Speaking to the LA times Microsoft have explained the reasoning behind the cancellation of the Bungie new game announcement. The LA Times says that the game was originally to be part of the Microsoft press conference but was pulled at the last minute. Kotaku speculatethat Microsoft got wind of Nintendo and Sony not having anything that spectacular on [...]
Every Bungie fans weak point just got hit for massive damage! The front page of Bungie.net has been updated with a message from Harold Ryan, “President of Bungie”. The message states that Bungies publisher has pulled the plug on the announcement of their new game and that they are disappointed by the turn of events both [...]
IGN have posted up the full E3 2008 Microsoft press conference video for streaming on demand. We could embed the video into the page but you get better quality video by heading over there and viewing them direct. Head on over to watch the conference back or for the first time if you missed it.
The segment from the Microsoft press conference detailing the new dashboard update and avatar system has shown up on Youtube (complete with amusing spelling mistake titles). Watch below as John Schappert gets very excited when introducing the new features followed by a few seconds of awkward silence:
During the live performance by Duffy while showing off the new game Lips, Gamespot cut the live feed (assuming you could get to it in the first place) and instead showed a three minute video of a dancing master chief. We presume this was due to copyright reasons but IGN did not cut away when the performance [...]
Gamespot.com fell over shortly before the Microsoft press conference and has yet to resurface as of 20:38 BST 14/7/08. Visitors to the site were greeted with a Internet Explorer error saying the it was currently unavailable. This will not have pleased many premium subscribers who would have paid a subscription to watch a higher quality feed and allow [...]
Less than two hours to go until the start of the Microsoft E3 2008 press conference at 18:30 BST. Here is a reminder of where you can find live video streams. G4’s coverage begins at 18:00 with a half hour build up.
G4TV.com
Gamespot.com
IGN.com
Xbox.com
EDIT @18:25: G4 stream is very choppy, Gamespot site is completely down. IGN working fine. IGN [...]
Microsoft have confirmed the 20gb Xbox 360 package is to be replaced with a 60gb packfor the same asking price of the current 20gb model. The news currently only applies to the USA as no European announcement has been made. Presumably we can expect to see the same occur in Europe at some point although [...]
Another from Kotaku who listened to the whole of the Bungie podcast and got this litle snippet from the end of it:
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Brian: Isn’t there something going on on July 14th or something like that?
Luke: Yeah, around then.
Brian: Somehow that’s sticking in my head for some reason. Guess we’ll have to see.
Luke: Yep, we’ll just have [...]
E3 has taken over Xbox.com with insider blogs, videos and images. Some of the content will be interesting some not so much. We will link to the best bits as and when they appear of the next week or so. So far they offer this brief snippet suggesting Microsoft have a number of tricks up [...]
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