E3 Lounge: Where Dreams are destroyed and Directs are made! Now with Scorpions™ Live!

First and foremost..

Lounge rules (no flaming, no religion, no politics), however this Lounge has some extra ones we should all keep in mind:

• Every Microsoft related post MUST contain a @charizard1605 mention.
• Every Nintendo related post MUST contain a @ConanTheStoner mention.
• Every Sony related post MUST contain a @jg4xchamp mention.

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E3 Stuff

Timetable/Schedule

E3 Coliseum (New! for this year):

This can be followed on Youtube + Twitch:

• YouTube Live @ E3
• https://gaming.youtube.com/e3
• E3 on Twitch
• https://www.twitch.tv/event/e3

Links + Show info:

EA:

• Time: 12:00 PM PT
• Length: 90 minutes
• Host: Andrew Wilson
• Venue: The Hollywood Palladium
• Official thread by Nirolak: [PH]
• Main hub: https://www.ea.com/eaplay2017

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ea
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BB0ambDQw

Microsoft:

• Time: 2:00 PM PT
• Length: 90+ minutes
• Host: Phil Spencer
• Venue: The Galen Center, Los Angeles
• Official thread by Relix: [PH]
• Main hub: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/e3

Streams

• Mixer: https://mixer.com/xbox
• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/xbox
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/e3
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/xbox
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/xbox
• Fuse: http://www.fuse.tv/ (cable and satellite subscribers in the U.S.)

Bethesda:

• Time: 9 PM PT
• Length: One hour
• Host: Pete Hines
• Venue: Los Angeles Center Studios
• Official thread by TBD: [PH]
• Main hub: https://be3showcase.bethsoft.com/

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda
• YouTube: https://youtube.com/BethesdaSoftworks

Devolver Digital:

• The Devolver Digital: Mega Press Conference! will be part of the E3 2017 - Pre Pre Show on Twitch.
• Time: 10:00 PM PT
• Length: N/A
• Host: N/A
• Venue: N/A
• Official thread by TBD: [PH]
• Main hub: https://www.twitch.tv/events/52471

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/events/52471

PC Gaming Show:

• Time: 10:00 AM PT
• Length: N/A
• Host: Sean "Day[9]" Plott
• Venue: The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles
• Official thread by TBC: [PH]
• Main hub: http://www.pcgamingshow.com/

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pcgamer
• YouTube: https://gaming.youtube.com/pcgamer

Ubisoft:

• Time: 1:00 PM PT
• Length: 60 minutes approx.
• Host: Ubi devs
• Venue: Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles
• Official thread by Volotaire: [PH]
• Main hub: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-US/event/e3-2017-pre/

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ubisoft
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ubisoftus

Sony:

• Note: Pre-show starts 05:00 PM PT. Actual press conference starts 06:00 PM PT.
• Time: 05:00 PM PT
• Length: 60-120 minutes
• Host: Andrew House
• Venue: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
• Official thread by ULTROS!: [PH]
• Main hub: http://live.playstation.com/

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/PlayStation
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/PlayStation
• Via the PlayStation E3 Experience in theaters across the US

Nintendo:

Note that Nintendo doesn't have a press conference. They have a pre-recorded presentation called Nintendo Spotlight, and live streaming afterwards (Treehouse Live). Nintendo is listed under press conferences for ease of access.

• Time: 9 AM PT
• Length: ≈30 minutes (initial, live streams will continue the whole day)
• Host: Nintendo executives & Treehouse Team
• Venue: N/A, LACC
• Official thread by BY2K: [PH]
• Main hub: https://e3.nintendo.com/ / https://www.nintendo.co.jp/e3/index.html

Streams

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nintendo
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nintendo/
• NicoNico: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv300051443

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Have at it!

Officially in the press conference:

• Star Wars Battlefront II
• FIFA 18
• Madden NFL 18 (expect a lot from this due to the new engine and multiple new modes)
• NBA LIVE 18
• Need For Speed: Payback
• Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tzar
• Two unannounced games
• "Other surprises"

Other games at EA Play:

• The Sims Mobile
• The Sims 4
• New content from Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
• New content for Titanfall 2
• Madden NFL Mobile
• NBA LIVE Mobile
• EA SPORTS FIFA for Nintendo Switch

Teased/rumored games:

• Hazelight's new game has been teased for E3. Hazelight is the development team that was behind Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons back when they were at Starbreeze. We saw a preview of it featuring two men on a train.
• BioWare's new IP was originally slated to unveil at E3. The game has since been delayed for an unknown amount of time, and it is no longer clear if it will be debuted there.

