Ok just watched it via Gamespot since G4TV's website blocked me access since I'm for Australia. Here's my impressions on the event written as I saw them.
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3... whoopty do! More of the same. Once again they get the DLC first.
- Tomb Raider - Quick time events... and it seems to be like Uncharted on first appearance with Resident Evil style quick time events. Looks good so far. No combat though in the demo.
- EA making Kinect supported games.
- Mass Effect 3 to support Kinect with voice recognition for dialog options as well as battle commands.
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier... again whoopty do! Kinect support with motion and voice controls. Intrigued but don't care personally. All future Tom Clancy game will use Kinect controls.
- More fluid Xbox Kinect voice command usage for normal navigation and YouTube will be on XBL. Bing is also on XBL for finding content which is actually a good idea. XBL TV, don't care I use mine for games.
- UFC on XBL... so?
- Gears Of War 3... yeah... more of the same.
- New Crytek game exclusive to Xbox 360. It uses Kinect. It's called Ryse.
- HALO Anniversary! Holy Crap! With 7 classic maps for online multiplayer. See you there!
- Forza 4 looks visually good but I'm not big on racers.
- Fable The Journey. Whoopty do! Uses Kinect controls. Don't care.
- Holy Crap! Minecraft on Xbox 360. It also uses Kinect controls.
- Kinect Disneyland Adventures... ehh... My nephew would love it.
- Kinect Star Wars... I don't care but looks interesting. It's a on rails action game. I'm not fond of the Star Wars license outside of the original trilogy of movies.
- Sesame Street: Once upon a monster for Kinnect... made by Double Fine... confused... really confused. Casual and kids focused game to the extreme.
- Kinect Fun Labs. You get to try new innovations with the Kinect. Kinect Me allows the Kinect to make avatars look more like yourself. Finger tracking with Kinect allows you to draw with it in a 3D space. Googly Eyes finally allows you to scan objects. Kinect Labs is available now.
- Kinect Sports Season 2... still don't care but that's me. Uses new and better full body gestures and voice commands.
- Dance Central 2. All the music from the first one can be imported and it has over 100 songs and a new and improved "Break it down" mode. Still the only Kinect game I'm interested in.
- Halo 4! Start of a new Xbox 360 Halo trilogy!
Well that's my thoughts as the event unfolded. As you can see it's Kinect all the way and a couple of games the fanboys will care heaps about. Personally Halo and Minecraft are the ones I care most about, maybe Tomb Raider once I see gameplay with combat.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Tomb Raider caught me more as survival horror than a treasure hunting adventure title. Its sure to be semi-open world, but it looks more to be about getting her ass off that island with finding out what mysteries it holds as byproduct.
Don't really have a reaction to anything else.