**Official E3 2006 News/Rumor/Discussion Thread**

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Posted by RJT on Apr-20-2006 23:15:

E3: 2K6

Welcome to what will hopefully become a cool collaborative effort amongst the gaming forum TA's to put together a semi-comprehensive list of the most interesting rumors, news, and other topics for discussion at this years E3!

The way we're hoping this will work is that each of you find something interesting having to do with this years expo, make a relevant post and link us to the source material, after you do that I'll update this first post with the link and a short synopses of what's behind it.

I'm hoping this will both bring a little new life to this forum and be a solid resource for a diverse and interesting collection of the hottest stories at E3 this year!

Cheers, and here's looking to a solid conference!

The news so far...

(Wii):

4/27/06

Konami brought their first Revolution title to the public today, called Elebits.

link: here

SEGA is continuing their successful franchise Super Monkey Ball on the Revolution, titled Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz.

link: here
interview: here

AMN is claiming that the Nunchuk extension to the Revolution controller will also include motion sensors. Take this as a rumour until further confirmation from Nintendo.

link: here

French videogaming site Jeux-France is reporting that the Revolution Nunchuk extension will include - besides motion sensors - force feedback (not to be mixed with the normal rumble). Their sources appararently described the feeling as holding a "Powerball" (more info about Powerball: here)

As with the above news about the motion sensing nunchuk, take this as a rumour too.

link: here

Unfortunately, no new screenshots from Revolution games has been published yet, besides from Ubisoft Paris developed Red Steel. [/QUOTE]

~Thanks to P4z!

(Microsoft XBOX 360):

CONFIRMED Pre-E3 rumor (Microsoft XBOX 360):

Reports are saying that Microsoft will be announcing an HD-DVD drive add-on for the 360 as early as the first day of E3. I'll follow up on this news over the week.

According to Chris Lewis, Microsoft Executive, the add-on WILL be making an appearance at E3.

~ Yan

4/28/06

Halo 3 to be unveiled at E3 news conference.

quote:
IGN reports that Microsoft will unveil the next Halo title during its E3 news conference on Tuesday, May 9. The preview is reportedly in the form of a 2-minute video. While the exact details of the footage are unknown, expect a doctored in-game sequence.

However, beyond this teaser, don't expect to learn much about the game. No one is going to rush this title in order to combat the PlayStation 3 launch. All signs indicate that the next Halo is far from complete and won't be out until 2007.

Source: Joystiq via IGN... via someone else, probably.

~ Thanks to Yan!

Assassin's Creed (**Note: Cross Platform PS3/X360)

Ubisoft Montreal has announced Assassin's Creed, a next gen title for the PS3 and 360, to be in (possible) production.

The Holy Land is in trouble during the Third Crusade. You play as Altair, a member of the Assassins, intent on helping the fight to preserve the Holy Land.

They launched the game's preview site with a nice trailer to spark our interest.

This game will be seen at E3 next week even though one of the two (Sony) had yet to okay the concept for their console.

(Sony PlayStation 3):

Pre-E3 announcement (Sony PlayStation 3):

Ridge Racer 7 is in development for the PS3 console and will be making an appearance of some form at E3 (a different source is saying that the game WILL be playable at E3, marking the beginning of the first hands on experience with the PS3). Helming the project are 2 RR veterans, Hideo Teramoto and Masaya Koyabashi. Expect to see a 14-player online racing mode with RR7.

Will it be a release title? That information we'll probably find out over the next few months (sooner than later).

~ Yan

Posted by bluE_Neon on Apr-21-2006 00:21:

Bring me back some games!

Posted by RJT on Apr-21-2006 00:24:

quote:
Originally posted by bluE_Neon
Bring me back some games!

Lawl! Naw, I'm not going this year, haven't been there since 2001 (the only year I was there), but I'm always jumping all over the news sites during E3, and think it'll be kind of fun to see what kind of discussion the TA's will have about some of the more interesting stories to come out of the biggest event of the year for gaming in America...

