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MS @ E3 11: Ice-T brings Body Count to Gears of War 3
Aided by Cliff Bleszinski, rapper/actor/all around badass Ice-T used Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference to announce that Body Count will reunite to provide an exclusive song for Gears of War 3‘s Horde Mode.
Gears of War 3 will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360 on September 20.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged E3 2011, Gears of War 3
MS @ E3 11: YouTube, Bing search, live TV, UFC fights coming to Xbox Live
While showcasing the new voice-activated Kinect-powered Xbox 360 Dashboard, Microsoft’s Marc Whitten revealed that YouTube will soon be available on Xbox Live. Microsoft is also adding Bing-powered search results to the Xbox Live Marketplace. The example was a search for “X-Men” which brought up X-Men games, movie trailers and buyable videos.
More TV options were announced including a “Live TV” mode as well as live UFC fighting events on Xbox Live, but no further details on either were revealed.
The New Xbox 360 Experience will launch this Fall.
MS @ E3 11: Kinect support added to Madden, Mass Effect 3, more
Peter Moore returned to the E3 stage for a Microsoft Press Conference to announce that four EA Sports titles will receive Kinect support in the next year.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Madden NFL 12, FIFA Soccer 12 and an unnamed fourth game will add Kinect features including voice recognition. Moore also revealed that other EA games will feature Kinect support including The Sims 3: Pets and Mass Effect 3.
BioWare’s Ray Muzyka took the stage and showed off a “Kinect augmented” Mass Effect 3 demo where players can use voice recognition to actually speak Shepard’s lines. Shepard can also use Kinect to give orders to his team.
They were followed by Ubisoft, who showed off the Kinect features of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, including a gun creation tool known as “Gunsmith.” Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillomont confirmed that all future Tom Clancy games would feature Kinect support.
More from the Press Conference soon.
MS @ E3 11: Tomb Raider returns in Fall 2012
Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference opened with an amazing assault on a sub in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and a thrilling escape from a cave in the new Tomb Raider. Lara actually crashed through the ceiling of a part of the cave and needed a quick time event to pull a jagged piece of rock from her stomach. Whoa!
Developer Crystal Dynamics announced that Tomb Raider will be available in Fall 2012 on the Xbox 360 (and PC and PS3 as well).
Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders remakes also coming to PSN, XBLA
Konami got E3 off to a rollicking start last week during their first ever Pre-E3 Show. During the event, famed director Hideo Kojima announced his next two projects: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Zone of the Enders HD Collection. Both games will be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360, but as the E3 Expo opens, Kojima Productions has another surprise in store for gamers on their E3 Special Site.
In addition to the retail releases, each remake package will be available to download from the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade as well. It’s unknown if the download versions will appear at the same time as the retail versions, but I’m sure Konami will announce more details about the compilations soon.
The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, which contains Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Libery, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, will be released in November. Bluepoint Games, the same team responsible for the God of War Collection and the Team Ico Collection, will be handling the development.
Zone of the Enders HD Collection, which contains Zone of the Enders and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, will be released sometime in 2012.
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Tagged E3 2011, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Zone of the Enders HD Collection
Daily Scoop: June 6, 2011 – E3 is here!
It’s time for E3! Some of the press conferences have already happened, but the big three are still to come. We’ll be reporting on them, so stay tuned here for all of your E3 needs!
While you’re waiting, you might want to check out some of the deals going on and pick up some games on the cheap! Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games today is for all of you football fans out there! The MadCatz NFL PlayStation 3 controllers are just $25.00 each, down from $39.99. Pick up your, uh, Buffalo Bills controller today! That’s a football team, right?
Also, it’s week two of the Dads & Grads promotion at Amazon, and that means handheld deals! There’s plenty of great stuff there, including Final Fantasy IV The Complete Collection for PSP – arguably the best version of FF IV yet!
And after a slow t-shirt weekend, today’s Qwertee has me wondering if it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all:
<3!
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Nintendo Download 6/6/11 includes Ubongo, Picdun, Dreamwalker
Nintendo plans to turn on the 3DS eShop sometime today, but until then they’ve alreday updated the Wii Shop and DSi Shop with a quartest of new games.
The Wii Shop gets Ubongo, a puzzle game based on an internationally renowned board game. DSi owners will get a chance to download three news titles: Go Series: Picdun, a unique action RPG where “every step you take will fill in the blanks of a hidden picture”; Dreamwalker, a Little Nemo-like platformer; and Crazy Cheebo: Puzzle Party, a puzzle game.
More information on four games can be found after the break. (more…)
Activision announces E3 lineup; CoD Elite beta dated
The 2011 E3 Expo opens today as Activision has released the final details their Call of Duty-centric lineup. The one-two punch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and the Call of Duty Elite subscription service headline the publisher’s announcement. They’ve even announced an official state date for Elite’s invite-only public beta: July 14, 2011. According to Activision, over a million people have already registered to request a beta key.
The megapublisher plans to have a few other titles on display at E3 including the toy/game hybrid Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, their other toy/game hybrid Wappy Dog, the game-to-movie adaptation Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the wild Prototype 2 and the Marvel-ous Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny.
More information on Activision’s complete E3 slate can be found after the break. (more…)