Monthly Archives: June 2009

Below is EA’s 72 minute E3 briefing in full.

See Peter Moore and ‘Pistol’ Pete Sampras play Wii tennis. See Mass Effect 2, see Dragon Age, see some fit hockey mom bounce her bits around around to Wii Sports Active.

See the lot.

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The official APB press release issued by EA yesterday seems to stipulate that Realtime Worlds MMO will be PC only.

“Electronic Arts Inc. and Realtime Worlds, Inc. announced today that they have entered an exclusive marketing and distribution agreement for North America and Europe that will bring the highly-anticipated All Points Bulletin (APB) to PC in early 2010,” says the release.”

Rumour broke last month the APB was to be part of Microsoft’s E3 press conference, thus leading to speculation the game would be heading to console.

We’ll be interviewing Real Time Worlds this week so hopefully we can find out more.

Stay tuned.

Update: Realtime Worlds has updated the APB FAQ:

Q: “Will there be console ports?”
A: “We’re just starting to evaluate opportunities for a console port but do not have anything to announce yet.”

Thanks, Superfrog.

Update 2: Team Xbox cornered a RTW spokesperson who claimed: “”We’re not giving details out at the moment, but it is being developed for Xbox 360.” Which kind of did the opposite of what the spokesperson said it would. But there you go.

Thanks, Blerk-o.

Realtime Worlds’ Dave Jones has told Gama that new MMO APB lends itself more to games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto than World of Warcraft.

“WoW’s great, and it’s attracting huge numbers, but let’s face it there’s probably still more players on GTA and Call of Duty in terms of online,” said Jones when asked about filling online space and “chasing WoW” for easy success.

“The[y] love online games, they spend all their time there, but really, nobody’s trying to push the envelope in terms of personalization, customization, persistence, matchmaking, so many areas that are ripe for somebody to come in.

“It’s intimidating for those with less experience, or less time maybe, who want to dip in and dip out of the game.”

It was announced last night that EA is set to publish the game.

APB is available for PC “early 2010″.

Below you can see all 112 minutes and 56 seconds of yesterday’s Microsoft E3 press conference.

See Metal Gear Solid Rising, the Halo ODST release date announce, the brand new Crackdown 2 trailer, Molyneux’s Milo and much, much more.

All of VG247′s new coverage from the event can be found here.

Enjoy.

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Microsoft kicked E3 off to one hell of a start yesterday, with wall-to-wall game announcements, a ton of exclusivity deals and reveals, and a full showing of the forever-rumoured motion camera, Project Natal. Both Nintendo and Sony get their shot at the LA headlines today.

Nintendo’s conference begins at 9.00am PST/5.00pm BST/6.00pm CET today.

Sony’s conference begins at 11.00am PST/7.00pm BST/8.00pm CET today.

Obviously, we’ll be liveblogging both. We’ll give you plenty of warning before Nintendo starts, and we’ll leave this story in the top bar until we start properly getting ready for action.

So don’t worry. We’re here for you.

In case you were doing something funny like “sleeping” last night, the EA and Ubisoft press conferences in LA yesterday will have passed you by.

Luckily, though, thanks to the magic of us working for 20 hours in a day, you can now get everything announced from both shindigs right here on this website.

• All the EA E3 2009 press conference news
• All the Ubisoft E3 2009 press conference news

And just in case, here’s all the Microsoft conference news. We can’t imagine why you would have missed it, but there we are.

Ubisoft apparently said yesterday that it’s working on a game based on Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s forthcoming movie The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn.

The news came in the company’s press conference at E3 yesterday.

More on GI, and the rest of the news from the presser here.

Nathan must have missed this in all the excitement last night. According to multiple reports, Ubisoft confirmed Assassin’s Creed 2 for a November 17 release date in its E3 press conference in LA yesterday.

Get the rest of the news from the presser here.

EA’s Crysis 2 teaser’s after the break. Don’t expect too much.

The game was announced well before EA’s press conference last night, the bombshell being that it’s multi-plat.

Take a look.

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At Ubisoft’s E3 press event it was announced that No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle would be published by the company.

A small video was shown.

The game’s set three years after the original, and features both Travis Touchdown and Silvia Chryste.

It’s out for Wii in early 2010.

Press release below.
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Ubisoft’s E3 press conference is done and dusted, and contained Splinter Cell: Conviction, Assassin’s Creed 2 and more.

Find it all below. Catch up on everything from the EA and Microsoft conferences while you’re at it.