Posted by XoxidE on Apr-21-2006 00:57:

i wonder when the ps3 is comin out...

Posted by RJT on Apr-21-2006 01:16:

quote:
Originally posted by XoxidE
i wonder when the ps3 is comin out...

A fine example of a question whose answer I hope soon appears in this thread...

Posted by Yan on Apr-21-2006 02:02:

quote:
Originally posted by XoxidE
i wonder when the ps3 is comin out...

According to Sony, November will be seeing a worldwide release for the PlayStation 3.

Delays abound? Maybe.

CONFIRMED Pre-E3 rumor (Microsoft XBOX 360):

Reports are saying that Microsoft will be announcing an HD-DVD drive add-on for the 360 as early as the first day of E3. I'll follow up on this news over the week.

According to Chris Lewis, Microsoft Executive, the add-on WILL be making an appearance at E3.

----

Pre-E3 announcement (Sony PlayStation 3):

Ridge Racer 7 is in development for the PS3 console and will be making an appearance of some form at E3 (a different source is saying that the game WILL be playable at E3, marking the beginning of the first hands on experience with the PS3). Helming the project are 2 RR veterans, Hideo Teramoto and Masaya Koyabashi. Expect to see a 14-player online racing mode with RR7.

Will it be a release title? That information we'll probably find out over the next few months (sooner than later).

Posted by RJT on Apr-21-2006 18:36:

Thank you Neo!

Posted by P4z! on Apr-22-2006 05:35:

Here are the floorplans for this years E3:

Posted by MrSquirrel on Apr-22-2006 19:02:

The "rumors" I have heard is that the alliance race for the WoW expansion will be announced. As well as there being a semi playable look at said expansion.

Oh ya..no booth babes.

Posted by RJT on Apr-22-2006 21:49:

Remeber everyone, to source the material you put in this thread. Otherwise it just looks like unsubstantiated rumour... I'm only going to update/index information from credible sources.

Posted by iLiptikalOrbitZ on Apr-22-2006 21:54:

boo yeah! E3 here I come!!!!

Free airfair, hotel, and admission courtesy of ATI.

thank god for connections.

Posted by daydreamer on Apr-24-2006 00:01:

NOICE

keep them comming guys.

Posted by RJT on Apr-24-2006 16:09:

quote:
Originally posted by daydreamer
NOICE

keep them comming guys.

Most updates won't really come for another week or so, as the week before E3 is usually when the floodgates open for the majority of unconfirmed (and confirmed) stories regarding the conference.

But as a LOT of the community spends the weeks before speculating on what's going to happen, I figured we'd start it off now and just grab everything we can leading up to conference!

Posted by P4z! on Apr-26-2006 22:08:

Konami brought their first Revolution title to the public today, called Elebits.

link: here

SEGA is continuing their successful franchise Super Monkey Ball on the Revolution, titled Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz.

link: here
interview: here

AMN is claiming that the Nunchuk extension to the Revolution controller will also include motion sensors. Take this as a rumour until further confirmation from Nintendo.

link: here

French videogaming site Jeux-France is reporting that the Revolution Nunchuk extension will include - besides motion sensors - force feedback (not to be mixed with the normal rumble). Their sources appararently described the feeling as holding a "Powerball" (more info about Powerball: here)

As with the above news about the motion sensing nunchuk, take this as a rumour too.

link: here

Unfortunately, no new screenshots from Revolution games has been published yet, besides from Ubisoft Paris developed Red Steel.

Posted by RJT on Apr-27-2006 17:50:

quote:
Originally posted by P4z!

Thank you P4z!

Posted by Yan on Apr-28-2006 17:39:

Halo 3 to be unveiled at E3 news conference.

quote:
IGN reports that Microsoft will unveil the next Halo title during its E3 news conference on Tuesday, May 9. The preview is reportedly in the form of a 2-minute video. While the exact details of the footage are unknown, expect a doctored in-game sequence.

