Giant Bomb Video Game News

Microsoft

• Xbox Live soon to recieve 1080 HD streaming, Facebook/Twitter/Last.fm integration.
• Xbox peripheral Project Natal "makes you the controller". Essentially a camera that can recognize your movent.
• Beatles Rock Band looks better then expected with a unique art-style that goes through each phase of their career. Yoko, Paul and Ringo show up.
• Alan Wake is not only still being made, but looks great. Lots of lighting and slow-mo effects.
• Infinity Ward showed off some Modern Warfare 2 gameplay footage featuring some epic ice-climbing and snowmobile battles.
• Metal Gear Solid Rising will be a X360 release. It's a totally new game.
• Lionhead is working on some crazy Life-gaming with "Milo" a virtual character you can interact with through Natal.
• Halo: ODST looks like a team-based Halo game. Halo: Reach also announced but unknown as to what genre it is.
• Left 4 Dead 2 is a surprise sequel due out in the Fall.
• Tony Hawk shows off Ride, his newest game that uses a skateboard controller.
• Crackdown 2 is confirmed.
• Forza 3 is confirmed and looks a lot like Forza 2 with sharper graphics and nice skinning options.
• Shadow Complex is a metroid-like shooter that will be an arcade download game.
• Joy Ride is a free kart racer that uses your avatar's in game.

Electronic Arts

• Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic is a triple threat from BioWare. Very impressive stuff.
• Peter Moore showed off lots of Sports stuff included Fight Night Round 4, EA MMA, Madden online franchise options, and NCAA team builder.
• Need for Speed SHIFT shows off some impressive in-cockpit views. They're giving away a BMW at their booth.
• The Saboteur looks like it's coming along nicely with a unique undersaturated style.
• Crysis 2 will be released on the X360, PC and PS3.
• APB is a quasi-MMO with lots of action and morality choices.
• Brutal Legend looks pretty sweet. More gameplay show with part 2 of the Jack Black video shown.
• Littlest Pet Shop shows that EA is heavily focused on attracting a younger audience to their games.
• EA focused on fitness games for the women's market.

• Assassin's Creed II cinematic shown. First game sold 8 million units. Looks great.
• Splinter Cell: Conviction one of Ubi's biggest games this year. Demo footage shown was the same as the MS conference.
• Working with James Cameron on a game based on his film Avatar. It will be a 3D game.
  
• R.U.S.E tabletop demo shown. Continues to look like a great hardcore strategy game.
• Ubisoft is really pushing their pairing with Hollywood to their shareholders.
• Red Steel 2 will be bundled with the Wii Motion Plus. Controls look better then the first game.
  
• Rabbids and TMNT are two games being targeted at the younger Wii market.
• Ubi is focusing hard on the "Tween Market". Many games targeting at girls.
• Like EA, Ubi is also focusing on fitness games.
• Working with Pele on a kid friendly soccer game called Academy of Champions.