• Ubi and Mizuguchi to team up on codename Eden
• Full liveblog transcript
• Assassin’s Creed 2 out November 17
• Ubisoft shows Assassin’s Creed 2 trailer, sounds great
• Ubisoft announces fitness game, Your Shape – uses a camera
• RUSE trailered at Ubisoft’s E3 event
• Red Steel 2 to be bundled with WMP, per Ubisoft press event
• James Cameron shows up on Ubisoft stage, talks Avatar
• Ubisoft talks about UPlay at E3, launches this year
• Ubisoft confirms it’s to publish No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

During the Ubisoft event at E3, an Assassin’s Creed 2 trailer was shown.

It showed people dancing in Italy during a festival of sorts, all in masks with fireworks in the background.

One firework hit the ground, acting as a flash bang- during which time our protagonist character assassinates a guy during the confusion.

Then all a sudden people are chasing him, he’s sort of caught and confronts their leader. He then fires something out of the place where his hand-blade should be.

Kills the guy.

Sound great, wish we were watching.

It will be up soon, we’re sure.

Ubisoft has announced a fitness game that uses a camera to scan your body. It’s called Your Shape.

The camera places you in the game, like you are looking in a mirror, keeps track of you, so you can’t cheat through the game like in WiiFit and constantly adjusts to your needs.

It’s coming to Wii this holiday season.

RUSE trailer was shown during the Ubisoft presser at E3.

Apparently the WWII RTS allows two people staring at each other to play with their fingers, pointing ships in the direction they should go. Telling tanks where to fire.

All atop what seems to be one of those minority report tables.

It’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 later this year,

When the trailer is released we will post it to avoid any confusion.

Konami rumor floating about shows new titles Metal Gear Solid: Peace Maker for PSP and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for Xbox 360 and PS3.

It was accidentally posted on GamesPress.

MGS on PSP is not too much of a stretch, but the adding “Castlevania” to Lords of Shadow despite how much it looks like a one of the titles is a bit surprising.

Also, according to the slip, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is not a 360 exclusive but will head to PC and PS3 as well.

Hopefully the Konami press event on June 3 will reveal more.

Head over to Joystiq for the full thing.

A Red Steel 2 trailer was shown at Ubisoft’s E3 presser.

It showed a desert, a swordsman controlled by the player surrounded by enemies. Swordsman pulls out a gun, hits baddie with sword and shoots him while he was down.

That’s the dual-wielding weapons thing the devs have been talking about. The harder you swing the sword, the harder you hit.

It’s also bloodless, but brutal. You can knock enemies into the air, follow him into the sky, and back down.

In the demo shown, a guy was pulled by a motorcycle, almost hit by an 18-wheeler, escaped before an explosion, and he’s up and ready to fight.

Game runs at 60 frames per second and will be bundled with MotionPlus at launch.

Video courtesy of IGN after the jump.
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James Cameron showed himself at the Ubisoft presser for E3.

It was told to the attendees earlier that Avatar would be shown tomorrow. But out steps James to fill us in.

Cameron mispronounced Ubisoft, talked about the back story to Avatar along with new performance technology and CG tech developed to make the film.

Game and film take place on a planet called Pandora, where the aliens – called Na’vi – are “blue with tiger stripes”, some smoking hot and 10 feet tall apparently.

Humans come. Destroy the land. Mate with the blue tiger people, and thus you have Avatars. We think.

Humans control the Avatar bodies, though. Like a remote control. But they live in the bodies while their own bodies are in comas.

It was described as more than an action game, and has its own story just like the movie. Goal of game is to enhance viewers knowledge of the culture in the Avatar world, and if you feel like you choose the wrong side (aliens vs. humans) at the beginning of the game, you can switch.

Good. Hopefully more on this tomorrow when we are less tired and concrete stuff is handed out.

Yves Guillemont, head bossman at Ubisoft announced Uplay at E3 during its press event.

It’s a brand new web-based service and online destination that allows players to create content and share it with friends, and download game information.

Out later in the year, some of the big-shots the company will be working with include Peter Jackson and Stephen Spielberg, among others.

The first games get the UPlay integration are Avatar, AssCreed 2, and Splinter Cell: Conviction.

EA has released a new cinematic video for Dante’s Inferno.

Looks great as usual.

More is expected later on in the week from the event.

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BioWare’s E3 trailer for Star Wars:The Old Republic is posted after the break.

You can faint if you like after watching. We won’t judge you.

Sure it’s CGI, but it’s badass. Don’t deny it.

Still no date.

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