2:55 - Waiting for the conference to start. Listening to Franz Ferdinand. The Wi-Fi here SUCKS.
3:01 - It's late!
3:04 - Oh here we go! Let's get this party started or something!
3:07 - We've got a big loud presentation showing off a bunch of EA games that have already come out. Burnout, NBA Live, Harry Potter, The Sims, Rock Band. It's very loud and flashy.
3:09 - John Riccotello has come on stage and promised next to no powerpoint and market share statistics. I love him already!
3:10 - Rod Humble with the Sims Studio is on stage. He looks like a Sim. Like from Sims 1.
3:11 - Rod announces SimAnimals. It's new and different. Not like SimSafari, SimPark, SimLife, SimAnt or any other Sim Animal like game.
3:12 - The trailer is going. It's showing bear cups and foxes and squirrels being total jerks to each other. And all in a really low polygon count kind of way!
3:13 - Rod has confirmed animal sex in this game.
3:13 - Coming January 2009 exclusively for Wii and DS.
3:14 - Announces the Sims 2 Store. Players can now buy stuff online. Kind of like the stuff that people have been making free for years now.
3:15 - Sims 3 trailer time! Showcases the community aspect and town parts of the game. Plus there are cellphones! And an emo haired rock celebrity.
3:17 - Dead Space is up next. Huge screensots of space autopsies on people that are still alive. Totally freaking gross, in an awesome way.
3:18 - Showing a demo. No HUD, life bar is on the back. British lady computer voice. Huge freaking monster thing. Made out of bones and giantness!
3:20 - Different guns make the monster go slower. Kind of like plasmids in Bioshock.
3:21 - The guy is using a gun to catch vomited projectiles and hurl them back at the monster.
3:22 -Main guy just got freaking tentacle raped by a giant monster arm!
3:24 - The official trailer is probably the bloodiest, sickest thing I've ever seen from EA.
3:25 - Patrick Soderlund from EA Europe is on stage to show off Mirror's Edge
3:26 - Demo running now. Pretty much exactly what we've seen in the first person videos already posted.
3:27 - Now we're seeing some inside puzzle solving. Faith jumps from some piping to a ventilation duct. Now she's running from police who are shooting. She can do a slide kick and can take people's guns from them.
3:29 - Apparently the entire game can be played without firing a single bullet, and that is an Achievement.
3:30 - New first person trailer that makes quick cuts to go through various environments in the game in one giant transition.
3:32 - Will Wright is on stage! Everyone is happy. Jason Ocampo screamed.
3:33 - Wright confesses to wanting to be Frankenstein and make a monster that kills people.
3:34 - EA expected about 100K creatures in the database. They have over 2 million at this point, more than the knowns species of animals on Earth.
3:37 - Users have made humans, vehicles, realistic animals and robots, despite the developers having trouble doing so.
3:40 - Spore trailer. Telling the history of life though Spore. Ameobas to fish to land dwellers to war mongering bidepal jerks.
3:43 - Peter Moore is on stage, ready to talk about NBA Live. Bill Walton is here too, talking about how cool Spore is. Oh wait he's supposed to be talking about how cool NBA Live is, oops.
3:48 - NBA Live will have something called Dynamic DNA that is supposed to more accurately portray how a character actually acts. It will be updated every day to update the player's DNA as the season goes on.
3:50 - The DNA measures whether a player likes to hook left or right in the paint, what type of player they are, and can change if a player gets traded or changes their style in the real season.
3:51 - Bill Walton is the freaking man. He's got Peter Moore so flustered by his one liners that he can't even do the presentation. Bill takes over, is funny. Yay Bill!
3:53 - Bill is announcing the NBA Live gameplay as it happens. Shows off hot spots and the DNA tendency gameplay.
3:58 - Peter Moore is demoing EA All Play with tiger Woods. He's better than a professional lady golfer since he's playing on "kid mode."
4:00 - All Play mode on golf gives players the motion control, but takes out the not fun parts, like requiring skill.
4:02 - John Pleasants from Redwood Shores is coming on stage.
4:03 - He says EA needs to give players more control. That sounds good. Vague, but good.
4:04 - Nanea Reeves has come out to announce Nucleus. It's an online account and social networking tool built around the EA games.
4:05 - Nucleus helps with microtransactions. You all love microtransactions, right?
4:06 - Shawn Fanning is now on stage, talking about Rupture. He's showing off something called Social Achievements, which are made and posted by users to challenge their friends.
4:08 - EA Mobile is talking about games for the iPhone. Tetris uses touch screen and Spore uses the accelerometer.
4:10 - I really hope those iPhone games work as well as the trailer claims they do. Scrabble looks pretty sweet and is supposedly Wi-Fi capable.
4:12 - Bioware showed up, gave us a trailer for Dragon Age Origins (it's a fantasy RPG. With dragons perhaps) then left quickly.
4:15 -Now Valve is up with Left 4 Dead. Oh no... powerpoint? Valve! You know better!
4:17 -Left 4 Dead has adaptive difficulty. Valve showed the same gas station level with two situations. One where the players suck, so they get easy zombies. The other one the players did well so they get hard zombies and freaking sweet explosions.
4:20 -Left 4 Dead trailer shows the characters taking out a big hulking zombie that looks like Abomination from the movie Incredible Hulk. He tears up chunks of asphalt and hurls it. Jason is screaming in my ear because he is so excited.
4:21 - Holy crap it's John Carmack. He's on stage and talking about a partnership with EA. Id has a taste of a new title, Rage, which is a first person,post-apocalypticish Mad Max meets Doom thing.
