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Microsoft kicked off its press conference by showing a trailer and a live demonstration of Rock Band Beatles, punctuated by the appearances of Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Sir Paul McCartney. The celebrity endorsements glossed over the fact that the game isn’t exclusive to the 360, and as impressive as they were, it didn’t really make a great opening.
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Things started off promising enough. Fights with dragon-like beings are rarely dull. I think this particular part of the demo would’ve come off a lot better had it not been passed off as a tutorial/minigame though, or really the only combat I saw in the 20-30 minutes that I was able to play before our next appointment.
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The demo of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days puts the player in control of Roxas and was divided into two playable missions that took place in Twilight Town and Agrabah respectively. Each mission comes with its own brief cutscenes, objectives, and rewards.
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Upcoming Nintendo DS title, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, received a North American release date today, being promised for release in the 2009 holiday season. Nintendo also spilled a bit of gameplay details, talking a bit about the things Link would have to deal with while chuggin’ down the tracks.
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Nintendo announced a third companion game to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Time today, called Explorers of the Sky. The game appears to represent a “third version” with a relationship to Explorers of Darkness and Time similar to that between Pokemon D/P and Platinum. Explorers of the Sky offers new Special Episodes, enhanced communications features, and new Pokemon to select as your main character. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky is currently set for a fall 2009 release.
Continuing the theme of Nintendo’s E3 announcements, Mario & Luigi RPG 3 has received a title for North American shores — Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. As the title suggests, the game will follow the adventures of Mario and his brother as they explore the bizarre lands to be found inside their perennial enemy. No word yet on the appearance of Alka-Seltzer Man.
Some new details came out at Nintendo’s E3 conference today about the new DS entry to the Kingdom Hearts series, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Speaking at the conference, Reggie Fils-Aime announced that the game would see a North American release date of September 29, 2009. Following the early adventures of Organization XIII member Roxas, 358/2 Days promises to fill in a previously murky area of the series’ history.
Square Enix managed to shock a fair portion of its audience today with the announcement of Final Fantasy XIV, scheduled for exclusive release on the PlayStation 3 next year. Details are, unsurprisingly, scant at the moment, but a brief trailer shown at E3 hints at the game being a new MMO.
Edit: Final Fantasy XIV is now confirmed to be a massively multiplayer online title, and is planned for a simultaneous global release with language support for Japanese, English, French and German. Weirdly enough, it’s also confirmed for release not only on PS3, but also on the PC. So much for “exclusive.”
Joining yesterday’s release of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years on WiiWare, Final Fantasy VII becomes available for download today via Sony’s PlayStation Store. This was kind of expected, as it was released for Japanese audiences in April and rated by the ESRB just a few days ago, but hey. Final Fantasy VII!
To complement yesterday’s announcement that Final Fantasy XIII would be coming to North America on the Xbox 360 in Spring of 2010, today Square Enix reaffirmed its Japanese release date of Winter 2009. Despite some comments by Yoichi Wada that were widely taken as indicating the game would be pushed back, Square Enix’s Japanese-language E3 roster confirms the Winter 2009 date announced by the Final Fantasy XIII demo which was released with the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete blu-ray earlier this year.
One of the more unexpected announcements at Nintendo’s E3 conference today was that of Golden Sun DS. Though the GBA games Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age are fondly remembered by many gamers, Camelot’s lack of interest in extending the series has long been a major part of series discussion, so this announcement comes as something of a surprise. Details on Golden Sun DS are scant at the moment, though we do have an amazingly tentative release date of “next year,” and a promise that the game will feature 3D graphics and an entirely new adventure.
Bioware and Lucasarts talked a bit about the next step in the Knights of the Old Republic series today, specifically about the MMO which will be continuing the series. Star Wars: Old Republic will apparently feature some of the most extensive voice acting to date, eschewing all text-based communication between player and NPCs. What this means for the habit of voice acted NPCs to refer to player characters as “the hero” remains to be seen.
The second of our reader requests appears today, the fighting mushroom known as Breloom. This critter has gotten a pretty big boost with the current generation of Pokemon, gaining a new ability, better hold items to play with, and most importantly, an improved movepool.
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Most gamers remember what E3 was like in the early to mid-’00s, even if they didn’t attend: showy exhibits, loud music, plenty of swag, booth babes, and a festive atmosphere. It was more than just a trade show; it was a festival of gaming for the industry’s best. It was the chance to try out games that weren’t out yet and talk with developers. It was an exhausting sensory overload and a collective experience that made many wonderful memories.
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Apparently shunning old-fashioned press releases, Bioware recently released two new teaser videos via GameTrailers.
The first is a new E3 teaser trailer for Mass Effect 2. The first teaser trailer, released back in February, showed that Commander Shepard was killed in action. This new trailer shows Shepard alive and well and taking on a dangerous mission. There’s also a previously released video that features the developers talking about what players can expect in Mass Effect 2.
The second is a new trailer for Dragon Age: Origins. In addition to showing plenty of spattered blood, this trailer also reveals the game’s new release date of October 20.
Source: GameTrailers
XSEED recently announced that it will be localizing the upcoming Lunar remake, Lunar: Harmony of the Silver Star, for North America. It will also be rearranging the title’s words into Lunar: Silver Star Harmony. The company will also be bringing over Half-Minute Hero, known as Yuusha 30 in Japan. Both games should be released this fall.
Source: Siliconera
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