Additional notes:

• EA has an "EA Originals" publishing initiative featuring indie games targeting 3-4 release as year. Known titles for this initiative include Unravel 2, Fe, Sea of Solitude, and the above mentioned Hazelight game. It's plausible they will show more than one title from this branch.
• While Visceral's Star Wars game has been in development for quite a while, it's not due to be out until Fall 2018, so don't hold your breath for a new showing unless EA feels they really need more out of their conference.
• While Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 3, Titanfall 3, Respawn's Star Wars game, the next Battlefield, Dragon Age 4, and Motive's new IP open world game all appear to be in development, none of them seem likely to unveil here, so if you're only here for one of those, it's probably not worth it.
• EA usually has a segment about their esports division at their event. I can't imagine this year will be any different.
• EA will have a 20 vs 20 player Battlefront 2 livestream of the "Assault on Theed" prequel trilogy map featuring your favorite YouTubers, Twitch Streamers, and more. No word on if this will include celebrities on drugs.
• Nas and other musical guests will be present for a concert, though I'm not sure if that's part of the livestream.

Officially announced games:

• This isn't a game, but the Xbox Scorpio will be formally unveiled at E3.
• State of Decay 2

Presumed games:

• Sea of Thieves
• Crackdown 3

Maybe, maybe not games:

• Below: Long in development, still not out, but in theory out soon-ish.
• Cuphead: See Below.
• Pit People: Is in early access.
• Full Metal Furies: It's coming to PC and XB1 with no other platforms announced, so I'm assuming it's partnered with Microsoft?

Teased/rumored games:

• Forza 7 has been all but announced
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps was trademarked
• The Ashen developers mentioned that their game would be shown again soon.
• There's something "small" related to Halo that is not Halo 6 and not Halo 3 Anniversary

Additional notes:

• Microsoft has a marketing partnership with Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. It is always plausible that marketing partnership games show up on stage.
• Studio Gobo signed their partnership with Microsoft a short while ago. It's probably too early for their game unless they had been working on it for a long time, and only just recently announced the partnership.
• It seems too early for Gears of War 5, and Halo 6 is already confirmed as not showing.
• I could really use your help filling this one out. I admit my domain knowledge here is not what it used to be.

Officially announced games:

• None actually.

Official teaser discussion:

• Bethesda put out a teaser for "Bethesdaland" that included the following: Doom, Elder Scrolls, Dishonored, Prey, Quake Champions, Fallout, and two "Under Construction" zones. For the sake of discussion, let's assume these are all present at E3.
• Elder Scrolls: Presumably this is The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls Legends (the card game), and/or the Skyrim Switch port.
• Fallout: Bethesda has both Fallout 4 VR and Fallout Shelter they could talk about.
• Quake Champions: This is an unreleased game that still has new modes and presumably more champions to unveil.
• Prey: Um... Well it just released, so they could just show a recap trailer like they've done in the past for recently released games, or maybe announced DLC.
• Dishonored: This would presumably be some kind of (standalone?) DLC?
• Doom: Doom VR is a thing. id said an expansion DLC thingy wasn't off the table, but it didn't really sound like it was definitely coming either, so don't get too excited on that front.
• Unannounced Game 1: Wolfenstein: The New Colossus was teased last year, so presumably it has to be ready to unveil by now. Given the title, presumably it features Anya heavily and follows the same storyline. Anya's voice actor also mentioned she was doing voice recording for the game (which is how it originally leaked).

Unannounced game 2 discussion:

• So there's a few options here that we should go through.
• The Evil Within 2 is known to be in development via resumes (and seems to have some kind of online mode).
• Bethesda (the publisher)'s job postings also imply they have a MOBA in development.
• Battlecry has been making some kind of online game with narrative for a long time. There's Marvel imagery on their site, though they could also be doing some kind of online for Wolfenstein given some of their older job postings, hard to say. Those might have just been for Doom and the studio was really confused what "unannounced game" meant.
• Bethesda Game Studios (the developer of Fallout/Elder Scrolls) has two new AAA projects (at least one with online) in development that are "a while" off, and a new mobile game that might be closer. [Update: One of these AAA games seems to be a freemium title.]
• ZeniMax Online (TESO) is also making mobile games.
• Escalation is working on VR games.
• It's not impossible that Bethesda (the publisher) is working with an external developer on a project, even if most of their games are internally developed.

