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what's up internet Kevin here would Texas lunch and dinner bringing you a quick recap of the events today at microsoft's press conference at e3 now i have to say i was kind of underwhelmed overall by it there weren't too many big announcements as far as hardcore gaming goes the largest being that halo 4 is happening and not only is it coming out but it's going to be the first part of a new trilogy so that's them to get somewhat excited about also something that I was a little bit surprised by is that minecraft is actually coming to 360 and we'll be using the Kinect we didn't actually see any gameplay of that but I'm really curious to see what they're going to do with it while there was some new gameplay being shown of a couple of popular games people are looking forward to Gears of War 3 modern warfare 3 the new tomb raider was showed off a bit the real focus of their press conference really was the Kinect that connects the Kinect they announced a couple new games for the kinect as well as showing off some gameplay of ones you've already been expecting for instance they showed off the new kinect Star Wars which in my opinion was really underwhelming it was basically just swinging a lightsaber back and forth and walking forward slowly occasionally jumping over enemies really lame looking in my opinion they showed off some new ones such as there's a Disneyland game we explored Disneyland with some special mini games based on rides a Sesame Street storybook game for kids in terms of one's actually geared towards gamers there's a new fable game coming out that uses the kinect it looks like sort of a first-person rail shooter with magic attacks looks pretty linear I don't really know much about other the one gameplay demo that shown though so might want to give a little more time to figure out actual final pains on that alongside this they were showing a lot more of games that don't require the Kinect but things you can do with it for instance Bioware showed off how in Mass Effect 3 on 360 you can use the Kinect to voice commands for instance in combat you can say you know this character move up here this character use this ability on this enemy it still relies a bit on normal controls to be able to point in target things but it does give an interesting level of team coordination and faster commands rather than having to go through quick menus another when they showed off was the new Ghost Recon Future warrior which showed off not only a really in-depth customization option for weapons they also shot off that they are going to have full gameplay using the Kinect for a first person shooter however while interesting it didn't look that smooth to me it looked a lot like the guy giving a demo was kind of struggling to get any kind of good precise aim I did look like at nearly the level of control you can get with a normal controller and then they also showed up some new entries into already existing connect series such as kinect sports season 2 and dance central zoo now all I'm saying these new game announcement sales put a really heavy emphasis on a lot of their consumer products and access they announced a couple new partnerships that can be used with the Xbox including YouTube they're working with some television providers to allow for live TV to be streamed on an xbox they're also showing off a new tool which is being on the Xbox it doesn't work like normal Bing instead what it is is you say certain keywords research key terms and it brings up any kind of downloadable games movies you can stream television shows anything relevant to that key term will be brought up they can use your xbox for and other than that that really was the entire focus of the show Microsoft really wanted to push the connect this year again this time it's not just about the fact that you know oh the connects is this new big thing now the focus is how can we make the connect more relevant for everyone it had really big start at first with a lot of the dance of fitness games but it's definitely not having the sales I think they were expecting so they're really really trying to push making accessible not just two more family games but also making more hardcore gamer based games like ghost recon and fable and like more available for people to actually try out on it honestly I'm not sure if it's really going to work out for them I personally felt really underwhelmed by the conference overall I was excited for some individual announcements I mean halo 4 awesome seeing some gameplay of gears 3 was cool but really with most of the show overall I felt pretty disappointed there wasn't really a whole lot in terms of shocking new announcements that like made me really excited we'll see if maybe Sony or Nintendo is able Trump them later on I think that either them has a pretty good chance of showing them up this year considering what they gave we'll just have to wait and see I'll let you guys know more later tonight when Sony does their press conference I'll give you guys a little review that and also for Nintendo tomorrow morning till then I'm Kevin for TLD thanks for watching you