X06 News (Keep in here to avoid many posts!)

X06 News! Peter Jackson and Halo! Halo MMO! Doom! HD-DVD! 1080p! Assasins Creed!

Figured a thread would start eventually so I may as well be the one to do it.

Heres what we have so far (Stolen from http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1739/X06-Media-Briefing-Live-Coverage/p1/ - keep in mind they will be updating that page as the day progresses, so refresh often!)

7:02PM (Barcelona) Spanish music is playing and the show is about to begin...

7:04PM (Barcelona) Banjo Kazooie video is playing..."Banjo Kazioo is back"

7:06PM (Barcelona) Chris Lewis, Regional Vice President Xbox 360, takes the stage. Announced that every major publisher is now on board developing titles for the Xbox 360. Stated that Xbox Live offers "often copied" features...LOL! Now he's talking about a bunch of statistics and what's currently availalble on Xbox Live and the Marketplace.

7:10PM (Barcelona) Announced that the entire press conference will be made available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

7:12PM (Barcelona) Sensible World of Soccer from Codemasters announced for Xbox Live Arcade.

7:13PM (Barcelona) Doom announced for Xbox Live Arcade TONIGHT!

7:13PM (Barcelona) Contra, Ultimate Mortal Kombat, Small Arms, Gyrus, TotemBall, Defender, Assault Heroes, Heavy Weapon, Settlers of Catan also announced for Xbox Live Arcade.

7:14PM (Barcelona) Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President, takes the stage. Announces native resolution up to 1080p. Speaks about how the Xbox 360 will open up new worlds of digital entertainment and expand and evolve the gaming world in entirely new ways. 160 high-def games worldwide by Holiday 06.

7:15PM (Barcelona) Crossfire announced from Eidos.

7:17PM (Barcelona) Cliffy B, Gears of War lead designer takes the stage. Showing gameplay footage that takes place shortly after the footage shown at E3 2006. At first glance the game appears more fluid than at E3. Player is moving in on a swarm of locusts that are holed up behind rubble within the city.

Demo concluded. Showed lots of over the shoulder shooting while hiding behind coverage objects and finsihed with a brutal buzzsaw attack. Gears of War will launch November 12 in US and November 17 in UK.

7:22PM (Barcelona) Peter Moore comes back out to the stage talking about continuing to support its global launch rollout. Xbox 360 is availale in 320 countries worldwide.

7:23PM (Barcelona) Forza Motorsport 2, Lost Planet, Lego Star Wars II, Gears of War, FIFA 07, Crossfire, Blue Dragon, The Darkness, Viva Pinata, Alan Wake, BattleStations: Midway, Fable 2, F.E.A.R., Fuzion Frenzy 2, Splinter Cell Double Agent, NBA 2K7, Halo 3, Tony Hawk's Project 8, Kayne & Lynch, Dead or Alive, WWE Smackdown vs. RAW 07, Crackdown, Mass Effect, Winning Eleven 07, Call of Duty 3, Need for Speed Carbon, Stranglehold, Virtua Tennis 3, Rainbow Six Vegas, Sonic the Hedgehog, Team Fortress 2, and Shrek the Third gameplay footage montage shown.

7:27PM (Barcelona) Peter talks about Viva Pinata and a gameplay trailer is being shown.

7:29PM (Barcelona) Blue Dragon will be available in Europe and US in 2007. Gameplay trailer being shown in Japanese with English subtext.

7:32PM (Barcelona) Mass Effect, Crackdown, Alan Wake, Too Human, Fable 2, and Halo 3 mentioned, but no details. Expect Halo 3 details by the end of 06 he says.

7:33PM (Barcelona) Project Gotham Racing 4 announced. Gameplay trailer shown. Showcased a sexy looking Ferrari. Graphics are amazing!

7:34PM (Barcelona) Grand Theft Auto IV will have 2 epic episodes that are exclusive to the Xbox 360.

7:36PM (Barcelona) Assassins Creed producer Jade Raymond for Ubisoft takes the stage. Demo of the game is being shown for the first time on the Xbox 360. First live public demo as well.

