Microsoft press conference Bingo ends in failure

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 1st 2009 7:00PM

The Microsoft press conference is finito and now it's time to see how everyone did with our MMO Bingo card...

Oh no! We all lost! If only GTA IV's Gay Tony DLC hadn't been announced last week and Microsoft decided to reveal more Xbox 360 bundles. Best of luck to everyone tomorrow with the Sony and Nintendo Bingo cards. Check out the final results after the break.

Peter Jackson's Halo revealed: Nope.
Alan Wake gets dated
X360 software goes digital: It happened after the press conference.
Forza 3 confirmed.
New gaming focused Zune: Negative.
Splinter Cell V re-emerges
Next GTA IV DLC unveiled
Xbox 360 gets clan support: No.
Avatar party: Although Avatar party support was revealed, this was meant to be a Mario Party-esque game.
MGS4 confirmed for Xbox 360: Nope. We should have been looser here.
Lionhead reveals new IP
Halo 3: ODST demo'd/dated
Xbox nets external Blu-ray: lawlz.
Mass Effect 2 gets demo'd: Sorry.
Square Enix classics hit XBLA: Nope.
More Xbox 360 bundles: uh-uh.
Gears of War 3 teased: Cliff showed up for Shadow Complex.
Motion capture tech announced
More exclusive DLC revealed
Xbox 360 gets slim: Maybe next year.
BigPark shows off new title
Crackdown 2 announced
Primetime gets new titles: Not.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII: Not even a little bit.

Tags: bingo, e3-2009, microsoft, microsoft-press-conference, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (56)

I weep for Peter Jackson. I long for it. I LONG

Go buy GT, maybe it wouldn't suck so much with new management.

Still waiting for the Microsoft keynote to be uploaded, obviously, NO ONE works during e3.

Look at the bottom of this page:

http://www.skoar.com/features/games/halo-reach-new-game-in-halo-universe.html?Itemid=48

Two pictures are said to be screens of Peter Jackson's Halo. I like the looks of it and very surprised we havent heard much about the game at all.

no bingo...but ya filled up a good portion of the board...GJ! :p

Everybody Lost.

Lost what?

The Game?

The movie?

Did anyone else notice the Shadow Complex demo glitching right at the end? When the guy rolled (like in Gears) and was walking in the air. good stuff. They quickly shut the demo off after that. I could have missed something but I'm pretty sure thats what happened.

Yeah, that totally happened. It's like the boss collision didn't go away after he exploded. It was pretty hilarious, but barely anyone here at work noticed it but me.

The game looks pretty damn awesome. Reminds me of Rolling Thunder.

okay...go away now. You are the same guy that said Alan Wake looks "awful". Seriously guy...cmon now. Cmon. Now.

I thought thats what happened when they guy abruptly stopped the demo after it happened. Talk about a moment to forget forever :/

I also thought it looked pretty cool. It kind of reminded me of a re-imagining of contra or something in that vein.

But, it wouldn't be an Epic made game if it didn't have bugs and glitches. It's just kind of what they are infamous for this generation. Still, their games are good fun and people enjoy them.

@handlas

I just thought it seemed lame that he was fighting coal miners. Pardon me for having an opinion good sir. The glitch happened but the game still looks wicked fun. Were you not watching the same demonstration I was or did you miss that part?

It definitely glitched, and I'm sure Cliff started mumbling something like "this is what happens when we demo a work in progress". Still looks like quite a fun game with that whole Metroidvania gameplay meets UE3 graphics.

360 Software is digital...?

yea they announced full digital downloads of full 360 games after their press conference.

What is avatar party?

Shouldnt Avatar Party be checked? You can have media parties with you friends as avatars and watch video, music and pics.

SO CLOSE!

so close for so many of them joystiq.
you should have just loosened up a bit
or maybe if you placed all the probable ones in a diagonal
and placed all the unprobabl ones far away.
hmm.

Mass Effect should count, it was demod, just not at Microsoft, but you didnt have an EA card

True, considering the fact that Mass Effect 2 was no longer being published by Microsoft it seems like a no-win for the bingo.

Pretty sure it wasn't demoed but it was simply a trailer that was shown.

well, it had gameplay at least

Yeah and the gameplay looked it awesome but it still wasn't demoed so that one can't really be checked off the board.

you win this round!

They did announce X360 software will be going digital so that can be crossed off the board. I believe they announced 3 games that would be sold as downloadable titles with comparable prices to buying the discs. It was announced at the pre E3 briefing though not at the actual press conference.

