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    The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 7-9.

    E3 2011 Press Conference Live Streams - Where do you watch yours?

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    #1  Edited By tyger_cheex

    I think last year I watched the MS press conference live on their own special E3 website and caught the others the following day after the events (I think it might have been on gametrailers.) Where/how do you watch yours online? Got any hot tips of where to catch the events live?

    I wonder, will Giant Bomb be able to host the direct feeds of any of the conferences or are they all "exclusive" to other websites?

    It's only 2 weeks away goddammit! I need more hype from Giant Bomb camp. Planning videos, predictions (that aren't 4 weeks out of date like the bonus round) and reactions to the news that's out there already.

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    #3  Edited By shinigami420

    i have always been watching them on gamespot its fine


    last year the gamespot stream crashed and becuse of that everyone went to gametrailers and crashed their servers so i watched the last half of the ms press conference on ign 
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    #4  Edited By BulletproofMonk

    IGN or Gametrailers.

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    #5  Edited By shinigami420

    Anyone know when the konami press thing is starting and where to watch it?




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    #6  Edited By Grissefar

    Whichever works - some of them are usually buggy or laggy. Gamespot, IGN or Gametrailers.

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    #7  Edited By Vexxan

    IGN.

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    #8  Edited By shiftymagician

    Gametrailers myself.  Not the biggest fan of the site but they had a reliable connection for me last time.

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    #9  Edited By ChickenPants

    Gametrailers have been extremely reliable for me these past couple of years so I'll stick with them.

    Ah, I have fond memories of Dave Live-Blogging the conferences on this site.

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    #10  Edited By tyger_cheex

    The E3 2011 page on Giant Bomb says the MS press conference starts at 5pm UK time, but I'm sure I saw a tweet from Acey Bongos (or maybe received an email from MS) that said somethign like "join us from 5:30pm..."

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    #11  Edited By LordAndrew

    I've always used GameSpot's streams. If I miss out on even a single E3 emblem, I've failed.

    I'm going to be a huge failure this year, because I can't get Flash installed and have it work reliably.

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    Gametrailers. 

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    #13  Edited By toowalrus

    I always watch mine on G4TV, because watching through regular-ass TV is guaranteed not to lag out, have out-of-sync audio, plus it looks better. My internet here is total shit, so I'll watch on the tube...


    Or, at least, that's what I WOULD do. I'll be at work during most of them, so I'll probably just download the files from Gamespot and watch them later.
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    #14  Edited By zidd

    Gametrailers had them in HD last year. Thats where I am going to be watching.

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    #15  Edited By SlightConfuse

    I watch it on g4 on the past. Might go to gametrailers

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    #16  Edited By redbliss

    E3 is only 2 weeks away? I feel like no one has hyped the event up at all, including MS, Nintendo, and Sony. Should be an interesting event.
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    #17  Edited By FireBurger
    @redbliss said:

    E3 is only 2 weeks away? I feel like no one has hyped the event up at all, including MS, Nintendo, and Sony. Should be an interesting event.

    They don't need to hype it. The hype will come from the conferences themselves, plus everyone who gives a shit about E3 already knows about it.

    EDIT: I used to watch on GameSpot, but last year I watched on G4 which worked out fine. Probably do that again, so long as it is commercial free.
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    #19  Edited By Cloudenvy

    IGN with Gametrailers as backup usually.

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    #20  Edited By Djeffers03

    I find that Gamespot has great e3 coverage. Their live streams have been very reliable for the past 2 years and they have their own little stage area thing where they get the developers to play the games kinda like a QL EX. I don't use Gamespot for anything but I must applaud their e3 efforts. 


    As for IGN, I found their streams extremely laggy last year and for Gametrailers I could not even find their stream due to how cluttered that site is.
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    #21  Edited By phrosnite

    Last two years... GT, GS or IGN wherever the steam is better...

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    GS Ryan Macdonald FTW .

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    #23  Edited By TepidShark

    I get Spike so I will watch the Microsoft & EA press conferences there but I don't get G4 in the dorms any more(though I am graduating the Saturday after E3) so I will probably go with G4''s streaming for the rest.
     
    (Edit: Forget about that, it looks like Spike's stuff is on the east coast feed in my dorms in Oregon so will probably go with G4's streaming for all of it.)

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    #24  Edited By Kjellm87

    I just google it.  For Nintendo's live they usually have a good one on their own page.

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    #25  Edited By TepidShark
    @Kjellm87: Oh yeah I forgot Nintendo is streaming theirs themselves as well. Sony might stream theirs in Playstation Home as well (assuming it is up I don't use Home).
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    I've used Gamespot for the last couple of years, usually high quality and reliable.

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    #27  Edited By Pie

    Bit of a weird request but does anybody know if any websites livestreams work well on the PS3 browser?

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    #28  Edited By thebobster10

    I constantly switch between IGN, GS and GT while I watch on G4. My brain goes on fucking overload during E3 and is fried by the end of each day. But it's worth it. E3 always caused me to have zillions of tabs open. It's great :D Haha.

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    #29  Edited By TJ311

    i watch the streams mostly on Tv, so G4 and Spike. i like watching on my TV, rather than my computer screen.

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    #30  Edited By AhmadMetallic

    gamespot

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    #31  Edited By elko84

    If GB does it this year I will watch the press conferences here, otherwise I'll head over to IGN.

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    #32  Edited By PillClinton

    Probably IGN or Gamespot for me this year.  

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    #33  Edited By Contro
    @UKSamwise said:
    Althought I don't use the site anymore, IGN always have the most reliable live streams.
     
    This. 
     
    But for Nintendo's conference I'll be using:  http://e3.nintendo.com/
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    #34  Edited By GrandMarshal

    gametrailers

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    #35  Edited By WinterSnowblind

    Typically Gametrailers or Gamespot, they always seemed to have the best streams. 
    But I believe all 3 this year have dedicated sites for streaming, so I'll likely just go with those.  Microsoft's and Nintendo's have always been great in the past.

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