4:24 - And it's over. We didn't even get to see Harry Potter or Littlest Pet Shop!
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3:01 - It's late!
3:04 - Oh here we go! Let's get this party started or something!
3:07 - We've got a big loud presentation showing off a bunch of EA games that have already come out. Burnout, NBA Live, Harry Potter, The Sims, Rock Band. It's very loud and flashy.
3:09 - John Riccotello has come on stage and promised next to no powerpoint and market share statistics. I love him already!
3:10 - Rod Humble with the Sims Studio is on stage. He looks like a Sim. Like from Sims 1.
3:11 - Rod announces SimAnimals. It's new and different. Not like SimSafari, SimPark, SimLife, SimAnt or any other Sim Animal like game.
3:12 - The trailer is going. It's showing bear cups and foxes and squirrels being total jerks to each other. And all in a really low polygon count kind of way!
3:13 - Rod has confirmed animal sex in this game.
3:13 - Coming January 2009 exclusively for Wii and DS.
3:14 - Announces the Sims 2 Store. Players can now buy stuff online. Kind of like the stuff that people have been making free for years now.
3:15 - Sims 3 trailer time! Showcases the community aspect and town parts of the game. Plus there are cellphones! And an emo haired rock celebrity.
3:17 - Dead Space is up next. Huge screensots of space autopsies on people that are still alive. Totally freaking gross, in an awesome way.
3:18 - Showing a demo. No HUD, life bar is on the back. British lady computer voice. Huge freaking monster thing. Made out of bones and giantness!
3:20 - Different guns make the monster go slower. Kind of like plasmids in Bioshock.
3:21 - The guy is using a gun to catch vomited projectiles and hurl them back at the monster.
3:22 -Main guy just got freaking tentacle raped by a giant monster arm!
3:24 - The official trailer is probably the bloodiest, sickest thing I've ever seen from EA.
3:25 - Patrick Soderlund from EA Europe is on stage to show off Mirror's Edge
3:26 - Demo running now. Pretty much exactly what we've seen in the first person videos already posted.
3:27 - Now we're seeing some inside puzzle solving. Faith jumps from some piping to a ventilation duct. Now she's running from police who are shooting. She can do a slide kick and can take people's guns from them.
3:29 - Apparently the entire game can be played without firing a single bullet, and that is an Achievement.
3:30 - New first person trailer that makes quick cuts to go through various environments in the game in one giant transition.
3:32 - Will Wright is on stage! Everyone is happy. Jason Ocampo screamed.
3:33 - Wright confesses to wanting to be Frankenstein and make a monster that kills people.
3:34 - EA expected about 100K creatures in the database. They have over 2 million at this point, more than the knowns species of animals on Earth.
3:37 - Users have made humans, vehicles, realistic animals and robots, despite the developers having trouble doing so.
3:40 - Spore trailer. Telling the history of life though Spore. Ameobas to fish to land dwellers to war mongering bidepal jerks.
3:43 - Peter Moore is on stage, ready to talk about NBA Live. Bill Walton is here too, talking about how cool Spore is. Oh wait he's supposed to be talking about how cool NBA Live is, oops.
3:48 - NBA Live will have something called Dynamic DNA that is supposed to more accurately portray how a character actually acts. It will be updated every day to update the player's DNA as the season goes on.
3:50 - The DNA measures whether a player likes to hook left or right in the paint, what type of player they are, and can change if a player gets traded or changes their style in the real season.
3:51 - Bill Walton is the freaking man. He's got Peter Moore so flustered by his one liners that he can't even do the presentation. Bill takes over, is funny. Yay Bill!
3:53 - Bill is announcing the NBA Live gameplay as it happens. Shows off hot spots and the DNA tendency gameplay.
3:58 - Peter Moore is demoing EA All Play with tiger Woods. He's better than a professional lady golfer since he's playing on "kid mode."
4:00 - All Play mode on golf gives players the motion control, but takes out the not fun parts, like requiring skill.
4:02 - John Pleasants from Redwood Shores is coming on stage.
4:03 - He says EA needs to give players more control. That sounds good. Vague, but good.
4:04 - Nanea Reeves has come out to announce Nucleus. It's an online account and social networking tool built around the EA games.
4:05 - Nucleus helps with microtransactions. You all love microtransactions, right?
4:06 - Shawn Fanning is now on stage, talking about Rupture. He's showing off something called Social Achievements, which are made and posted by users to challenge their friends.
4:08 - EA Mobile is talking about games for the iPhone. Tetris uses touch screen and Spore uses the accelerometer.
4:10 - I really hope those iPhone games work as well as the trailer claims they do. Scrabble looks pretty sweet and is supposedly Wi-Fi capable.
4:12 - Bioware showed up, gave us a trailer for Dragon Age Origins (it's a fantasy RPG. With dragons perhaps) then left quickly.
4:15 -Now Valve is up with Left 4 Dead. Oh no... powerpoint? Valve! You know better!
4:17 -Left 4 Dead has adaptive difficulty. Valve showed the same gas station level with two situations. One where the players suck, so they get easy zombies. The other one the players did well so they get hard zombies and freaking sweet explosions.
4:20 -Left 4 Dead trailer shows the characters taking out a big hulking zombie that looks like Abomination from the movie Incredible Hulk. He tears up chunks of asphalt and hurls it. Jason is screaming in my ear because he is so excited.
4:21 - Holy crap it's John Carmack. He's on stage and talking about a partnership with EA. Id has a taste of a new title, Rage, which is a first person,post-apocalypticish Mad Max meets Doom thing.
4:24 - And it's over. We didn't even get to see Harry Potter or Littlest Pet Shop!
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