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June 12th, 2008 @ 11:44
Following talk that Microsoft is to announce two new major games in its E3 press conference, videogaming247 has learnt from trusted sources that the announcements are to be “interesting, partly spectacular and a bit desperate.”
The insider added: “Let’s put it this way: they’re worried the current line-up can’t carry Q4 for the entire Xbox brand in the core market. You’ll laugh when you see what they’re planning.”
Microsoft confirmed its E3 roster last night, listing Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Fable 2, Gears of War 2, Halo Wars, Too Human and Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise as its first-party offering for the Holiday season.
The firm’s E3 conference will take place on July 14 at 10.30am PST.
Consider our interest piqued.
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June 12th, 2008 at 11:47 am
They’re not going to get the casual market, but then neither is Sony. Nintendo owns that space.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Halol 4.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Halo Kart.
Halo Superstars Tennis.
Halo and Gears of War at the Olympic Games.
Halo, Is It Me You’re Looking For (a singing game).
June 12th, 2008 at 11:51 am
I’d totally buy Halo and Gears of War at the Olympic Games.
\o/
June 12th, 2008 at 11:51 am
roflcopter
I’d say something Halo-related would be a reasonable assumption.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Halo Garden.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Lego Halo!
June 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Master Chief and the Jedi Temple of Pinata.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Super Forerunner Galaxies
June 12th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Grand Theft Spartan.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
“You Say Goodbye and I say Halo” the Fab Four fight against the Covenant while playing concerts across the galaxy to adoring fans, combines fast action first person shooter with karaoke/Guitar Hero style sections for whole family entertainment. Includes Plasma Guitar Rifle peripheral and motion sensing Beatle Wig.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
/fanboy
If it’s Halo related why is it desperate?
/fanboy
June 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I’m definitely interested though. How do you get spectacular and desperate? =D
June 12th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
A rushed update to a major franchise?
June 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Cortana Strip Poker.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
It’s got to be that MS-mote thingy that’s been doing the rounds for the last few months.
Has to be.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Halo 4 beta to be on Viva Pinata: Party in Paradise?
June 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Frag! The Halo Quiz.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I reckon that motion stuff’s bollocks, personally.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Blu Ray? That fits the spectacular, interesting and desperate angle perfectly.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Pat: Rushing an update wouldn’t be spectacular though. Or at least I don’t think so. Wouldn’t help with casuals either.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Blerk: I’d pay for Cortana strip poker for sure.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
PT: I got the impression it would be core stuff, so shooter/action. I honestly wasn’t told what it’s going to be, though.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Wiimote-clone or BluRay. With emphasis on the latter.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Yeah, blu ray would cover spectacular and desperate. Though to be spectacular it would need to be in a new slimline 360 model. =)
June 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
It’d cover desperate, but ’spectacular’? Nah.
I still think it’ll be a shoe-horning of a previous game world into a new type of game. Or a bizarre reinvention of some bit of crap from ages ago that we thought they’d forgotten. Blinx, or something.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Heh. Blinx 3 would be amazing.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
It’d be a spectacular u-turn, of course it would join the u-turns on 1080p and HDMI as well.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
There’s a lot of people saying that Nintendo own the casual market here… that implies that casual market is one where people buy a console like the Wii with Wii Sports, then maybe buy one game a year when “Wii Fat Fighter” or “DS Cook yo-self Sexy!” comes out.
This casual market really doesn’t seem that appealing if you ask me. It seems to shift units but no software… certainly no third party software.
Ah maybe I’m looking at this a bit too simplistically… and anyway, from what Pat said in the story, it’s about holding the core fort.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I’d laugh my fucking arse of if it was Blu-ray. That would be actually funny.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Halo Beach Volleyball?
We Sports Too (packaged with Wiimote clone)
????
June 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
that_happy_cat: Sega would disagree that the Wii is incapable of moving third party software. Third parties can help themselves too by not releasing utter shite.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Mattrick, naked and with a gun in his mouth, begging us to buy his console? That’d be spectacular and desperate.
Or Blu-Ray.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I’m going with with MS-mote and Blu Ray.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Both together? SuperMegaTon!
June 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Ah Psychotext… you are indeed right!!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Sorry for being late to the party but I just wanted to say that the line up they have looks pretty damn solid to me. Can’t see anything missing really except maybe a racing game.
3rd parties will have more stuff too won’t they?
So … yeah… why would they be desperate?
June 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Blerk, that Lionel Richie reference almost made me squirt coffee through my nose! Sincerely one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I don’t think its Blue-Ray. I would go for really desperate like fixing the damn RROD problem that would be desperate.
I can see it now MS is sitting there going ” SH!& we might actually have to fix the damn thing so people will buy it. Thats just might work “
June 15th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
“You’ll laugh when you see what they’re planning.”
Avatars.
From a survey I received, with the topic: Welcome to our survey, today we have a fun and interesting survey for you about potential NEW Xbox360 features
I certainly laughed once I saw what the survey was about, then I saw this story. I’m almost certain this is connected.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
To bump an old topic… so we certainly had spectacular, but was it desperate?
July 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I wonder if they meant that ‘You’re In The Movies’ thing. That was pretty fucking desperate.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Lips?
Scene it?
Avatars?
July 17th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Those are desperate? Scene it is a franchise from last year so it’s no surprise to see it back… LIPS is just another Karaoke game, it’s not like Singstar was the only one of those. Avatars? Maybe.
But I was looking more for spectacular and desperate.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Maybe jsut desperate, not spectacular and desperate, but definitely desperate.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I think you’ve got a bit of a chip on your shoulder klanger. Here have a look at this image. It’s old, I know, but just an example of what I mean:
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6159/image6me4rb3zp8dq.jpg
July 17th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
What’s that image got to do with anything?
I don’t know why Sony get chastised for “stealing” yet Microsoft and Nintendo do it and nobody bats an eyelid.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
It’s carrying on from a conversation that klanger and I were having in the press conferences thread. Hence I aimed the image at him.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
That image is so many shades of bullshit. Posting it is pure Kotaku troll-baiting stuff. I really have to wonder what sort of level this site is trying to position itself as.
Anyway, that morons can still harp on about Nintendo “inventing” analogue is the longest running joke in this culture.
I was consistent in that I didn’t watch any of the conferences. But the whole “me too” sentiment behind all of Microsoft’s headliners didn’t do anything for me whatsoever.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Seriously, you can come and go as you please. It’s just light hearted. It’s “games”. It’s not serious.
Relax.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Not serious?
Blimey, you want to tell that to those poor victims who had their BC stolen from them. They way they write it seems like they’ve been through some terrible trauma and are scarred for life.
I hope they don’t hear you making fun of their plight. You’ll be in trouble.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Anyway, you have to learn Shatner, that when I post on here it’s very different to me writing a news item. When I post as ‘morriss’ it’s for fun, a bit of light-hearted mickey-taking etc.
When I write something, I try to be as professional as possible.
Of you see any Kotaku-trolling creeping in to my news stories then please say so.
I find it strange that you confuse what I post under an alias on this board with “the site” itself and the image it wants to project.
As far as anyone should be concerned, I’m just a nobody posting on the internet. Like you.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Ooh. I see what you did there you sly old devil. I’ll let you have that one.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
July 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
You gotta be more subtle than that morriss. That was terrible. It didn’t help that I had to get back to work. Do they not know I have important forums on which to vent my spleen!
July 17th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
hehe