E3 2006 Thread

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:08 pm **Post subject:** E3 2006 Thread

I'll pre-empt the show. For those that don't know, its the game show of the year where all the companies try and out whore each other.
E3 Homepage
Exhibitor list

Official Info: http://www.e3insider.com/
RSS:

DS - http://www.e3insider.com/rss/platform/ds/
PC - http://www.e3insider.com/rss/platform/pc/
PS3 - http://www.e3insider.com/rss/platform/ps3/
Revolution - http://www.e3insider.com/rss/platform/revolution/
Xbox2 - http://www.e3insider.com/rss/platform/xbox360/
VideoCast - http://www.e3insider.com/rss/content/video/podcast/

Dates: May 10-12, 2006 (usually a few days pre-and-after too)

ps. If anyone's going please grab me some zelda and resident evil goodies, I always get annoyed when people come back with all these awesome free gifts :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:13 pm **Post subject:**

2K Games
Bioshock (PC, Next-Gen)
CivCity: Rome (PC)
Civilization IV: Warlords (PC)
The Da Vinci Code (Xbox)
The Darkness (Next-Gen)
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World (PC)
Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony (PC)
Prey (PC, X360)
Sid Meier's Railroads! (PC)

2K Sports
College Hoops 2K7 (PS2, Xbox, X360)
NBA 2K7 (PS2, Xbox, X360)
NHL 2K7 (PS2, Xbox, X360)

10Tacle Studios
Elveon (PC, X360)
GTR 2 - FIA GT Racing (PC)

Ankama Studio
DOFUS: Riders of the Dragoturkey (PC)
Dofus-Arena (PC)
WAKFU (PC)

Ascaron Entertainment
Tortuga - Two Treasures (PC)

Atlus Software
Contact (DS)
Steambot Chronicles (GBA)
Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (GBA)

Auran
Fury (PC)

Bethesda Softworks
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (PC, PS2)
Star Trek: Legacy (PC, X360)
Star Trek: Tactical Assault (DS, PSP)

Blizzard
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)

Buena Vista Games
Desperate Housewives (PC)
Every Extend Extra (PSP) NEW!
Lumines II (PSP) NEW!
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (PS3, X360)
Turok (PS3, X360)

BUKA Entertainment
Aggression: Europe 1914 (PC)
Dusk-12 (PC)
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of the Clans (PC)
Pacific Storm: Allies (PC)

Capcom Entertainment
Capcom Puzzle World (PSP)
Dead Rising (X360)
Lost Planet (X360)
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Falzar (GBA)
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar (GBA)
Mega Man ZX (DS) NEW!
Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP)
OKAMI (PS2)
Power Stone Collection (PSP)
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (PS2)
Ultimate Ghosts 'N Goblins (PSP)

CD Projekt
The Witcher (PC) NEW!

CDV Software
DarkStar One (PC) NEW!
Heroes of Annihilated Empires (PC) NEW!
Pacific Storm: Allies (PC)
Panzer Tactics DS (DS) NEW!
War Front: Turning Point (PC) NEW!
War Leaders: Clash of Nations (PSP) NEW!

Crave Entertainment
Dave Mirra BMX Challenge (PSP)
Hard Rock Casino (PS2, PSP)
LarryBoy and the Bad Apple (GBA, PS2)
World Championship Poker: Featuring Howard Lederer "All In" (PS2, PSP, X360)

D3 Publisher of America
Dark Sector (PS3, X360)
DreamWorks & Aardman's Flushed Away (Cube, DS, GBA, PS2)
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 (Cube)
Naruto: Ninja Council (GBA)
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp (DS)

DreamCatcher Games
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (PC)
Dead Reefs (PC)
Evidence (PC)
First Battalion (PC)
Genesis Rising: The First Crusade (PC)
Painkiller (PS2, PSP)
Painkiller: Hell Wars (Xbox)
The Sacred Rings (Xbox)
Safecracker (Xbox)

Eidos Interactive
Hitman: Blood Money (PC, PS2, Xbox, X360)
Just Cause (PC, PS2, Xbox, X360)
Rogue Trooper (PC, PS2, Xbox)
Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2, Xbox)

ESTsoft
Cabal Online (PC)

Eutechnyx
E-Racing (PC)

Freeze Interactive
FieldOps (PC)

GAMESweet Software
Video Game Tycoon (PC)

KOEI
Fatal Inertia (PS3)

Konami Digital Entertainment
World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 (Platforms TBD) NEW!

