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E3 Blog 1:Sega and Spielburg

The day is here! everybody from journalists and reporters have descended onto the Barker Hangar in sunny Santa Monica Pier here we arrive at a different E3 no longer filled with expensive booths and booth babes and huge auditoriums filled with everyone from gaming luminaries to cameras looking for the big announcements,we come to a smaller more ordinary,slimmed down,and not-what-it-used-to-be-the-gigantic-awesomeness-of-years-past-E3.So how will E3 fare well against the gigantic announcements and geeky fanfare and mythical epicnes? well I'm here to let you know that E3 will still have those awesome announcements and blockbuster games we're used to hearing and this new focus on the games and not the extra add-ons will bring us back to when E3 of it's early years which was what E3 was meant to be. So for yesterday N'Gai Croal interviewed filmaker Steven Spielburg on his involvement with EA on three games two have already been announced PQRS and LMNO, PQRS will be a puzzle game in spirit of games likethe block building game jenga with the appeal of a Saturday morning cartoon.It has been announced for the NIntendo Wii and was interestinly an idea Spielburg came up with while playing Wii tennis with Shigeru Miyamoto the resident genius over at Nintendo. The second project LMNO is the showcase of EA's famous "Can a video game make you cry?". The game stars a Ex.secret agent and a femme fatale virtual girl reminiscent of Cortana from Halo series,only catch is this character has full emotional responses that has her own responses she'll give according to your abilites and powers you choose what they attend to achieve is to have the environment have an impact on a player,and to have it give deeper meaning and responses through the game.EA has gone far as to say they implemented full facial capturing so you could see the virtual character give a fluid more reactionary response.Spielburg didn't reveal the third game though that will probably be revealed next year's E3. If EA and Spielburg deliver on these games he might be on the verge of creating a masterpiece alongside his notable movies E.T,Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.Will he conquer games as he conquered movies Stay Tuned! As for Sega,Sega has been busy as of late Sega's at E3 this year showing off their first-property offerings as well as third-party games.We still don't have any word on the two announced Alien properties,one being an RPG by Obsidian entertainment and FPS being developed by Gearbox Software of Brothers-In -Arms fame according to Sega of America president Simon Jeffery this game will have a premier on the scale of the Alien and Aliens movie franchise,the developers are working with 20th Century Fox on all handling of the property to assure it gets a amazing treatment probably Gears Of War style.Sega's also showing off The Golden Compass based on the upcoming christmas film which Sega is working with Shiny Entertainment which is famous for Enter The Matrix and it's being made in collaboration with the producers of the film.Sega also showed off their first party offering Nights:Journey into Dreams the sequel to the Nights series of games that appeared on the Dreamcast it's being released for the Nintendo Wii and will work with the will remote by guiding the character and using the analog to move the character.Universe At War will also be at E3 and it is coming along, the graphics have been completely redone to appeal more and also have been announced for Xbox 360 and will feature cross-platform multiplayer.and that 's all for right now I'll be right back with my opinions on the PS3 price cut and the rumor that Microsoft will cut the price of it's 360 and also the rumor of a PS3 movie download service.