Monthly Archives: June 2009

Good morning, internet. We have arrived. Microsoft’s E3 press conference starts in LA today at 10.30am PST (or 10.25am if you’re being pedantic).

Just so you’re clear, that’s 6.30pm UK time (BST) and 7.30pm in mainland Europe (CET).

Nathan’s safely ensconced in his hotel, so we’ll be liveblogging the whole thing. You can watch it right here.

We’ll publish details of all the live video streams we can find just before things kick off.

We’ll be getting increasingly pumped throughout the day. We’ve only got a mild pump on at the moment because it’s early morning here and we haven’t had enough caffeine yet.

Rest assured, though, we’ll be stupidly excited before the curtain goes up. Why wouldn’t we be?

Tony Hawk’s confirmed on Twitter that he’s going to appear with his plasdtic skateboard game, Ride, in the Microsoft press conference today.

Well, he did. The tweet doesn’t exist any more. Joystiq captured it for posterity, though.

“Just practiced my part for Microsoft’s E3 keynote tomorrow (introducing #thride),” Hawk said.

“First time I’ve ever had to wear make-up for a rehearsal.”

Just a hunch, but exclusivity may be involved here.

The conference starts at 10.30am PST today.

Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime’s confirmed that StarCraft II will release this year, speaking in a pre-E3 investor webcast.

“We’re targeting an end of year release-this year-for StarCraft II, but, as always, we won’t release it until it meets our standards and the expectations of our players,” he said in the call.

Good news. The RTS’s beta is slated to start this summer.

Thanks, BigDownload.

Microsoft has apparently warned journalists that its press conference today will start five minutes earlier thanks to the inclusion of a “very special” announcement.

We quite literally do not know what this could be.

The conference was scheduled to start at 10.30am PST (6.30pm BST) today, but will now begin at 10.25am.

Xbox 5 confirmed. More on Joystiq.