L’anno scorso avevamo parlato dell’E3 più esplosivo degli ultimi anni, ma forse potremmo essere stati troppo precipitosi. Dopo aver parlato fino alla nausea della next gen l’anno scorso, sostanzialmente molto fumo e poco arrosto, è ora di vedere qualche titolo di peso. Siamo consapevoli che ci sono stati i primi titoli di lancio sia per Playstation 4 che per Xbox One, tuttavia sentiamo la mancanza di vere killer application mature, titoli imprescindibili che possano smuovere i nostri animi. Nel mondo PC invece non siamo rimasti delusi, con titoli interessanti specialmente nel rinnovato e fresco panorama indie. Nintendo prosegue per la sua strada, con un parco titoli per Wii U first party davverto stellare, sfortunatamente incapace però di muovere grossi numeri di vendita. Da segnalare, con un sacco di amaro in bocca, l’esclusione di Joypad dalla rosa dei partecipanti all’edizione di quest’anno della fiera losangelina. A quanto pare, partecipare ogni anno alla Gamescom e andare fino al Tokyo Game Show non basta per gli americani. Shame on you people!
Seguendo una consolidata tradizione, l’E3 comincerà con qualche giorno d’anticipo con le conferenze pre evento. Il carnevale di eventi speciali aprirà ufficialmente lunedì 9 giugno, tra una settimana esatta. Segnatevi dunque la data sul calendario e preparatevi ad una lunga notte insonne, perchè le conferenze più esplosive cominceranno durante la serata di lunedì per protrarsi fino a tarda notte: bibite energetiche (o birrette fresche) e popcorn sono caldamente consigliate. L’apertura della fiera è prevista per i giorni dall’10 al 12 giugno, ma se doveste trovarvi a Los Angeles non vi affannate, l’E3 è sfortunatamente riservata alla stampa! Se volete provare l’ebbrezza, non vi resta che recarvi alla Gamescom questo agosto! Gli eventi da tenere a mente sono davvero moltissimi, abbiamo quindi pensato di fornirvi un elenco con orari e siti web, così che non dobbiate rimbalzare da un sito all’altro in cerca del tanto agognato stream! Eccovele dunque, in ordine di trasmissione!
Lunedì 9 giugno:
Ore 18.30 c’è la conferenza Microsoft. Potete seguirla in streaming su Xbox 360, Xbox One e su Xbox.com. Ma non è tutto perchè il team di Xbox ha in programma un pre-show dalle 18.00 e un post show sul canale Twitch ufficiale. Quest’ultimo appuntamento è sicuramente interessante perchè servirà per approfondire quanto mostrato durante l’evento principale.
In programma ci saranno Halo 5: Guardians, Sunset Overdrive, Fable: Legends, Killer Instinct Season 2, Quantum Break, D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die, Gears of War, Forza Horizon 2, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo War Collection, Project Nagano, alcune esclusive third party ancora segrete e alcuni titoli di ID@Xbox.
Ore 21.00 c’è la conferenza Electronic Arts, da seguirsi sul sito ufficiale dedicato all’evento.
Ci aspettiamo Battlefield: Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Star Wars: Battlefront, Madden e FIFA 15. Speriamo anche in qualche novità riguardo Mass Effect 4, Need for Speed, NBA più titoli Criterion, e BioWare Austin.
Martedì 10 giugno:
A mezzanotte, come l’anno scorso, c’è la conferenza Ubisoft visibile sia sulla loro pagina Youtube (che trovate qui) sia tramite Twitch (a questo indirizzo).
Vedremo sicuramente Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4, The Crew, Tom Clancy’s The Division, Valiant Hearts e Just Dance. Ancora da confermarsi Rainbow 6: Patriots e Assassin’s Creed: Comet.
Alle 03.00 tocca a Sony. Per i veri fanatici del brand e dei caffeinomani (visto l’orario!). La conferenza sarà visibile sia sul sito ufficiale sia tramite apposite app per PS3 e PS4.
L’attesa è grande per The Order: 1886, DriveClub, Uncharted 4, The Last of Us Remastered, Project Beast, Rime, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Helldivers, Shadow of the Beast. Probabile anche la presenza di un nuovo God of War, un nuovo titolo RPG di Guerrilla e parecchi titoli PSN. Per quanto riguarda The Last Guardian invece potete solo tenere le dita incrociate!
Finalmente, alle ore 18.00 (prevedere pisolino dopo la conferenza Sony però) è il turno di Nintendo, che trasmetterà il suo Direct attraverso la pagina dedicata all’evento.
