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E3 2013 starts right here.
E3 2013 kicks off today with Microsoft’s press conference, where they’ll finally be showing off the Xbox One’s launch lineup, as well as bringing the 360’s life cycle to a gentle end. It’s bound to be a conference full of surprises, and we’ll be live blogging it right here.
We’ll be back to decide who won E3 later. But I already know who lost, and it’s my bank account.
Titanfall looks incredible.
They damn well better undercut it.
This is only RRP, of course. Very possible that Play.com, GAME, and whoever else will undercut it slightly. Or charge more. Who knows?
There’s no way he misspoke. This happens ALL the time.
Yes, but that’s what you get for using the euro.
Maybe he misspoke. I would guess it’d be comparable to US price.
How do you think the rest of Europe feels? It’s the equivalent of $650 here but it’s almost $675 outside of the UK.
That’s insanity.
Same. I think I’m buying an X1 at launch as well. Although I’m very bitter about being charged £100 above the exchange rate.
Hey, I just realised something. $500 is £320. MS want to charge £420. SCREW THAT.
This and Ryse will be day one purchases for me.
This is the game of the show for me so far.
Launch, I think.
Anyone know when Titanfall is coming out?
Gameplay!
Microsoft have set the bar high here. Love it, love everything about it.
Vince Zampella! A long time since we’ve seen him.
They’ve gone big with that. Wonder if PS4 will undercut them at all.
The fact that it’s made by Respawn has me totally pumped.
Still shocked at the $499 price tag.
Yes yes yes and yes. Titanfall looks awesome.
This looks beautiful and I want it.
JETPACK.
This could be so, so good.
TITANFALLLLLLLLLL.
Hey Shaxster, it’s Titanfall!
Why are they calling it a ‘Day One Edition’? Are there going to be other editions?
Oh wait, this is 2013. I need to rob three banks.
I’m really not sure about £429. I…I’ll pay for it.
£429. I need to rob a bank.
November 2013. £429. Oh dear.
$499 Holy crap. WAY OVERPRICED.
Is this it? This can’t be it.
Is this called “Halo: We Evolved Combat Again’.
5ALO would probably be pronounced “Failo”, so I would assume not.
Many things are 60fps on the X1. That’s pretty cool.
Is this Halo 5? 5ALO?
dats pretty badass
Well, there you go then.
HALOOOOOOOOOO.
:O
Hello, Halo!
!!!
This could be Titanfall. It looks like Titanfall.
This looks a lot like Journey, too. Is Microsoft just beoming thatgamestudio?
Really surprised there’s no Halo and Titanfall stuff here.
DESERTS.
And there was the Black Tusk news we’ve been waiting for. Um, great?
Hey, guys? Where’s Titanfall? Where’s Mirror’s Edge 2?
And here’s the Black Tusk news we’ve been waiting for.
Well these are nice skyscrapers.
It’s called ‘Below’. That could be fun.
I’m finding “WHAT” flaring up on the screen much funnier than it was probably intended.
This could be really, really cool. It looks very Journey-like.
Nobody wants to welcome back Phil Spencer, apparently. Poor guy.
Yep, first BF4 map pack is on X1 first. Damn, X1 owns those military shooters.
10 minutes left. Time for a release date and price?
WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB.
But where are the dogs?
As good as this looks, I’m just not that interested in military style shooters anymore.
Battlefield is all about the multiplayer.
It does look pretty.
It does look nice, but it’s not going to be fun.
Military style shooters. Yeah, they’re still here.
Boring boring boring.
And we’re back. Pay no attention to the tech guys behind the curtain, people.
So MS get both CoD and BF4 DLC first on X1.
Oh, this is embarrassing now.
I think this is the DLC.
The sound issues return. These guys need to ad-lib better.
It says “First on” I wonder how much earlier the X1 is getting this.
I agree, Antony.
And here comes Battlefield 4. Hopefully this draws me in, was nowhere near as interested in 3 as I was in Bad Company 2.
NO SOUND?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Battlefield 4. Gotta say, EA and MS have become the best of friends.
Your metaphors are so vivid, JB.
Full on hard on for this game. Raging and tumescent.
We’ve got 30 minutes left. Still time for some big reveals.
And yes, he could have definitely sounded a lot less sleep-deprived.
This is Microsoft’s best showing for years. And we’ve still got a while to go. Insane.
God, he sounds so bored.
Witcher!
This game can go either way. Hopefully the story is more than just “kill zombies and don’t be killed by zombies”.
Yeah, I’m not quite as sold on this.
I liked the car mechanics there.
This is one where I’ll personally wait for reviews before buying.
I never played the others, to be fair.
The weapon creation mechanic returns, as expected. This looks like a much bigger project than either of the last games, though.
