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E3 Game Announcements

The previous week has been huge for the gaming industry aswell as gamers everywhere. With all the news coming out of this years E3 Expo in LA, we have some a huge number of game announcements, cool new features for all your favorite consoles and even some new console announcements. All these announcements has led to gaming sites scrambling to get all the announcements out across the internet to the gamers. This post will simply keep you up-to-date with all the announcements that came out of the E3 Expo.

The expo was started with a great conference by Microsoft. Microsoft announced over 10 new games for the 360, some of which were exclusive, during their conference. Here’s some of the game that you can expect to see being released in the near future:

• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – November 10th 2009
• Metal Gear Solid: Rising
• Halo 3: ODST – September 22nd 2009
• Halo: Reach – 2010
• Final Fantasy 13 – Autumn 2010
• Forza Motorsport 3 – October 2009
• Crackdown 2 – 2010
• Left 4 Dead 2 – November 17th 2009
• Splinter Cell Conviction – Autumn 2009
• Alan Wake – 2010
• The Beatles: Rock Band – September 9th 2009

Aswell as all these massive games, they also announced a range of massive console features that we can expect to see coming to the 360 in the next few months. These included:

• Twitter and Facebook modified for the 360
• Netflix
• Sky TV
• Last FM (free for gold members)
• Zune HD video

Possibly the biggest console feature they announced was Project Natal. Natal is motion-captured gaming where you use your body to control your games. The 3D camera will allow you to activate chats, games and videos using the power of your voice, you will also be able to log into Xbox Live by using the facial recognition technology within the camera. And finally, a very new and interesting way to navigate your way through the Xbox 360 dashboard, by using your hand as a scroller. Currently, no release date has been announced for this awesome new console feature.

Later that day came the EA conference where they announced a series of game releases that included:

• Star Wars: The Old Republic – 2010
• Need for Speed: Shift – September 17th 2009
• Fight Night Round 4 – June 26th 2009
• EA Sports Active
• EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis – June 12th 2009
• Mass Effect 2 – January 10th 2010
• Brutal Legend – October 16th 2009
• The Sabateur
• Crysis 2
• Dragon Age Origins – October 20th 2009
• Dante’s Inferno – February 2010
• Madden NFL 10
• MMA: Mixed Martial Arts – 2010

After EA came Ubisoft with some pretty big and awesome looking game announcements. These included the following:

• Assassin’s Creed 2
• Splinter Cell Conviction
• Red Steel 2
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
• Avatar: The Game
• Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage
• Academy of Champions
• Casual Games
• Your Shape
• Rabbids Go Home
• TMNT: Turtles in time Re-shelled

That was all the excitement over for the first day of the expo, on the second day game another 2 console developers, Nintendo and Sony.

Nintendo started the day with some Wii and Dsi game and feature announcements. These included the following:

• Metroid Prime: Other M
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Wii Fit Pluz
• New Super Mario Bros
• Wii Sports Resort
• The Conduit
• Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
• Dead Space Extraction

They also announced the vitality sensor which is a thumb grip, similar to the ones used in hospitals, to measure your pulse rate. They say that this new feature will be incorporated into a series of games that are designed to help you keep fit and relax.

Even though the day was pretty slow for conferences, Sony still managed to cause some buzz with their final conference of the day where they announced some new games, new tech for the PS3 and finally a brand new console announcement.

You can expect to see the following PS3 releases in the near future:

• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• Heavy Rain
• Massive Action Game
• Agent
• Gran Turismo 5
• God of War 3
• The Last Guardian
• Modnation Racing

As for hardware announcements, they announced that they are developing some technology similar to the Wii. The new motion controllers require 2 controllers, just like the Wii but it uses a camera, same as Project Natal. They plan to incorporate this brand new technology into as many games as they possibly can.

Sony ended their conference with a brand new console announcement, the PSP Go. The new PSP Go is basically a smaller and lighter version of the current PSP, but with a slide up screen that uncovers the controls. The PSP Go features an internal flash drive which allows you to storage games rather than carrying around discs. It also contains an extra flash drive slot for some extra storage space aswell as WiFi and Bluetooth technology.

Even though that was it from all of the major console developers and game publishers, I’m positive that all of the above announcements will keep us all busy until next years E3 Expo.

Keep up-to-date with the latest video game news aswell as some video game reviews at ScroobyOnline.

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