Vedremo Bayonetta 2, Super Smash Bros Wii U, The Legend of Zelda Wii U, Pokemon Omega Ruby e Alpha Sapphire, Sonic Boom, Yarn Yoshi e un nuovo titolo dedicato a Mario. Pare ci sarà un titolo basato sulla meccanica di Skylanders per Nintendo 3DS.
Un programma molto impegnativo per il gamer che tutto vuole sapere. Se non pensate di farcela, state tranquilli perchè la redazione di Joypad si è già preparata per seguire le novità minuto per minuto. Come ogni anno avremo la nostra copertura completa dell’evento giorno per giorno, con video e articoli!
Se preferite sedervi davanti alla tv e non cambiare mai canale tutta la serata, segnaliamo che Twitch ha in programma una monumentale diretta con tutti gli eventi principali a partire dalle 18.00 fino oltre le 04.00 del mattino. Ci saranno tutti i media briefing più svariati altri giochi, quali The Witcher 3, Battlefield Hardline, Bottlecry e Dying Light.
Abbiamo anche trovato (qui) una lista con tutti gli espositori presenti, che vi riportiamo per stuzzicare la vostra curiosità.
- 2weGames Inc.
- 3DC.com
- 505 Games
- Activision Publishing
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Aksys Games
- Alienware
- American Expresses OPEN
- A-ONESOFT LLC
- App Annie
- Astro Gaming
- Atlus U.S.A., Inc.
- Bandai Namco Games America
- Beacon Studio
- Behaviour Interactive
- Bethesda
- Bigben Interactive
- Boogio
- BRI-America Inc.
- Brady Games
- Capcom USA Inc.
- CCP Games
- CD Projekt Red
- China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group
- China Universal Press & Publication Co. Ltd
- CI Games
- Cozmo
- Creative Mind Interactive
- Crytek
- Curse
- Daedalic Entertainment
- Deep Silver
- Digital Hearts USA Inc.
- Disney Interactive
- dreamGEAR
- DTS
- DXRACER USA LLC
- EEDAR
- Electronic Arts
- En Masse Entertainment
- Epic Games, Inc.
- Ever App Ltd
- Exeo Entertainment, Inc.
- Extra Life
- EZ Games Distribution, Inc.
- Fiksu
- Flying Wild Hog
- Focus Home Interactive
- Four Lights
- Fresvii
- Frontier Developments
- Future US
- Gaijin Entertainment
- Game Developers Conference
- Game Insight
- Game Informer
- Game Insight
- Game Scope
- Gamechurch.com
- GamerHawk
- Gameloft
- GameSpot
- Gameworld Distributors
- Gaming Grids Inc.
- Gioteck
- GlobalStep
- Greybox
- GungHo Online Entertainment
- Hewlett-Packard
- Hong Kong Trade Development Council
- Hori USA, Inc.
- Hyperkin, Inc.
- iEnergizer Limited
- IGDA
- IGN
- Immerz, Inc.
- InComm
- IndieCade
- Innex, Inc.
- InnoGames
- Kabam, Inc.
- Kemco
- Key Code Media
- KOG
- Konami
- Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency
- Kuung GamesLaserTagPro
- LATAM Games
- Little Orbit
- Logitech Gaming
- Machinima
- Mad Catz Inc.
- Mattel Inc.
- Maximum Games
- Mecca Electronics, Inc
- Microsoft
- Monoprice
- Multiplayer.it
- My.com
- Natec-Genesis
- Natsume Inc.
- nDreams Ltd
- Neo Arena Inc
- NetEase Inc.
- Nintendo of America
- Noitom Technology
- Nuri Studio
- Nvidia
- Nyko Technologies
- Oculus VR
- OnLive
- Orbbec Co
- Paradox Interactive
- PearlAbyss Corp.
- Perfect World Entertainment
- Performance Designed Products
- Phonejoy
- Pioneer Distributors
- Platronics
- Playkey
- Playseat
- Polk
- Polygon
- Prima Games
- Pro vs. GIJoe
- Protect A Game
- Qualcomm
- R.D.S. Industries
- Razer
- ReliableCoders
- Rizing Games
- Royal Electronics
- Sega of America
- Sensus
- Silicon Image
- Snail Games USA
- Solutions 2 GO
- Sony Computer Entertainment America
- Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
- Square Enix
- SteelSeries
- Straker Translations
- Studio Can-G
- Studio Noir
- Sunflex USA LLC
- Syba Multimedia, Inc/ GamesterGear
- Take-Two InteractiveTechland
- TellTale Games
- Tencent America
- The Get-Well Gamers Foundation
- Turtle Beach
- Twitch
- Ubisoft
- Ubitus
- UCC Distributing Inc
- UOL BoaCompra
- Video Game Voters Network
- Videogame History Museum
- Virtuix
- Virtuos
- Visual Shower
- Vivid Games
- Wargaming
- Warner Bros. Interactive
- Webroot
- Wikia
- Wizards of the Coast
- World Int’l Trading
- Xaviant
- X-Games Inc
- XPEC Entertainment Inc
- XSEED Games
- Zynga
Great, I was just waiting for a summary article like this, thanks. Luckily, the hours are quite affordable. I'm really curious to see a couple of them.
