Topic: E3 MMX

[ThePerm]

i dont call those Mtv networks, i call them Viacom networks

[BlackNMild2k1]

VH1 is practically MTV, the rest is Viacom.

[nickmitch]

If you want music, just get the cable (or satellite) package that includes MTV Hits and MTV Jams.

[TJ Spyke]

People shouldn't have to do that. At this point MTV should just change their name (like when TNN became Spike TV, which is now just Spike).

[Luigi Dude]

Oh let the fun begin, Natal's final name is now Kinect.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2010-06-14-vidgame14_ST_N.htm

•Kinect Sports has six activities including  boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table  tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in soccer,  you can kick the ball or do a header.

You know Microsoft, if your going to rip off Wii Sports at least think of a more original name that doesn't make it completely obvious.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Your link leads me to nothing(XXXXXX on the USA Today site) and a google search leads only to USA Today and all they mention in actual articles is A Social Program called Kinect Adventures.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2010-06-14-vidgame14_VA2_N.htm

[TJ Spyke]

They must have taken the article down or moved it, I just checked my browsing history and that is where the article was. Maybe they spilled the beans? All other sites mentioning the name that i've seen refer to the USA Today article.

[BlackNMild2k1]

screen cap and post please

[Shaymin]

Would the iPad version be acceptable?

[TJ Spyke]

The fact that it said E3 was beginning "today" (this was posted about 4 hours ago) leads me to believe they weren't supposed to post that until tomorrow morning. The damage is already done though since every video game related site has already posted the news.

[BeautifulShy]

Wasn't there a Natal showing suppose to happen today with Microsoft's Press conference happening tomorrow?

[Caliban]

There's a leak out there on the X-Box 360 redesign. It looks like a modded PC...

[BlackNMild2k1]

There's a leak out there on the X-Box 360 redesign. It looks like a modded PC...

pics people, links people, lets go lets go.

rehost your pics though [ www.imgur.com or www.tinypic.com ] just incase they get removed.

[Luigi Dude]

Wasn't there a Natal showing suppose to happen today with Microsoft's Press conference happening tomorrow?

It just happened.




Behold Microsoft's glorious future.

[BlackNMild2k1]

There's a leak out there on the X-Box 360 redesign. It looks like a modded PC...

nevermind.... I got this one.

[ThePerm]

i like xbox 360 the way it is

lol italian !

[MaryJane]

Just quickly: Viacom technically own three companies: MYV Networks, BET Networks, and Paramount Pictures. Both MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures own other companies under their names: MTV owns the TV networks, and Paramount the movie studios BET Networks, is just the one channel. And also when I said MTV plays music videos I was again talking about all the channels, don't all basic cable packages come with at least MTV Hits now? The music video channels of MTV get decent ratings pre-primetime.

And here's a pretty good summation of the 'Kinect' premiere:

Almost everything was one person at a time, particularly in the Kinect Sports games. Even a game like beach volleyball or soccer was boiled down to individual "moments" of interaction that get strung together into some sort of competition. Even the running in place games were one at a time, though the river rafting and mining cart games (both with a similar mechanic of jumping and ducking through an obstacle course while picking up tokens) could be played with two people at a time. You can at least play games like volleyball simultaneously with someone else over Xbox Live.


An interesting mechanic we saw was a second player "jumping in" to a game. In the mining cart scenario, when the second player jumped in it immediately went split screen, while in soccer different players took turns by just jumping into position. Sure, some of this stuff was edited for our benefit, but it seems Microsoft is working to make the introduction of a second player or the switching between players something less button-heavy.

The Star Wars game was pretty badass-looking -- you play a Jedi, rushing down stormtroopers and deflecting laser bolts left and right, wielding a few Force powers, and confronting a certain deep-voiced Sith Lord for a one-on-one duel. Based on the gestures and action we saw, though, it was a pretty heavily scripted experience. Still, there's no scripting a two-handed light saber grip, and that particular action looked like everything we've ever wanted in a Star Wars game.


