Hebp escribió:Como sea la conferencia telegrafiada vaya una tomadura de pelo.
Pues sí que lo es, de momento...
13:17.16 -
Stephan Brechtmann is Microsoft Germany's home and entertainment chap (that's the division that runs the Xbox and so on). He's on stage now, talking about how bloody huge Games Convention is. He's not wrong - the show here is bigger than E3, and with a higher meat content in the burgers, I'll wager.
13:16.06 -
It Begins!
"Speech" from Arrested Development is on the screen. They're beginning with his recording bloopers. There's a Live Anywhere logo too.
It's going to last for 90 minutes apparently, which is a bit worrying since I only have 70 minutes of laptop battery remaining. REINFORCEMENTS BITTE.
13:14.52 -
Someone who shall not be named from one of those Xbox 360 magazines (you know, the ones that come on bits of dead tree) says he's never been so uncomfortable in his life. Presumably he was expecting some form of giant Xbox mountain rather than a small German coliseum. Colloseum? Word says BOTH of these spellings are correct. A mystery!
13:13.34 -
Dum de dum. What else can we speculate on wildly, in an entirely unfounded manner? Well, ther's a silver projector device on the stage, presumably some kind of teleprompter or reading aid - OR PERHAPS IT'S THE XBOX 720?!? (That should get us a breathless link from some blog sites.)
13:12.19 -
There also appears to be an actual car of some description under a silver sheet next to the part of the audience which is filled with English hacks. Forza 2 related, maybe? Tom speculates that it could be something to do with Project Gotham Racing 4, but then again, Tom was so addicted to PGR3 that he had to take up smoking again when he finished all the challenges in the game, so that can be safely dismissed as the raving of a madman.
13:10.04 -
There's a laptop with a 360 pad on stage, and the steering wheel - announced at E3 - is visible behind the scenes. What are the odds on a Forza Motorsport 2 demo, then? 360 pods with screens are facing the stage.
13:08.47 -
Right! Hello again. Here we are at the Microsoft stand, having braved the perils of the cavernous glass central hallway in the Leipziger Messe and the slightly suspicious tasting coffee. There's a mini colloseum in the middle of the stand, and about 200 people are milling around in here - I say "about 200", meaning "an indeterminate number that looks like Quite A Lot." A wraparound screen is showing off a looping promo reel.