Just as a heads-up, here are the times of the major E3 media briefings in CST. Since as we mentioned before we won’t be attending E3 in person this year, we’ll instead be supplying links to the official streams of the conferences as well as any liveblogs from other websites that may be particularly well maintained.
Monday, June 10
Microsoft:
10:00 AM CST
Electronic Arts:
2:00 PM CST
Ubisoft:
4:00 PM CST
Sony:
7:00 PM CST
Tuesday, June 11
Nintendo Direct:
8:00 AM CST
Playstation.Blog’s Flickr was recently updated with high resolution images of the newly unveiled controller and it’s Kinect-like stereo camera companion. See the full set after the jump.
Sony’s big PS4 conference today went over fairly well as they were able to show a lot of interesting games running on their upcoming system with fairly impressive specs as well as a nicely overhauled online experience and some basic shots of the final version of the DualShock 4 (as you can see above). Things we still don’t know about the system include how fast its x86 processor and die-sharing GPU are, what the console itself will look like, what the system, games, controllers, etc. will cost, it’s precise release date (aside from this Christmas-ish), and whether or not it’s plethora of online sharing features will come with a yearly price tag or not. Check after the jump for a long list of what was revealed.
Sony’s conference dubbed the “PlayStation Meeting 2013”, where Sony is expected to announce the next PlayStation home console (as well as perhaps a PS Vita overhaul and price drop), is set to air at 5:00pm CST today. Various websites around the web will be liveblogging and livestreaming the event, we have it embedded below as well in case you have problems loading other sites. We’ll do our usual job and take notes during the presentation for you and then put up a summary shortly thereafter with the information we have been able to glean from it. It’s an exciting time for any gamer, whether you’re a fan of Sony or not, so be sure to check back when it’s over. You can watch a repeat of the live stream for as long as Sony offers it after the jump.
[UPDATE: a larger picture (see above, click to enlarge) as been released that shows the controller from another angle. A bit more information as come to light as well including that the touch area on the front of the controller also functions as a basic screen, that the touch area is single-touch, that the honeycombed area below the mini screen is a microphone (not necessarily a speaker as we originally supposed), and that the triggers on the back of the controller are more like those on the Xbox 360 controller than those on the PS3 controller.]
Destructoid got their hands on a picture (which you can see after the jump) of a supposed PS4 controller prototype that is being distributed with the PS4 dev kits. It’s appearance, while quite bulky and non-ergonomic from the looks of it, match many of the stronger rumours surrounding the upcoming console’s controller.
In the center, you’ll see the rumoured clickable touch panel (which is apparently not a screen) as well as a glowing blue bar on top which hadn’t been mentioned in any of the rumours, but seems to be similar to the light on the PS Move controller and could be used to similar effect.