Officially announced games:

• XCOM 2 (presumably an expansion pack)
• Klei (Mark of the Ninja, Don't Starve) will announce a new game at the PC Gaming show.
• They do state there will be new game announcements

Guesses based on sponsors:

• The PC Gaming Show is sponsored by Bohemia Interactive, CyGames, Nexon, TripWire, and Xbox.
• Bohemia Interactive: Arma 3? DayZ?
• CyGames: Shadowverse, though we don't know if they're bringing anything else as well.
• Nexon: LawBreakers?
• TripWire: Probably a mix of Killing Floor, Red Orchestra, and/or Rising Storm
• Xbox: This will presumably just be some of their games from the Microsoft conference, so see that list

Additional notes:

• They could definitely do a better job making this sound exciting. Let me know if I missed anything about this.

Officially announced games:

• Assassin's Creed: Origins
• Far Cry 5
• The Crew 2
• South Park: The Fractured But Whole
• A New IP (see discussion below)

Teased/rumored games:

• Mario x Rabbids: Kingdom Battle: It's not entirely clear if this will be at Ubisoft's show, Nintendo's show, or both
• The Division: Ubisoft has been saying they plan to unveil The Division's Year 2 content soon

Ubisoft's New IP discussion:

• It's not impossible this is referring to Mario x Rabbids, however, Ubisoft has noted that they have an online centric new IP coming next fiscal year that was originally coming this fiscal year, and Mario x Rabbids is not an especially online centric game.
• Ubisoft has a new space exploration sci-fi game in development code-named Pioneer that was rebooted last year, but was teased in Watch Dogs 2. It wasn't explicitly stated this was online centric, but it would be kind of odd if it wasn't. It could be ready to show by now.
• Ubisoft has surveyed about a new online centric pirate game that would follow up on the core concepts of Assassin's Creed 4.
• Ubisoft has some kind of game being built with Studio GOBO, and I believe both of their new games are online centric based on job postings. This was a third person action adventure title focused on multiplayer combat.
• It's always possible there's something else I missed here. Ubisoft makes a lot of games.

Additional notes:

• Ubisoft's online centric Avatar game (by The Division people) will not be at E3 as it is not releasing until at least 2020.
• It's probably too early for The Division 2 or Watch Dogs 3.
• Rainbow Six Siege is not planned to get a sequel until well after Ghost Recon Wildlands gets a sequel, according to their last fiscal call.
• Ubisoft has been rumored to be working on a new Splinter Cell, though it's not entirely clear how development on that is going, as we haven't heard anything in a year or so.
• Ubisoft has said Beyond Good & Evil 2 will not be at E3.
• Aisha Tyler will not be hosting this year, in favor of having developers host.

Officially announced games:

• The below games were explicitly confirmed by Sony in a recent interview.
• Days Gone
• God of War
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Spider-Man
• Gran Turismo Sport
• Sony promises "some big announcements" regarding Japanese games. They didn't necessarily say they were exclusive, but they were clear they were console games.

Maybe, maybe not games:

• Detroit: Become Human I had in presumed games before, but Sony didn't list it explicitly when they talked about what they were showing.
• Horizon DLC: Sony has said there's Horizon DLC coming.
• Knack 2: Sony has been known to leave their smaller games out of their E3 press conferences on occasion.
• Everybody's Golf: See Knack 2.
• Matterfall by Housemarque: See Knack 2.
• Dreams: It's still not clear when or if this is releasing.
• Death Stranding: It's plausible Kojima decides to wait until he has gameplay to show now that he's completed a world tour with the game. It's also plausible we'll see something anyway.
• The Last of Us 2: This strikes me as a 2019 title, so it's probably a bit early, but they did announce it super early anyway.
• In theory, Michel Ancel's Wild is still a thing.

Rumored games:

• Sony has a new quiz party game called "That's You". You use your phone (and phone camera) in combination with the game. It focuses around doing things with your face and appearance, hence the name.

Additional notes:

• Sucker Punch hasn't announced a game in a long time.
• Sony has a VR headset that they might announce games for.
• Sony has a portable system that hasn't 100% officially been killed yet, but don't hold your breath.
• Sony has marketing partnership with Destiny 2, Call of Duty: World War 2, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Far Cry 5, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and FIFA Soccer 18, and they usually have one with NBA 2K, so any of those could presumably show up on stage.
• Take-Two has said that Red Dead Redemption 2 won't be at E3, so don't expect that one despite the marketing deal.
• It's always hard to predict what Japanese publishers and developers will do, along with their odds of inclusion in Sony's E3 show, given this has changed dramatically on a year to year basis. The same is true of indie games.