7:42PM (Barcelona) BioShock from 2K and Irrational Games is an Xbox exclusive for Xbox 360 and Games for Windows. Trailer being shown that is very dark, spooky and quite haunting. This game is going to be very interesting.

7:47PM (Barcelona) Lost Odyssey being demoed for the first time outside of Japan. Looks like a CGI cutscene being shown. Looks like the game style is a mix of medieval with modern technology. Seems like the Star Wars Episode One battle between gundams and droids. The hero appears to be human.

Now they are showing actual gameplay. Number of characters on screen at once is astounding! Looks like there are more than we saw in Ninety-Nine Nights. Very fluid transitions between cutscenes and gameplay. Appears as though you are watching a movie and all the sudden stepping in to the role of the main actor.

7:54PM (Barcelona) Lost Planet being discussed.

7:55PM (Barcelona) Splinter Cell Double Agent being show. Footage never before seen. Exclusive for Xbox 360 and Games for Windows.

7:55PM (Barcelona) HD-DVD. Twice as many movies on the market than its rival. More than 150 titles on the way by Holiday. Available in November in the UK, France, North America. 199.99 euros, 129.99 pounds and $199 US. Will ship with King Kong HD-DVD.

8:04PM (Barcelona) Live Anywhere being discussed. Games for Windows and Xbox Live brought together with the release of Shadowrun.

8:05PM (Barcelona) Marvel and Crypic Studios to release Marvel Universe Online MMO.

8:06PM (Barcelona) Peter Jackson takes the stage! Announces that they are designing a title that is "neither a game nor a film" based on the Halo world. Wingnut Interactive form to create a Halo series co-produced with Bungie Studios as well as an all new series based upon original stories from Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh.

Bungie is currently working on games beyond Halo 3.

8:13PM (Barcelona) Ensembel Studio trailer showing some Halo related material... Halo Wars!

 

Nice, hope that killer instict rumor is true by tommarow.

 

http://www.halowars.com just went live with images and trailer, this is the HALO based RTS ...

 

I wonder if I could buy an HD-DVD player from america for my PAL 360.hmm..

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering about that. I'd really like to see some Killer Instinct over some of these other things. We are long overdue for KI3.

 

let's just hope Rare doesn't fuck it up as they ve done ever since G b t Goulies

 

KI was never a good game, it was just a flashy game.

 

AWESOME!

My dreams have come true. I didnt even know this was going to come out.

The only thing Im wondering about is how an RTS would play without a mouse and keyboard.

 

LotR: BFME2 worked decently enough, though Halo Wars is being done by Ensemble, the same people who did Age of Empires on PC and supposedly they put a *lot* of thinking into the control scheme for Halo Wars ....

 

KI was a solid game all around, not just pretty graphics.

 

I was looking forward to seeing Banjo again.

To my surprise, i don't like his new art direction. He looks...weird.. and sort of stoned, with that look on his eyes- I would go as far as to call his new look retarded ( as in mentally challenged)

In addition, he lacks curves. Just look at his nose, it's a ..box.

 

Man the HaloWars site is flooded, it takes forever to download the trailer.

Does anyone knows if its already in Youtube?

 

Does anyone have the Banjo trailer?

 

Jasonkhowell, ign does. that's where I got it from.

 

Just watched it. It didn't seem too bad (Character models remind me of the N64 days). Then again, Rare does change around their are styles and character models, so it is far from the final (Mostly concept, from the looks of it).

 

I'm still waiting for the brazilian launch.

Rumours say MS will sell the Xbox360 premium with 2 joysticks + 2 games for 3.000 Reais (1.375 dollars h: )

 

Or you can always buy a used car Johny for the same money

 

:dance: I had a blast with the doom demo. Little anoyed they only seem to give you the first level. Oh well I think it's only 300 GP or something. So it's not very expensive to buy again.

 

800 :\ BUt I beat episode one in 1 sitting lol

 

How much is 800 points in $$$?