I was going to post the same thing and point that out, but as it specifies above it wasn't announced during the actual conference. Should probably still count though!

I don't usually take a lot of interest in these conferences as there's always such an overload of cool and interesting news, but I did take a real interest in the NetFlix enhancements I'd heard about.

I was hoping the Free Space would have happened. Oh well, maybe next year.

"360 software goes digital"

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/full-xbox-360-game-downloads-arriving-in-august/

ANTI-BINGO!!!

where? I don't see any.

There, diagonally!

Speaking of how we all "Lost", Sayid confirmed in Peter Jackson's Halo!

I agree some of these can be checked, although not quite exactly as it's stated.

There is going to be A metal gear game for 360, so check off that spot.
Avatar party could be like media party, as CJ suggested
GTA DLC did get announced, just not at E3. Nonetheless it's announced.
360 software DID go digital, just that it's older titles. A check nonetheless.

Even with these though, it's still no bingo. Also you didn't check the free space! That space is for everyone!

Maverick Saturn wins on the MGS prediction:

"Wouldn't it make more sense to work on MGS5 and make it multiplat as long as it isn't directly influenced by MGS4?"

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/26/sonys-e32009-conference-lets-play-bingo/comments/19038163/

Hey, I've been predicting that for the past year or so. =(

Although MGS:R seems to be more of an action-game spin-off, rather than a MGS5.

Man, when they said CliffyB was going to show off a new Epic game I was so sure it was gonna be Gears 3.

i almost thought it said Alan Wake gets dead.

Up anyone?

360 games have gone digital. That clearly should be marked, even IF it was announced after the press conference.

GTA IV was unveiled, just days earlier.

Avatar Party. It still should be X-ed.

Also, it's confirmed that the MGS franchise is finally appearing on the 360.

Not marking them down is the same as absolutely none of it happened whatsoever, where clearly it did.

At first I thought the conference was good, but now that I think about it, there really want much that I would like to play

360 exclusives announced:

-- Halo: Reach
-- L4D2
-- Crackdown 2
-- Forza III

Multiplats announced:

-- MGS:R

Exclusives shown:

-- Halo 3: ODST
-- Alan Wake
-- Splinter Cell

Multiplats shown:

-- Tony Hawk
-- Modern Warfare 2

Arcade Titles:

-- Shadow Complex
-- Joyride

Other:

-- Project Natal
-- Milo

Definately better than last year.

360 exclusives announced:

-- Halo: Reach --- No thank you
-- L4D2 --- Didnt play the first one
-- Crackdown 2 --- Didnt play the first one
-- Forza III --- Didnt play the previous ones

Multiplats announced:

-- MGS:R --- I guess

Exclusives shown:

-- Halo 3: ODST --- Again, No
-- Alan Wake --- Sorry but I can help but to compare this to Heavy Rain
-- Splinter Cell --- Not a fan of the series

Multiplats shown:

-- Tony Hawk --- Eww
-- Modern Warfare 2 --- Im only buying one more shooter this year and its not this one

Arcade Titles:

-- Shadow Complex --- ok
-- Joyride --- lulz

Other:

-- Project Natal --- wont work
-- Milo --- I dont think i can play this

Natal does seem to work pretty well. They demoed it, after all.

Milo is obviously BS though. We just can't do that sort of AI (yet?).

hyams, technically L4D2 is multiplat too. it's on PC. just not PS3.

The L4D2 ending also said PC DVD, im gona hazard a guess here but it will have to come out as PC download..... im pretty sure Valve may want to use steam

Um, your being a little strict joystiq! Microsoft doesnt have the mass effect 2 publishing rights, and since EA does it didnt have a chance at being there. The conference was too packed for the downloadable software. Im pretty sure Big Park's joy ride IS a primetime game because it's free! And really MGS5 is better than 4, so auto win.

Just so everyone knows, Kojima isnt done with this E3.
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/e3_2009/en/

It's already been leaked that there is a new Metal Gear game for the PSP. So, unless there is something in addition to Rising and that game I don't know about it.

Alan Wake was not "dated" it was given a broad scheduled release of Spring 2010, not a specific date. If you are going to be strict and not include "X360 software goes digital" since it was announced after the press show then it should be noted that Alan wake was not "dated" http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Adate

I say the Avatar Party should be counted. I mean, we're getting Avatar Kart for free (kinda).

You're being a little strict counting out N1. I mean, post-conference is practically the same thing. As long as its announced, that's whats important.

they're not being strict at all. the boards say "Press Conference Bingo Cards" so events after the conference shouldn't count at all.

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