To quote our editor and admin Michael O’Connor: We’re living in a gaming renaissance. No longer are gamers thought of as hopeless shut-ins without jobs and social-lives, now that video games have been brought into the open market due to the advent of casual games that can be picked up and played by anyone.
Yet at the same time, in this time of gaming moving forward and becoming mainstream, I’m seeing an increased focus on moving backwards.
The E3 Expo is over for this year, and we learned a ton of new stuff. We know the name and games for Microsoft’s Kinect, we know what the new Zelda title is, we know what David Jaffe has been working on, and that there’s a new Rayman title in the works. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! However, there were some things gamers were expecting to see, but that never appeared. Here’s a rundown of things that were MIA.
Konami’s E3 press conference was held yesterday, and we here at The Gaming Vault thought we’d give you a quick rundown of the biggest announcements.
We were on the E3 floor this year checking out Ignition Entertainment and Zombie Studios’ Blacklight: Tango Down, and managed to spend some time talking to the game’s lead level designer, Michael Schorr, who was gracious enough to take a moment out of his time time to answer some of our questions.
We here at The Gaming Vault thought we’d give a quick run-down of our first impressions and opinions on Sony’s press conference. Sony had a rather long press conference this year, and was all about the 3D aspect of gaming. Yet Sony forgot to mention that you need a 3D TV in order to experience games in 3D, which goes against Sony’s boasts about being “best on 3D”, not to mention pushing several 3D games out the door.
We here at The Gaming Vault thought we’d give a quick run-down of our first impressions and opinions on Nintendo’s press conference. Unlike Microsoft, Nintendo jumped straight to the point and gave us a first look at the new Legend of Zelda title, which looked like a mix between Twilight Princess and Wind Waker. Shigeru Miyamoto struggled a bit with his live demo, but from what I’ve heard from the show floor, the game absolutely works.
Portal 2 has officially been announced for the PlayStation 3. This announcement came courtesy of a very nervous looking Gabe Newell during Sony’s E3 press conference.
“PlayStation 3 is the most open platform of all the current generation consoles and has worked extremely hard to make the platform the most desirable for consumers and developers.
As such, we are delighted to announce Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 and believe the Steamworks support included will make it the best console version of the game,” Newell stated in a press release.
A quick launch trailer was also shown, which you can find below. It looks like the player and GLAdOS will be teaming up to fight whatever’s taken over the Aperture Science facility.
Sony’s E3 press conference just wrapped up and there really wasn’t a lot of big announcements to pick and choose from. Until the end of the conference. Sony’s final bid for your time and money was David Jaffe’s Twisted Metal for the PS3.
Near the end of the Ubisoft press conference, the Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot took the stage, showing of three new titles, and a hint of another one.
Shaun White is mostly known as that guy from the snowboarding games that looks like Carrot Top. But there are more sides to him. He’s a skater too! And in Shaun White Skateboarding, that’s exactly what you will do!
The game takes the path of neither Tony Hawk nor Skate, but has decided to make a fantasy world where everything is gray, and is ruled by some sort of anti-skateboarding corporation (the worst kind). You will turn it back to color and life by skating around it, kind of like de Blob or The Saboteur. You will also be able to skate on certain platforms and rails where you can extend into the air, creating new environment as you skate.
The Ubisoft press conference kicked off with a bang (and bleeps, bloops, clicks, samples, synths and much more) this year. We saw just a screen, filled with colorful shapes and lines, with a white circle moving around. We then saw a person standing in front of the the screen, waving his arm around, controlling the circle, pinching together to shoot, altering music as he shoots.
This is the newest game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the creator of Rez, and it’s called Child of Eden. It will use the Kinect, and will probably be out on XBLA.
The Ubisoft press conference just started, and after showing of Children of Eden, They showed off a fancy CG trailer for Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, dating the game for November 16th, 2010.
After that they showed us some of the gameplay, new features include improved horseback riding, turret-sequences with cannons and stealing then keeping enemies’ weapons, to later be able to throw them, in addition to the previously announced multiplayer part.
Crytek have partnered with EA again, developing Crysis 2, the sequel to the wildly successful game. Crytek have updated their amazing Crytek Engine, touting a mix between the sandbox game, and linear gameplay, taking the best of both worlds.
The game will also be in 3D, saying it will be the first game to be in stereoscopic 3D. It will be out in Holiday, 2010.
The EA conference is going on right now, and we just learned that they are bringing the game over to the consoles, complete with the sharing and connectivity from the PC version. More on this, as well as the trailer, when we get a hold of it. Which we now do! Check it out after the cut.
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