Microsoft E3 ‘07: Live-blogging the Live Feeds

Chances are, you don’t have the privilege of being at the actual event — and neither do we. So, we’re our friends over at GameStooge are making due with live-blogging the streams set up on the myriad of gaming websites hosting the E3 2007 Microsoft Press Conference. Lets "watch" the show.

11:15 EST: A bunch of random Gamertags. Among them “SAU Barlog.” As in Cory Barlog, director of the God of War series? OMGZ God of War III Xbox 360 Exclusive!!!

11:30 EST: If this music is any indication of the 360’s place in the console wars, then Microsoft takes the cake!

11:33 EST: It’s started! Live Halo music, clouds in the sky, sensory overload!

11:34 EST: The band appears to be the one featured on Kotaku a few months back.

11:37 EST: Peter Moore takes the stage. Introduces the band from Libertyville, Illinois. Announces every game shown will be coming out this year.

11:39 EST: Live demo of Rock Band! Oh god no, Peter Moore is singing. He’s truly a man of many talents — singing and playing guitar at the same time, except someone keeps hitting start!

11:43 EST: Viva Pinata hits the screen in some kind of new game. Looks like some kind of racing meets jackassery pinata game titled Viva Pinata: Party Animals, a laMARIO PARTY Pinata Edition. 50 minigames, and new races planned.

11:45 EST: New Mass Effect trailer, definitely a 2007 title! November confirmed.

11:48 EST: Moore goes on about the Xbox 360’s lead. Xbox 360 has sold more games at retail than both Wii and PS3 combined.They think more about games than hardware, they sell MORE GAMES than anyone. Consumers have spent $2.4 Billionon 360 games/hardware.

11:51 EST: GTA IV, Madden 08, Halo 3 is “the perfect storm” this holiday. May drive 1/3 of all new game sales, driving “industry to record growth.”

11:52 EST: Montage of all the 360’s games coming up. Nothing seems too out of the ordinary, many are multiplatform titles, many exclusive — nothing new here.

Don’t know how he did it, but Mitchell got ‘em all:

PGR 4, Dynasty Warriors Gundam, Call of Duty 4, Stranglehold, Guitar Hero III: Rise of the Lefends, Beautiful Katamari, Lost Odyssey, NBA Live 08, Mass Effect, Fatal Intertia, Medal of Honor Airborn, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, Ace Combat 6, NHL 08, Assassins Creed, Spider Man Friend or Foe, The Simpsons Game, Splinter Cell Conviction, Nascar 08, Eternal Sonata, Bioshock, Madden NFL 08, Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, Crash of the Titans, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Orange Box, Bee Movie Game, Rock Band, Naruto Rise of a NInja

Get this man some arthritis pills!

11:55 EST: Jeff Bell, Marketing Guy takes the stage. New Xbox 360 controller, very simple. Big red button and A,B,X,Y buttons for newly announced game in the Scene It series.

Naruto: Rise of the Ninja is exclusive to 360, trailer shown — next-gen cel-shading!

12:00 EST: Confirms 60 FPS for EA sports games, craps on PS3. Reggie Bush takes the stage, he totally plays games! Totally fake trash-talking ensues. Bush “isn’t even watchin’” and “schools” Bell in Madden ‘08.

12:03 EST: Xbox Live has reached 7 million member mark, makes bad joke attempt and fails. 45 million game downloads, more than 100 XBLA games to choose from.

New/Previously revealed XBLA titles shown off:

Bomberman Live, Undertow, Hexic 2, Sonic the hedgehog, War World (LOOKS BAD ASS), sensible Soccer, Every Extend Extra Extreme, Geono, Wing COmmander Arena, Feeding Frenzy 2 Shipwreck howdown, Spyglass Board Games, Golden Axe, Track and Field, Space Girraffe (Wtf?) Super Puzzle Fighter 2 HD REMIX, Word Puzzle, Marathon (Durandal?) Poker Smash, Switchball, Tetris Splash, Puzzle Quest, Boku Sudoku

12:06 EST: Two new ones are available tonight! Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe!

