The crazy press conference part of E3 is now almost over, but if you missed it so far, here’s what happened.
Microsoft:
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist officially announced
- Virgin Gaming brings tournaments to Xbox Live
- Fable: The Journey coming holiday 2012
- FIFA 13 to support Kinect, Madden NFL 13 Kinect voice
- Gears of War: Judgment coming next year
- Halo 4 gets sexy trailer.
- NBA, NHL, and WatchESPN come to the 360
- Usher can’t sing or dance, but reveals Dance Central 3
- Microsoft announce Xbox Music, streams music
- Forza Horizon to be open-world
- Xbox SmartGlass Announced, along with Internet Explorer
- Nike partnering with Kinect Training
- LocoCycle, Ascend: New Gods, Matter announced for XBLA
- Wreckateer coming this summer
- BLOPs 2, Resident Evil 6, Tomb Raider getting 360 timed exclusive DLC
Rating: C Terrible singing, terrible dancing tons of Kinect and hardly any games. Sadly, a rather disappointing E3 conference with the only highlight being a very good looking, yet known, Halo 4 trailer.
EA:
- Farmville-alike Sim City Social revealed for Facebook
- EA nabs UFC series
- Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 coming next Feb, new trailers
- EA confirms Battlefield 3 Premium subscription
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown trailer released
- Star Wars: TOR to be free-to-play up to level 15
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter pre-order DLC announced
Rating: D- Pretty much nothing revealed, and way too much time spent on how their sports games will be revolutionary this time around… with execs using exactly the same wording as last year.
Ubisoft:
- Flo Rida announces Just Dance 4
- ZombiU to be a Wii U exclusive zombie game set in London
- Spider-Man, Wolverine coming to Wii U/Kinect Avengers game
- Assassin’s Creed III shown, looks great
- Rayman Legends shown on Wii U
- ShootMania Storm aims be the next eSport, coming to PC
- Watch Dogs announced for PS3, 360, PC, is a major IP
Rating: A- Sure, there was a lot of rubbish singing and ShootMania Storm gameplay, as well as terrible celebrity presenters, but I can forgive that because of Watch Dogs. A new IP of this scale from a third party this late on is remarkable, and should be rewarded with praise. Plus ACIII looks awesome.
Sony:
- PlayStation All-Stars BR coming to Vita, cross play support
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified headed to Vita
- PlayStation Plus gets awesome, giving out tons of full games for free
- PSone Classics are coming to Vita this summer
- David Cage’s next game to be PS3 exclusive Beyond, be the only game to actually star Ellen Page
- Sony unveils Cross Controller for PS3/Vita
- PlayStation Suite partners with HTC, re-branded PlayStation Mobile
- SCE London developing Wonderbook for PS3, augments JK Rowling books
- The Last of Us gets awesome footage
- Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation officially revealed for Vita
- White AC3 Vita revealed
- PS3 to receive (possibly timed) exclusive Assassin’s Creed 3, Far Cry 3 DLC
Rating: B- Beyond was a huge reveal, but other than that, the show was rather barren of megatons. The Vita was also completely ignored, casting doubt over how much support the platform will receive.
Nintendo [Wii U]:
- Pikmin 3 announced for Wii U
- Wii U to support two GamePads
- Wii U to support Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video on Demand and YouTube
- Wii U getting improved Batman: Arkham City “Armored Edition”
- New Super Mario Bros. U announced
- SiNG announced for Wii U, is about singing
- Ninja Gaiden 3, Mass Effect 3, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Aliens: Colonial Marines, TANK! TANK! TANK!, Darksiders II and Trine 2: Directors Cut coming to Wii U
- Wii Fit U Announced
- Lego City, Scribblenauts Unlimited coming to the Wii U
- Nintendo Land announced, a social hub set in an amusement park with 12 different “attractions”
Rating: B- Yaay Pikmin! Other than that? Where was all the Wii U specs and price news? Where was the proof that the Wii U controller is worth all its expensive tech? This close to launch, I was hoping for more.
Nintendo [3DS]:
- Come back tomorrow to find out about the 3DS press conference
- Paper Mario: Sticker Star out this Holiday
- Super Mario Bros. 2 releasing August 19th
- Scribblenauts Unlimited coming to 3DS
- Luigi’s Mansion announced for 3DS
Rating: Pending.
