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Summary of E3 2009 Announcements
This week has been a massive week for gamers and the gaming industry. We have seen some great new game announcements, upcoming console features aswell as some new console announcements, all coming out of this years E3 Expo in sunny LA. This has led to a huge amount of buzz going around the internet with all the new announcements. This post will simply keep you up-to-date with all the announcements that came out of the E3 Expo.
The expo was kicked off by Microsoft. They announced over 10 new games for their console during their conference. Here's some of the game that you can expect to see being released in the near future:
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – November 10th 2009
- Metal Gear Solid: Rising
- Halo 3: ODST – September 22nd 2009
- Halo: Reach – 2010
- Final Fantasy 13 – Autumn 2010
- Forza Motorsport 3 – October 2009
- Crackdown 2 – 2010
- Left 4 Dead 2 – November 17th 2009
- Splinter Cell Conviction – Autumn 2009
- Alan Wake – 2010
- The Beatles: Rock Band – September 9th 2009
Aswell as all these massive games, they also announced a range of massive console features that we can expect to see coming to the 360 in the next few months. These included:
- Twitter and Facebook modified for the 360
- Netflix
- Sky TV
- Last FM (free for gold members)
- Zune HD video
Possibly the biggest console feature they announced was Project Natal. Natal is meant to be the next step in gaming, controller free gaming which will allow you to play your games by moving your body. The 3D camera uses facial recognition to log you automatically into Xbox Live, voice activation to start video, games or chats just by saying so. And finally, the ability to scroll through the Xbox 360 dashboard by simply using your hand. No date has been given for the release of this new console feature.
Later that day came the EA conference where they announced a series of game releases that included:
- Star Wars: The Old Republic – 2010
- Need for Speed: Shift – September 17th 2009
- Fight Night Round 4 – June 26th 2009
- EA Sports Active
- EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis – June 12th 2009
- Mass Effect 2 – January 10th 2010
- Brutal Legend – October 16th 2009
- The Sabateur
- Crysis 2
- Dragon Age Origins – October 20th 2009
- Dante’s Inferno – February 2010
- Madden NFL 10
- MMA: Mixed Martial Arts – 2010
After EA came Ubisoft with some pretty big and awesome looking game announcements. These included the following:
- Assassin’s Creed 2
- Splinter Cell Conviction
- Red Steel 2
- No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
- Avatar: The Game
- Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage
- Academy of Champions
- Casual Games
- Your Shape
- Rabbids Go Home
- TMNT: Turtles in time Re-shelled
That was all the excitement over for the first day of the expo, on the second day game another 2 console developers, Nintendo and Sony.
Nintendo kicked off the second day with some big game annoucements for their consoles, the Wii and the newest DSi. These included the following:
- Metroid Prime: Other M
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Wii Fit Pluz
- New Super Mario Bros
- Wii Sports Resort
- The Conduit
- Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
- Dead Space Extraction
They also announced the vitality sensor which is a thumb grip, similar to the ones used in hospitals, to measure your pulse rate. They say that this new feature will be incorporated into a series of games that are designed to help you keep fit and relax.
It was a resonably short day for conferences leaving Sony to finish off the day with some more massive game announcements, some new tech for the Playstation 3 and finally, a new console announcement.
You can expect to see the following PS3 releases in the near future:
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Heavy Rain
- Massive Action Game
- Agent
- Gran Turismo 5
- God of War 3
- The Last Guardian
- Modnation Racing
As for hardware announcements, they announced that they are developing some technology similar to the Wii. The new motion technology requires 2 controllers, similar to the Wii except it uses a camera, just like Project Natal. They hope that they will be able to incorporate this tech into many of their games aswell as games purposely created for the controllers.
Sony's conference was ended with the announcement of the PSP Go, a new compact console. The new PSP Go is basically a smaller and lighter version of the current PSP, but with a slide up screen that uncovers the controls. The new PSP Go will contain an internal flash drive which will store all your games, meaning you don't have to carry discs out with you. It also contains build in WiFi, Bluetooth and a slot for a flash drive to gain extra storage space.
That was the end of all the conferences for the major developers and publishers, however, I'm sure all of the above will keep us busy enough until the 2010 E3.
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