I’ve been following E3 for many years now and there are two types of announcement that always demand public attention: new hardware and exclusive games, particularly new IPs. This year we’ve brought both and, if the reception at the press conference on Monday night weren’t enough, you just have to look at the queues to get hands-on with PlayStation Vita and the array of PS3 and PSP titles available on the show floor.
Tuesday started early for me, partly because of jet lag but mainly because I wanted to get my hands on some of the games before the crowds arrived. First port of call was Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and a particularly thrilling level featuring a cargo plane. I don’t want to ruin it for you but rest assured that Naughty Dog’s genius set-piece design is present and correct in Drake’s third PS3 adventure.
I played it in the SCEE lounge, which is located in the business centre, away from the show floor, and where us employees that made the trip over from Europe hang out and invite journalists to play our games and grab interviews with their developers. This area is limited access so I took a few pictures to give you an idea. I love the creative work our events team does with this space each year.
As those of you that stayed up late will have seen, I worked with Jeff, Sid and Rey of the US PlayStation.Blog on a live video stream where we invited devs to join us at the PlayStation booth to chat and demo their titles. I spoke with a couple the guys from Zindagi Games and Santa Monica Studios about Medieval Moves and I have to say, even though I’ve been in front of the camera quite a few times, knowing it was going out live put some caused a few butterflies. We’ll be holding more live streams just like that later today and tomorrow, so please tune in.
I’ll pop another post on here tomorrow morning and my plan is to have a walk with the camera and take pictures of all the booths to use in a photo slideshow. If there’s anything in particular you’ve heard about and would like me to snap, please let me know.
Hope you’re enjoying all of the news coming out of E3 2011.
first love ps3
Great job James (and Sid and Jeff too), your interviews yesterday were great!
Also, would like to thank you for the live conference stream. Was definitely the clearest and best stream on the internet as far as i could find :)
Glad it all went OK. More live streams today and tomorrow.
Could someone record and post links to those Uncharted 3 Actors and Journey events?
It’s happening.
Any chance of a blog post listing every announcement made for the deaf people who might not have been able to watch ;)
Has anyone dropped any hints on a new Grand Theft Auto?
Not that I’ve heard.
E3, blah.
When do we get replies to the comments in the “Heads Up” posts?
And Rey! Can’t believe i forgot Rey!
boo ya psvita blew the roof off of e3 over 80 devs working on games shame features that ps3 users have been longing for like cross game chat were enabled on the vita
and not the ps3*
Will there be a store update today?
Indeed I would like to know about a store update. Mainly because on Monday you didnt put the dw7 content up even though you listed it.I really want that content lol.
next updates friday bud n they releasing the black ops map pack
@polynski speak for yourself. Can’t stand voice chat so certainly don’t want cross game chat.
Anyways are we gonna get the Uncharted 3 trailer in lovely HD on the PS3 store? Was disappointed to find it not in the batch of videos added in the E3 section yesterday. Was full of games I care nothing about though the Vita stuff was cool (Portable LBP that can do the PS3 features the still very good PSP version couldn’t is a definite buy for me)
After the Sly4 announcement I just wanna see gameplay videos of it! Please give me some James? Please please please?
Was duke nukem forever shown at E3? There has been no reviews in the media at all?
Are we going to get some 3D footage on the PS Store? Loving Resistance 3 and Uncharted 3.
James my friend, everytime you are wriring and posting your blog you are on camera. I mean figuratively speaking of course, or does Showny have ps eye cameras placed like sentries in offices,employee chat hubs where corridors branch and hidden in small lakes in the pcs? Nothing like getting extra insight into what the workforce are thinking by placing a camera or three THERE…
There, doesn’t that make you feel so much more take-a-deep-breath-&-relax better. Now your blogs should flow straight from your brain’s eye like a final fantasy rainbow effect, to the Showny voice recorder that Showny gave you to use (comes with a giant eyetoy hidden behind it’s little mic)to record them on , & then on to one of your many secretaries to type up on the 1950s typewriter they all share and on to blog central for publish by a sub sub team at Showny’s call centre in the country that IS a giant call centre India….
Thank you
@2 I agree. Ever since 3.65I’ve noticed the net runs smoother an You tube you can now see the images inside the boxed, do searches therein on standard edition and gasp comment as the click button seems to work again. Be great if we had flash 10 finally, but Twitter is still just a blank screen and so is most of facebook…
@12 no there a PS Store update today not Friday.
James could you get Pics of THQ WWE ’12 booth
thanks
I can. I walked past Hulk Hogan yesterday.
#12 Let me do it for James :)(note this is a stream video)
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-sly-cooper/715268
Thanks kivi95 :D
I wish i could go :P
Hey first time writing on here, thanks for the live stream looks great there, any date confirmed for the Vita?
MOAR SLY 4… MOOOOAAARRR!!
when is the next update for ps store james
can you put up more pictures of sly 4 thieves in time
also is there any way i can watch yesterdays live coverage cause i missed it cause kung fu pada 2 was on
So is this a f**cking joke?
Ive played like 25h on Burnout Paradise and since yesterday the ps3 doesnt load my saved game??
When i start the game it just start from the start all over again??
My save is still there, it just isnt loading.
Anyone else got the same problem?
in the E3 section of the ps store you have videos that are dated in the future such as,
resident evil raccoon city E3 29/06/2011
NFS The Run trailer 1 22/06/2011
and there a couple more that i could not be bothered typing
Thanks for the updates! I’d like to hear more about PSV games, especially Sound Shapes and Ruin. And Dust 514 was the biggest (positive) surprise game for me, would love to get more details about it as well.
@17 What on earth are you rambling on about?
@28 Is your save from the disc version of burnout and are you playing the downloaded version? Because saves from the disc version don’t work with the downloadable version.
@31
The downloaded version. I started playing when i got the free 30 day PS Plus. And since yesterday i cant continue playing, everytime i start the game it just starts an all new game, even thought it says its loading my saved game.
Wheres the singstore update?
what about dead island????? and need for speed the run????
@32 works fine for me. It couldn’t load my Blu Ray save but then that was a restarted one as I lost my original Platinum trophy complete save back when my first PS3 dies. The PSN version has had no saving issues since I started playing it last week.
@James Gallgher Any chance of the store update today? I’m itching to try out the new Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition upgrade the US got last night.
This is getting a bit pathetic, james gallagher apologies if misspelled name, some nerds wait 3 4 years or w.e for cross game chat then you just give it to the waste of space, ngp? one of the worse ideas to do, you must be dull minded if you think bringing cross party chat to the ngp and not ps3? that wont bring you more customers.
sony can easily redeem themselves for these past months hackers work by simply offering us the cross game chat, why is so hard?
instead of releasing useless psn games that no one plays , try to increase your customers by releasing cross party game chat?
Aside from that, great job with bringing the network back and having the stability we had before the attack.
@James and post number 3: i didnt had a chance to watch those events live, i was in work ;) so youtube could help but thanks anyways ;)
good E3 sony
uncharted 3 amazed me and the exclusives with battlefield 3 and saints row 3 are brilliant
1 thing i beg of you to do is when ps vita comes out with cross game chat
PLEASE
i mean PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
give us ps3 fans what we have wanted for years
cross game voice chat