Microsoft Streaming E3 Press Conference Via XBL

I like MS E3 Pressers. Can't wait to see the reveal of Peter Moore's new tattoo and the return of Velocity Girl.

Is it going to be in 1080p? Wake me up when that happens...

They should have done this a couple years ago. Good on them!

@Brad said:

@Fontelroy said:

Mister Klepek, I like your writing, but this one had a taint of jadedness to it with regards to what seems to be the hassle of e3. I feel that this attitude is endemic to most of the gaming press as of late and it saddens me.

~Just venting a bit

Regardless of your interest in being there, you miss 80% of the news and info coming out of E3 purely by being there in the thick of the madness, rather than observing it all from a distance in a distilled format like you will at home.

Indeed. That thing is exhausting even when you only have 1 or 2 appointments. I can't imagine what it's like to have a solid week of appointments in that mess. I've only been twice with minimal appointments but I don't think I ever come out seeing even 70% of the stuff there. Would get home and get mad I missed so much.

Oh, come on guys. Los Angeles isn't that bad. Sure, the traffic is terrible and there are some areas you don't want to get lost in but there is also a lot of fun to be had there.

E3 was f'ing insane the years I went. I can't imagine trying to get any work done there. Good luck Giant Bomb crew!

This short post made me laugh out loud twice. Well done Patrick.

I know it's different for you, Patrick, but it's kind of funny that you guys dread going to E3 and I would straight up kill a man for a chance to go.

Lol, I agree with Patrick's opinion on LA. Never, ever, go there!

Why is it that all journalists are cynical towards going to a press show? I have been to a couple myself, and had a blast doing so. Is it just the normal, "I don't do this for fun anymore," kind of mentality you see after someone being at their job for a year plus?

I thought they did this last year. Oh well, not like people were ever devoid of options on TV or the internet.

Nice, I can watch it on my tv now.

@Brad said:

@Fontelroy said:

Mister Klepek, I like your writing, but this one had a taint of jadedness to it with regards to what seems to be the hassle of e3. I feel that this attitude is endemic to most of the gaming press as of late and it saddens me.

~Just venting a bit

Regardless of your interest in being there, you miss 80% of the news and info coming out of E3 purely by being there in the thick of the madness, rather than observing it all from a distance in a distilled format like you will at home.

I don't want to start a debate, but I think much of your audience, including myself, would love to be "in the thick of the madness" at e3 and it's a lot of the draw to much of your guys' awesome e3 coverage. It's just a little disheartening to see the few off hand complaints that seem to have been increasing in frequency in recent years.

I just watch live streams at work, like a boss.

Sure, why not? Though I'm more concerned about whether or not this year's press conference will be as bad as last year's.

@mnzy said:

US-only?

I hope not. But it's moot anyway because sites like Gamespot always stream around the world.

As long as they are not keeping it from other places then I don't really care.

Very happy about this! Now I wont have to log in to a bootleg G4 stream on Justin.TV!

Thanks Microsoft! Hope it's not ALL Kinect BS this time!

Well I guess this is better than watching it on Spike & having Geoff Knightley spoil the Halo 4 announcement during the pre-show >.>

@Bakaneko said:

There's nothing positive to say about LA for the most part, other than most of the time its at least 80 miles away from me.

But I've got to let you in on a little secret:

I HATE San Francisco too.

Yeah, its weird. People say LA has all the douche bags, but those people are usually typical, pretentious Northern Californians.

@MmaFanQc: I, um, sure? Yes, the dashboard is bad, full of ads, yada yada...but I didn't say anything about that, so I don't know why you're targeting me with your vitriol.

@iAmJohn said:

@Phatmac said:

Was that dig at Sony really necessary? In any case this is cool.

It's hardly a dig at Sony as it is a dig at Home being a useless piece of shit. Which it is.

Sure. I just don't see how it relates to the story about Microsoft providing coverage for E3. You could say the same about Nintendo and how they provide no coverage for E3 on the Wii. Just seems odd to me is all.

@crusader8463: Exactly, Patrick's tagline about Home is a bit misleading if you take it literally. Streaming over Home was cool for those whom use it but you didn't have to. I haven't even downloaded it since I switched to a Slim PS3 18 months ago.

@Asky314159 said:

As nice as it is of Microsoft to offer this, I have never seen an E3 press conference I actually enjoyed watching.

Have you never seen any of Nintendo's press conferences? Those are always good. And I expect big things for their Wii U launch. Microsoft's ones however are indeed boring and corporate (and occasionally creepy, like that Kinectimals thing from last year)

Really cool.

This is some Alex-ass Alex article... oh Patrick? weird.

@AngelN7 said:

This is some Alex-ass Alex article... oh Patrick? weird.

Pretty much this. I had to go back and check the byline.

Free 360 Slims for everybody?

Does anyone know if you'll need to be a Gold member to watch it?

Hehehehehe, nice Burn at the end there

I can't wait to not be able to find this on the Dashboard!

