Microsoft has a GDC announcement up its sleeve

Microsoft's pre-GDC event that revealed the Gears of War 3 beta details and other game confirmations was met with a mooted response from some in the gaming community but the Xbox 360 console maker has something else up its sleeves that has been much requested.

[Dart89]

Free online??

[cozmo195]

they better refund my xbox live gold then if they do lol

[multipayer]

There will never be free online with that attitude, quit being a stooge.

Anyway, I want a successor to Conker Live & Reloaded multiplayer. That's right, make it like warhawk and a full scale tediz vs squirrel war. All of you call of duty fans can suck it.

[captain-obvious]

i bet my left nut its a new Kinect title

[no_more_trolling]

snip snip
useless nut anyway, u havent even reached puberty yet

[kancerkid]

I guess we will soon see how big it really is, but I am reserved at this point.

[Gamehead36]

@kancerkid

The nut?

[No Way]

Hahah, my thoughts exactly! :P

[jizzyjones]

hahahah, Halo CE remake announcement is my guess.

[Queasy]

They've already said no new game announcements until E3 so it is likely Xbox LIVE related.

[theonlylolking]

Is that not what people said about the last time M$ was showing off there games?

I really dont wan to see a halo CE remake since I can play it on my xbox 360 without a remake for a cheap price and I really want a new ip from M$.

[iHEARTboobs]

They said no new game announcements until E3 so don't get your hopes up just yet.

[limewax]

More fees?

[hoops]

Free online from MS?

[lelo2play]

"Microsoft has a GDC announcement up its sleeve"

Hummm... unless it's exclusives hardcore games ... i don't care.

[siyrobbo]

wonder if they showed some cool stuff that was NDA'd till this week?

pff, more than likely a new avatar helmet

[FunAndGun]

Xbox Live is going to be $70 a year with 6 month CoD exclusive DLC deal?

[GoldPS3]

More Kinect shovel ware for sure.

[ElementX]

If you don't like it, don't buy it. I don't see any good Move games out, either. I've been playing Sports Champions for weeks. I haven't gotten the hang of KZ3 with Move yet. Other than those 2 titles, there's not much out for Move.

[DeFFeR]

At least they have actual games on Move...

My Kinect was fun for a few months because of Your Shape (lost 30 pounds...) but the other "games" weren't for me. Kinectimals? I'm 27, and my children are too young to really use it. Killzone 3 Move does take time, but not any more than learning a new controller scheme - put more time into it - it becomes second nature.

[Kon]

New games?

[B1663r]

I bet we get a whole bunch of XBLA games announcements.

Is Torchlight this week or next?

[Agent_S]

Torchlight, next week March 9th.

[DiRtY]

Hulu plus with Kinect release

[Queasy]

Already announced.

[DiRtY]

Date?

[B1663r]

Spring update, which is when Netflix gets Kinect Support as well.

[lochdoun]

LOL
Stupid Microsoft PR team.
We don't believe your tweets anymore.
Shut up with the hype, you're only pissing people off.
If you got something, just announce it and STFU.

[Belasco]

I totally agree, I don't believe one word of it.

[Silentmerc3nary]

"e" is not PR, he's the Director of Xbox Live, so this "news" will be Xbox Live related I think.

[NYC_Gamer]

i don't expect much.

[BX81]

Funny, me and your mom said the same thing when we laid eyes on you at birth!

Seriously I'm hoping for a web browser.

[Omar91]

anyone know GDC full schedule? Meaning EA, microsoft, sony, nintendo etc?

[etowntwo]

I'm an 360 owner, and I'll admit, as far as quantity of hardcore exclusives ... they really do fall short this year compared to other consoles. But with great multiplats coming out this year, they can get that off.
(ME3, Duke Nukem, ninja Gaiden, Ghost Recon, Elder Scrolls, Deux EX, Battlefield, Crysis2, Brink, COD, Mortal Kombat, Batman, Rage and etc etc )

So here's hoping MS really pushes some new games that I'll actually want to play for Kinect.

Show me I didn't waste $150 for Kinect!

[jneul]

you already did waste your money......

[TheObserver]

You do realize that you don't have to pay for XBL if you play multiplats else where, right? You are basically paying* for a.) P2P connection which is ridiculous b.) Paying MS to let you use a 3rd party dedicated server, again, this is ridiculous.

Not to mention that many games will render that XBL subscription pointless for many hours, if not months. *Ahem* Skyrim.

It is not very smart and not very economical to stick with 360 for multiplats. Unless you serious care about the 360 having a little bit more pixels on some multiplats against the PS3 or something. PC having more pixels is not even debatable. And if you care about Xchat so much, PC you can have it.... For free.