LucasArts
Indiana Jones (Platforms TBD)
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Platforms TBD)

Microsoft
Crackdown (X360)
Gears of War (X360)
Mass Effect (X360)
N3: Ninety-Nine Nights (X360)
Too Human (X360)
Viva Piñata (X360)

Midway Games
The Ant Bully (GBA, PC, PS2)
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (GBA, PC, PS2)
Happy Feet (GBA, PC, PS2)
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (PC)
MLB SlugFest 2006 (PS2, Xbox)
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (PS2, Xbox)
Mortal Kombat: Unchained (PSP)
NBA Ballers: Phenom (PS2, Xbox)
NBA Ballers: Rebound (PSP)
Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (PSP)
Rush (PSP)
SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run (PS2, Xbox)
Stranglehold (PS3, X360)
Unreal Tournament 2007 (PC, PS3)

NCSoft
AION (PC) NEW!
Auto Assault (PC) NEW!
Dungeon Runners (PC) NEW!
Exteel (PC) NEW!
Guild Wars Factions (PC) NEW!
Tabula Rasa (PC) NEW!

Nintendo
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Cube)

ON Games
Legend of Dragon (PC) NEW!
PC Football 2007 (PC) NEW!
Shadows of War (PC) NEW!
Wild Summer (PC) NEW!

Play Ten Interactive
Battle for Atlantis (PC) NEW!
The Precursors (PC, X360) NEW!
The Wall (PC, PS3) NEW!
White Gold: War in Paradise (PC) NEW!

RedOctane
Guitar Hero II (PS2)

Reef Entertainment
Liquidator (PC)
Utopia City (PC)
World War Zero (PC)

SEGA
Chrome Hounds (X360)
Phantasy Star Universe (PC, PS2, X360)
SEGA Rally Revo (PC, PS3, X360) NEW!
Sonic the Hedgehog (PS3, X360)
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii) NEW!
Super Monkey Ball Adventure (Cube, PS2, PSP)
Virtua Tennis 3 (PS3, X360) NEW!
World Pool Challenge 2007 (PSP) NEW!
World Pool Championship 2007 (PC, PS2, PS3, X360) NEW!
Yakuza (PS2) NEW!

Shantz International
The Shadow of Aten - The Egyptian Chronicles of Allen Scott (PC, X360)

SNK Playmore
King of Fighters 2006 (PS2)
Metal Slug (GBA)
Metal Slug Collection (PSP)

Sony Computer Entertainment
ATV Offroad Fury Pro (PSP) NEW!
ATV Offroad Fury 4 (PS2) NEW!
Gangs of London (PSP) NEW!
God of War II (PS2) NEW!
Killzone: Liberation (PSP) NEW!
Lemmings (PSP) NEW!
LocoRoco (PSP) NEW!
MotorStorm (PS3) NEW!
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters (PSP) NEW!
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3) NEW!
Rogue Galaxy (PS2) NEW!
Warhawk (PS3) NEW!

Sony Online Entertainment
Field Commander (PSP)
Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising (PC)
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (PS3)

Square Enix
Children of Mana (DS) NEW!
Dawn of Mana (PS2) NEW!
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (PS2) NEW!
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (DS) NEW!
Final Fantasy III (DS) NEW!
Final Fantasy V Advance (GBA) NEW!
Final Fantasy VI Advance (GBA) NEW!
Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan (PC, PS2) NEW!
Final Fantasy XII (PS2) NEW!
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP) NEW!
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2) NEW!

Techland
Call of Juarez (PC) NEW!
Chrome2 (PC, Next-Gen) NEW!
Crazy Soccer - Mundial (PC) NEW!
Dead Island (PC) NEW!
FIM Speedway Grand Prix 2 (PC) NEW!
Xpand Rally Xtreme (PC) NEW!

THQ
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cube, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, PSP, Wii, Xbox) NEW!
Barnyard (Cube, GBA, PC, PS2, NEW!
Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle (DS, GBA) NEW!
Nicktoons (Cube, DS, GBA, PS2) NEW!
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (Cube, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, Wii) NEW!
Unfabulous (GBA) NEW!

Tri Synergy
Origin of the Species (PC)
TerraWars: New York Invasion (PC)
UFO: Extraterrestrials (PC)

Ubisoft
Red Steel (Wii)

Vivendi Universal Games
Scarface: The World is Yours (PC, PS2, Xbox)

Warner Bros. Interactive
Justice League Heroes (PS2, PSP, Xbox)

Webzen
Huxley (PC, X360) NEW!
Project Wiki (PC) NEW!
Soul of the Ultimate Nation (PC) NEW!

