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Chitown712914344d ago

I can't lie.....Microsoft is doing well so far at this years E3! Keep it up Microsoft!!

fr0sty4344d ago

Been watching for 20 minutes, haven't seen or heard about anything to do with videogames.

LOGICWINS4344d ago

Then maybe your watching something else. I can guarantee your not watching the MS conference.

fr0sty4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

No, I'm most definitely watching the MS conference. 20 minutes of talking about TV, sports and now onto music.

Edit: Now fitness. I thought this was about gaming? Did they just show gears, forza, and halo and then devote the rest of the conference to non-gaming crap?

Dante1124344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

Watching their Kinect stuff now. Seems like the main focus.

@ Frosty

Yeah, something about Nike training. Probably another exercise game lol.

Edit: Now they're on about smartphones. I'm gonna laugh so hard when IGN claims that MS had the best gaming showing.

blitz06234344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

Aside from the usual Halo/Gears/Fable/Splinter Cell and TONS of Kinect, nothing really new. MS has almost completely turned the Xbox to a casual machine. Bing, Xbox Music, Nike+? Sheesh

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darthv724344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

between the kinect, media and games so far.

edit: xbox smart glass looks like an intriguing project. I can say that when im gaming, i always have my phone near me to look up tips when im stuck or cheats.

having my existing galaxy s2 interact with my xbox...yeah im good with that.

internet explorer coming to xbox...finally. Better late than never. It would be even better if it was firefox but i will take IE over the other console browsers. Useing my phone as the input device. Nice.

Chitown712914344d ago

Compare this to their previous conferences.......Theyre doing a HELL of lot better this year! Their last conferences were beyond ridiculous.......This year they're actually showing games, and the Xbox Live features look pretty cool......Theyre doing good this year......last year was Kinect and filled with Kinect sh*t.....

humbleopinion4344d ago

Guess you somehow missed the trailers for halo 4, splinter cell, forza, fable, gears...
Better check your eyesight then.

FriedGoat4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

This is the worst conference I think I have ever seen. I forgot the Xbox doesn't play games anymore. Halo 4 is nothing we didn't know about, splinter cell is multiplat, forza horizon will be just a slightly modified version of forza same engine etc fable isn't worth mentioning it's the next "Kinect star wars" the Xbox is not a device I use for media, I have better devices, this is the Worst conference I have ever seen. Also a CGI trailer tells us nothing.
Plus I'm not going to buy a Kinect just to use it as a glorified microphone in games, microphones have existed for ages. Just because it's a peice of junk doesn't mean it has to have exclusive microphone control, I have microphones on all my devices.

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Chitown712914344d ago

*shrugs* What can I say man? They're servicing their fan base....... Im still a Sony fanboy at heart and can't wait to see their conference, I know they're going to kill it......

flyingmunky4344d ago

Nice ie and bing on my Xbox/s.
What happened to new games....

Chitown712914344d ago

Ok now they're showing stupid shit....

gatormatt804344d ago

WTF??!! Usher at E3... LOL

F7U124344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

It's clear to anyone that's watching this that hardcore gaming is no longer their main focus.

I'm watching the blops preview right now and it looks lame as usual..COD is the official FPS for little kids.

*no new hardware which means Sony wont leak any info on PS4 :(

*damn and that Usher sh*t was retarded, MS is clueless.

*what pisses me off the most is that Res6 DLC will be a timed exclusive on 360. FFFUUU! No sale!

DasBunker4344d ago

lol'd at closing with COD as a climax.. what a shotty MS E3..

darthv724344d ago

it would have been a better close had it been the halo 4 footage instead of blops2.

It would have been epic if they had done a repeat of when bill gates revealed halo 2 years ago. That was a good end to an e3 presentation. This time...not so much.

JaredH4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

That was disappointing. Halo looked like Halo, Splinter Cell Black List looked like Splinter Cell Conviction, COD looked like COD and the Gears teaser looked like Gears. Tomb Raider was the best thing I saw from that conference. And the look at South Park was cool. They showed nothing new or exciting for xbox only though and their presentation had no big news or exciting announcements. The one game that looked interesting was the Portal-esque Matter but then it said 'made for Kinect' and I'm not buying a Kinect to play one game.

Razmossis4344d ago

Halo, Splinter Cell, Forza, Fable, Gears of War? Aren't these the games they announced last year? And the year before and the year before and.....?

JaredH4344d ago

To clarify I'm not saying the games I listed suck. I'm just saying I don't need to watch gameplay to know what I'll get from those games if I buy them.

Kinect4344d ago

Wtf did I just watch o_o

DragonKnight4344d ago

@DK: I guess you didn't want the conference or can't read as there is plenty of negative things to say about MS' conference. It's clear they don't care about delivering new gaming experiences on their GAMING console. All they care about are sequels, timed exclusive DLC, Kinect, apps, Kinect, apps, and Kinect. You can be happy for the sequels to some of your favorite games, but if you're happy with the overall state of their focus and conference then you have low standards.

pixelsword4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

Just got off of work and will try to look at Microsoft's conference before Sony's conference comes on. I'm so excited that I get to watch Microsoft's and Sony's on the same day, plus I saw a preview of Nintendo's yesterday!

I don't care if the games are Kinect-centered as long as they're good games.

MaxXAttaxX4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

Along with some Kinect games and Usher.