12:08 EST: Disney, others joins Xbox Live Marketplace video service. Movies planned, all in high definition:

Tarzan, Winnie the Poo, Hercules, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis, Sky High, Water Boy, Coyote Ugly, Deja Vu, The Queen,Emperors new groove, Venus, Armageddon

12:10 EST: Every one of these movies are available tonight! Global video marketplace announced: Canada and Europe first up starting this fall.Aug 24th - Elite in Europe

12:11 EST: Shane Kim gets on stage. Microsoft Games Studios gets highest average review scores.Forza is the best selling game on any platform in Europe, a million sold by the end of July.

PGR4 gets demoed by Brian Woodhouse and Craig Howard. Motorcycles are shown:Honda, Suzuki, Ducati and more will be in the game, totaling up to 120 iconic vehicles. Tracks include venues inSt Petursburgh, Shanghai, and 8 more locations.

PGR On-demand: allows gamers to view and send photos and videos.

September release date planned for PGR4.

12:17 EST:Alan Wake, Banjo Kazooie, Too Human, Fable 2, Halo Wars, Peter Jackson’s Halo project — all builds up to a Lost Odyssey trailer.

12:20 EST: Games for Windows gets some new titles: Viva Pinata (makes sense) and Gears of War PC (surprise! — you can’t fool us Mark Rein!).

12:21 EST: Oh god, Cliffy B takes the stage. 5 new single player chapters, including battle with the Brumak! New multiplayer mode, arena. Brumak battle shown off, looks damn amazing — this better be downloadable for 360 owners!

Cliffy just said “XP!” too.

12:25 EST: Moore gets back on stage. Sega, Eidos, and THQ joins the ranks of Games for Windows Live. GFW Live support will be built in with Unreal Engine 3.

12:26 EST: 10 million gamers have used Windows Vista. Yet another montage, this time for GFW games:

flight simulator X, Thrillville Off the Rails. Bee Movie Game, Hellgate London, Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties, Stranglehold, Gears of War, Bioshock, Crysis, Universe at War: Earth Assault, Blacksite Area 51, World in Conflict, Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures, Lost Planet, Kane and Lynch Dead Men, Company of Heroes opposing fronts, zoo tycoon 2 extinct animals, Juiced 2, Viva Pinata, Spiderman Friend of Foe

12:30 EST: Call of Duty 4 gets shown off, new trailer — definitely modern (shocker!). Deeper look at CoD4, new demo shown off, “more sophisticated, deeper.” Awesome quote: “we’re going deep, and we’re going hard.”

Looks slick, smooth framerate, nice animations, and frickin’ amazing shadows and lighting!It’s like Killzone when the dude switches his weapon.You’re definitely not in charge.

12:37 EST: Xbox 360 gets exclusive CoD4 beta! Check out CharlieOscarDelta.com for details.

12:38 EST: GTA IV trailer shown off — you’ve already seen it. Both previous trailers were running on the Xbox 360.

12:40 EST: Two GTA IV exclusive episodes will be available by Spring 2008. That’s it?!

12:41 EST: Virtua Fighter 5 on the 360 will be the only place to get online play.

12:42 EST: Resident Evil 5 trailer shown off, not exclusive — just first appearance. Very RE4 vibe. Africa? Middle East? Full trailer on XBLM on July 26th.

12:44 EST: Assassin’s Creed shown off in new gameplay demo. Jade Raymond! Everything you can see, you can interact with. Jerusalem is the selected level — never been shown off before. “Based on real historical documents.”

Fighting mechanics shown off: “very realistic, based on well timed combos and counterattacks.”

“No two chases will be the same.” Crowd provides yet another obstacle, lots of free running, and one dude getting stabbed. Hits store shelves November 2007.

12:50 EST: Halo 3 live action trailer! Neil Blomkampf directed it. Fanboys explode! Get this damn movie out!

12:53 EST: New Halo 3 Special Edition Console. Launches September, with matching accessories. Ugly as hell, no special features announced.

12:55 EST: “Before we go, let’s finish the fight.” New Halo 3 trailer — shows off single player gameplay. Definitely still Halo, tons of shooting dudes and blowing crap up. A lot of third-person turret action.Miranda Keyes was shown - Cortana fell like she died - HUGE battles - Arbiter.

Well folks, that’s all she wrote. Not too much new, yet still a few exciting things thrown in the mix. Now to go download some of the goodies!