Officially announced games:

• Super Mario Odyssey
• ARMS
• Splatoon 2

Others Nintendo games announced for Switch, but not confirmed to show:

• Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC
• Xenoblade 2
• Fire Emblem Warriors
• Fire Emblem Switch (This is the least likely to be shown)

Rumored upcoming Nintendo games:

• Super Smash Bros 4 Switch Port
• Pokemon Stars: This is supposedly an expanded version of Pokemon Sun/Moon.
• I listed Mario x Rabbids: Kingdom Battle in the Ubisoft section, but it's probably worth mentioning here too.

Additional notes:

• Monster Hunter Generations Generations Switch Version was announced for the Switch. If it's coming over, this would probably be the right time to announce it.
• Retro has not released a game in a very long time.
• Platinum is making a game for Switch. It's unclear where that is in development.
• Koei Tecmo implied they had a second Switch exclusive. Hyrule Warriors port maybe?
• Square Enix/Silicon Studio's Project Octopath Traveler is quite likely in a showable state.
• I'm not sure if Shin Megami Tensei: New Project is actually very far along in development.
• No More Heroes 3 was announced for the Switch at the system's unveil, but it sounded like it had just started development.
• Miyamoto said that Nintendo was making a new Pikmin game at some point. It's unclear if that's the 3DS game or not.
• Nintendo is hypothetically supporting the 3DS through 2018, so it's not impossible they announce new 3DS games.
• Nintendo will be holding E3 tournaments for Splatoon 2 and ARMS.
• Beyond the above games, there's a wide variety of other third party games that could be shown ranging from AAA ports to multiplatform Japanese games to a huge variety of indie titles. Nintendo is less predictable than most in terms of what they show from third parties, especially when their games aren't at least hypothetically exclusive.
• There was also a rumor about a SNES classic, though it's worth noting that the NES classic was announced on a random day instead of E3.

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• Devolver Digital will be holding a press conference, but has announced no further details outside of the fact that it wouldn't be held in a parking lot across from E3.
• Square Enix and Deck Nine (Idol Minds) are rumored to be unveiling a prequel to Life Is Strange.
• Crytek's Hunt: The Showdown will be unveiled at E3. It's a "player versus player monster hunter game".
• Twitch has "exclusive reveals" from EA, Deep Silver, 505 Games, and Nicalis. It's unclear if these are new games or new looks at existing games.
• Take-Two (2K/Rockstar) has implied they were not have an especially notable presence at E3. They do have a booth, but probably don't expect new game announcements.
• CD Projekt will not be at E3.
• Sega/Atlus/Vanillaware's 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim will be at E3.
• Team17's E3 line-up is Aven Colony, The Escapists 2, Genesis Alpha One, and Yoku’s Island Express.
• Focus Home Interactive's E3 line-up is Vampyr, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Call of Cthulhu, Insurgency: Sandstorm, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, GreedFall, and The Surge.
• Roll7 of OlliOlli fame is unveiling their new Unreal Engine 4 based game, Laser League.
• Telltale appears to be making Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2, James Bond: Solstice, and Tales From The Borderlands Season 2 on top of their announced Lionsgate and Game of Thrones Season 2 games. It's unknown if any of these will be at E3, but Minecraft was rated recently, suggesting and unveil soon.
• XSEED's E3 line-up is Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash, and Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star.
• Dragon Ball Fighters by Bandai Namco and Arc System works, a 3v3 2.5D fighting game for PC/XB1/PS4, will be unveiled.

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THEM rules! lol

No love for Canadian time zones makes me sad.

It'll be great to see @jg4xchamp get pumped up from all the gameplay videos Sony is going to provide us.

Interdesting, seems I came out on top in this deal.

Champ likes movie games and Chaz likes no games confirmed.

I think everything is in place now. Hope all the info is clear and easy to read.

@ConanTheStoner: Did you? Did you really?...

EA conference will be just star wars and sports like i said and i assume that unannounced game is another star wars game.

Im waiting for Bethesda conference and some other games to be announce. they should atleast tease Doom 2.

@Desmonic:

Given the other options, I'll take it lol.

And there's a hidden bonus you see. Nintendo will probably have less to talk about and there are far less sheep on this board. Which translates into less mentions aka notifications for me to check.

As a wise Big Rig once said, I'RE WINNER.

@ConanTheStoner: lol true enough!

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Here's some BF2 gameplay:

Finally had the time to finish Persona 5. Was so damn good. Gonna start a NG+ playthrough but play it in bursts. Got Nier PS3 and TLG from Gamefly that I gotta get done now.