@Asky314159: You sir, have no soul. E3 has become my favourite time of the year, its when I laugh the most, at giant bomb, at the conferences, at the nerd rage.

That and hey! video games. I love it.

I've never smoothly buffered a video on the xbox so i'll pass.

I'll be juggling multiple laggy streams, as always.

oh glad i got an xbox recently :P

Silver?

@cikame: Whats your internet? Streaming off with 0.6 mb/s and it works flawlessly for HD videos.

Watch laggy streams to gain more information about Kinect!

This should have been done for the last several years. And on top of that, EVERY trailer at E3 should be released online on XBL and PSN immediately upon their reveals as well. It makes no sense to limit your game's exposure in any way, shape or form.

They will have all the streams in the chat here again right? That was more fun than watching it alone.

So it's probably gold members only right? 'cause that would suck.

Halo 4 and a bunch of Kinect garbage. There I just saved you guys a couple hours.

@laserbolts said:

Halo 4 and a bunch of Kinect garbage. There I just saved you guys a couple hours.

Yeah. Sure.

Wii-U. Some 3DS garbage.

A bunch of Vita garbage. Maybe a PS3 game or two. Spun sales figures.

I'm going to watch all of them anyway.

@habibyjohnson said:

@Asky314159 said:

As nice as it is of Microsoft to offer this, I have never seen an E3 press conference I actually enjoyed watching.

Have you never seen any of Nintendo's press conferences? Those are always good.

No they are not "always good." I haven't seen a good Nintendo one in years and the only memorable stuff in recent years were debacles like Wii Music or the "always / sometimes / NEVER" nonsense.

@KaneRobot said:

@laserbolts said:

Halo 4 and a bunch of Kinect garbage. There I just saved you guys a couple hours.

Yeah. Sure.

Wii-U. Some 3DS garbage.

A bunch of Vita garbage. Maybe a PS3 game or two. Spun sales figures.

I'm going to watch all of them anyway.

@habibyjohnson said:

@Asky314159 said:

As nice as it is of Microsoft to offer this, I have never seen an E3 press conference I actually enjoyed watching.

Have you never seen any of Nintendo's press conferences? Those are always good.

No they are not "always good." I haven't seen a good Nintendo one in years and the only memorable stuff in recent years were debacles like Wii Music or the "always / sometimes / NEVER" nonsense.

I know why you posted this, but I figured I'd help clarify what he probably meant "No, there is no new console announcement. No, there aren't any new game announcements for the core audience"

Also, I'm fairly sure he didn't meant "some halo 4 garbage, and some kinect garbage." I'm 99% sure he just wrote that because of the general distaste for kinect stuff.

@KaneRobot: My comment wasn't a hating on microsoft comment I was just pointing out what it will be. But if you want to be a white knight for microsoft then continue on I guess.

@clstirens: Exactly. Halo 4 will be more Halo so not garbage but nothing worth freaking out about and yes the kinect stuff will be garbage. Not hating on microsoft at all.

@laserbolts said:

@clstirens: Exactly. Halo 4 will be more Halo so not garbage but nothing worth freaking out about

Why not? Besides the obvious CODifying of it. People freak out about sequels on this site and Halo is/was awesome.

@ez123 said:

@laserbolts said:

@clstirens: Exactly. Halo 4 will be more Halo so not garbage but nothing worth freaking out about

Why not? Besides the obvious CODifying of it. People freak out about sequels on this site and Halo is/was awesome.

I'm sorry I can't help being a cynic. I try not to be but I am. Who knows it may be awesome but I expect more of the same which has grown old to me but thats my opinion.

@laserbolts: I expect balancing issues galore.

However, I've practically given up on xbox live, and since I can't get my Halo fix anywhere else, Halo 4 isn't really on my radar. (after 6 console failures in ~4 years*, I'm so god damn jaded and sick of xbox live fees and the like...)

*I've owned a 360 since 2006, but my last failure was actually in 2010, I stopped playing xbox for the most part in 2011. Not that anyone cares, but I figure I should clarify.

@clstirens said:

@laserbolts: I expect balancing issues galore.

However, I've practically given up on xbox live, and since I can't get my Halo fix anywhere else, Halo 4 isn't really on my radar. (after 6 console failures in ~4 years*, I'm so god damn jaded and sick of xbox live fees and the like...)

*I've owned a 360 since 2006, but my last failure was actually in 2010, I stopped playing xbox for the most part in 2011. Not that anyone cares, but I figure I should clarify.

After 6 console failures I would have given up on xbox myself. That seems like plenty of reason to not bother with xbox live anymore. I have gone through 4 now and the only reason I still primarily use xbox is because my real life friends use it. Just making sure that people understand that my comment wasn't against microsoft. Although I will say that they better get their shit together for the next generation because it is pretty ridiculous the amount of hardware issues people have had. Maybe it is time to invest in a good pc.