DropDeadFred · **Posted:** Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:52 pm **Post subject:**

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Desperate Housewives (PC)

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:09 am **Post subject:**

DropDeadFred wrote:

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Desperate Housewives (PC)

Yeah its one of those gimmick games. Its aimed for women and non-gamers from what i understand:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4848812.stm
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63588

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:37 pm **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

Blizzard
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)

How much more money do they need? :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 10:12 pm **Post subject:**

Game list updated

Geezus · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 9:06 am **Post subject:**

It sure looks like a crap list this year :wacky:

anyone agree/disagree ?

Yes , ofcourse there'll be surprises..... but still...

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 1:08 pm **Post subject:**

They never announce anything major before hand, they always sound crap when you just see companies that aren't really 'into' gaming announcing xena warrior shopping sim, etc..

The actual stuff is saved, I mean nintendo has one game? They are going to have at least 5 Wii games, and loads of DS games... there's at least 2 zelda games, twilight princess and that hourclass one

Xbox360, i mean heard owt from lionhead? Wonder why m$ bought them out recently? Methinks Fable 2?

Blizzard, where's diablo 3?

etc.

So whilst the list of games is just stuff we know about, all the new exciting stuff we won't know until E3 starts. Tis why we love e3 I guess.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sat May 06, 2006 9:44 am **Post subject:**

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SEGA announced Rome: Total War – Alexander, the latest expansion pack for Creative Assembly's Top 10 MegaGame of 2005, Rome: Total War. Due for release on PC in June 2006, Alexander will utilize the unique gameplay of Rome to bring to life the meteoric rise of one of history's most brilliant generals: Alexander the Great.

SEGA and The Creative Assembly will offer Alexander exclusively for digital download through the Sega and Total War websites. The expansion offers an epic addition to the Total War series boasting more that 30 hours of gameplay and will feature a brand new campaign game map, spanning Alexander's unification of Greece and his subsequent conquest of the Persian Empire. The expansion pack will also include six new historical battles portraying Alexander's triumphs against the Greek, Persian, and Indian forces. These new battles will also be available for online and LAN multiplayer use.

The new historical battles in Alexander unlock sequentially, telling a story and accurately reflecting the conditions that Alexander endured and the tactics he employed.

For the first time in the Total War series, The Creative Assembly is elevating the production values and storytelling of its battles by linking them together with seven high-quality movies featuring the incredible voice talent of Brian Blessed (Alexander and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace). These movies will tell the epic story of Alexander and provide an in-depth historical backdrop to each of the battles.

The new campaign in Alexander will give players the objective of matching the achievements of one of the greatest generals in Western civilization. It adds four new factions to the original game, including the Macedonians and Persians. More than 60 new units are also now available, including Persian scythed chariots, elite immortals, and all of Alexander's most famous units, including the Hypaspists, Phalangists, and Companion cavalry.

http://megagames.com/news/html/pc/total ... sion.shtml

Guess that will be shown at show

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 8:46 am **Post subject:**

Found a site that had a list of the conference sessions, incase anyones interested:

http://www.devtownstation.com/Detail.asp?ID=1263 wrote:

Designed to make you smarter, wiser, and more successful, this year's sessions will cover topics such as:

*Making the mass-mobile marketplace a reality
*Understanding in-game advertising
*Successful strategies behind sponsorships, community marketing, and grass roots promotion
*Tapping the potential of downloadable games
*Cross-platform content integration: how it works and why it matters
*Understanding the Chinese marketplace
*New pay models and other trends in online gaming
*How to manage the bigger budgets of next-gen game development
*Digital downloads: what is possible today and what's in store for the future
*Videogame visionaries and their plans for the games of tomorrow
*Reaching the hardcore influencers and making the most of their networks
*Innovations in wireless broadband content

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 4:51 pm **Post subject:**

E3 News!

Virtua Fighter 5 coming to PS3 in 2007

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=6327

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To help kick off this sure-to-be-thrilling E3 week, Sega has announced its acclaimed arcade fighter Virtua Fighter 5 will be coming exclusively to PlayStation 3 in Spring 2007.

Virtua Fighter 5 expands upon the VF4 cast by adding two new characters to go along with the complete cast of characters from each Virtua Fighter game to date. VF5 will feature high-definition graphics, supporting up to 720p. As for gameplay, Sega revealed that, much like Tekken 5 and Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution, you will be able to win in-game money through fighting which you can spend to buy accessories and colors for your desired fighter. The idea of online play was not addressed, but it is highly unlikely as the lead designer behind the VF series has said in the past that he is against it and does not expect it to appear in any Virtua Fighter game.

