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Lifer
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Posted on 5/18

All this info will be updated regularly if possible, so keep an eye on your favorite games. I will be providing links to IGN and Gamespot exclusively, so if you have a link that has better or more info, please provide that to me so I may edit the post. Also, please pay attention to dated pictures and videos, as you may possibly be looking at old stuff that you've seen before. I will try my best to only post links to videos that can be viewed without a premium account. Basic, free registration may be required.

Multi-Platform
Playstation 3
XBOX 360
Revolution
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PS2, XBOX, Gamecube
PSP & DS
PC

Posted on 5/17

XBOX 360 and Media Center 2005 in bed together. - In what is some of the more exciting news for the XBOX 360, it will serve as a hub for all things digital media if you have a PC equipped with Microsoft's Media Center 2005. Thanks to Queasy's thread.

First details on Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

Revolution details emerge.
More Revolution details and the official pic.
Even more Revolution info.

Zelda: The Twilight Princess impressions for the Gamecube. - Pics - Videos

Revolution pic #1.
Revolution pic #2.

* For those who would rather just pop in their hard copy of Mario Sunshine, Nintendo offers a simple solution: backward compatibility. As indicated before, Revolution, like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will be able to play all the games from the current-generation GameCube, as well as DVDs through its blue-LED-illuminated front-loading media drive, though the unit wil require "an internal attachment" to play movies.

First GameBoy Micro pic. (Personal opinion here, what the hell is Nintendo thinking?)

* Nintendo also revealed a new edition of its Game Boy Advance handheld. The Game Boy Micro shrinks the already diminutive Game Boy Advance down further, and still retains the functions of the Game Boy Advance SP. The unit is slightly larger than an iPod mini at four inches wide, two inches tall, and .7 inches deep, and can fit easily into gamer's back pockets.
* The unit, which weighs a mere 2.8 ounces, will play all Game Boy Advance games and will have customizable faceplates. However, there are no new multimedia functions to speak of. As Fils-Aime put it, the Micro is "a hip new way to show off your portable passion." The Micro will be released this fall.


Posted on 5/16

The Playstation 3.
Lying flat.
The rear.
The top.
Video collage from Sony's press conference. - About 15+ minutes worth of game footage.

Sony just announced at E3, the next-gen system will be called the PlayStation 3. Ken Kutaragi proudly took the stage and announced a number of the new features for the system.

* Backwards compatibility with both PSone and PS2 games.
* Will use Blu-Ray discs for media; also supports: CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R
* Cell processor at 3.2GHz
* 2.18 teraflops of performance
* 256MB XDR system RAM at 3.2 GHz; 256MB of GDDRVRAM at 700MHz
* Support for detachable 2.5in HDD
* Six USB ports; Memory Stick Duo, SD and Compact Flash support
* 2 HDMI outputs, 1 A/V output, 1 SPDIF optical output, and a 1 gigabit ethernet port
* Video chat, Internet access, digital picture, audio, and video viewing
* Capabile of handling seven Bluetooth controllers

Taken from Gamespot:

Sony also unveiled the PS3's graphics chip, the RSX "Reality Synthesizer based on Nvidia technology. The GPU will be capable of 128bit pixel precision, 1080p resolution, some of the highest HD resolution around. It also has over 300 million transistors lager than any processor available commercially today. It was manufactured using the 90nm process with 8 layers of metal. The RSX is more powerful than two GeForce 6800 ultras, which would cost rough $1000 if bought today
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Under the hood of the Unreal Engine 3 on the PS3.

Formula 1 PS3
Formula 1 PS3 #2
Fight Night Round 3
Killzone Next-Gen
Killzone Next-Gen #2
Killzone Next-Gen #3
The Getaway 3
MotorStorm
Motorstorm #2
Motorstorm #3
Tekken Next-Gen
Killing Day
Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo #2

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XBOX 360 info now coming in from their press conference this evening.

