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by Alice O'Connor, Jun 06, 2011 11:24am PDTThe first of the giant E3 2011 press conferences has come and gone, with Microsoft revealing a whole host of new games and features for Xbox 360--no PC presence. If you weren't glued to the live streams, here's what you missed:
- Kinect support is coming to four EA Sports games, including the Tiger Woods, Madden and FIFA series.
- Mass Effect 3 will support Kinect voice control for selecting conversation options and commanding squad members in combat.
- The new Tomb Raider veered wildly into the realm of 'torture porn' in a demo section shown on stage.
- Youtube and Bing search are coming to Xbox Live.
- All future games in Ubisoft's assorted Tom Clancy franchises will "leverage" Kinect on Xbox 360, as was demonstrated with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
- Live streaming TV is coming to Xbox Live this fall.
- Ice-T has reformed his thrash metal band Body Count to record a song for Gears of War 3. Yup.
- The oft-rumoured prettied-up remaster of the original Halo: Combat Evolved was confirmed for a November 15 launch.
- Little "gadgets" and toys for Kinect are coming free through the Kinect Fun Labs.
- Crytek's mysterious Xbox 360 exclusive has been revealed as an Ancient Roman Kinect-controlled first-person melee game, named Ryse.
- Minecraft is coming to Xbox 360 this winter with Kinect support.
- Lionhead's Kinect exclusive Fable: The Journey was announced.
- Double Fine's Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is completely adorable.
- Kinect will let you virtually visit the Magic Kingdom in Disneyland Adventures.
- Exercise substitute sequel Kinect Sports Season Two was announced.
- Dance Central 2 was announced, boasting multiplayer.
- A new Halo trilogy is planned, kicking off with Halo 4 in the 2012 holiday season.
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Microsoft held its annual E3 mega-press conference today, revealing heaps of new features for Xbox 360 and Kinect, along with some long-awaited game announcements--we're talking multiple Haloes. Here's all that happened of note.
Microsoft held its annual E3 mega-press conference today, revealing heaps of new features for Xbox 360 and Kinect, along with some long-awaited game announcements--we're talking multiple Haloes. Here's all that happened of note. : Shacknews
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The first introduction was at the first Lollapalooza. Ice-T would do a short set of his hip hop ("colors", "OG", etc) and then he'd come out with crazy fucking thrash metal and all the kids would provide an epic unanimous "What the fuck!"
Good times.
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