I wish I was exaggerating.

tee_bag2424343d ago

Time to throw my Xbox in the toilet. Seriously where are the games?! All I use the useless thing is for party chat these days and it can't even do that right cos the wireless set barely works now. MS has the worst build quality and now no games make me forget about it.

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LOGICWINS4344d ago

I agree. Great pacing. I'm actually impressed with Kinect this time around. Did anyone else hear HHG in the background when Machinima popped up LOL?

Simon_Brezhnev4344d ago

Horrible conference. I doubt Sony or Nintendo do better well they will but probably not by much. Sony conference better not be talking about a lot of DLC either.

kingdavid4344d ago

Well at the very least sony dont have kinect.

LOL_WUT4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

Wow Microsofts conference was so boring Nintendo's pre E3 presentation was more interesting than that.

kingdavid4344d ago

The worst conference ive seen since nintendo's wii music conference.

Bobby Kotex4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

The ONLY remotely exclusive thing that was interesting was Halo 4. Not a single interesting new IP or anything innovative at all. Just more milking of the usual suspects. Go ahead and vote me down if you're butthurt.

gatormatt804344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

I agree with you. Look Halo the franchise is great and all but... The game play they showed wasn't really that impressive to me. IMO this may have been Microsoft's worst E3 presentation ever. If I only owned a 360 I would be very disappointed.

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IRetrouk4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

As much as I love gears and forza the conference was weak, again nothing really new or exciting, I get that you like your Xbox and ms, but how can you not agree that the thing was boring and predictable? I personally want more games from ms, they have soo much money and could of really been a challenge to Sony, and I know you don't like the look of most ps exclusives, but I do, it's what makes me want a ps, its why I bought a 360 in the first place

Kinect4344d ago

I'm disappointed ms is really fucking the pooch on this one, really sad

CoolBeansRus4344d ago

This is probably the most disappointing E3 msft has ever done. I watch E3 for games not for apps or anything else, extremely disappointed with them. MSFT need to remember it's a gaming console not a dam computer.

Halo 4 was the best part, best looking Halo ever. Can't wait.

La-meditron4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

well, i guess this means No new xbox till 2014.

and everybody said the console wasn't future proof, by then 360 will be 8 years old.

Congratulations ms your first console to truly have a long life!!

KRUSSIDULL4344d ago (Edited 4344d ago )

I'm disappointed, this was so boring to watch more than half the time were "US" exclusive media content I dont even get to use it here in Sweden. To much focus tablet/phone/kinect gimmick related stuff.

I'm a hardcore Xbox 360 gamer and this is just the truth. It hurts that they didnt even show 1 new exclusive.

I can only name 4 things that brought a smile on my face and that is:

1. Halo 4 gameplay,
2. Splinter Cell Blacklist (I did not see that coming and I enjoy Splinter Cell)
3. South Park game (I love southpark)
4. All Xbox 360 big in-house titles is announced at the same time for the first time. Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable. This probably means we will see "Xbox Next" by 2013.

But still got to see new gameplay from E3 and 3rd party games.

showtimefolks4344d ago

a D+ for MS i mean the last 3 years they went from ok to bad to 2012 worst. EA has a lot more to show i mean MS see casuals and forgetting about us

a new forza already really? we have GT5 and this it while how many forza games this gen alone>

new halo new gears really MS that's so interesting

disagree all you want i am a gamer and really pissed at MS we supported them early on to make a install base of millions and now they see casuals and forgetting about us

american media will still think MS had a great showing and give them A and b

as a gamer halo and gears everything else was ok at best

YOUGOTOWNEDLOL4344d ago

Man! what a boring conference I almost fell asleep 20min in!!!!!!!!! nothing new what so ever. More subscription service I can get free on basic cable, Kinect games meh, Halo only good game, but nothing new what so ever. Usher was performing for Dance Central 3, gee, great more dance games 0_\. Microsoft bombed! I wonder if they know they are in a competition? I guess MS is dropping the hardcore crowd that made them rich.I was seriously underwhelmed. MS conference gets a "D"

MrMister4343d ago

@ Chitown71291: U say u can't lie, but u just did. Either that, or your delusional man. Smh.

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FlashXIII4344d ago

Consider yourself lucky, if you're smart enough you'd have saved yourself from wasting x amount of minutes of your life.

JasonBloodbourne4344d ago

Halo 4 looks bloody awesome!! And forza horizon looks sweet roll on autumn

B1663r4344d ago

Why wouldn't you just watch this on your xbox???

DARK WITNESS4344d ago

Halo 4 really did look good.

forza H interesting..

but breaking it down all we have really got is sequel after sequel after sequel and now it's kinect kinect kinect..

does not feel that great to me.

I am really not that interested in how much I can talk to my xbox. how about some new IP's to play ?

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Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX

This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies22h ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

just_looken18h ago

Here here

Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.

I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing

CrimsonWing691d 9h ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker1d 9h ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo1d 9h ago (Edited 1d 9h ago )

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing691d 9h ago (Edited 1d 9h ago )

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos1d 6h ago (Edited 1d 5h ago )

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt21h ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.

just_looken17h ago

It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5

Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.

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6 Fun Games Where You Actually Play As The Bad Guy

While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.

Profchaos1d 15h ago

Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.

It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny

Tacoboto1d 14h ago

Armored Core VI?

Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.

Is something big coming soon to branch the story?

banger881d 14h ago

No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).

ChasterMies1d 4h ago

Trevor in GTA 6 is a sadist and psychopath who dabbles in cannibalism. Should be top of the list. These game “news” sites should hire people that know games.