Microsoft Press Conference Live Blog

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  • FourZeroTwo takes the stage, playing through an underwater MW3 level.
  • The player steps out into what seems to be New York under siege. EPIC!
  • We see the return of a few weapons: AK74-u P90 etc
  • B reach slow-mo scenes are back
  • Speedboating through a watery warzone, with the epic cityscape behind.
  • A bit of an anti-climax, but it’s over. The lead designer of Sledgehammer Games takes the stage, only for a small speech.
  • Xbox Television is mentioned… that wasn’t expected.
  • Lead Designer of Crystal Dynamics take the stage, starts a Tomb Raider demo. Boy it looks beautiful
  • These graphics are AMAZING!
  • Seems to be a lot more dark and sinister than past games, maybe that’s a good thing.
  • Jheez, Lara loves making over exaggerated sex noises.
  • I’ve never been a fan of Tomb Raider, but ZOMG I want that.
  • EA Sports president takes the stage, don’t look for my opinions on this, I hate sports games.
  • 4 New EAS games will use Kinect, including Fifa… exciting.
  • Mass Effect Time
  • Earth has been taken *gasp*
  • ME3 Will use Kinect voice recognition, could it work!?
  • Ah, not as I expected, you say a command on screen to choose, not free speech. Still ok I guess.
  • ooh, you can say commands in battle to command your teammates. That’s more like it.
  • Ghost Recon, not seen this for a while.
  • Ubisoft CEO takes the stage, more Kinect in games. Showing off ‘Gunsmith’ in GR to customise a weapon. Actually, surprisingly good.
  • Voice commands, ‘optimise for…’ selects a premade weapon, and ‘randomise’ too.
  • Shows shooting with Kinect, not as I expected it to be used, but it could work.
  • Xbox Live guy on he stage. Looks so very like WP7, is it a new dashboard, or just for Kinect?
  • Expect a lot more entertainment. OMG YOUTUBE COMING TO OUR DASHBOARDS *squeeeee*
  • Bing on Xbox too, not internet, but a search thing for the Xbox. Amazing, *faints*
  • Lots more parnerships to come!
  • Live TV on Xbox. ZOMG it’s worldwide this time too!
  • UFC guy comes on, again, don’t expect much from me.
  • Imagine a social game you play whilst watching TV, basically place friendly bets with your friends during live TV.
  • Everything coming up is Xbox exclusive. Gears 3 first, with that beautiful campaign trailer.
  • CliffyB  takes the stage, my hero.
  • Playing through Campaign with Ice T
  • They seem to be fighting a giant sea monster, classic Gears style.
  • One of the characters get in a mech, called ‘Walking Cover’, could be interesting.
  • They fight the seam monster, explosions, emulsion, classing Gears.
  • They attack the monster by dumping Tickers on it, big explosion, silly Cole.
  • Unusual trailer plays, seems a little too violent for Fable.
  • *Sigh* a Kinect game, yes, again. Fighing Romans, called Ryse.
  • Halo: CE remade in HD, now we’re talking.
  • Forza 4, you could call it sport, so don’t expect much from me. I’m guessing it’s Kinect.
  • Yeap.
  • But I must say, the graphics are great. Really crisp and realistic.
  • Headtracking?! That’s a cool feature.
  • Here comes Peter Molyneux
  • Fable yay! Lemme guess, Kinect?
  • Theresa looks different.
  • Yep, Kinect, *groan*
  • Casting spells with your hands. It looks like one of those old ‘Plug in and Play’ games you’d stick in your TV and it’d move for you etc.
  • Too gimmicky for me.
  • Minecraft on Xbox, cool! Hope it’s not Kinect only.
  • A Microsoft Disney collaboration, interesting.
  • Star Wars Kinect! Looks as clunky and laggy as the leaked demo, but it could work.
  • “LIGHTSABER ON!”
  • It just seems really slow paced.
  • Good ol’ Tim Schaffer takes the stage, Sesame Street time!
  • Aww, father and son playing, that’s real cute!
  • Looks fun for little kids, characters parents can remember too.
  • Kudo comes back. Mentions Ricochet, makes me want it.
  • Kinect Fun Labs! Imagine indie games, but for Kinect. Allows games and things created on PC to be used on Xbox. All the mods can finally be used!
  • Kinect Avatar creator. Wow, it actually works, and somehow copies your clothes!
  • Finger tracking now. Allows you to… draw. Can rotate your drawing, to view it in 3D.
  • Mentions KinectShare.com what could that be!?
  • Insert your own objects into your games! Nice. I’m sure we saw this last year, but now it actually works! And it looks damn good.
  • Surprise!! Kinect Fun Labs available now, go get it!
  • Kinect Sports: Season 2 revealed. Nice.
  • 6 new sports, new gestures, and voice control.
  • Golf demo, and it’s looking good!
  • Football demo, and they choose their play, quite cool.
  • It actually works really well, the running, throwing, showboating  etc. Looks quite good.
  • Dance Central 2 comes on, boasting a out the largest music selection in a dance game
  • Also, now allows multiplayer dancing.
  • Demonstrate with professional dancers, how cool!
  • A new project!?
  • A voice screaming. Heart beating. “JOHN” “CHEIF”
  • ZOMG YES IT’S HALO 4 (tries to sound surprised)

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