E3 2011 - Sony Recap
Welcome to Hybrid Games Live Blog Recap of the Sony E3 2011 press conference. It starts at 5:00pm. Pacific time (8:00pm. Eastern time) - Monday 6th June 2011.
Powered By Hybrid Games PostBlogging
Welcome to Hybrid Games LiveBlog of Sony's E3 2011 Press Conference.
We should be starting the show in around 8 minutes.
PS. Sony's Press Conference is expect to run for around 5 hours.
Conference confirmed to be only 90 minutes long.
We want to see Resistance 3, Uncharted 3, More Ghost Recon, Syphon Filter 4, Rainbow Six 5, Splinter Cell 6, NGP (Hardware/details/games), basically the full run down)
We don't want them to touch on the PSN situation, but they will be talking about 3D for the PS3 again.
Here we go!!!!
3D NGP video
Saw God of War in there.
Showing off all kinds of 3D and non-3D stuff.
Jack Tretton takes the stage
Discussing the PSN outage
Tretton is apologizing personally and on behalf of Sony in regards to the outage.
CinemaNow announced for PS3
PS3 is the leading device for Netflix streaming, accounting for more than 30% of streaming.
Uncharted 3 coming up now. Here#s Naughty Dog
Live Demo
On a dock, rainy.
Ship sways on the choppy waters.
Into a decrepit old luxury liner. Stealth killing... Metal Gear anyone?
Stealthy moves like Splinter Cell there.
Descending into the bowels of the ship with standard Uncharted platforming.
Time for a firefight Ship filling with water.
The ship is dynamically filling with water. AWESOME!!!!
New combat finisher: pulls the pin on an enemy's grenade and kicks him away
Trying to escape a sinking ship Everything is falling on Drake
Title slide. End of Demo
Awesome as always
Multiplayer beta begins 20th June
New trailer now.
A deal with Subway restaurants will grant early access to the full multiplayer in October
Now a full 3D trailer. LOOKS EPIC
Resistance 3 time.
Here come Insomniac Games.
Resistance 3. Love that cover art
Live demo. The setting: St. Louis, MO... in 3D.......
Lots of chimera killing, showing off different weapons.
Live Demo ends
Resistance 3 launches 6th September 2011 for PS3
R3 bundle, includes R3, sharpshooter, move controller for US $150
God of War Origins is PSP Remasters for PS3
PlayStation branded 3D display
Features two TV's in one for multiplayer
PlayStation 3D glasses announced
Monitor, 3D glasses, HDMI cable for Resistance 3 bundle for US $499
Now PlayStation Move
2K Sports now... Game is NBA 2K12
NBA On The Move is the new Move functionality for NBA 2K12
Point at the player you want to pass to, where you want to go, etc
Now here's Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers
Kobe is kind of sucking at this. It's pretty amusing.
"So realistic it's frightening" say Kobe.
We want the leaked Syphon Filter 4
Medievel Moves: Deadman's Quest for PS Move now.
Yep, Medieval's back!
Sword, bow and arrow, and throwing stars. All with Move.
Also puzzle mechanics using Move.
One to one motion control
Looks really fun.
This is also in 3D .... like everything else
Launches Fall 2011
A little last-minute hype for inFamous 2
BTW InFamous 2 is out tomorrow in North America.
Move support coming to LittleBigPlanet 2
Coming this September
Now Starhawk
Nice trailer... looks great in 3D
Sly Cooper!
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Coming in 2012
Now CCP, creators of EVE Online
Quick Jab at Icelandic Volcanoes
Dust 514, exclusive for PS3
Support for Move, Home and NGP
Cross-platform with EVE Online
Trailer time.
Ghost Recon-esque gameplay with Mass Effect 3 feel
Dust514 comes with a closed beta in Winter 2011 and full release in Spring 2012
BioShock Infinite trailer
Epic as always.
Ken Levine, Irrational Games
Talking about how Sony convinced him of the virtues of motion control
He pulled out an NGP and announced BioShock for the handheld.
BioShock: Infinite for PS3 comes with BioShock 1 on same BluRay disc
New Star Trek co-op game
Stat Trek Phaser shaped Move controller
Now a trailer. Third-person action adventure. Coming 2012
SSX exclusive level for PS3 on Mt Fuji in Japan
Need for Speed: The Run, for PS3 getting 7 exclusive cars
Battlefield 3 will come with Battlefield 1943, only on PlayStation
NGP time... Kazuo Hirai
Talking about PlayStation Suite
Expanding Sony content beyond consoles
NGP... here we go. PlayStation Vita announced. FINALLY
WiFi and 3G models confirmed
AT&T as PS Vita BroadBand provider in North America
Pronounced veeta
Near is a connection tool for Vita users near each other
Scott Rohde now
Uncharted: Golden Abyss for Vita now. John Garvin takes the stage
Live Demo. Yep, all new Uncharted on Vita
Melee uses a button or touch screen
You can also traverse with buttons, sticks, or touch screen
Can paint a path along ledges to guide Nathan Drake
Tap the screen to reload. Demo ends
Nicely blends classic Uncharted gameplay with new Vita features
RUIN is next
This is a social action roleplaying game
Looks like a Diablo-style isometric game
Other players are your rivals. They have lairs which you can attack
or defend
There will also be a PS3 version that integrates seemlessly
No transferring saves
New ModNation Racers for PS Vita
Brand new game developed just for Vita.
You can use the touch screen to design and edit tracks
Back touch panel being used to make terrain
Looks crazy intuitive
Owners of ModNation on Vita will have instant access to the tracks shared already by the community
LittleBigPlanet coming for PS Vita. Again, a brand new game
Again, using new Vita features to enhance te game. Shares content with PS3 version
Street Fighter X Tekken for PSVita
Yoshinoro Ono. PSVita will gets a version
Cole from inFamous will be joining the roster of fighters. He's going to play as Cole right now on Vita
Touch panel can be use in addition to normal buttons
Street Fighter X Tekken for PS3 at Sony and Capcom booths.
Over 80 titles in development for Vita. Montage video!
Available this holiday
WiFi version $249/299 Euros 3G+WiFi version $299/299 Euros
Lots of applause for that. Jack's back.
That's all, folks!
Home Page & All Game Zones are optimized for Mozilla Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7 and Google Chrome. If you experience problems with other browsers, encouter bugs or something else, please switch to the recommended ones. Thank you!
You can now write your own article for this site and submit it to me via email. Once it's approved by myself it will show on the site and you never know it could even be chosen as a top story.