However, beyond this teaser, don't expect to learn much about the game. No one is going to rush this title in order to combat the PlayStation 3 launch. All signs indicate that the next Halo is far from complete and won't be out until 2007.

Source: Joystiq via IGN... via someone else, probably.

Posted by RJT on Apr-28-2006 23:01:

Updated.

Changed the format of the initial post, now there are sections with appropriate headers (Wii, Xbox... etc.) regarding each console, and the news for each will be updated just below as it comes in.

There are no DS, PSP, PC, or 3DO sections yet as there hasn't been anything really worth posting up, and they don't make 3D0's anymore.

Thanks for sticking with this guys... I think once E3 is all said an done we'll have kind of a cool little retrospective here!

Posted by Yan on Apr-28-2006 23:21:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RJT
There are no DS, PSP, PC, or 3DO sections yet as there hasn't been anything really worth posting up, and they don't make 3D0's anymore.

Posted by RJT on Apr-28-2006 23:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Yan

This has got to be one of like 4 places in the universe that someone would find that funny... I figured I had to take advantage of the opportunity

PS: Suck it, Trip Hawkins!

Posted by Magnus on May-01-2006 18:33:

Who here is lucky enough to be going? I got to go once in my life and every year around this time, I think about it and it sucks how things changed and I'll probably never get to go again. Yan you going?

Posted by RJT on May-01-2006 22:02:

PrE-3 Rumors and Innuendo:
What are we getting excited for here?

So, as E3 technically doesn't start up for about 2 weeks yet, I figured perhaps something to entertain us until then would be discussing the possibilities for this years conference. Every year, those of us who follow E3 like hawks, both salivate and cringe in disgust at some of the rumors leading up to conference. Some come true, some don't, but they're always fun to speculate on. So who's got some solid rumors heading into E3?

**Note: PLEASE BE VERY CLEAR WHETHER WHAT YOU'RE POSTING IS A RUMOR OR E3 NEWS!!!

Anyhing without a source will be treated as uncomfirmed.

So let me kick off with a few unconfirmed tidbits here:

* PS3 will NOT be playable or will at least be heavily restricted at this years E3.

* Bioware working on an MMO (Or at least a few "suprises")? (http://www.computerandvideogames.co...e.php?id=137083)

* Fallout 3?

* The "final" Revolution secret? (Wii?)

Who's got some more juicy ones? These are just some of the obvious ones... I want to hear the outrageous ones!

Posted by Yan on May-02-2006 20:09:

Sony PlayStation 3 + Microsoft XBOX 360

Ubisoft Montreal has announced Assassin's Creed, a next gen title for the PS3 and 360, to be in (possible) production.

The Holy Land is in trouble during the Third Crusade. You play as Altair, a member of the Assassins, intent on helping the fight to preserve the Holy Land.

They launched the game's preview site with a nice trailer to spark our interest.

This game will be seen at E3 next week even though one of the two (Sony) had yet to okay the concept for their console.

Posted by RJT on May-03-2006 15:42:

The list...

IGN.com's list of the titles confirmed to appear at E3:

2K Games
Bioshock (PC, Next-Gen)
CivCity: Rome (PC)
Civilization IV: Warlords (PC)
The Da Vinci Code (Xbox)
The Darkness (Next-Gen)
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World (PC)
Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony (PC)
Prey (PC, X360)
Sid Meier's Railroads! (PC)

2K Sports
College Hoops 2K7 (PS2, Xbox, X360)
NBA 2K7 (PS2, Xbox, X360)
NHL 2K7 (PS2, Xbox, X360)

10Tacle Studios
Elveon (PC, X360)
GTR 2 - FIA GT Racing (PC)

Ankama Studio
DOFUS: Riders of the Dragoturkey (PC)
Dofus-Arena (PC)
WAKFU (PC)

Ascaron Entertainment
Tortuga - Two Treasures (PC)

