The Official Technodrome E3 2006 Thread - Game Critics Awards on page 16!
 

It's that time of year again ladies and losers. Rumours are hitting the fan by the day, bullsh** is everywhere, and the unveiling of the Revolution and PS3 are a mere 16 or so days away. It's time for E3, and your's truly will have the honour of covering new Revolution software for you this year (not sure what games, but I'm on the Revolution team).

Anyway, I'm going to sticky this and maintain it until I leave for the show in the near future. Until then, let's get this thing going with some official Nintendo news from George Harrison....

Rockstar Games on Nintendo......better buy Satan an electric blanket because I feel a cold front comming through. I like that Nintendo is trying to get third parties to "fill genres they can't". So far, it looks like they've learned form almost all of their mistakes.

I never believe anything I read on websites anymore. I havn't even see the BS your mentioned. I try to avoid it and I guess I did a good job. I hope there's some solid info on DMC 4...

That was in Game Informer. The magazine that broke the news about the first Revolution title, Red Steel. Trying knowing something before calling stuff BS. Jesus.

I didn't call it BS I was talking about the BS rumors TMB was.

I'll admit I'm not the smartest person but I'm not a complete retard either.

Woo go TMB, eventually me and Peanut shall go, maybe next year, who knows. Thankfully I also got the gamespot all access account, so I can watch stuff live.

Grand Theft Auto: Mushroom Kingdom? This should be good. :lol:

So when exactly is E³?

E3 Schuedle
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May 8th (afternoon) - Sony media Briefing (Don't know what time because I'm not going, and don't care to go.)
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May 8th (around 7:00PM Pacific Time) - Microsoft Media Briefing (they've got something unbelieveable to announce for the Live Arcade from what I've been told, and there is that rampant rumour of a MMOFPS)
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May 9th (9:45 AM) - Nintendo Media Briefing (you and I both know what gernade bombs will be dropped there)
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May 10th - E3 Floor Show Day 1 (Public Meets Revolution and PS3 first hand, for the first time. Scratch that, public meets Revolution and PS3 emulators running at 55% for the first time. I wasn't supposed to say that, but you're going to find out anyway. PS3 will only be playable on Emulated supercomputers similar to how 360 was last year on those twin G4Macs. They are only expected to have five units there for 500,000 people because of the cost. It's expected to be playable by appointment only. Expect some major PS3 announcements, but expect to be disapointed when it comes to actually getting hands on reports from people because there are going to be a bunch of pissed off Sony booth visitors this E3. They're going to have some new games for PS2, and maybe some life preservers for the PSP, but honestly, who gives a fu*k? The PS3 announcements will be huuuuge, I guarntee you, but don't expect that many people to actually get to play the thing.

As for how Nintendo is handeling the Revolution demos, I have no clue...yet. The show opens at 7:00 in the morning for media only, then two hours later for general attendees. That gives us two hours to get in, get set up, get situated, visit the important stuff, get in line and then brace ourselves for the thousands that will pour in after us. Those two hours will go quickly. Show attendance is expected to be 40% heavier than last year, and last year was almost unnavigatable. This year is going to be hell because all the big dogs are in full force.

Now, that's my official E3 schuedle. Now, let's talk about some of the rumors flying all over the place.

1. First of all, everyone, everywhere thinks a new rebirth of the Kid Icrus series is in development. Miyamoto joked about it last year, and now Kojima is confirmed to be working with Nintendo on something, and Famitsu is rumored to announce it next week.

2. Mario....who the hell knows, but we've been told it's not quite going to be what we're used to expecting. I don't know how to take that.

3. Metroid Prime 3 is going to be fully playable (YESSSSSSS)

4. Red Steel will be playable, and perhaps that new Katana sword fighting game too.

5. The virtual console will be fully demoed and functional.

6. A New Series from Shigeru Miyamoto will be at the media briefing and perhaps playable (as well as a brief glimpse of a new Pikmin).

7. Sega is severely rumored to have a new NiGHTS for Revolution.



More to come later.....