- Within the 3-month launch window, between 25 and 40 games will be available for the XBOX 360.
- There are more than 160 in development for Xbox 360 from first-, second-, and third-party teams. Namco, Konami and Capcom (Dead Rising) are officially supporting the console as well.
- FFXI is confirmed to be headed for the X360. From IGN: "Japanese RPG giant Square Enix will create role-playing games for Xbox 360, starting with Final Fantasy XI with full Xbox Live compatibility. The game's content will remain the same, but obviously the graphics will see immense changes and improvements. Additional Square Enix games will follow."
- Xbox 360 officially will be backward compatible with the prior system's top-selling games, said Microsoft's Vice President Peter Moore. Microsoft will pick and choose only the most popular Xbox titles from its huge backlist of games and will most likely use emulator software for those limited titles.

Sorry guys, but at the time of this last post before I go to bed, there just aren't that many XBOX 360 screens available. There are a few, so I'll post a couple. More will come at a later date, so don't mistake my PS3 enthusiasm for fanboism. :)

Ghost Recon 3
Ghost Recon 3 #2
Alan Wake
Test Drive Unlimited
Test Drive Unlimited #2
Test Drive Unlimited #3
Perfect Dark Zero (is this even a screenshot?)

Also, Dead or Alive 4 has been announced for the XBOX 360, and is to be released this holiday season.
Call of Duty 2 videos for the XBOX 360.

Posted on 5/11

EA has listed their complete E3 lineup. Unfortunately, if you keep up with gaming at all, you'd be able to guess most of them. Almost all are either sequels or ports.

Gamespot article.

Batman Begins (Xbox, PS2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance)
Battlefield 2 (PC)
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (PS2, Xbox)
Burnout Revenge (PS2, Xbox)
Burnout Legends (PSP)
FIFA Soccer 06 (mobile)
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (DS)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (PS2, GameCube, Xbox, DS, GBA, PSP, PC)
From Russia With Love (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)
Madden NFL 06 (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC, PSP, DS, mobile)
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, PSP)
Medal of Honor: European Assault (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)
NASCAR 06 (PS2, Xbox)
NCAA Football 06 (PS2, Xbox)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, GBA. PSP, PC)
Need for Speed Underground 2 (mobile)
Poppit! (mobile)
The Godfather (Xbox, PS2, PC, PSP, unnamed next-generation console)
The Sims 2 (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PSP, DS, GBA, mobile)
The Sims 2 Nightlife (PC)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour (mobile)
Tri-Peaks Solitaire (mobile)
Turbo 21 (mobile)

Posted on 4/30

Here are some more pre-E3 previews, this time encompassing the 3 major PS2 platformers (although 1 looks to be moving in a different direction now). New info and screens in each.

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Jak X: Combat Racing
Ratchet: Deadlocked

Posted on 4/28

More revolution rumors for E3! Credit goes again to warcrow for finding this info.

Revolution to project 3D images?

Posted on 4/26

First up, is Nintendo playing games with us? Will they be showing their system after all? A link to confuse us even more.

And Square-Enix reveals their official line-up for E3, with quite a few games. Their official lineup.

Posted on 4/21

Once again, warcrow is finding some little tidbits about E3 as it creeps closer. Remedy is now ready to show their next game at this year's convention. Being well known for their Max Payne series, it doesn't currently look like a 3rd installment.

Shacknews

Posted on 4/18

Hey guys. Warcrow has commissioned me to take over an official E3 thread, seeing as to how his wedding will interfere with the goings-on of the biggest gaming convention of the year. And to kick it off, warcrow has tipped me off a little bit of gaming news that I found quite interesting myself.

Nintendo backing away almost completely from this year's E3?

Looks as if Nintendo thinks Sony and Microsoft will have a bit of penis-envy after they show what they've got up their sleeve. Although you might wonder what Nintendo could possibly have that they think is so great, it looks like we'll have to wait a bit more to find out. I would think everyone is so far along in their console plans by now that it'd be too late to start adding stuff.

Posted on 4/18

IGN's big list of what will be shown/demoed at E3 this year. Although this is an early list, they are added to the list when they become "official". The list is also updated daily by IGN.



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Results of polls:

From initial impressions, and before Nintendo unveils, which one would you have right now?

