I'll Take Brand New Video Game Information > Sleep ANYTIME =D

(Just a quick warning, this one is quite long, but it should make up for the long wait ;P)

Well that was pretty interesting... I was going to get a few hours of sleep before school, but got distracted by a live stream video of Microsoft's opening show (or whatever you'd call it) at E3 and decided that I'd make a blog about it.
For anyone who doesn't already know, E3 is the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is an annual show that is pretty much the biggest expo around for video games. It's where many video game developers showcase their upcoming games and hardware for the current year and sometimes larger projects coming the next year.

I didn't see it all from the start, but I'm pretty sure I didn't miss out on too much and I got to see alot of kool things... So here they are! =D

First was a trailer of the new installment for the Metal Gear series, Metal Gear Solid: Uprising.
The main character is Raiden (protagonist & player character of MGS2: Sons of Liberty), appearing in a new cyborg exoskeleton.
In the trailer, Raiden is shown dicing some enemies up, including a few in slow motion where it appears that you get to choose exactly how you cut them (I hope I won't be the only one yelling "Off with his head!" a few times while playing this ;P). You also see the ability to cut "anything", one demonstration of which was cutting the supports of an overhang and having it crash down on your enemies, the other demonstration was also using the ability to choose how you cut things, to neatly slice up a watermelon.

Second was a live four player co-op demo of Gears of War 3. The short demo featured the new playable female characters for the four player co-op (was only two player co-op in the last two games), new COG characters, new weapons, & Lambent enemy types, including the Lambent Berserker. Although this game is only set to come out april next year, the graphics and gameplay in the form of a blood & gore fest shown in the demo looked amazing.

Third was a brand new trailer for Fable 3. There wasn't all that many new things shown, but the trailer featured some exciting gameplay that would make anyone who liked either of the previous games impatient for the release of this one on October 26th.

Fourth was some gameplay from Halo: Reach's single player. This showed some of the features which have been quite well spread via the online multiplayer beta of the game, and it also included a short first look at the space fighting and hints of a possible multiplayer dogfight game mode (like some of my friends would know well from Warhawk... except this is in space! xD).

Fifth was the Kinect for Xbox 360(Just think PlayStation Eye).
Kinect will enable people to access many parts of their 360 without a controller through the use of their voice and/or body movements. The capabilities of the Kinect start right from signing in, just wave your hand and the Kinect will automatically recognise you and sign in to your avatar (Not from first time use of course, don't be foolish -_-), from there you can use your hands or voice to enter your movies, music, video chat, or games.
They showed many games (including demos) that will be specifically for the Kinect, including a fitness game, Kinect Adventure, Kinectimals (where you can pet the cute little animals!!!), and Dance Central (which actually doesn't look too bad due to how easily the Kinect seemed to pick up all their movement, however I don't think I'd play this at all... unless it was in the privacy of my house... alone... naked... >.>).
Also this is due to be out November 4th with 15 launch titles (as in games) =P

Last was the announcement of the new Xbox 360 which is being shipped today and should be in stores quite soon! The new design is slimmer (looked to be roughly 3/4 as tall when standing up), and the new hardware comes with a 250gb hard drive (with a little "hidden" compartment where it can easily be removed... and replaced with a much larger hard drive ;P) and an inbuilt Wi-Fi support.
It was also announce that the price of the new Xbox 360 should be the same as Elite's currently are, and the prices of the Xbox 360 - Arcade & Elite should both be dropped.

Somewhere in there, there was also a very short live-action trailer depicting a new Xbox only game from the German developer Crytek (best known for developing Far Cry & Crysis) called Codename Kingdoms. The trailer featured gladiators, but there weren't many other details that were made apparent.
Although it's only very early in and they're not sure whether it's even going to be first or third person game, this is quite possibly an attempt to "counter" Sony's God of War series.

I did try to throw in some of my usual random comments in there, but I'm still sorry for anyone who isn't really interested in games. This is my blog and this is something that I found really interesting and wished to talk about, so you'll just have to hope it's not so game orientated next time =P (although E3 has only just started and that was only the beginning of Microsoft's part...) ^,^ I don't have a very interesting life anyways =/