Video Game General 4.0: You wanna enjoy your console? There's an app for that

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As of me typing this we are just a little over month away from E3 this year…so let’s get the hype train going.

Official Website:
https://www.e3expo.com/

Date: E3 will officially be going on from June 14th to June 16th this year. Of course this doesn’t include what any other conferences that may happen before these days. Dates for conferences and events will be placed below.

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Rumor Mill(on going progress up until the end of the conferences)

The Crash Bandicoot rumor that won’t die:
There’s this thing that keeps popping up but never fully shows - http://en.yibada.com/articles/104652/20160217/crash-bandicoot-reboot.htm

As of currently though the news is that Sony revealed that Activision still owns the rights - http://www.gamespot.com/articles/crash-bandicoot-rights-still-belong-to-activision-/1100-6439612/

Take note though that while Boyes does say that the rights do belong to Activision…he doesn’t say that a new Crash isn’t coming in some capacity. As unlikely as it is if it were to be made it’d be a partnership with Activision. That’d be an interesting surprise…again though it’d be highly unlikely.

Updated iterations of current hardware:
There’s been some reports of a ‘PS4K’ and ‘Xbox 1.5’ floating around - http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/18/ps4k-rumors/
https://www.gottabemobile.com/2016/05/02/new-xbox-one-what-we-think-we-know/

There’s a lot more info floating around about PS4K than Xbox 1.5 at the moment…most of the information is pretty convincing on PS4K while Xbox 1.5 recently had this show up - http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbox-1-5-Isn-t-Happening-According-Company-Head-128627.html

PS4K seems pretty likely at the moment.

Mother 3 western release?:
There’s been a lot of talk about this game and the lamentations over it never having reached the states. It’s only been in the recent months that the rumors about this game finally getting localized over have been starting to get pretty intense.

I’d like to think that they’d finally announce this game coming over at E3 but Nintendo seems intent on showing mostly Zelda at the conference. It may still happen but I’m not expecting it during E3 week.

Devil May Cry 5:
Something that action fans have been waiting for some time for. Rumors about this game haven’t been really big considering Capcom seems really iffy on the franchise at the moment and arguably trying to sabotage interest in through their choices of making DMC 4 available to the west. What makes things interesting is this

Very interesting that these 2 are doing motion capture together again. That would reeeeally suck if it was just for that dumb Devil May Cry X pachinko…

God of War 4:
There’s been small rumblings of this happening here and there along with a semi official confirmation. It’s almost not even a rumor at this point what with the leaked concept art.

Main Conferences: Conference dates and times will be placed here as I become aware of them

EA: Sunday June 12th @ 1:00 PM PT/ 4:00 PM ET
Bethesda: Sunday June 12th @ 7:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM ET
Microsoft: Monday June 13th @ 9:30 AM PT/ 12:30 PM ET
PC: Monday June 13th @ 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET
Ubisoft: Monday June 13th @ 1:00 PM PT/ 4 PM ET Preshow begins 30 min before
Sony: Monday June 13th 6:00 PM PT/ 9:00 PM ET
Ninten-err…Zelda?: Tuesday June 14th @ 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Square Enix: TBA

Other Events: Any other major events not directly tied to a main conference like tournaments I will place here as I am made aware of them.

Microsoft: They will be doing streaming of games throughout most of the event on Xbox Daily

Nintendo: uhh…hope you like Zelda because thaaat’s pretty much what they’ll be streaming for most of the show from what I understand.

Kodakawa Games: Sooo these guys are holding a press event for E3 but it’s gonna be in Tokyo. The conference will not be streamed but it will be happening Monday June 13th 1:30 JST (which apparently is June 12th for the US @ 930 PM in the US…doesn’t say ET or PT though so gonna have to figure out the time exact for this one) http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-devs-parent-company-hosting-e3-press-co/1100-6439872/ (US Local Times for Kodakawa Games conference: June 12 at 9:00 p.m. PDT / June 13 at 12:00 a.m. EDT)

E3 bets
Something that started last year…unknown if any SRKers are gonna put their chips on the table again this go round.

Streams:

Spoiler

Youtube E3 Channel
www.youtube.com/E3

Youtube E3 hub
https://gaming.youtube.com/e3

Nintendo’s E3 stream
http://e3.nintendo.com/

Nintendo’s Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/nintendo/profile

IGN E3 Hub and Stream
http://www.ign.com/events/e3

Twitch E3 Stream
https://www.twitch.tv/

Twitch Broadcast Schedule
TBA

Microsoft’s Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/xbox/profile

PC’s Twitch Channel
Watch live video from pcgamer on www.twitch.tv

Bethesda’s Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda/profile

Ubisoft’s Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/ubisoft/profile

EA’s Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/ea/profile

Squeenix’s Twitch Channel
https://www.twitch.tv/squareenix

Gamespot E3 Hub
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/

Gamespot E3 Schedule
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/live/

pours alcohol on the ground for GT

Sony Streams:
Sony’s Twitch Channel
Watch live video from playstation on www.twitch.tv

Neogaf’s gif thread

Last year’s gif thread

Past E3 conference moments
lol worthy

Spoiler

Konami’s Infamous E3 2010 Conference

Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6OCnvvkSLM
Full Conference:

Nintendo’s E3 2008 Conference

Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6OCnvvkSLM
Full Conference:

Sony’s E3 2006 Conference

Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4
Full Conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLjWeMTwRVc

Microsoft’s E3 2010 Conference

Microsoft’s E3 2010 Conference Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QflHRLW0Tz8

Microsoft E3 2010 - Skittles…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXqmvKfzEA

Admittedly this one isn’t so much bad since it actually does a pretty good job as a demonstration…that however doesn’t prevent it from being awkward and gif worthy.

