The last week has been huge for gamers and the gaming industry everywhere. With all the news from the 2009 E3 Expo in Los Angeles, we have seen some huge game announcements aswell as some massive new console features, we even saw some new console announcements. This has led to a huge amount of buzz going around the internet with all the new announcements. This post should help you get all the annoucements that came out of LA.

The E3 events began with a conference from Microsoft. They announced over 10 games during their conference which was the first one of the event. Here’s some of the game that you can expect to see being released in the near future:

• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – November 10th 2009
• Metal Gear Solid: Rising
• Halo 3: ODST – September 22nd 2009
• Halo: Reach – 2010
• Final Fantasy 13 – Autumn 2010
• Forza Motorsport 3 – October 2009
• Crackdown 2 – 2010
• Left 4 Dead 2 – November 17th 2009
• Splinter Cell Conviction – Autumn 2009
• Alan Wake – 2010
• The Beatles: Rock Band – September 9th 2009

Aswell as all these massive games, they also announced a range of massive console features that we can expect to see coming to the 360 in the next few months. These included:

• Twitter and Facebook modified for the 360
• Netflix
• Sky TV
• Last FM (free for gold members)
• Zune HD video

Possibly the biggest console feature they announced was Project Natal. Project Natal is controller free gaming where you will be able to use your body to control your games. The magic of the 3D camera will allow you to automatically log into Xbox Live by using facial recognition aswell as being able to start games, chats and videos by using the voice activiation technology. And finally, the ability to scroll through the Xbox 360 dashboard by simply using your hand. No release date has currently been announced for this great new feature.

Later that day came the EA conference where they announced a series of game releases that included:

• Star Wars: The Old Republic – 2010
• Need for Speed: Shift – September 17th 2009
• Fight Night Round 4 – June 26th 2009
• EA Sports Active
• EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis – June 12th 2009
• Mass Effect 2 – January 10th 2010
• Brutal Legend – October 16th 2009
• The Sabateur
• Crysis 2
• Dragon Age Origins – October 20th 2009
• Dante’s Inferno – February 2010
• Madden NFL 10
• MMA: Mixed Martial Arts – 2010

After EA came Ubisoft with some pretty big and awesome looking game announcements. These included the following:

• Assassin’s Creed 2
• Splinter Cell Conviction
• Red Steel 2
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
• Avatar: The Game
• Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage
• Academy of Champions
• Casual Games
• Your Shape
• Rabbids Go Home
• TMNT: Turtles in time Re-shelled

That was all the excitement over for the first day of the expo, on the second day game another 2 console developers, Nintendo and Sony.

Nintendo started the day with some Wii and Dsi game and feature announcements. These included the following:

• Metroid Prime: Other M
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Wii Fit Pluz
• New Super Mario Bros
• Wii Sports Resort
• The Conduit
• Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
• Dead Space Extraction

They also announced the vitality sensor which is a thumb grip, similar to the ones used in hospitals, to measure your pulse rate. They announced that this new feature would be included in a series of games that are designed to help you relax.

It was a resonably short day for conferences leaving Sony to finish off the day with some more massive game announcements, some new tech for the Playstation 3 and finally, a new console announcement.

You can expect to see the following PS3 releases in the near future:

• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• Heavy Rain
• Massive Action Game
• Agent
• Gran Turismo 5
• God of War 3
• The Last Guardian
• Modnation Racing

As for hardware announcements, they announced that they are developing some technology similar to the Wii. This new piece of tech requires 2 controllers, very similar to the Wii, however this tech uses a camera like Project Natal. They hope that they will be able to incorporate this tech into many of their games aswell as games purposely created for the controllers.

Sony ended their conference with a brand new console announcement, the PSP Go. The new PSP is a smaller and lighter version of the PSP with a slide up screen that uncovers the controls. The new PSP Go will contain an internal flash drive which will store all your games, meaning you don’t have to carry discs out with you. It also contains an extra flash drive slot for some extra storage space aswell as WiFi and Bluetooth technology.

That was the end of all the conferences from the big publishers and console developers for this year, I’m pretty sure we’ll be kept busy with all of that stuff until next years E3.

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