This is it. Lock up your partners, stock up on party-size Doritos; the silliest week in the games industry calendar is about to rugby tackle you right in the shins - and CVG is your bosom scrum-half. We've got your back.
The mayhem kicks off - officially at least - on Monday, June 6 at 17:30pm BST, when Microsoft's E3 press conference thunders into existence. The whole spectacle is set to be streamed live on Xbox.com, but the good news this year is all three platform holder press conferences, bar any technical disasters, will also be streamed live on CVG.
Then, just when you think you've got time to visit the bathroom and get the last train home, Ubisoft starts showing videogames at 22:30pm BST on Monday night, where it's expect to show Assassin's Creed, Ghost Recon and drop some big game announcements. This will be streamed live on Ubi.com
Then, for those not in need of sleep, Sony kick starts its PS3 and NGP extravaganza at 1:00am BST on Tuesday, June 7. We'll likely be in bed, praying for it all to end, but our ever-reliable LA team will make sure you get every ounce of news as it happens - and of course the conference will (fingers crossed) be streamed live here on CVG, PlayStation.com and on your PS3.
On Tuesday, when we've rubbed the salt out of our eyes and marched straight back into video embed hell, you can have a little breather until arguably the biggest conference of the show, Nintendo's E3 presser, kicks off at 17:00pm BST on Tuesday, June 7. It will be streamed live here and on Nintendo.com and you won't want to miss it.
E3 doesn't end once the press conferences are wrapped of course; CVG's bigger than ever squad of hall-roamers will be reporting news, media and opinion live from Los Angeles, 24/7 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
We reckon it's going to be CVG's best E3 ever. We're looking forward to you helping us make it go off with a bang.
Comments
26 comments so far...
boskersrevenge on 3 Jun '11 said:
ARGLE BARGLE FARGLE *foams*
duende667 on 3 Jun '11 said:
excellent,thanks cvg.i've been goin from one site to another trying to plan out what i'm going to watch and when,this helps alot.
i am james on 3 Jun '11 said:
erm i think u mean june 6th cvg?
guyston on 3 Jun '11 said:
Monday, June 3rd you say?
me4pd on 3 Jun '11 said:
Maybe we should have our own e3 parties! Or is that a bit naff?
hi0marc on 3 Jun '11 said:
Its all lookin good i gotta say
StokedUp on 3 Jun '11 said:
Theres one game that hasnt been mentioned that i was hoping to hear about and that BAYONETTA 2, its literally been confimed its in the works and i would love it if it made a suprise visit to this years E3! loved this first one.
Clusks on 3 Jun '11 said:
Does anyone know somewhere that will post videos of each full conference?
I am at work for the MS one and really want to watch it when I get back without any spoilers.
R_A_LEE20 on 3 Jun '11 said:
Man this is going to be a huge week for gaming, MS & Sony showing off whatever they got planned to out do each other, Nintendo showing off their new console, whatever shocking announcements that come our way from the dev's but not only that, at the end of the week we've got the release of the most highly anticipated and longest awaited game of all time: Duke Nukem Forever is finally getting released!
This is gonna be one helluva week and to top it off by the end we can celebrate with the King, Baby!
Noobsaibot on 4 Jun '11 said:
Dammit! I have an interview at 5 on Tuesday so I'm going to miss the big Nintendo reveal. I'll have to catch up with it without spoiling the inevitible nerdgasm moment
lupaie on 4 Jun '11 said:
Here is your list converted for the Dutch, Germans, Italians, French, Belgiums and the rest of us Europeans living on the mainlands. CVG, your audience is bigger than only your Picknick Island inhabitants
June 7
18.30 MS
21.30 EA
23.30 UBISOFT
June 8
02.00 (nighttime) SONY
18.00 NINTENDO
jaycee900 on 4 Jun '11 said:
Well it's a British site, it's not gonna list the times for 150 countrys that read this site and shouldn't be expected to, and surely you could have worked yr time zone out being it's only 1 hour ahead ....god some people are just born to moan, grow up.
