Now that the crowd has departed from greater Los Angeles and the dust has settled from the glitz and glamor of 2009’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, we now have a chance digest all of the latest and greatest videogame news. From Microsoft’s Project Natal and Milo video, Sony’s newest addition to the MGS franchise, Nintendo breathing life into Mario Bros and Metroid. What were you most excited about or disappointed in this year’s E3? I’ve added my take below to start off the discussion.
Thursday 23 October 2008 @ 7:21 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
In this time of year when that which bumps in the dark is ever present, a real world zombie rises from the grave. That’s E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is back, not as a media summit but as a full blown extravaganza of media, hype and obscenely expensive booths.
Now back under the overview of IDG World Expo, who originally produced the event since 1995, E3 is looking to come back with a bang. Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America said:
"The video game business will be twice as big in 2009 as it was in 2006 when we had the last real E3 Expo – so get ready for some fireworks!" said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. "The changes made will ensure that the 2009 E3 Expo conveys the best of what makes us proud as entertainment leaders."
Bold statements right there, specially after the fiasco that was this year’s E3 media summit. June 2-4 of 2009 is the elected date for this grand event, so that’s a bit over 6 months for E3’s rotting corpse to pretty up.
Friday 18 July 2008 @ 11:40 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Its finally happened, someone left the microphones unchecked and we got to make a podcast. Oh boy, someone’s gonna get fired! This is a pilot episode we recorded yesterday on July 17, in it you can listen to our awkward geek voice and funny accents as we discuss E3, some anime and dispute Miyamoto’s sanity.
The episode runs 62 minutes and 25 seconds, so you can laugh at our awkwardness and self-righteous opinions while washing your car, doing the dishes or grinding away at your favorite MMO. Hell, put it on your MP3 player when you go jogging! People will beging to wonder why you keep on facepalming for a complete hour!
Show Outline:
Introductions
The big 3 conferences:
Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony
Best games of the show
The future of DDN
Anime picks
If you like it, please let us know and we’ll make more! If you didn’t, we promise never to touch a microphone ever again!
Nothing special. No frills, bells or whistles. But a cool insight into how the game will play. Despite Capcom saying that IV will go right back to the roots of Street Fighter II Turbo, it looks to share a great deal in common Street Fighter III: with the parrying, hopping, super canceling, EX attacks and how the attacks land. We also get a bit of Street Fighter EX 2 thrown in with the inclusion of guard crashes (known as Focus attacks in IV) and Ultra moves.
Street Fighter IV’s console release date is unknown, but the arcade version should touch down at some point later this month. Capcom are already speaking of the extra stuff they’d love to include in the home console versions of the game. So we can hopefully expect a well rounded package when it arrives. Something along the lines of Capcom offered in the home console versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3 such as extra characters, stages, a dramatic battle mode and a World tour mode would rock!
I’m just hoping the finalized soundtrack isn’t as cheesy and as porntastic as it sounded in the trailer. It sounded like the theme of a reject anime from the 80’s.
Capcom have only gone and revealed ANOTHER trailer for their bad ass forthcoming next-gen survival horror. Resident evil 5 is the game that just keeps on giving…
I have no idea who the Metal Gear Solid Naomi-esque lady is, or the hooded assistant. One thing I did notice though was that the hooded assistant appears to be female. I could be wrong, but I noticed the hooded figure had heels on as they jumped into the boat, had a woman’s chin and mouth when sat in the truck and had a woman’s walk as she left a room with the Naomi-esuqe lady. Could it be Sherry Birkin? The mind boggles. But I get the feeling that the hooded figure is of some importance or relevance. More than the trailer would have us believe.
As you may have already gathered, this game is an enhanced port of the SNES classic Kirby Super Star. What’s so “ultra” about this new version? Besides retaining all the original games, the package includes: “’new adventures,’ including three, touch-controlled minigames.” From this wording it’s unclear if the “adventures” are new games, or if that just refers to the minigames.
Besides four-player support for said minigames, two people can play the adventure mode in co-op, with one playing the role of the “helpers.” Here’s hoping that the game delivers enough new content to be worth your while, and that the minigames are actually worth playing.
Oh boy. Way to screw up, Sony. In an almost impossibly improbable blunder, during the Sony press conference some footage of PS3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles was shown during the PSP lineup montage, on a PSP screen no less. So, sorry for my false announcement that this game would be showing up for PSP, but hey, it was pretty hard to tell otherwise at the time.
Tuesday 15 July 2008 @ 4:09 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano
Capcop has being quite vocal about Resident Evil 5 at this E3. Sadly, as vocal as they are they end up repeating the same stuff everywhere. This leaves us with but a few new details of RE5.
As far as the story goes, we know that its set 10 years after the destruction of Racoon City. With Chris Redfield working for the BSAA, a bio-terrorism fighting organization. He’s sent to Africa to investigate some sort of biological attack that has happened there. We also know that parallel to all of this, Chris has been tracking the original virus used by Umbrella . Coincidentally, both events lead him to the same town, Kijuju, how handy!
The conference started a few minutes behind schedule, and then got off to a slow start, giving us a history lesson about the PlayStation Brand’s success, then talking about PSN, PSP, and finally the PS3 lineup. Here are the big announcements you need to know.
130 Titles coming to PS2 in 2008
PS3 Greatest Hits line, games for $29.99
You can download Movies and TV Shows for rental or purchase on the PlayStation Network Store
Home service can access custom environments based on games in your library
Some version of Valkyria Chronicles will be available for PSP
A partnership with Google that has to do with news and user-based content via PSN
80 GB PS3 for $399.99
New Game: Infamous by Sucker Punch. Gritty action game with telekinetic hero
New Game: Massive Action Game, fight with up to 256 people in online skirmishes
Honestly I am really looking forward to Infamous, and the Store/download stuff sounds cool. IMO, it was the best conference of the hardware camps; Sony delivered a few new games, price cuts, and new online functionality. Their goal of highlighting the increasing value of the PS3 seems to have been achieved.
There’s not much to say really is there? Other than this game looks absolutely blinding and that you know for sure you’re buying this game when it releases for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in March of 2009. I have to say: Capcom have been a real roll lately with their games.
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