Atlus Software
Contact (DS)
Steambot Chronicles (GBA)
Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (GBA)

Auran
Fury (PC)

Bethesda Softworks
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (PC, PS2)
Star Trek: Legacy (PC, X360)
Star Trek: Tactical Assault (DS, PSP)

Blizzard
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (PC)

Buena Vista Games
Desperate Housewives (PC)
Every Extend Extra (PSP) NEW!
Lumines II (PSP) NEW!
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (PS3, X360)
Turok (PS3, X360)

BUKA Entertainment
Aggression: Europe 1914 (PC)
Dusk-12 (PC)
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of the Clans (PC)
Pacific Storm: Allies (PC)

Capcom Entertainment
Capcom Puzzle World (PSP)
Dead Rising (X360)
Lost Planet (X360)
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Falzar (GBA)
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar (GBA)
Mega Man ZX (DS) NEW!
Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP)
OKAMI (PS2)
Power Stone Collection (PSP)
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (PS2)
Ultimate Ghosts 'N Goblins (PSP)

CD Projekt
The Witcher (PC) NEW!

CDV Software
DarkStar One (PC) NEW!
Heroes of Annihilated Empires (PC) NEW!
Pacific Storm: Allies (PC)
Panzer Tactics DS (DS) NEW!
War Front: Turning Point (PC) NEW!
War Leaders: Clash of Nations (PSP) NEW!

Crave Entertainment
Dave Mirra BMX Challenge (PSP)
Hard Rock Casino (PS2, PSP)
LarryBoy and the Bad Apple (GBA, PS2)
World Championship Poker: Featuring Howard Lederer "All In" (PS2, PSP, X360)

D3 Publisher of America
Dark Sector (PS3, X360)
DreamWorks & Aardman's Flushed Away (Cube, DS, GBA, PS2)
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 (Cube)
Naruto: Ninja Council (GBA)
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp (DS)

DreamCatcher Games
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (PC)
Dead Reefs (PC)
Evidence (PC)
First Battalion (PC)
Genesis Rising: The First Crusade (PC)
Painkiller (PS2, PSP)
Painkiller: Hell Wars (Xbox)
The Sacred Rings (Xbox)
Safecracker (Xbox)

Eidos Interactive
Hitman: Blood Money (PC, PS2, Xbox, X360)
Just Cause (PC, PS2, Xbox, X360)
Rogue Trooper (PC, PS2, Xbox)
Urban Chaos: Riot Response (PS2, Xbox)

ESTsoft
Cabal Online (PC)

Eutechnyx
E-Racing (PC)

Freeze Interactive
FieldOps (PC)

GAMESweet Software
Video Game Tycoon (PC)

KOEI
Fatal Inertia (PS3)

Konami Digital Entertainment
World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 (Platforms TBD) NEW!

LucasArts
Indiana Jones (Platforms TBD)
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Platforms TBD)

Microsoft
Crackdown (X360)
Gears of War (X360)
Mass Effect (X360)
N3: Ninety-Nine Nights (X360)
Too Human (X360)
Viva Pi�ata (X360)

Midway Games
The Ant Bully (GBA, PC, PS2)
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (GBA, PC, PS2)
Happy Feet (GBA, PC, PS2)
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (PC)
MLB SlugFest 2006 (PS2, Xbox)
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (PS2, Xbox)
Mortal Kombat: Unchained (PSP)
NBA Ballers: Phenom (PS2, Xbox)
NBA Ballers: Rebound (PSP)
Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War (PSP)
Rush (PSP)
SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run (PS2, Xbox)
Stranglehold (PS3, X360)
Unreal Tournament 2007 (PC, PS3)

NCSoft
AION (PC) NEW!
Auto Assault (PC) NEW!
Dungeon Runners (PC) NEW!
Exteel (PC) NEW!
Guild Wars Factions (PC) NEW!
Tabula Rasa (PC) NEW!

