E3 Day One Wrap Up - Microsoft

Games (Trailers and Demos)

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  
• Tomb Raider
  
• Mass Effect 3
  
• Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
  
• Gears of War 3
  
• Ryse
  
• Halo 4
  
• Halo Anniversary
  
• Forza 4
  
• Fable: The Journey
  
• Kinect Disneyland Adventures
  
• Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
  
• Star Wars Kinect
  
• Dance Central 2
  
• Kinect Sports Season Two
  

Announcements

• UFC and Xbox Live partnered together and all UFC pay per view events will be available on Xbox Live. Kinect friendly.
  
• Cloud Saves and Beacons allow gamers to access their games saves on other consoles and beacons will let gamers tell their friends what they want to play.
  
• Fall 2011 Dashboard update coming and looks much more user friendly and clean.
  
• Youtube and Bing coming to Xbox Live.
  
• Xbox Live TV Service announced. Unfortunately not alot of details were dropped other than that you will be able to watch anything you want.
  
• Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will be Kinect friendly along with all future Tom Clancy titles. Future Soldier will use body tracking and voice commands.
  
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Madden, FIFA, and an unannounced fourth title will be Kinect enabled.
  
• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will be priced at $40.00 and will feature HD graphics, co-op over XBL, and a release date of November 15th, 2011.
  
• Halo 4 shown at the end of the press conference with a 2012 release date.
  
• Forza 4 will use Kinect.
  
• Fable: The Journey will support Kinect controls.
  
• Minecraft is coming exclusively to the 360.
  
• Kinect Fun Labs available now on the Kinect dashboard. Lets users re-create their avatar to look just like them, finger tracking controls, and take 3D photos and edit them. There will also be item scanning for use in games.
  

Chastity's Final Verdict on Microsoft's E3 2011 Press Conference: I was a little disappointed by Microsoft's showing at E3 this year. It seems that they are heavily focused on marketing Kinect enabled titles which is great for them to steer gamers away from the Wii and PS Move. However that is all that there press conference was about. If you are married to your Kinect then this press conference was for you, but for gamers who were looking for sneak peeks, new games, and gameplay from regular games releasing soon, those gamers were left in the dark.