Despite (or perhaps due to) its comparatively small roster, the Virtua Fighter series is widely regarded as the deepest and most technical of the 3d fighters. While it remains a relatively easy game to pick up and play with its 3 button control scheme, the multiple types of traps, evades, grabs, and counters make for a very involving game.

Medival 2: Total War

Oh baby!

The Sopranos (XBOX360)

Sopranos Q&A:
http://uk.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html? ... pid=932890

Tools for Wii :wacky:

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New Tools For Wii
CRI delivers video and audio tools for Nintendo's new system.
by Anoop Gantayat

May 8, 2006 - One of Japan's most well-known development tool providers is on board with Wii. CIR Middleware, maker of the popular ADX and Sofdec sound and video libraries, has started official support for Nintendo's "new generation" console via four libraries: CRI ADX, CRI Sofdec, CRI Sound Factory and CRI ROFS.

Of these, ADX and Sofdec should be most recognizable to gamers, as logos for both have been appearing at the startup of games as far back as the Sega Saturn. ADX allows for at most 16 simultaneous audio streams, as well as support for the playback of streams from multiple audio files. Sofdec allows for multiple movies to be displayed simultaneously, with video streams even used for textures.

On Wii, Sofdec will compress a 10 minute, 6Mbps (megabit per second) bit rate movie to 450MB. The Wii implementation will support 60 frames-per-second progressive movie playback.

The other two libraries aren't as well known. CRI Sound Factory is a sound authoring system. CRI ROFS is provides a virtual file system to developers.

All four development libraries are currently available for other game systems

http://uk.revolution.ign.com/articles/705/705587p1.html

So far.... very happy about the Total War sequel. I had a feeling we were going to see one

Virtual Fighter 5, big whoop! and sopranos... looks nice and tasteful there. That's going to reflect kindly on gaming, especially given the systematic legislation of gaming censorship in the states :lol:

Note: Sony and Nintendo conferences aren't for another day.
Note2: images loaded fine for me, if they don't right click "view image", then press back might force them to be displayed:

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 4:53 pm **Post subject:**

Holy smokies, those Total War pics look awesome. These kind of things make me interested in consoles again :drunk:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 5:19 pm **Post subject:**

Total War is a pc game btw, sequel to Rome: Total War which I would hope you have

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Lux Delux · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 5:47 pm **Post subject:**

Haha I always fuck up :oops:

To be honest I stopped playing games some time ago.. did play Rome: Total War though, great stuff but strategies ain't really my style. I am more into one man army Commando killing spree :wacky:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 8:42 pm **Post subject:**

Wiiiiiiiiiii! erm... controller in use

I think this game is multiplatform but there's fifty kabillion tony hawks games coming out and I don't think there's one that i've enjoyed. :wacky:

Geezus · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 8:50 pm **Post subject:**

...so am I suppose to stand on the remote and shift weight when required ? :wacky:

VF5 looking very impressive.... and has the balls to say -NO- to all those "online gaming is teh future" casual fuckheads....

The slightest lag would just undermine and consequently tear apart the deeper hierarchial mechanics ....( not that *I* ever mastered them.....or will...)

Anxious to see some new stuff on Dead Rising....hope it won't turn into some streets of rage with zombies piece of junk...

EDIT: also a disgrace that Crysis hasn't been mentioned anywhere on this board yet

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 9:14 pm **Post subject:**

sony conference is in a couple of hours, its square-enix at the moment

Live blog for square-enix:
http://uk.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6149412

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 9:21 pm **Post subject:**

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EDIT: also a disgrace that Crysis hasn't been mentioned anywhere on this board yet

it looks nice but I still think its just *another* fps when push comes to shove, something in motion so we can get an idea how its going to play would be nice so we know its going to be worthwhile playing after we need to spend 5 grand on pc upgrades.

Looks nice, something so you can sit back and go... yeah well, console still suck... xyz looks so much better than pqr. And look, a black man!

Oh no, its not... its a polygon mesh with someones acme stretched over it. :lol:

A shock announcement would be we're going to see microsoft DX10 that's needed to play it sometime this millenia :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 10:06 pm **Post subject:**

Dead Rising HD Trailer 2k6:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player_e3i. ... 8&type=mov

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 10:29 pm **Post subject:**

This app might be interesting, says it will download "Full res DVD quality uncut and unedited" versions of the press conference after its aired:
http://www.e3insider.com/e3tv/

e3insider is the official e3 site.

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