We’ve had sooo many zombie games.
This does just look a bit too normal, at this point.
Here’s another X1 selling point, Dead Rising 3 as an exclusive.
DEAD RISING 3. Microsoft, you’ve won, I think.
And here we go!
Well I’m sure that sounded nice and dubsteppy.
I’ve gone deaf. Help me.
This looks nice as well. But where’s the sound gone?
DOH! No sound.
XBL Gold shares with other family members as well. SOLID.
Ditching MS Points. IT’S ABOUT TIME.
R.I.P. Microsoft Points.
About time we got something like Twitch on consoles. Sweet.
I am going to start streaming everything. EVERYTHING.
Live streaming with Twitch as well! NICE.
This clip uploading stuff is going to be *so* great for my YouTube stuff.
Everyone has a smartphone and tablet now. What are you paying for?
I’d like it too if I could afford it.
I like this SmartGlass integration.
We haven’t even got a real name, yet. I would expect it sometime next year, but that’s about it.
No.
Have we got a release date for Spark?
I really like this song. I don’t know why.
These guys are horrid actors.
The social element of this could be really cool.
Replace “Minecraft” with “Age of Empires” and I’d agree, Shaxster.
This is Minecraft just more flexible and with awesome graphics and SmartGlass.
This looks really cool.
Huh, you can create stuff. Did he say you can create games?
Project Spark. This looks a little bit Milo-y.
Dave McCarthy.
Cel-shaded action game? Damn, now I miss XIII.
D4. That’s an awful name.
This new game is pretty stylised, isn’t it?
I really need to know how this ties into the TV show though. They have to explain that further.
Nowhere near sold on Quantum Break yet.
If I can do that at will, I’m pumped.
So you can like stop time and stuff?
Awww, I was hoping this wouldn’t have guns.
Gameplay funtimes.
Ok, so Quantum Break ties into a TV show which can change the game. That’s…cool.
I love it on the Xbox.
Why would you play MC on a console? It seems tailor-made to PCs with mods, texture packs etc.
Minecraft X1. Gimme.
Mineeeeeecraft. That’s not very indie.
Oh yes please. I love myself some Minecraft.
This sounds like an indie push.
Indie push? I would really like more of an indie push.
Phil Harrison’s back.
I want this.
These graphics are INSANE. I can’t get over how good this looks.
So I guess this is the sort of thing X1 will be looking for a daily internet connection to do.
It’s Forza, I’d imagine they’d want it as a launch title.
This has to be a launch.
If this is a launch, I will be very, very happy.
Yeah, that virtual races stuff is INSANE.
OH that’s so sweet, reminds me a little of SSX.
This might be the first racing game I play since NFS: MW
And it’s only going to get better!
MGS V, Ryse, XBL+, the Insomniac game, other things…yup, this is great.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but this is shaping up to be the best Microsoft conference ever.
God that’s beautiful.
I love how they put a real car on stage.
Word going round seems to be that we’ll be seeing Dead Rising 3’s announcement as X1 exclusive in this conference too. Insane lineup forming if that’s true. Right now, Forza. Of course.
Sweet car. Sweet sweet car.
Forza now.
That game looks amaze. And it’s another X1 exclusive. Cray cray.
Only Insomniac could do something like that.
Mirror’s Edge + Jet Set Radio + Zombies = amazing.
I have the biggest grin on my face right now.
This is *totally* Mirror’s Edge.
:O THIS IS MIRRORS EDGE.
Jet Set Radio with guns?! I’m in.
These graphics, man.
A living world game? What does that even mean?
Microsoft are bringing out the big guns and blowing them up one by one. I like this a lot.
I love Insomniac. Hope this one is good.
And Insomniac! Woah.
Killer Instinct’s back. That’s cool, I guess.
Ah, Crytek are developing this. Didn’t realise that. I’m buying an X1 at launch now.
Major win for MS there. Launch Exclusive that looks awesome.
I could have sworn this was gonna be a Kinect-only game, no controllers or anything. Guess that changed. Good one, Crytek.
That was a great way to debut the X1’s gaming capabilities. Now Crytek!!!!
So. Many. People.
This ain’t no Kinect shovelware.
It’s come a long way since then, by the looks of it. I want this game.
Score one for MS then.
I believe it’s an exclusive, they showed it as one in 2011 I think.
Yup.
Is this an exclusive?
I will buy an X1 for this, I think. This looks a lot like a LotR game *should* be.
lol
And there was me thinking GTA IV was the pinnacle for Romans in video games.
PLEASE be a launch title.
So do you play a general?
This looks SO GOOD.
Hey, it’s Medal of Honor: Frontline. Albeit more Roman-y.
This is everything AC3 promised.
It’s Saving Private Roman.
