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E3 2010 Day 1 Coverage
Jun 14th
So I sat around for all of E3 over at GameTrailers’ live streams. Some stuff was obvious, and some came out of no where. If you want to find more details on today’s events at E3 then I recommend you head over to GT/G4 for videos. Here is a list of what occurred today (in order from beginning to end).
Microsoft Conference:
Call of Duty Black Ops Gameplay
Metal Gear Solid: Rising Gameplay
Gears of War 3 Gameplay
Fable 3 gameplay
Crytek announces Codename Kingdoms
Halo Reach campaign gameplay
Kinect (aka Project Natal) demonstration
-Kinectimals
-Kinect Sports
-Kinect Adventures
-Many more that weren’t demonstrated
360 slim announced. Being shipped today and should be in stores by next week for $299.99
- The new slim 360 includes a 250GB hard drive and built in Wi-Fi.
Everyone at the Microsoft conference got a free slim 360.
EA Conference:
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit announcement and gameplay
Dead Space 2 Gameplay – Releases Jan 25th 2011
Medal of Honor 25 player LAN gameplay – Releases Oct. 12 2010 (beta access June 21st for BFBC2 VIP users).
EA Gun Club http://gunclub.ea.com/
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion
EA Sports MMA announced
EA Live Broadcast
EA Active 2
Sims 3 to be released on consoles
Crysis 2 console gameplay
Bulletstorm gameplay – Releases Feb 22, 2011
Star Wars The Old Republic trailer
Ubisoft Conference:
Child of Eden gameplay
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood gameplay – Releases November 16, 2010
Shaun White Skateboarding gameplay
BattleTag revealed
Innergy slight “gameplay”
Your Shape Fitness Evolved for Kinect gameplay
Raving Rabbids Travel in Time announced – Releases November 9, 2010
Ghost Recon Future Soldier trailer and gameplay
Driver San Francisco announcement and gameplay
Project Dust (working title) announcement
Rayman Origins announcement
Maniaplanet announcement
Michael Jackson game announcement
If there’s anything that I managed to leave out just let me know.
The Speed Gamers: Mario Marathon
Jun 11th
Just one hour ago, The Speed Gamers began their epic adventure into the 168 hour (one week) long marathon raising money for ‘ACT (Autism Care and Treament) Today’. Please go and support them over at TheSpeedGamers.com. TSG will be entertaining you every step of the way! Watch them play, support the cause, and have fun with the shenanigans that they produce.
“The upcoming Mario Marathon starts June 11th at 6:00PM and will run for a week straight (168 Hours). We will be playing through a lot of the Mario games while raising money for ACT Today (http://www.act-today.org/).
TheSpeedGamers have been streaming video game marathons for over a year to raise money for various charities. In total they have raised over $140,000 dollars and played 17 marathons. They have raised over $50,000 in their week long Final Fantasy Marathon, and have made multiple news appearances. This upcoming marathon will be for ACT Today. This charity provides grant money for families that cannot afford or access the treatments their autistic children need.
During the marathon we will have multiple contests to win various prizes. Some are contributed by TheSpeedGamers’ gracious community members.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops Announced
Apr 30th
The new game in the Call of Duty franchise shall be titled Call of Duty: Black Ops, is being developed by Treyarch, and is set to release on November 9th, 2010. The game is said to be set between WWII and present day. In just a little while, GameTrailers will have the first look at the game on their site which will be embedded here. Not much is known about the game currently but I shall post more details in the future.
Will Treyarch win or fail this time around? Will it do better than MW2? Do we want another WWII/Vietnam game?
Personally I think the game will flop but I’m hoping it doesn’t. What do you think?
Quick Explanation on DLC
Apr 22nd
Just recently I was browsing reading the comments on a Kotaku article about the new L4D2 DLC named “The Passing.” Many say things such as “Why do 360 owners have to pay when the PC users get it for free? Now I see why people scoff at Valve games being on consoles…” Well to all of you that are unaware as to how things work with DLC, let me enlighten you.
As many of you probably already know, The Passing DLC will be available on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 560MSP. Do you think that’s fair? Well yes, actually it is. See, Microsoft charges the developers to put content up on their servers. Yes, it is possible for Valve to place the content for free, but then they would lose money as they would have to pay Microsoft. It’s either the community pays a small fee or the developers pay a large sum. I know that they would love to give it to 360 users for free as well, but due to how Microsoft works, they cannot. Valve does not need to put any content on the marketplace. Many of you may complain about the price, but you should be happy that you are able to get the DLC at all.