Guile Theme Goes with Everything - Dance Central Demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYtH28esTg

Microsoft’s E3 2011 Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPt77q95aDE

Highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2adTBhU5VhI

Ubisoft E3 2010 Conference - Battle Tag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vizBWaNdSgQ

Ubisoft E3 2009 Conference - James Cameron talks about Avatar: The Game for what seems like forever…and doesn’t show one screenshot or any footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XrQgA2PWvg

Ubisoft E3 2011 Conference - Mr. Caffeine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5u_Q0fX_C8

To be fair…Ubisoft’s conference that year isn’t that bad considering the content…but DOODLY DOODLY DOODLY DOO brought it down a few notches.

Mr. Caffeine Metal Remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5mUapJTYyE

Microsoft E3 2012 - Usher whips out a concert for Dance Central 3 out of nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SAKcGA71g4

The game shows up about a bit 3/4 of the way through the performance and at first it seems like he’s finally demonstrating it…but then you realize the truth lol.

Microsoft E3 2009 - Kudo tries to be cool and show off Project Natal but ends up accidentally showing that the device isn’t where it needs to be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYSAcXpCnM

Activision E3 2007 Conference - Jamie Kennedy
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/ptdnjx/activision-e3-2007-press-conference---jamie-kennedy-lowlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifE-EAuSAI

what was jamie thinking!?

Peggle 2’s awkward announcement during Microsoft’s E3 2013 conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr57Je1fVvM

Sony Announces AT&T as Vita’s 3G service provider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11zCmB6HXT0

Disney tries to hype High School Musical Sing It @ E3 2007
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/iuvwzh/high-school-musical--sing-it--e3-2007-press-conference-audience-participation

HYPE!

Spoiler

Sony curb stomps Microsoft’s conference at E3 2013 with No DRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ht-0Hne4EU

Twilight Princess reveal @ Nintendo’s E3 2004 conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE2Dc1sx71U

Killer Instinct’s reveal for the Xbox One @ Microsoft’s E3 2013 conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXqb4GDJG_0

Final Fantasy Versus XIII’s shift to XV and next Gen along with KH3’s first reveal at Sony’s pre-E3 2013 PS4 conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE4WEyFlK0

Sony drops bombs during their E3 2015 conference

Final Fantasy 7R announcement reaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EV9zDHletk

Shemue 3 E3 2015 announcement reaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqPosnVLgOo

Last Guardian isn’t dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPTP9L9vlZg

Bonus: GT’s reactions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYUq-jzLUg

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Choo Choo!

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Need that ps4.5 release date.

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MVC4 or I don’t care.

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So what are you guys looking forward too? How do you think the conferences will fair?

Games I’m looking forward to seeing personally: Zelda Wii U, Horizon Zero Dawn, Gears 4, KH 3, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy 7R, hopefully seeing something on Watch Dogs 2, Hopefully maybe an Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement, I want Shadows of Mordor 2 pretty badly, and I’m also pretty curious to see if Capcom will announce Resident Evil 7 or not and if they’ve learned their lesson yet.

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I’m looking forward to any Resident Evil announcements. Formal announcement for RE7, a teaser for the RE2 remake and other RE projects they might have planned. A US date for Persona 5 would be fantastic.

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Abstaining from all E3 questions and just going to sit back and enjoy the show.

I look forward to the many Rowlet and Joker gifs I will be using in the future.

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KH3, FF7R, RE7

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The third Ace Attorney 6 trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSfDcJM49E

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Honestly don’t know jackshit whats going on for this year E3, but I guess I’ll try & see any new games I haven’t heard of yet :confused:

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Never messed with Discord so I’m looking into it now so I can get familiar with it. If you can make the channel I’d appreciate it.

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Mother 3 stateside. Release dates for Dragon Quest 7 3D and DQ8 3D. More info on Pokemon Sun/Moon. Though I doubt none of those will be announced because Nintendo is going to keep Nintendo’ing. CUZ WE NO U LIEK ZELDARU

Release dates for Last Guardian, KH Prologue 2.8 or whatever dumb shit they’re calling it, release date for KH3

Release date for PS4K or at least a slew of info on it.

That’s honestly it really.

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Cuphead

Scalebound

DMC 5

That’s the Holy Trinity of E3 2016.

Looking forward to more info on Shenmue 3, NI-OH, Nier and PSVR.

There’s an indie run-n-gun on the Wii U that uses the wiimote+nunchaku that I forgot the name of >_< Looked awesome, though. Interested to see the fallout from PS4K and Xbone 1.5 if those are true.

Pretty pumped for this year!

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Shenmue 3
Persona 5
FFXV

That’s all i want and need in life.

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Give me a Jet Set Radio sequel or give me death!

(not really on the latter part :P)

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Give me a Persona 5 NA Release Date…or a bran muffin!

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Excited for all the games that will look nothing like they do on their release date.

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i’m sure nintendo will have a surprise or two up their sleeve.
nothing is gonna top last year though.

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Pretty sure Nintendo is just betting Zeruda this year.

Persona 5 and Zeruda info for me. Also Last Guardian.

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Besides a Tekken 7 release date, I think you all know what I really want to see.