Sony's Playstation 3
20 votes 62.50 (%)
Microsoft's XBOX 360
9 votes 28.13 (%)
Neither
3 votes 9.38 (%)

Of the newly announced consoles, which are you most excited about?

Nintendo's Revolution
7 votes 17.95 (%)
Sony's PS3
16 votes 41.03 (%)
Microsoft's XBOX 360
9 votes 23.08 (%)
Nintendo's Game Boy Micro
0 votes 0.00 (%)
Not really feeling any of them right now.
7 votes 17.95 (%)

 
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bunnyfubbles

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That's because they're going to bring about a "Revolution"...

I hope so, there hasn't been much change in console gaming since we've gone from 2D to 3D, although I'm skeptical they could do anything so revolutionary.
 
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bunnyfubbles

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Yeah its weird they would not show it off, it tells me what they've got isn't very unique and could be easily copied if they think its better to keep it secret. Then I also think about how hard it would be to keep such secrets completely under wraps unless VERY few people know about it which can't be, I'd think M$ and Sony could somehow get their hansd on at least a clue if they so desired.

Then I also think of how much of a mistake it should be if they don't start hyping unless what they've got is indeed incredibly good. The hype is always good for grabbing a quick lead, if Nintendo doesn't have any, or not enough, they could lose a lot of ground in America to Microsoft.

I don't see what's stopping them from showing off their hardware horsepower, to show that they're not behind the competition, other than they're probably just behind schedule and can't really show much of anything off anyways.

I dunno
 
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BooGiMaN

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lets hope what nintendo has is not another segway type product...

all hush hush, secret, will revlutionize the world hype and then when its unveiled....it is a total disapointment
 
warcrow

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Originally posted by: blurredvision
Remedy update.
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I'm very very interested in what Remmedy is working on. I am, however, very excited for a MP3 because I love the series. If only they would include a multiplayer portion in it.
 
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XBoxLPU

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This week's question: There's recently been some confusion about Revolution's E3 showing. Will the console be spotlighted at E3 or will its presence be downplayed? Why?

Perrin Kaplan, VP of corporate affairs, Nintendo of America: We've noticed quite a few websites speculating about what we will and won't do with Revolution at E3. And that may have lead to some confusion. As Mr. Iwata has stated on several occasions -- most recently GDC - Revolution will be discussed at this year's E3 show. Unfortunately we can't go into detail right now on exactly how much Revolution information we plan to discuss.

We do understand that you and all Nintendo fans are very anxious to hear more news about the system since our GDC announcements last month revealing that Revolution will feature both Wi-Fi support and backward compatibility. So to answer your question about our plans for this year's E3 regarding Revolution, all I can say is that you have wait and see what we have planned. And luckily, there are only a few more weeks to go!
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http://cube.ign.com/articles/606/606981p1.html
 
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NeoV

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who am I supposed to send my pictures to? I'll have a digital camera there with a 512mb flash card and plenty of spare batteries...

COD 2 is going to be one of my first stops, along with FEAR, STALKER, and BF2....of course if Blizzard has any news about a WoW expansion those will have to wait!

Other things of interest on the PC side - Unreal engine 3 shots - last year, this booth was in the back, hardly had any traffic, but they still had a video presentation of the engine - this year I'd imagine there will be more traffic!

Half Life 2 - Aftermath, the Star Wars RTS game...

Xbox & PS3 stuff - not a huge console guy anymore, but I'll have to check these out.....

The only negative to going to this show every year is that I feel like my home PC isn't good enough after seeing all these games running on top-notch equipment - I'm already feeling the upgrade to a Dual-Core chip soon!

I think we'll have a little promotion where I'll give away some of the swag I get at the show - a bunch of T-Shirts, posters, etc....in fact I still have a bunch of stuff from prior shows I could toss in too - I still have a Duke Nukem Forever poker chip from the show 3 or 4 years ago!
 
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I would love to be able to go to E3, is there a way that a group of us could go and share a room?
 
Malladine

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Originally posted by: NeoV
who am I supposed to send my pictures to? I'll have a digital camera there with a 512mb flash card and plenty of spare batteries...

