This week has been a huge week for gaming. With all the news from the E3 Expo in LA, we have seen game announcements, upcoming console features and even console announcements. This has left all the gaming news sites scrambling to get all the great news out to all the gamers. This post is simply a summary of all the announcements that came out of LA, just to keep you up-to-date.

The gaming expo all started with Microsoft. They released details for over 10 new games during their conference, which was the first 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 date has been given for the release of this new console 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 kicked off the second day with some big game annoucements for their consoles, the Wii and the newest DSi. 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 say that this feature will be included in games designed to help you relax.

Although there were only 2 conferences on the second day, Sony still managed to cause some buzz with their conference where they announced some massive game releases, some new console features aswell as a brand 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. The new motion technology requires 2 controllers, similar to the Wii except it uses a camera, just 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 finished off their conference with the announcement of the PSP Go, a brand new console. The new PSP Go will be a smaller and lighter version of the latest PSP, but it will sport a slide up srceen that will uncover the controls. The new PSP Go stores games on the internal hard drive rather than having to carry discs around with you. Within the small console it also contains built in WiFi and Bluetooth technology, it also contains a slow of an extra flash memory drive.

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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