Rumors
- The ps3 XMB is getting a total remake, not just new art or columns.
- The ps3 is getting a paid premium account like the 360, but its supposedly cheaper and you wont loose stuff if your using a free account.
- Agent will finally be revealed.
- Move is supposedly be pretty cheap, at least in comparison to natal.
- MGS: Peacewalker could be coming to the ps3, and maybe not just as a straight PSP to PSN port.
- The ps3 will bring 3d gaming to 120Hz displays, that we know, but they might also do it for basically any display.
- Sony has supposedly a lot of new big AAA titles for E3 reveal.
- The PS3 might actually be turning a profit and have been for some time now. Read more »
Rumors
- Nintendo 3DS might be showed at e3
- The 3DS doesn’t just have a 3D display but also a 3D camera of some sort
- The 3DS is coming sooner than expected
- WiiHD
- Zelda is the only rumored game
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Rumors
- Natal may get pretty expensive, up to $150
- Rumors of the 360s successor is doing the rounds, probably not this year thogh
- Natal may really be called “Kinect”, i like natal better.
- It may also be called wave.
- the 360 may be getting live TV.
- A slimmer 360 may be announced
- may have up to 15 natal launch titles
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Earlier this year both Microsoft and Sony presented what they called the “Future of gaming” class of controllers, but whats really going on here.
To answer that we have to look at their technologies and then derive intent from that.
It’s two seemingly very different control schemes, but are they, one uses a time-of-flight (TOF) camera to sense it’s surroundings and most notably the depth of it, the other one uses a high res camera to sense it’s surroundings that while it can’t measure depth it can track certain objects on the z axis reasonably well, however it is augmented by a glowing ping pong ball on a stick for “sub pixel 3d tracking”, it also has buttons which are useful at times.
Both systems also have an array of microphones which makes it easier to track and filter out voices. Read more »
Jack Tretton claims that over 364 new games will be released this year on the various playstation platforms, over 100 of them are PS2 titles
“uncharted 2: among thieves” was demoed, looks good with lots of stuff breaking and lots of dynamic environments, it will definitely be fun to play.
MAG, impressive demo where they showed a 256 player battle in realtime.
Next Kaz Hirai introduced the PSP GO, or “the worst kept secret at this e3″ as he himself called it, it will have 16gb of internal memory plus expandability, it’s 40% lighter a feat possible trough the fact that it lacks a UMD drive and will cost $250 or €250 (with added euroscrew).
Comes October 1 in america.
And because of this all new released are no also digitally available Read more »
A new super mario bros is coming this holiday, no not the 3d crap Nintendo has been producing but rather something that looks a bit like the original super mario bros, but infinitely better graphics and 4 player co-op, looks pretty sweet.
Wii fit plus, is basically just some new software for wii fit, new exercises and games, you can now also choose to focus on a specific area of your body, great but does all of the above count as a specific area, and it’s still pretty flimsy, especially seeing as one of the mini games lets you play something that looks a lot like what mario does, which includes jumping.
Wii Motion plus was also shown but it’s basically the same as last year though it does seem like fun.
Redsteel2 was announced that it will require Wii motion plus. Read more »
It starts with a musical act care of Beatles rockband, looks like the characters have been avatarized a bit compared to previous installments and given that it was a full 20 minutes for this game I’m thinking it’s a clear drive towards the older generation like my parents.
The new previously revealed skateboard controller, looks ok, but I doubt it will be that revolutionary, especially compared to the other “controller” they revealed.
They showed a part of Modern warfare2, nice as always, but now it comes with epic ice climbing and snowmobile action + you get a nifty little motion sensor to attach on your gun.
Microsoft got some exclusive dlc maps for it too, timed exclusives that is, they probably paid a lot for them too.
FFXIII demo, looks totally ok, like any other FF, it’s coming spring 2010. Read more »
You know I was hoping I would have this ready for e3 on my new site thegeekstate.com but sadly it’s not done yet, the ideas I have for it is pretty great, but the underlying code is not even mature enough to display even a simple article let alone edit it. So I have to do it here, but don’t worry it will probably all be transferred there once it’s done and there will be articles on pretty much every (read: important) game and gadget coming out of it once it starts coming on line, so without further delays here are some my predictions and opinions on the e3 press conferences in chronological order.
Microsoft Monday, 10:30am PDT
Halo 3: ODST will be a big thing this year, and I suspect they will also display some other expected titles like Alan wake and splinter cell.
Avatars are gonna big the cool new thing (though they have been out for a year), but they are gonna make a play for the casual market, they will ultimately fail at it, but they will try.
Gears of War 3: will be teased, seriously did you ever doubt it would be, it’s their second strongest ip after halo, sure they are gonna milk that cow.
A lot of generic games, a lot of them multi platform, but they are gonna claim a few timed exclusives and DLC, not that DLC ever matters, it didn’t for GTA4 since most people including me didn’t finish it. Read more »
It’s time for E3 in just a few short days, so let’s speculate on a few things that’s been rumored.
Sony (PS3, PSP)
Fisrt the SKUs, in order to break even or actually make money they have to change SKUs, there are two currently, the 40GB and the 80GB versions, booth of these will be replaced by the holiday season, the first one, the one to be announced at E3 will be a replacement for the cheaper 40GB variant, it will have an upgraded HDD, perhaps even more than 80GB, also it will be bundled with the DS3.
The 80GB one will come in October with a huge HDD and other stuff, seriously, they will need to add something else to the console for the higher cost to be worth it as this one will loose the PS2 BC chips (Seriously they are expensive to make), I am thinking integrated PlayTV and stuff like that, either way until that one comes
But until that one comes the ps3 will stay at the current price level, so they are not lying when they say that their not planning a price drop, we actually they are, they have price drops planned for the next few years planned, but certain insider trading rules say that they have to lie and deny until they do it, so I’m not surprised. Read more »
E3, Games | Peter Wallström | 
June 11, 2010 09:00 | 
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