Also decided to sign up for online school (WGU) to get continue learning IT stuff. Never hurts to keep up on skill training.

What is this? A lounge for pants?

I need to finish Persona 5 already.

@ConanTheStoner: You'll get to shill with your homeboy iandiz, get excited.

I actually forgot about that haha

I dont think I will follow this E3 at all.

At most, I probably will just look up to see what was announced after the show is over. Much like Champ, I don't care much for movie games which eschew design over flash, so already there, you can scratch of 99% of Sony's offerings. And I care about the Xbone just as much as Charizard does... When it comes to Nintendo... well, it will only be 25 minutes long, but unlike Conanthestoner I dont do weed and will probably be too busy working my ass off trying to get the summer assignment done within the first week... because I am lazy.

Quickly reading up the summary and checking out on the few games I care about gets this done so much faster. Give me a Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord release date, Give me some nice new IP that avoids the trends I strongly dislike, and give me something from Platinum.

Do that, and I will be satisfied.

@Maroxad: Ah, so you're the base audience for Rabbids x Mario! :D

Oh noez... I got caught!!!

So this is the lounge now? Or for E3 lounge only?

Can you put in a braille version?

Yup, its like the old one, but a lot less wrinkly (from old age) and fat.

In other words, it doesn't look like Champ.

Btw, before I forget, the whole E3 Coliseum stuff can be followed on E3's YT+ Twitch.

YouTube Live @ E3

https://gaming.youtube.com/e3

E3 on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/event/e3

Will add to the OP.

@Maroxad: Bannerlord will be playable at E3 so there's hope for release date

@ConanTheStoner: you're biggest problem though is that while ? might be small in number, they are very vocal.

Prepare for doom!

@anthonyautumns: We'll cross that bridge in exactly 5 days from now.

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Yeah, Ian and I are tight, we may disagree on some things, but as long as we both like the GREATEST GAME EVER CREATED, BotW, and the DEFINITIVE VERSION OF STREET FIGHTER 2, then we're all good.

*pukes*

@Maroxad:

I've pretty much been the same about E3 in recent years, not following every shred of news. It tends to be a long, drawn out, and somewhat boring event full of bullshit. Like one long ass infomercial. The long winded pressers are especially lame most of the time, usually only good for post-E3 cringe compilations.

I might keep an eye out for a couple of things, but otherwise I'll just wait until it settles and scoop up the best info (games worth checking out) here on SW after the fact.

@Desmonic: LOL!!!!

@Desmonic:

Weird man, I keep getting notifications from my name being in the OP, it's happened 5 times now lol.

E3 as a Simpsons metaphor

Looking forward to EA in a few hours !

Hoping to see Battlefront 2 and Battlefield 1 DLC gameplay !

@ConanTheStoner: I've been editing stuff, so it "counts" as new mention (despite still being the original one) whenever I finish each edit. Sorry about that.

@Desmonic: well technically that was your intended purpose was it not?

@sHaDyCuBe321: Sorta lol

@Desmonic:

Oh cool, all good man, I just thought it was GS glitching up again lol.

@ConanTheStoner: Oh, I'm sure something will break. Maybe not here on the forums, but given we'll have livestreams (as per usual) the capacity for something to break like crazy is always there :P

Yay E3! It's like the Christmas I never celebrate; that is, I don't celebrate Christmas - I celebrate E3.

stress testing thread

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@illmatic87: Wut.

I have no clue what time the EA starts.

Can someone tell me how many hours till it starts?

Yup. That is how I feel of E3 as of late.

Which is why I don't take issues when publishers shorten their conferences. Most of it is just fat anyways.

@Desmonic: Des, I thought after clicking the System Wars link redirected me to Games Discussion because of the multiple stickies.

@anthonyautumns: Worry not, they're all temporary. Just to keep things a bit more controlled, nothing else. Plus it's just for the big 3. Stuff about EA, Bethesda, etc is still "free game" per say.

Looks like Amazon just leaked that Wolfenstein II: The New Collossus will be released on October 27th 2017(gotta be for Scorpios release).

Exshitement.

Sad news today. Adam West who played Batman in the 1960s has died from leukemia at age 88.

I remember rumors of Ninja Gaiden 4 being announced. If it turns out to be true, do you think they'll **** it up as bad as NG3?

@David719: Why would they do Ninja Gaiden 4 before doing Ninja Gaiden 3? God knows why they never went back after Ninja Gaiden 2.

I think you have Nintendo confused with someone else lol