If I could like posts on this thing, I’d like that.
This game is giving me a chubby. A violence chubby.
Gameplay?
That is pretty great, graphically. Shouty man is also very shouty.
Ryse: Son of Rome. That looks like a game.
Let’s see what they’ve been doing for 2-3 years.
Yup, this is Ryse.
When did floating debris become cool?
You may be right. This is very Roman.
I was expecting Ryse from that introduction. We’ll see.
Apparently not.
Starting with Titanfall, I’d guess.
Phillllll Spencer. I like his State of Decay t-shirt. We’re talking X1 now.
Which is multiplatform, of course.
This is Dark Souls 2, I think.
From Software. Don’t they make something else that people like?
Well, that was a quick change of atmosphere.
Kid’s game. Not a bad idea.
Free to Play? That’s got to be a console first.
Closing on 360 fast. lol
I can imagine it being brought ahead to the X1 if it goes down well, though. And it’s free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers! Big news.
That stands a chance of making a big impact. Shame it’s only 360.
Indeed it is. World of Tanks coming to the 360. That’s pretty ace.
CEO of WarGaming is out! What a name for a games studio.
Yup.
World of Tanks 360?
man, there are so many tanks here. they should call this game ‘world of tanks’ or something.
tanks tanks tanks EXPLOSIONS.
TANKKKKKKKKKS.
This is so mysterious.
WoW? Maybe?
New 360 titles!
Xbox are competing with PSN+ in a way they should have been doing years ago. Bit late to the party, but oh well. Will be interesting to see how long the support lasts.
HUNDREDS OF NEW GAEMS. THOUSANDS OF GAEMS. MILLIONS OF GAEMS.
Starting off with AC2 and Halo 3. Dayummmm.
2 free game downloads per month. Yup, this is XB+.
XBL +?
I’m shocked by this.
So I’m assuming all of the audience has one of the new 360s under their seats?
Improving XBL Gold. Antony, you NAILED these.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh. Why why why. It’s a new model of 360, available today.
We’ve made the 360 UGLIER.
360 first. Guess your predictions were right, Antony.
Most forced ‘Yeah’ ever.
gaems gaems gaems. 13 exclusives. FUN FUN FUN.
Yup, MGS V confirmed for X1. Wonder if it’s PS4 as well….
I’m actually excited about that, and I really hated the last Metal Gear. If it is similar to Far Cry 3, I’ll be very happy.
Just casually open with one of the biggest game franchises ever.
Pretty crazy way to show everyone that X1 IS about games.
“Melodrama returns, this time with Keiffer’s voice!”
Is this coming to X1 AND PS4 then?
This is the best Metal Gear music since Snake Eater. Hope it features in the actual game.
This music. What is this.
Might be my stream.
The demos we’ve already seen of MGS V show that it is a really lovely game.
Don’t know what you’re talking about JB, these graphics are lovely.
In a way, aren’t we all Technocrats standing our guard?
These character descriptions are brilliant.
What is she doing.
She’s wearing a sensible outfit.
They’re fastforwarding through it to cut out the boring bits.
God this is really quite cool. Looks a bit like Far Cry, to be honest.
Is it just me or is he moving super fast and silly? Is that my stream?
It will be Xbox One, but looks bad because the stream’s poor quality.
This looks like a 360 game. Certainly hope it’s not a next gen one.
Because Kojima wants the moneys.
Metal Gear Solid and Red Dead Redemption are having the most beautiful baby right now.
This is a huge deal. MS Have already started bringing out the big guns.
Kiefer Sutherland is keifing it up. GAMEPLAY, OPEN WORLD OMG.
Why is Kojima presenting at a MS conference?
This has already been confirmed for 360 and PS3, don’t think they announced it for next gen yet though.
Metal Gear Solid V. Wooooo.
Wait…. Is this Metal Gear?
KOJIMAAAAAAAAAA.
Starting with some Konami fun times.
I love the Xbox sound. Have I ever said that?
IT BEGINS.
Wild drumming in the background.
THE MUSIC HAS STOPPED. HERE WE GO PEOPL- Oh wait, no, the music’s started again. False alarm.
Back to the ESRB rating. EXCITEMENT.
Microsoft really outdid themselves here. They heard everyone’s complaints about the conference and decided to make us sit here this time and do nothing.
Well this is awkward.
COME ON MICROSOFT, YOU’RE LOSING THE LEAD YOU HAVE OVER APPLE.
The stream isn’t broken, they just haven’t started yet.
They’re running a little late, it seems.
I wonder if 300,000 servers are powering Microsoft’s broken stream right now.
We are just about to start! The room’s very green.
Getting a ‘May contain inappropriate content’ message. HOW EXCITING.
Hey guys – we’re about to kick things off.
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