NiGHTS! Yeeessssss.

Weren't you like 6 when that came out?


Yanno....with all due respect. o_o;;

Fixed that for you.

I've never played NiGHTS, but I've only heard stunning things about it. Hopefuly SEGA gives us another one. Didn't NiGHTS break in as the first game with an analog thumbstick? It'd be fitting, I think, to have another one at launch of the Revolution.

IGN? No. It has to be Gamespot.

I'm just hoping that some sort of information about Smash Bros Revolution will be unveiled at E3.

Amen to that.

NiGHTS was an amazing game. I still own a copy of the special Christmas version :lol:

I hope someone besides me is watching the awesome, Live Gamespot E3 2005 documentary. Really, really awesome.

He did it because you're using really really bad sources for your information.

I wasn't around when alot of video games I play came out.

Bee eye en gee oh!

I'll say this about the new Wii announcment on here, then It's all back to the Nintendo thread for me.

Nintendo has a LOT of explainging to do. A lot.

And this is one time they'd BETTER spill all. Their stupidity is making me question my faith in them.

Must...know.......5th Alliance race.... -=collapses=-

http://www.gamespot.com/psp/driving/...ml?sid=6148913

God. Sega sucks. So much potential in that, but no...let's make it a stupid "race to the finish" game. Stupid.

Annnnnd. Rayman for Wii. The picture says it all...insanity!

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/704/704585p1.html

Haha, that IS insane. The pic of those kids is just horrible though.

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/704/704644p1.html

Teriffic editorial on IGN. ENjoy.

I can't wait!

Sonic Rivals looks pretty, but it's by SEGA... I don't think they can pull it off decently.

I'm a bit dissapointed with that Rayman screen, but then again, Ubisoft isn't known for pushing graphic engines very hard. I'll wait till I see MP3 to judge what Wii can pull off.

The editorial was pretty good. Boring though, and it didn't have anything too useful in there. Basicaly "Shaders = good" sums it all up. *yawn*. Still, good to see IGN's trying to set people up to be dissapointed with 'next-gen' graphics.

And just when I thought I'd never have to see that term again.

I think Rayman looks awesome. That series is one of the better platformers outside of of Nintendo, and platforms are basically dead. I'm glad to be getting a new one. Rayman is all about the zany, so none of that stuff mentioned seems overly ridiculous. It'll probably be funny as hell, much like the last 2 Rayman games.

I've honestly never touched a Rayman game, let alone anything from Ubisoft until I nabbed Beyond Good and Evil for $10. I'm sure it'll be pretty fun though, but depending on what other launch games are out there it might be lost in the shuffle.

Rayman is sick, I love the series, I also love all the shooters made by ubisoft, great company other than their lack of pleasing online gamers, charging people for everything release when they say they will be free when the game comes out and just pushing games back because they think itll make money later on in the year, outragous, other than that great company. One thing im looking forward to that was just announced be showcased at E3 is Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. The first one was amazing and very addicting.

Ubisoft makes PoP...that says enough. Rayman comes out of Montreal, where all the best Ubi games end up coming from, so I'm excited for it.

Never was a fan of Rayman, but Ubisoft is a good company.

Go back to your RPG's and gameplay-less "video"games.

Ouch, that hurts my pride. :cry:

Heh... then make it until PoP instead of BG&E. My bad.

That and it's fun to say Ubisoft.

Well boys, we're one day away from the first press conference of E3. Who's getting excited?

Sony is up first, and we'll see how well they handle those claims of all their trailers being fake last year. If they can pull off something as amazing as that Killzone demo...hot damn.

Should be a good time.

It's werid though... all the employees at the Gamestop here in town arn't even talking about PS3 and 360. It's all about Wii for them, apparently.

I'm looking forward to seeing what games devs are gonna have on PS3, though.

We've got just about 5 and a half hours until Sony's conference. Who's hyped for a week of pure awesome!?!

I already know what to expect from PS3 though... so my week of pure awesome starts tommrow ;)