Nintendo
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Cube)

ON Games
Legend of Dragon (PC) NEW!
PC Football 2007 (PC) NEW!
Shadows of War (PC) NEW!
Wild Summer (PC) NEW!

Play Ten Interactive
Battle for Atlantis (PC) NEW!
The Precursors (PC, X360) NEW!
The Wall (PC, PS3) NEW!
White Gold: War in Paradise (PC) NEW!

RedOctane
Guitar Hero II (PS2)

Reef Entertainment
Liquidator (PC)
Utopia City (PC)
World War Zero (PC)

SEGA
Chrome Hounds (X360)
Phantasy Star Universe (PC, PS2, X360)
SEGA Rally Revo (PC, PS3, X360) NEW!
Sonic the Hedgehog (PS3, X360)
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii) NEW!
Super Monkey Ball Adventure (Cube, PS2, PSP)
Virtua Tennis 3 (PS3, X360) NEW!
World Pool Challenge 2007 (PSP) NEW!
World Pool Championship 2007 (PC, PS2, PS3, X360) NEW!
Yakuza (PS2) NEW!

Shantz International
The Shadow of Aten - The Egyptian Chronicles of Allen Scott (PC, X360)

SNK Playmore
King of Fighters 2006 (PS2)
Metal Slug (GBA)
Metal Slug Collection (PSP)

Sony Computer Entertainment
ATV Offroad Fury Pro (PSP) NEW!
ATV Offroad Fury 4 (PS2) NEW!
Gangs of London (PSP) NEW!
God of War II (PS2) NEW!
Killzone: Liberation (PSP) NEW!
Lemmings (PSP) NEW!
LocoRoco (PSP) NEW!
MotorStorm (PS3) NEW!
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters (PSP) NEW!
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3) NEW!
Rogue Galaxy (PS2) NEW!
Warhawk (PS3) NEW!

Sony Online Entertainment
Field Commander (PSP)
Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising (PC)
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (PS3)

Square Enix
Children of Mana (DS) NEW!
Dawn of Mana (PS2) NEW!
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (PS2) NEW!
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (DS) NEW!
Final Fantasy III (DS) NEW!
Final Fantasy V Advance (GBA) NEW!
Final Fantasy VI Advance (GBA) NEW!
Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan (PC, PS2) NEW!
Final Fantasy XII (PS2) NEW!
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PSP) NEW!
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2) NEW!

Techland
Call of Juarez (PC) NEW!
Chrome2 (PC, Next-Gen) NEW!
Crazy Soccer - Mundial (PC) NEW!
Dead Island (PC) NEW!
FIM Speedway Grand Prix 2 (PC) NEW!
Xpand Rally Xtreme (PC) NEW!

THQ
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cube, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, PSP, Wii, Xbox) NEW!
Barnyard (Cube, GBA, PC, PS2, NEW!
Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle (DS, GBA) NEW!
*****oons (Cube, DS, GBA, PS2) NEW!
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (Cube, DS, GBA, PC, PS2, Wii) NEW!
Unfabulous (GBA) NEW!

Tri Synergy
Origin of the Species (PC)
TerraWars: New York Invasion (PC)
UFO: Extraterrestrials (PC)

Ubisoft
Red Steel (Wii)

Vivendi Universal Games
Scarface: The World is Yours (PC, PS2, Xbox)

Warner Bros. Interactive
Justice League Heroes (PS2, PSP, Xbox)

Webzen
Huxley (PC, X360) NEW!
Project Wiki (PC) NEW!
Soul of the Ultimate Nation (PC) NEW!

Posted by stren on May-03-2006 20:53:

nice to see polish developers CD Projekt and DreamCatcher Games, making to E3

Posted by Yan on May-08-2006 21:11:

Yan's BIG prediction about the Sony Keynote:

1) We will see the final design of the actual PS3 Unit and the new redesign of the controller,

2) We will get an official release date (to the day) and pricing points for various packages and

3) We will hear a ton more about connectivity and their online services.

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