COD 2 is going to be one of my first stops, along with FEAR, STALKER, and BF2....of course if Blizzard has any news about a WoW expansion those will have to wait!

Other things of interest on the PC side - Unreal engine 3 shots - last year, this booth was in the back, hardly had any traffic, but they still had a video presentation of the engine - this year I'd imagine there will be more traffic!

Half Life 2 - Aftermath, the Star Wars RTS game...

Xbox & PS3 stuff - not a huge console guy anymore, but I'll have to check these out.....

The only negative to going to this show every year is that I feel like my home PC isn't good enough after seeing all these games running on top-notch equipment - I'm already feeling the upgrade to a Dual-Core chip soon!

I think we'll have a little promotion where I'll give away some of the swag I get at the show - a bunch of T-Shirts, posters, etc....in fact I still have a bunch of stuff from prior shows I could toss in too - I still have a Duke Nukem Forever poker chip from the show 3 or 4 years ago!
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I'd love a tshirt if possible neo :) What kinds do you have?

Definately let us know on COD2 and STALKER, those are my #1 and 2 upcoming games. #3 is Civ 4, but i doubt there will be anything on that :(

 
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NeoV

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Malladine, I'll hold a shirt for you! Usually the bigger companies will give out T-shirts with their names on them - Nvidia and ATI, for example...others are game specific...some are pretty cool, but it's kind of a mob scene when they throw shirts out in the crowds...lucky for me I'm bigger than most people and almost always manage to snag a few!

Aren't you on the Gilneas server in WoW? Alliance? I'm going to have to look for you for some PvP action - or at least a duel outside of Ogrimmar!

I hope Stalker is in better shape than it was last year - the weather and night/day effects were cool, but the models and textures were pretty average...they did have the best sniper weapon I've ever seen though....


I am still holding out hope for an FPS sequel - Sin2! I miss Alexis!

The new PREY screenshot on the upcoming PC Gamer mag looks big-time, and they have seen Duke Nukem Forever - it may actually come out this year! I hope it's at the show!

FEAR is my #1 title to look forward to, followed by COD2 - we'll see if the show changes any of that.
 
Malladine

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Sweet thanks Neo :)

Nah, quit WoW, at least for a while. But yes, my 60 priest is still on Gilneas.

haven't paid any attention to FEAR at all. What's so special? Same goes for Prey. I need a hell of a lot more than pretty graphics ;)
 
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XBoxLPU

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When did Nintendo every say they weren't going to show Revoultion? To me it just seemed like rumours going around on the net
 
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Lifer
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I dont think my dream of going to E3 will ever come true, so I'll have to live vicariously though those who do.
 
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Devil2U

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hehe, I live just 4 miles fromt the convention center....

quick trip for me again this year. :D

I shot and edited a bunch of videos at e3 last year and plan to do the same this time around.
For your viewing pleasure (be sure to check out teh booth babes video!)

http://www.lanmaniac.com/video/
 
blurredvision

blurredvision

Lifer
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Alright guys, I'm going to be updating this thing every evening this week. I'm sure other threads will pop up about the PS3 and possibly Revolution, so I'll link to those in here as well. All other games will hopefully be discussed in here. However, I'm not a mod, so create a new thread if you feel that need to :). Hopefully this thread will keep the discussion in one place.
 
warcrow

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BR, got some PS3 goodness for ya:

Sony just stated at E3, the next-gen system will be called the PlayStation 3. Ken Kutaragi proudly took the stage and announced a number of the new features for the system.

* Backwards compatibility with both PSone and PS2 games.
* Will use Blu-Ray discs for media; also supports: CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R
* Cell processor at 3.2GHz
* 2.18 teraflops of performance
* 256MB XDR system RAM at 3.2 GHz; 256MB of GDDRVRAM at 700MHz
* Support for detachable 2.5in HDD
* Six USB ports; Memory Stick Duo, SD and Compact Flash support
* 2 HDMI outputs, 1 A/V output, 1 SPDIF optical output, and a 1 gigabit ethernet port
* Video chat, Internet access, digital picture, audio, and video viewing
* Capabile of handling seven Bluetooth controllers
 
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