First of all those of Ubisoft (for Far Cry 4) and Nintendo for the various new features which, I hope, will enrich the WiiU game offering.
And then the one from EA to make me laugh at how they'll sink the Battlefield series XD (yes I admit it.. I already have some preconceptions about them because of the hatred they made me feel with the last two titles they churned out)
You're welcome! 🙂 Affordable up to a certain point, getting to the end of the Sony conference will be tough!
I'm happy to see everything, but there's only one title I'm dying to see: Uncharted 4. And I hope it'll be playable at the GC, I demand to get my hands on it! 😀
Oh yes, Sony had already excluded it from my list... crazy time... Ubisoft at midnight is already not the best.
Hehe, to each his own passions 🙂 I personally don't know what it's like, I've never had a PlayStation and so... but I hope you can try it at the GC (maximum respect if you manage to survive the crowd of people that will be there and try it hehe)
I personally will watch these conferences for fun but I will try not to have any expectations... they are too manipulated by marketing these days... I don't want to give a sermon like the ones you read so many times on the internet... but lately I see that games are presented in a way to create crazy hype, sometimes even "faking" what they show at the conference... you buy them at D1 because you have very high expectations and when you finally try them, the patatrack happens... disappointments, unusable games, servers that don't work, bugs, negligible longevity, etc. (like with Battlefield, Watchdogs, Titanfall and many others)...
All this to say… be careful not to get too high expectations for Uncharted 4 eheheheh
I can't, I have to write all the news about Joypad! It's going to be a long night, but a great night! For me, there's no need for hype about a Naughty Dog project. They've been churning out masterpiece after masterpiece for years, and there's no marketing that can help. For games bought on day one, that's what we're there to review, hehe!
Don't worry, it'll be my fifth Gamescom, so I know what to do! In any case, if it's playable, we'll see about reaching an agreement with Sony so we can talk to you about it in as much detail as possible!
Uncharted 4, you'll be mine 😀
Hehe, indeed, that's why I occasionally reach out to ask for further clarification (like with Titanfall). I've been burned by now, especially by the people at EA, which is why I'm more wary.
Yes, I know you go often, but it must still be stressful. In any case, please let Sony know, even if you use fake names, so if you ever try the game multiple times, hehe.
Who knows, maybe with a review of yours I'll end up trying Uncharted too. (They don't make a PC version, do they?
By the way, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you a question. Do you know if GTA V is finally going to be released on PC? The other night I was on Toppreise and I saw in a list of new releases that some stores have opened pre-orders (release expected around September) for the PC game. Oo, but I understood that they wouldn't do it.
Well, some games you can already tell in advance whether they're going to be good or not (and then there's always time for denials, anyway!).
It's stressful and tiring, but also a lot of fun! We won't be announcing with fake names; they know us face to face... any evil plan would be short-lived.
According to what we know, GTA V will be coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One this summer. Pre-orders have been open on several websites and in several stores for some time now. I imagine we'll see the official announcement from Rockstar at E3, but now there's little doubt it's actually coming out!
heheh you can always say that you all have twin brothers :).. lots of twin brothers heheh
ahh ok, I had heard so much news about it.. between petitions not to bring it to PC, about the fact that it was true for some and a hoax for others etc.. that I haven't updated anymore.. however, if it really comes out then, it could be one of my choices this year
oh no!
Anyway, GTA V bored me quite a bit…
ah!… actually you're not the first one I've heard say that… uhm.. maybe I'll wait.. just for a change eheh lately it's always like this.. they ruined all my favorite sagas.. I don't have any games left that I would buy on D1 :S
d1 is a myth that needs to be debunked!
And the fact is that they continue with this story of D1 incentives... soon they will sell you half the game... and if you want the other half you can only get it if you pre-order it months in advance.
Ps I had to re-register on Disqus.. but now here I am.. same name but also with image 🙂
Too bad you didn't participate in the conference chat!
Conference chat? Where?
https://www.joypad.ch/livestream-e3-2014/
ahh but yesterday I saw that page, only the chat kept "flashing" and so I decided to go directly to the official E3 channel thinking it was just a link... damn I'm sorry I missed it...