[etowntwo]

I bought the 360 day one.
Halo and Gears are by far my fav franchises for the co-op campaigns and multiplayer.... and I still play them.
All, and I mean all my friends and co-workers game on the 360.

Doesn't make sense for me to buy a ps3.

To each their own .. I know the advantages and disadvantages of each system and I still prefer the 360. I own 3 of them now in my home.

[FrigidDARKNESS]

not expecting anything spectacular because i've lost faith in MS. No harcore exclusives till september. They want you to buy the Kinect and third party multi-plats. If anyone believe MS e3 announcements of core exclusive will show up in 2011 will be disappointed.

[etowntwo]

With so many great multiplats this year ... do you really need MS to announce more core exclusives for this year?
Gears, Forza, Kingdoms and most like a remake of Halo CE will most likely be awesome. And then there are lime 10+ amazing multiplats coming out this year too.

I'd rather MS focus on Kinect and the exclusives games for that this year. Cause there definitely will not be a drought for AAA core games in 2011.

[Jockamo]

Youtube support, most likely

[B1663r]

Well if it is Youtube related, I would want the ability to start and stop recording from the XBL popup in game, then save my screen grabs and post them on Youtube as well.

[FailOverHero]

Not gonna get excited this time around. Not after that last event

[awiseman]

What could it be...needles to say i probably wont care

[PandemicPrawn0]

"It's something many of you have asked for".

Holy crap!
Don't tell me they finally spent some cash on a new studio?

[Agent_S]

Seriously right, I would love to hear that.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Their going to announce they are remaking all the Halo games, even reach. Because they suck already they plan to add kinect support so they suck more. And because they still want you to pay for something you've already paid for multiple times.

[Emilio_Estevez]

But for real, it will be something no one cares about, or an original Halo remake. So something no one cares for.

[Belasco]

Oh shut up, this is not the usual MS lynching so calm down.

[Agent_S]

@DrStabwounds, Man you cant even troll properly! Lmao. Sad.

[Emilio_Estevez]

Fyi, I have a 360 and just don't like halo. I actually do think it will be the often rumored Halo 1 remake. Not trolling thank you very much. It's not a "new" game so I think they will.

[Agent_S]

Well I don't give a shit if you do have a 360 or dont like halo. Anyone can read your comments above and see your were spouting nonsense. You just rambled on about this sucks, that sucks and Halo is something no one cares about. Im truly sorry, its apparent you are lacking in the intellegence department. I feel bad now. I don't mean to pick on you.

[Dorwrath]

Love how many people pay no attention and don't read the article.

"no new game announcements are planned until E3"

So what does everyone speculate, games? Seriously do you actually read the article or just the heading?

[AutoCad]

Alot of people bashing already lol...
Guess its a sign of being scared.

Asa 360 owner i will like to see custom dashboard themes , that gray circle in the bottom is ugly.

[tait269]

this is it maybe?

lol

http://majornelson.com/arch...

[Agent_S]

I hope so and I also hope they make changing your tag better. Like you can change it so many times before you are charged or at least decrease the cost of changing it. I have been wanting to change my tag for awhile but at 800pts i'd rather get an arcade game.

[AngryHippo]

Fingers crossed it's something awesome. I am not getting my hopes too high though!

[Megaton]

Yeah, just like they had "major announcements" last week, and have an "incredible lineup" this year. Do people still fall for this baseless MS hype?

[thrasherv3]

I want to believe.

[ElementX]

All the haters in this thread don't even own a 360, I don't see why they care enough to comment. It's pathetic if you ask me.

[masterofpwnage]

how doyou know that.
i used to troll the 360 article before and i had a 360.

[Wikkid666]

Live Spring Update info...

1. What will be included
2. Beta is around the corner
3. Release date

[chastelarcenist]

Browser???

[Wikkid666]

That will never happen

[citan]

I find it funny that there are people here who never learn. You've just been lied to by MS and you believe them again. Come on, even the most naive people eventually learn the hard way.

[Primetimebt]

If Gears of War is announce it has to be either Halo, or fable..

[SuperSaiyan4]

That bit right there much requested now the ONLY 2 things I can think of is Halo: CE BUT if this is Live dedicated servers BUT that was already announced for Gears of War.

But it COULD be the server thing and if they mention it everyone needs to shout 'HELL WE HEARD THAT AGES AGO WITH G3 ANNOUNCEMENT!' Something like that anyways.

[humbleopinion]

Do websites still try to decypher tweets and cast it as news? People just don't learn...

[NoobJobz]

Shenmue 3!?!?!?

Plus hd remakes of the first two?!?

[callahan09]

I'm hoping for a Kinect implementation with Netflix soon.

[earbus]

Id like to see kinnect implimented with the music player like the old camera looking forward to 360 goodness this year.