We are checked in and ready to go to watch Joel Mchale and the grand Ubisoft line up. Stay tuned for our first live blog.
4:25pm. Heading in like a herd of sweaty, geeky cows. Moooo
4:27pm. Wow. Anyone could have got into this press conference.
4:33pm. Everone is finding thier seats.
4:38pm. Joel is probably getting his stage make up done right now
4:43pm. Looking at the teleprompter on stage. “Joel enters stage left. ”
4:58pm. “Welcome ladies and gentlemem. Please take your seats. The show is about to begin. ”
5:07pm Joel’s comedic opening was cute. President of Ubiaoft is on stage now. Talking business mumbo jumbo. Just a bunch of shit that a hired copywriter wrote. Bleh.
5:11pm. Ubisoft will come out with an online service called U-play.
5:12pm. Just like the movie “Gamer”, no controller will be needed to control a video game fighting character.
5:16pm. Talking about Avatar movie and video game now.
5:19pm. Ubisoft is working with live action and movie people. Now onstage James Cameron!!!
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5:23pm. James giving a back story of Avatar’s story.
5:29pm. Yo James, your boring me. WTB screenshots, a gameplay video, or trailer.
5:31pm. Haha. A lot of audience eyes show that they are bored too. Everyone looking around.
5:35pm. “…in closing, i encourage you to play the demo tomorrow…”
5:36pm. Joel onstage. Talking about red steel 2. Now jason, creator of rs2, on stage.
5:45pm. Red steel 2 demo over. Red steel 2 will launch with wiimotiom plus bundled.
5:49pm. Futbol star Pelé on stage!!!
5:54pm. Pele talking about his love about futbol and hows hes happy about the video gme he is a part of.
5:58pm. Academy of Champions trailer looked like Nike’s futbol commercial by Guy Richie but in cartoon form. Pele leaves stage.
6:00pm. Now talking about new Splinter Cell.
6:03pm. Talking about game demo and new features. I’ll post all my videos when i get back to the hotel.
6:12pm. SC demo over. Holy shit! Is all i can say. SC comes out this fall.
6:18pm. Now talking about casual games.
6:20pm. Tween Games 2.0. Wtf?!
6:23pm. Bah. Bunch of girl games for DS. Change your hairstyles. Make jewlery. Play with virtual petz. Bleh. The crowd was giggling during the trailer.
6:25pm. New Fitness game called “Your Shape”. Camera will scan your body and show it on screen. Ugh. But why do that if you’re fat?
6:30pm. Your shape looks meh. Comes out for wii with a camera. Joel McHale back on stage.
6:31. Now on to raving rabbids demo and trailer.
6:42pm. Demo over. Raving rabbids = katamari but with rabbids. Bleh. Sux. Now talking about Teenage Mutant Turtles. Yay!
6:46pm. Tmnt was done by same people who did smash bros. So, its going to be casual and going to suck for hardcore players. Guh.
6:49pm. Assasins creed 2 time.
7pm. Trailer over. Heading to hotel. Conference over.
Wow Pele has good filler