#xbox event

[yakozy]

If Yakuza 3 through 6 gets announced on xbox (and therefore available to me) at the xbox event tomorrow I shall draw whoever wants a shittilly drawn majima or kiryu

I draw 4 u

[unclehokage]

Can we talk about all the great Video Game Conferences?

Back in the N64 days, E3 reigned supreme. I am your otaku uncle so I remember when the conference was something only to be heard of by word of mouth. We scrolled through IGN pages, getting bits and clips of this conference where everyone loved video games. That was novel at the time.

My friend and I dreamed of going to E3. He tried to win a contest so that we could attend. Even though we never went, we still felt like winners when we got to watch the conference footage. Afterwards, E3 become almost ceremonial to me.

I planned a nice time away from everything almost every summer. I loved to watch the conferences life as much as often as I could. Gametrailers used to be my favorite site. I listened to every podcast. I played games while listening to podcasts about other games, while refreshing the Kotaku main page so that I didn’t miss a single moment. And I saw most of the memorable moments live.

I was watching when the Playstation exec shouted “Riiiiiidge Racerrrrrrr!”

I was watching when the Square Enix exec stepped onto the Xbox 360 stage and announced they were also getting FFXIII.

I was watching these past few years as it’s faded into memories past.

These days, there’s a video game conference every month. And I laugh because I’m always excited. It doesn’t matter what they show. When the music plays, and the announce starts their speech. I’m instantly 16 years old again, staring at the screen with pixels in my eyes, and a smile on my face.

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[ekscelsior]

If theres gonna be anything from hellblade 2 today on the xbox event i will lose my mind

[outasense]

And there you have it...

[vntechblog-blog]

XBox event: The New Xbox One Live Features Add Advanced Social Gaming Features That Could Lead To True MMORPG Experiences

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XBox event: The New Xbox One Live Features Add Advanced Social Gaming Features That Could Lead To True MMORPG Experiences

While we don’t have all of the details on the new Xbox Live features announced at today’s Xbox One launch, it’s clear that Microsoft is going all-in when it comes to social and multiplayer gaming. First, they are upping the number of dedicated servers for online play from 15,000 to 300,000 and nearly all of your content and game data will be store in the cloud.

The service will also allow you to take in-game video and photos and share them over social media services. This is similar to Sony’s PS4 solution and is definitely a method allow users to create valuable and viral homemade content while still maintaining control of distribution. As games become more social and more cinematic, this will be an important differentiator and is essentially free advertising for game makers.

Finally, the new service adds asynchronous matchmaking, which means you can be searching for potential teammates (or enemies) while watching TV or playing another game. This increases the stickiness of multiplayer titles by nudging you back into the game when a worth opponent appears. Microsoft has also added “bigger matches with more players” and, most important, “living and persistent worlds.” This sounds to me like a direct attack on MMORPGs like World Of Warcraft and could make the Xbox a formidable force in the popular professional gaming subculture, a niche no console maker has yet cracked.

We should see further information about the Xbox One at E3 this summer.

[vntechblog-blog]

Xbox event: Microsoft Confirms That The Xbox One Will Come With An Incredibly Sensitive New Kinect

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Xbox event: Microsoft Confirms That The Xbox One Will Come With An Incredibly Sensitive New Kinect

The Xbox One was just unveiled at Microsoft’s Redmond campus and, true to multiple reports that circulated before the official reveal, the new console will indeed come with a Kinect.

And what a Kinect it is! The rumors of a vastly improved Kinect sensor array were right on the money — this next-generation model is capable of tracking motions as minute as wrist rotations, and Microsoft’s Marc Whitten said the new Kinect would even be able to read users’ heartbeats when they’re exercising or when players shift their weight. The new Kinect’s main camera is capable of recording 1080P RGB video at 30 frames per second (for a bit of perspective, the original model could only capture VGA video). Perhaps most importantly, the Xbox One will be capable of chewing on all the data the newfangled Kinect (no one has dropped an official name for the thing yet) captures at a rate of about 2GB of per second, which is probably partially why the onstage demos looked so brisk.

We got a brief glimpse of the new Kinect in action when Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi called out commands and used minute hand gestures to manipulate content on the Xbox One — commands like “Xbox on” and “go to video” allow for near-instantaneous switching between running applications, and the Kinect is apparently also able to differentiate between users based on their voices.

In short, it’s a massive, massive upgrade compared to the venerable original model, which often exhibited issues with basic limb and motion tracking. Granted, demos we saw today were carefully staged, but the Kinect reacted to Mehdi’s commands and inputs without a hint of technical hesitation — if the new Kinect works in the living room as well as it did onstage, Microsoft may really have something here. And frankly, that’s saying something considering Microsoft managed to move 10 million of the original camera/sensor arrays between November 2010 and March 2011.

[readysetpixels-blog]

Live Tweeting the Xbox Event

If you are interested in seeing my thought about the next big platform from Microsoft just follow me at @jasonalmenas and I'll be live tweeting my reaction to everything Microsoft presents to us. 

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Live from Microsoft's next Xbox event

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Live from Microsoft's next Xbox event

Our live coverage of Microsoft’s new Xbox event starts May 21st at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT!

Xbox event live Stream:

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