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Nintendo Press Confrence! Live ish blogging

9:00am-HRmm kinda sick of the stupid montage of people playing Nintendo products again. WOAH Reggie isn't starting the Nintendo Conference!

9:10 am - Shaun White Snowboarding - hrmm the balance board gameplay actually looks really tight and responsive, this game might actually be ok.  But this Shaun White must be REALLLY stoned, eyes are blitzed and he keeps giggling during his whole presentation.

9:15 am -Iwata Speech...Paradigm shift.... boring stuff he's said before.

9:23 am -Animal Crossing, my god my wife is going to hog the TV from now on.

9:26 am -Wii Speak...room confrence? No more headsets subtle but good idea.

9:28 am- REGGIE!!!! but he's started off REALLY boring with boring stats

9:35 am-Upcoming Wii games only 3?? Clone Wars, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV and Call of Duty World at War -  CoOp mode????

9:40am NDS games - Guitar Hero on Tour Decade and Spore on NDS

9:43am - GTA Chinatown Wars, hrmm wonder what this gameplay will be like! Thats gotta be a first for Nintendo!

9:47am - Wii Motion Plus, hrmm Wii Sport Resort WOAAAAAAHHH Sword Fencing looks AWESOME!! Can you say STAR WARS LIGHT SABER!!

9:56am - Wii Music, i wonder how sensitive those drum controls really are, might be way better with Wii motion control.  But the air drumming looks quite nuts. Hrmm this is definitely a game for children to play 'Make Belief', in a way Nintendo is butchering children innocence and forcing a set experience on kids haha.

What I'm most curious about is will Wii Motion Plus work to improve old games, if it does then it will make every old FPS game a lot better.  It seems to work with the Nunchuck but does it actually improve the Nunchuck's sensing abilities???  Wii Speak I'm not impressed but Wii Motion Plus looks really interesting.

Ghostbusters - movie quality trailer

This game really does feel like the sequel to the movie, more so than Stranglehold was for Hard Boiled. In the same way I watched Hard Boiled before I watched Stranglehold I definately have to re-watch GB1. Forget 2

DEAD SPACE LOOKS AWESOME!!

OMG this game looks sick, I really like the clever UI schemes that they have implemented, I'm just really keen to see how the control scheme works out.  I can see this game being really really freaky and something you don't want to play home alone late at night.  James Wan the director and writer of the original Saw series cut the latest trailer!!! That should be an indication of how spooky this game is going to get!

Mirror's Edge - Parkour for fat people

This game looks amazing, definately going to let us non parkour athletes to free run! Like most games these days I think the control scheme will make or break this game. Hrmm the importance of the shoulderbutton in todays world!

Autumn update for XBOX

HRmmmm... the new interface looks like a jazzed up Cross Media Bar with an Apple sensibility to design, notice the reflection of the giant icons ala Apple.

The new Live Party looks like a simple and faster version of PS Home/Facebook.  I guess I could see lots of people logging in to see what friends are online. Live Party seems to have beaten PS Home to the punch, you get your social networking sharing of photos, eventually and inevitably youtube links, and even can watch DVD's from netflicks together which is pretty awesome for people in the US, but doesn't mean squat to the rest of us outside of the US.  All in all pretty impressive and unless Sony pushes home forward they'll be first to market.  That avatars look really good, even tho they scream Mii TOO, I have to admit after initial skepticism I could see the Avatars being a nice bonus to the live experience.

I never really thought much about the way the 'blades' look, I just loaded up the games, but the whole new look is pretty cool, the big question for me now is how much of the implemented service will the rest of world see.

I could hear the collective screams of agony of Playstation fanboys around the world as FF XIII was announced for Xbox.  I think they're both great systems and think to be honest just pick the system you like the first party games for.

Gamespot crashes during e3

Not one of my favourite sites ever since the whole Gerstmann thing, but seems they couldn't handle there own traffic, looks like i'll be watching e3 MS press con on IGN

Portal Still Alive

YEAAAAAHHHH!!! It would seem that Portal:Still Alive? is coming to XBL sometime in 2008!!

Wii Motion Plus

Came across this here at Kotaku.  Seems that Nintendo is making a slight improvement to our Wii controllers, the Wii Motion Plus is going to somehow enhance the sensitivity of our Wii remotes.  Could this be the add that makes all the 3rd party dev's jump on the Wii band wagon, if the controls can feel as sensitive as what we would imagine the gloves from 'Minority Report' to be then maybe the hardcore games will come, maybe that was the plan from day one, Wii control for the old folk and mom's the hyper sensitive Wii motion plus for hardcore gamers to get REAL control!

E3 - The calm before the storm

Its the night before e3, this has got to be every gamers favorite time of year.  All the big news comes bursting out of e3.  I remember when stocks went crazy for Nintendo after the Wii officially got named!

Its always a time of the year where everyone is excited for the news, but the funny thing is there is always a game drought in terms of actual releases.  I've just finished GTAIV and feeling a bit empty now, guess I'll be looking forwards to Gears of War in Nov.

Dead Space - Box Art

Came across this here at Joystiq.  This is a REALLY cool box art, don't think I've ever seen anything so abstractly cool for box art.  As I've gotten older (and being from HK) and stopped buying pirated games and movies, I've come to appreciate more and more good box art as you normally have mountains of these DVD size boxes lying around as ornaments.  So a cover that doesn't just come across as a typical Hollywood popcorn movie poster is a true winner, this sorta box art makes me really want to find out what this game is about, then again I've got high hopes for Dead Space anyways!