The yoga game is actually a pretty smart use of the infrared and joint detection software we espied previously. Positions were "checked" by points on the joint -- making it certainly harder to fake the moves on Wii Fit -- and it seemed to have a tai chi element to it. Your avatar glowed a more intense red based on your three-dimensional approximation -- bright red for hands stretched forward, for example.

Next up: Kinectimals, a baby tiger pet simulator. You can scratch its ears, snuggle, and teach the little guy to jump and play dead. Adorable? Dangerously so. No one can tell us the developer, but based on the lighting effects, art style, and similarities to the previously-shown Milo, we'd wager a guess that it was Lionhead Studios.


The Kinect menu interface is about as simple as could be. You wave your hand to control a glowing cursor of sorts, and you push forward to "click" on the element you want. Of course, there's also a very simplified version of the Dashboard to go along with this control mechanism, so it's unclear if you'll be able to do everything via subtle hand waves, but the Twitter, Facebook, Zune and Netflix icons were clearly present.                                                                                                                                          


The MTV Games-developed Dance Central has some on staff divided -- only Ross will actually admit to being interested in playing it. A series of dance moves are presented, including elbow jabs, swinging leg, guitar, "rocking out" (with your hand in the air). The art style is akin to Rock Band / Guitar Hero, and to be fair, this is probably one of those games that can't be done as well on any other console.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/13/microsoft-kinect-gets-official/

In one of the official pics the guy demonstrating the Kinect has his arms bent as if he were an American football goal post, but his avatar has his hands out diagonally... 

[Caliban]

There's a leak out there on the X-Box 360 redesign. It looks like a modded PC...

pics people, links people, lets go lets go.

Sorry, Sir! I will do a better job next time, Sir!

[TJ Spyke]

MTV Networks and BET Networks are divisions, not companies (I won't get into the boring details of the difference). BET includes BET and BET Jazz. Most basic cable/satellite packages just include MTV and MTV2.

[MaryJane]

So, the conference is over here are my impressions:

 Nintendo obviously had the best conference, the 3DS is the biggest thing since sliced bread, for MS the Kinect did not go over so well, managing to look both glitchy and gimmicky at the same time, and for Sony the Move looked good because it pretty much replicates the Wiimote on an HD system. Though I have to say that it would really annoy me to have to calibrate the stupid thing before every game.

This was an E3 of consoles. Though for Nintendo it was a mobile console that still managed to out-impress its bigger and more powerful non-rivals.


All game announcements took a backseat to the three console upgrades(maybe more like additions for MS and Sony)announced, and for good reason: I'm excited about the 3DS games because they are on the 3DS. If they were on the DSi I would meh about most except Star Fox, since it MUST(or I will kill somebody at Nintendo) have online multiplayer. For the Kinect only the Star Wars game looked interesting to me, and they didn't show how it would integrate with 'normal' games like Fable III. And as big a fan I am of the Fable series Fable III didn't actually jump out much to me. I don't own a PS3 (though I play one often enough) so I didn't pay much attention to what games Sony showed off other than SOCOM which looked like a Wii shooter with good graphics. 

I'd like to get other's impressions on the overall show, especially people who were there.

[Mop it up]

Am I the only one who is completely underwhelmed by the 3DS? Granted, the 3D effect is the kind of thing which must be experienced to understand, but even trying to imagine it with the software lineup announced doesn't make the games interesting. It's mostly games which all have better versions on consoles, and even a few ports of old games. The only two games that looked enticing are PilotWings and Kid Icarus, but neither of them seem like anything which wouldn't be more engaging if they were released on the Wii.

Oh well. I guess I just don't understand the appeal of portables.

[Dirk Temporo]

Well there are a buttload of sequels coming out from various companies, that you really can't yet dictate as to whether or not the console versions will be superior.

[Stratos]

I'm just interested in it because it is the true next gen DS with prettier games and such. 3D effects are just a nice plus for me.

[MaryJane]

I'm an idiot...

[ThePerm]

my biggest problem with playing games on ds was i didn't like moving the character with the touch screen. Now there is a joystick...plus the graphics aren't weak...so this doesn't look much different than playing a console to me.