Athrun888 on 4 Jun '11 said:
I guess I should be hyped, but I'm not excited at all. Microsoft can't possibly win a purchase from me at this point in this generation, Sony's never interested me game wise as I've found everything I've played from them dull, and Nintendo after last years 3DS show has me highly unexcited for whatever they're going to show off (maybe if they'd actually launched the game they showed the 3DS with I'd have one and be interested in whatever they have in store).
My main attention will be on Square-Enix (Final Fantasy XIII-2) and Bandai-Namco (Soul Calibur V) this E3, unless Nintendo reveal something completely unexpected (like a new Smash Bros), but even then anything they announce will probably be released in a few years time soooo...
jim2wheels on 4 Jun '11 said:
For future insulting references, picnic has no K's in it. And we're not Europeans, we're British.
Faughnan on 4 Jun '11 said:
This. I'm not British ( Irish actually ) but I don't think there was any need to put up a new timetable just moving everything by one hour and then moaning about it
gamemachine on 4 Jun '11 said:
Really looking forward to AC III and Mass Effect 3
notalktalk on 4 Jun '11 said:
thanks guys roll on monday.
Balladeer on 4 Jun '11 said:
Exam ends at 4 on the 7th. Run to Sainsbury's, stock up on unhealthy munchables, in room for 5 for Nintendo's conference. It can be done.
NEO_SUPERMAN on 5 Jun '11 said:
English, British, European, Irish, PS3 owners. We are all brothers from another mother.
More importantly I'm so excited about E3 that I literally just punched my fist into the air and shouted YEAH!
MutilateTheDead on 5 Jun '11 said:
How long after microsofts press conference is it usually posted up in full onto youtube? i won't get home from work until 7! so i'll miss it!
moogiesboy on 5 Jun '11 said:
Live streaming + peak time + my broadband = FAIL
yodalicious on 5 Jun '11 said:
Excellent. Finished work for 3 weeks yesterday evening so will have the beers in the fridge, party sized bag of Dorito's as mentioned and my PS3 or laptop warmed up ready to watch. Can't wait for the EA and Sony conference. Will be watching them live and will catch up on the rest later.
griffa94 on 5 Jun '11 said:
agreed, half the people who comment must flick through page after page just to bi***h about something. Whether it's Call of Duty or CVG. If they find so many 'problems' with it's posts then go find another website
gobbybobby on 6 Jun '11 said:
You get spam, ideots and troll comments on every game website. Live with it its funny sometimes!
boskersrevenge on 6 Jun '11 said:
It would also help if the "sane" and "reasonable" people just ignored them. Trolls exist because they're fed
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My expectations are that MS are going to continue following this new lifestyle gamer route and pick up where Nintendo are leaving it. To sustain the wave I reckon MS will have large HDD console and Kinect bundles at around £150 by the end of the year, if not early next year. That is it - I am expecting no surprises from MS and you must remember that this is their second generation console and the first was merely (or should that be "seemingly"?
) a lamb to the slaughter, there are no rules books on how to behave and MS simply aren't in a position to "out-mode" the 360 just yet, not with the amount of time and money they're spending at the moment exactly on the 360 brand.
Sony I think will have a very solid E3. Apart from the big NGP blow out I am not expecting anything to wow me there, either but want to see Move and 3D invested in.
I guess between the big boys, I can't see any exclusives on the horizon to get them in any better position than they are in now.
Nintendo are upsetting the apple cart a bit in this respect, if something like GTAV is announced and is destined for Nintendo's new console then I expect I would hold out for that and I wonder how many other people would do, too?
For them I can either see the best E3 they (and anybody else) has ever had or it's a crushing disappointment and the leap is more of a step. They've either aped the 360 and PS3 or they've super seceded it and whatever it is they've done will really effect it's fortunes.
But let's just play with the idea... MW3, BF3; Skyrim, GTA; FF, Prototype 2; Bayonetta 2... I could go on but imagine that each one of those is optimised for the new Nintendo console, because it can be if the technology allows it. Otherwise it'll just be the same and if so, why bother?
krazykunal85 on 6 Jun '11 said:
wow... all nighter me thinks.... Sony is the one to watch as they've been in the news for all the wrong reasons... and must not dwell on the "hack" for too long. Interesting to see if they can win it with the new PSP Vita but looks like Nintendo will do it once again.