it for 6 years and has claimed that the AI will "revolutionise the industry". He likes his hyperbole, but it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. It certainly looks impressive. Steven Spielberg appeared on stage raving about it. The aforementioned 3D headtracking will also be made use of in Milo and possibly in James Camerons Avatar which is the first major game to be in full 3D.

Nintendo's E3 conference can be streamed in full here. Highlights:

• Super Mario Bros Wii unveiled.

• Wii Fit Plus announced.

• Wii Sports Resort demoed.

• Golden Sun DS unveiled.

• WarioWare DIY unveiled.

• Wii Vitality Sensor announced. wat.

• Super Mario Galaxy 2 announced.

• Metroid: Other M unveiled.

Sony's E3 conference can be streamed in full here. Highlights:

• Uncharted 2 demoed.

• MAG demoed.

• PSP Go unveiled aka E3's worst kept secret. It's 50% smaller and 40% lighter than the PSP-3000. As leaked, 16GB of flash memory, integrated Bluetooth, and Memory Stick Micro aka M2. No UMD drive -- only digital media.

• Gran Turismo PSP unveiled.

• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker unveiled for the PSP.

• Final Fantasy VII now available on the PSN Store.

• Assassins Creed 2 demoed.

• New Final Fantasy XIII trailer.

• Final Fantasy XIV Online unveiled.

• Playstation 3 Motion Controller demoed. 1:1 motion stick a la Wii Motion+ Coming Spring 2010.

• Mod Nation Racers unveiled.

• The Last Guardian (Trico) trailer.

• God of War III demoed.

only 20 minutes now!!!!

by the way, have you read the summary of "Singularity"?
Here it is.

Haha, sounds a bit familiar.

YEAH, they start with the best game :D

where the hell are you?

I'm watching too D:
Tony Hawk now, bleh.

EDIT: Ggh, connection too slow. I'll watch the recording on YouTube later.

watch the gamespot.com stream
works perfectly fine

Last.fm @ XBOX Live

So this is why they're making most countries pay for the radio =(

EDIT: About netflix "We know the other countries want this too, so we made a contract with Sky to distribute movies also in UK! THERE, now the whole world has movies through XBOX Live ^_^"

EDIT: The Facebook and Twitter girl is so cute <3

Where's the megaton?!

I'm watching too. This has been the best conference in a while.

Edit: Megaton now!

Kojima!

KOJIMAAAAAAAAAA <3

EDIT: Oh... So the guy was Raiden. Hmm.

EDIT: Oh-uh for the "controller-free" thing. The other conferences will have to present something really good to beat that. It looked awesome D:

EDIT: The Beatles + Kojima + Spielberg? What more?
I'm feeling sorry for Nintendo and Sony xD

EDIT: Natal = Christmas (in portuguese). Lol.
Lol @ the Wii attacks by the host.

That last bit looked interesting indeed.
Maybe with the right marketing, they could destroy Nintendo now.

And Alan Wake was just amazing. The use of lights, and the voice of Alan from the off was phantastic.