Sony continues to win the battle for the coolest E3 stage setup with an impressive wraparound screen. They brought out the big guns pretty much immediately with a little sizzle reel for Destiny. You're a soldier of legend, one of the few capable of the great tasks which are required, the last hope of humanity, etc. It's a Bungie game, alright!
- Destiny will launch on Playstation first...for the beta. July 17th isn't too far off! Playstation 4 owners will also get a chance to play the first-look Alpha in the near future.
- New SKU: White Playstation 4 with a Destiny bundle when the game ships on September 9.
- A new IP only available on PS4: The Order: 1886. Following a dude as he walks through a dark building looking for...something. He finds it, and it appears to be a werewolf of some sort. It looks great, although it's really difficult to tell if this is real gameplay or not, despite a UI being displayed from time to time.
- Smoooooooth jazz as they introduce Entwined. From a "small team of academic game designers." "A game about two souls in love but who can't be together." This definitely looks like something that will be up someone's alley. Looks similar to Dyad and other rhythm games; it's also available tonight on the PS4 store, coming up on PS3 and Vita on cross-buy.
- Infamous: Second Son stand-alone DLC, with exclusive content if you already own Second Son. Looks like a prequel relating some of Fetch's backstory. InFamous: First Light, coming in August. No gameplay shown, alas.
- Little Big Planet 3! Different characters have different abilities like wall-jumping, super speed, and extra strength to help your team maneuver through the world. Not sure if that means that if it'll be possible to play through the game in single-player as it seems like you'll need to have a fairly full team to get past all the obstacles that are placed in your way. It looks a lot like more Little Big Planet.
- After a bit of a talk from Shu, we get a first look at a trailer for Bloodborne, a verrry gothic-looking game from From Software, which I assume is what all those Project Beast leaks were about. Looks very nice, but there was no UI or gameplay to judge.
- Straight to the first gameplay from Far Cry 4 for the day. Some great outdoor area design here, and some fun-looking combat with a mini crossbow and some sticky bombs. A nice little carjacking sequence where your character hops into the passenger seat of a car and kills the driver with a knife to the face before going over a cliff and saving himself with a wingsuit for a drop to a valley below. Next mission starts with another player seamlessly dropping in. Looks like a lot of good fun: strafing runs from a helicopter, using an elephant as a weapon, and more. Very likely a heavily scripted demo, but still: looking good.
- Playstation 4 gamers will be able to invite other players to join their game online, even if their friends don't own the game. No idea how that'll work, but sounds like it might be a bit of a gamechanger depending on what the catch is.
- Another non-gameplay trailer, but hard to tell if it's CGI or in-engine. The day's first zombies after Dead Rising 3? Fun little trailer for Dead Island 2; sounded like Jack Black might be voicing a character. No gameplay.
- Some exclusives to the Playstation: sounds like Hulk will only be in Disney Infinity on Sony versions of the game. Exclusive stuff for Destiny that kinda sounds like the usual pre-order stuff that shouldn't be terribly compelling, but I guess we'll see.
- Live-action trailer for something Magicka-related, and it is indeed Magicka 2.
- Neat little surprise: a remastered Grim Fandango is a PS4 and PS Vita exclusive; sounds like Disney will be publishing.
- Big collection of indie stuff: Broforce, Titan Souls, Not a Hero, Hotline Miami 2. If you want some pixel art, stay tuned.
- A Suda 51 game will be an exclusive to the PS4: Looks like something similar in style to a Dead Rising, with looting and stats on weapons and damage numbers popping up over enemy heads. Multiplayer focused? Game is called Let It Die; coming in 2015.
- Neat little swimming/scuba game from the makers of Journey; looks more atmospheric than action-packed. Called Abzu and will be debuting on Playstation.
- Another console debut: No Man's Sky, the procedurally-generated exploration game. Looks very nice with some distinctive UI work, and a great demo where your character seamlessly jumps from a planet to some space combat and back to another planet. Not sure what the gameplay actually is yet, but it looks great.
- This is when my stream started to chop like a madman, so unfortunately I missed some stuff here. A bit of a surprising announcement in that Project Morpheus will have two demos playable on the show floor.
- 25 free to play games coming to Playstation platforms.
- Playstation Now will be heading into open beta on July 31st on PS4. Also coming to PS3 and Vita at some point, and then..."select Sony televisions."
- "Over 100 Vita titles in development today." Who knows how many of those are obscure Japanese titles, though.
- Playstation TV is coming to America. Ships for $99 but sounds like memory cards will be extra, so enjoy paying another $30 or so for those.
- Gameplay footage from Mortal Kombat X. Amusingly enough, the cinematic trailer with Scorpion and Sub-Zero that caused so many ripples leads directly into the first fight here between the pair on the snow stage that was shown in the CGI trailer. It's a very good-looking 2D fighter with some great-looking attack animations. Lots of fatalities, too.
- A Ratchet & Clank movie and a remake of the original Ratchet and Clank for PS4, so that's neat if you like Ratchet & Clank. This is a comment about how long this conference is; heading into its 90th minute now.
- "The following trailer contains spoilers" is probably not what you want to hear if you haven't played Last Of Us yet. Looks like Remastered will be along on July 29th for PS4.
- I'm going to confess that I haven't been keeping up very well with Metal Gear Solid 5 at all, but it's easy to tell that it's going to look fantastic when it arrives.
- GTAV is coming to next-gen indeed, and it looks like it might be debuting on PS4. Looks great, but we'll need to take a closer look at it in person to tell what kind of visual improvements they've really made. Better anti-aliasing will make that game a lot more enjoyable. 360 and PS3 owners can port their saves over.
- First look at Batman: Arkham Knight today. This game looks very good, with a pretty stunning draw distance and some wonderful graphical touches. The Batmobile has a great transformation animation from driving to tank mode, which allows it to strafe around targets. Looks like the main villain this time around is going to be Scarecrow.
- And, last but not least, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End has a cinematic trailer. Might be CGI, but I wouldn't doubt that Naughty Dog could make a game look this good. If this is actual gameplay footage, though, that's gonna be an amazing-looking game.
That was a very long conference with some good-looking game. No Last Guardian, which is probably the big disappointment, but there's always TGS.
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