PC users will be able to get the content for free because Valve owns Steam and isn’t going through any third-party whatsoever. They can host it and apply it as an update so that everyone gets it even if they don’t know anything about it. A lot of PC content is free due to the fact that people can make their own content with the Source engine because it’s meant to be modded. You will see tons of mods for different source games. If there is a DLC that costs money, then someone would most likely just make their own version of it anyways. Other companies would most likely charge for their DLC regardless of platform, but Valve has been making games for quite a long time and has been very fair to the community/fan base. DLC is always optional and most of the time we don’t know it’s going to even happen when a game first comes out and we purchase it. In the beginning, you know you’re going to be happy with the game you got at that moment. In some cases, it’s a privilege to get that content. There are still quite a lot of 360 users that don’t have internet or Xbox LIVE and can’t get it at all. Don’t forget, that money is going towards improving/developing more games.
Just be happy with what you can get, support the developers, and just enjoy the game like it’s meant to be.
Hardcore Halo 2 Fans Are STILL Gaming
Apr 19th
Just recently I had checked Justin.tv and saw someone playing Halo 2 online. Baffled as to how this was possible due to Xbox LIVE shutting down the servers for Original Xbox games. When I went in there I saw that these gamers (61 of them at the time) have still been playing Halo 2 online even after the servers were shut down. All that are playing still have no turned off their consoles since April 15th when the servers were shut down. It seems that the servers haven’t been shut down, but rather been locked so that no one can access them. These gamers are dedicated to the amazing game known as Halo 2 and are trying to keep it alive as long as possible. They will keep playing until their consoles die, their internet connection is lost, or the servers are shut down. I will update this post when the broadcaster has stopped playing due to one of the three previous reasons above. If you would like to watch you can find the channel HERE (you can also find Halo 2’s stats page here).
Personally I wish that we could still play Original Xbox games, but hopefully the Xbox team will be able to pump out more features as they claim. I hope to see these players keep going for quite a long time. Game on guys, game on.
Nintendo DSi is going 3D
Mar 23rd
As you may have already heard, Nintendo is working on 3D technology for the DSi WITHOUT 3D glasses. Well this is the first video of the new software and I’m digging it. I am hoping that Nintendo will put out some awesome stuff with this technology in the future.
Big thanks to WhatNow (Christian) for the heads up about this video.
Ask A Capper – Custom Button Mapping Petition
Mar 19th
Clicking the picture below will take you straight to the petition (and there’s more info there as well).
Chuck Bittner over at AskACapper.com is a disabled gamer and stand up comedian. He is an amazing gamer and comedian. He doesn’t let his disability keep him away from what he loves. Improvisation is a wonderful thing in life!
These days, video games don’t allow for custom controls. They may have a few variants here and there, but it still isn’t enough. Games need custom button mapping due to the fact that not everyone has full use of all 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. I’ve always wondered what I would do if I were to go blind, or lose a hand, or something along those lines. I know that if that were to happen, I would sure as hell find a way to keep on doing what I love. Whether it’s using a controller with my feet, or even playing rhythm games based off what I hear.
Alright, so Chuck has a petition up. The petition is to encourage developers to incorporate custom button mapping in video games. There are over 2500 signatures up already and rising. If you would like to sign the petition, you can find it HERE. I would like to thank my good friend Kreyg from Hot Blooded Gaming for introducing me to Chuck and the cause. I really hope to see you all sign it and pass it on to your friends.
Modern Warfare 2 – Gold = Silver
Mar 12th
Activision has announced that Modern Warfare 2 will be receiving DLC on March 30th, 2010. The DLC pack is known as the “Stimulus Package”. Due to this release, there will be a celebration! Everyone get ready for this… Silver members on Xbox LIVE will be able to play Modern Warfare 2 online between the dates of March 12th and March 15th of 2010. This should make a lot of Silver members want to break out the money for a Gold membership. Infinity Ward said that earlier this week that since Modern Warfare 2’s release, it has been played online by over 25 million people.
So who’s planning on buying this new DLC to release at the end of this month?
Perfect Dark coming to XBLA
Mar 11th
The original Perfect Dark for the Nintendo 64 is going to be resurrected in HD glory on XBLA this March! It’s going to be released on March 17th, 2010 and will run you only 800MSP ($9.99USD). It will include all of the original content but completely redone in 1080p. It features up to 8 player versus as well as 2 player co-op on and offline.
“Agent Joanna Dark hit the ground running in Perfect Dark, an epic tale of galactic conspiracies in 2023 America. Now this classic shooter comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade, rendered in greater definition and detail and sporting a silkier framerate than ever before. Fire up your Farsight and prepare for assignment—the Dark returns this winter.”
This game is your typical first person shooter and has a wide variety of weapons. This game is very similar to one of Rare’s earlier title, GoldenEye 007. Perfect Dark has a wonderful story and the multiplayer will have you coming back for more.
Perfect Dark features Agent Joanna Dark. She is sent on a mission to investigate suspicious reports from a dataDyne insider calling himeself Dr. Caroll, who is actually an AI. After the raid on dataDyne, Daniel Carrington (found of the Carrington Institute) is held captive at his private villa by dataDyne soldiers and forced to tell them where Dr. Caroll has been hiding. Joanna’s mission is to rescue Carrington and Dr. Caroll of what has been happening.
I hope to see you all playing it on release! I know I will.
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