*geek-gasms*
E3 aka Electronic Entertainment Expo is held every year in July and is THE biggest source of innovation and information that comes from the gaming giants: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
This year in 2009 was especially important for all three companies as this was the final geek-gasm causing event of this generation of consoles. After this year, it’s all going downfill.
Pessism. Heh, what a lame.
As of writing time, it has been *looks at watch* 30 minutes since Microsoft ended their conference and WOW! It has been an absolute blast! So many new games, new features, new ways to play games. It has left me flabbergasted and wanting for more. This conference has revitalized my wish of getting A. My Xbox fixed before the avalanche of games this November or B. Getting a new Xbox or C. Asking my mamoo get the hottest among those games.
Read what Microsoft did to blow everyone away, after the jump.
[nutshell]I present to you the most significant news from Microsoft’s Conference:
Modern Warfare 2 is coming to the Xbox 360 on 10th November and will have time-exclusive map packs for the Xbox 360.
EPIC Games have come up with their first Xbox Live Arcade title: Shadow Complex which is a 2D side-scroller action game. Lots of heavy action, big guns and even bigger boss battles.
Joy Ride will be a free-to-play Mario Kart-ish game with great air-jumps, avatar-support and multiplayer support. Looks fun!
Final Fantasy XIII will hit Xbox 360 (and PS3) in Spring of 2010.
The pseudo-sequel to the Max-Payne series, Alan Wake is an Xbox 360 exclusive! It’s looking great and with sandbox-style gameplay, I’ll be having geek-gasms till it releases in Spring 2010.
Crackdown 2 is coming! It’s the sweet concoction of super-heroes and Grand Theft Auto!
Left 4 Dead 2 will come on 17th November (that’s my Birthday!) exclusively to the Xbox 360 and PC. Quite early!
Halo 3: ODST on 22nd September. Big woop. Another Halo game. 
The next in the stealth-based Spinter Cell series: Conviction is also an Xbox 360 exclusive. It will be darker, moodier, sandbox-style with a lot of bad-ass close quarters action, coming your way this Fall.
Metal Gear Solid Rising. Wow just wow! Hideo Kojima himself came to the stage to announce this bad-boy. It will feature Raiden. The old “Tactical Espionage Action” tagline is now “Lighting Bolt Action”. Expect Raiden May Cry. No Solid Snake. Is this MGS2 all-over again (with respect to the Raiden-only 2nd chapter controversy)?
And lastly, Microsoft’s magnum opus Codename: Project Natal. Natal is allegedly the next Motion-Control system, an evolution of the Wii system as some like to call it. A camera will be fixed next to your screen and it will take notice of full BODY motion control. This thing will make your body a controller and break most, if not all barriers that stop us from fully immersing ourselves with the world inside the game. It can detect your emotions, your face, your skateboard, your mama and of course your actions. In other words children, you will be dry humping the air when you have sexual intercourse with your pixelated wife in Fable III.
Remember, it’s not about reinventing the wheel, it’s about no wheel at all! - Steven Speilberg at the Microsoft Press Conference.
Besides that, you will soon be able to view streaming movies, TV shows in Full High Definition from your Xbox. Facebook and Twitter will be accessable from the Box with an X AND last.fm is also coming. All of which make your Xbox an even more versatile media centre.
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What did you think of Microsoft’s epic conference? Will Sony and Nintendo be able to beat Microsoft? Only time tell. And only YOU can speculate. Leave your comments below!
Geek-sperm all over the laptop,
Awais
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