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Slim 360, Tons of Games, Kinect Details All at Microsoft's Press Conference
Alex Tretrop
Microsoft really started off E3 with a bang! Just like last year, the company had tons of details on hot new games, tons of information on upcoming releases and even announced a Slim 360 that’s shipping to stores this week! And yet, I feel like I have a bad taste in my mouth…
UPDATE: As the day goes on we’ll post links to videos and such to all the bullet points below.
- All COD DLC will be coming to Xbox LIVE first until 2012
- Metal Gear Rising Gameplay video shown off at the Presser, shows Raiden slicing up robots!
- Fable 3 releasing on October 26th and new Trailer
- Crytek (behind games such as Crysis) have joined forces with Microsoft Partners to create a new 360 exclusive code named: Kingdom
- Halo: Reach Campaign gameplay video was shown
- Firefight confirmed for Halo:Reach
- Gears of War 3 gameplay video was shown
- New ‘Beast Mode’ for Gears of War 3 was mentioned - no details
- Reach has space battles
- ESPN coming to LIVE for free (for gold members)
- Kinect titles announced: Forza, Star Wars, Your Shape, Dance Central)
- 360 Slim annouced, everyone at conference gets one (curses!)
- Same price as regular 360 ($299)
- 250 GB, built in Wifi, quieter, glossy black body
- Shipping TODAY and in stores this week
- Kinect launching November 4th with 15 launch titles (No price tag yet)
Overall, for the hardcore gamer, next to nothing was shown that we didn’t already know. The only two surprises were the Xbox 360 Slim’s reveal and Metal Gear Solid: Rising gameplay video. Hulu was not announced for Xbox Live, no surprise title or game was teased, and Kinect was the meat of the whole show, which in effect made the entire press conference feel more like Nintendo was behind the curtain. For a second there I even thought Cammy Dunaway was going to pop out!
