Can't remember exactly what game she was promoting.

THQ Booth Babe

Cats?

THQ Booth Babe

THQ Booth Babe

Wii Fit Booth Babe and she is indeed fit to say the least.

Triplets!

Samurai Booth Babes

Just when you think the UFC can't get any better... ..it does.

I honestly don't think this chic was a booth babe, but the outfit... A+

Babes from Space or something...??

Tritton Booth Babes

'End of Nations' Booth Babes

Some of the most impressive Booth Babes decked out in latex and it wasn't even for a video game. The AR Drone is a flying drone with cameras that you can control with your iPhone.

I want to say Cat Woman from DC Universe Online game coming out but I also don't want to get my ass chewed out by hardcore fans of the game or the DC Universe itself.

Now for some babes that deserve a little more than the booth babe title.  No disrespect to the lovely ladies above but here are some more familiar faces.

This is Playmate Model Jo Garcia Playboy's 2008 Cyber Girl of the Year and Playboy's the Gamer Next Door and aparrently might be seen in the Mafia II game.

Jessica Chobot from IGN.com

Olivia Munn from G4TV (Attack of the Show co-host)

Me and 'StarSlayer' who is famous for her Guitar Hero skills but mostly because she can hold her own in a video game and she is a girl. She was also on a TV show about putting a bunch of random gamers to live we each other and take part in competitions... the show went south real quick.

https://gamingbolt.com/2010/07/25/e3-2010-the-best-of-the-booth-babes/

Next up is some Fable 3 gameplay.  The game looks similar to Fable 2 but seems to have really added on the whole social interaction part of the game.  Fable 3 is due out this holiday season for the Xbox 360 and PC. 

Bioshock fans would have been impressed with the life size Big Daddy there along with a little sister and other Bioshock props shown in a case.

The Castevania saga will now finally be continued in 3D with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.  It is currently set to be released this holiday season for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.  Check out some gameplay below.

Sonic returns in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 looking his best as they bring the series back to its original platform mechanic.  Here is some Sonic the Hedgehog 4 gameplay.  It is set to be released this year for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, iPhone and iPad.

The Harry Potter series has almost fully completed its goal of overtaking the world.  Here you can see the cast of films entirely made of LEGOS to promote the new Lego Harry Potter game.  Lego Harry Potter is now available for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, PC, DS and PSP.

He also said that 3D as well is not anything ground breaking, just “so-so.” He feels that Sony’s E3 showing could have had a huge impact in the future, but “will not have any effect” in short-term.

He says that Nintendo’s, Sony’s and Microsoft’s E3’s main discussion points, the 3DS, 3D and Kinect were “not the kind of technology that will definitively change the industry itself” and were “only an extension of the existing trajectory, if you will.”

“With game console input, Nintendo’s DS and Wii had a dramatic effect,” he added. “What was announced with Kinect is just a small extension to what is already available.

“So it has also reached a point where something different has to happen for next level disruptive technology.

“Unless Kinect becomes the interface like the one we have seen in Minority Report or it becomes so advanced that it reads brain waves, technology has jumped so much already we can’t think of anything more that can be added to that.”

Everybody’s going a little harsh on Kinect, don’t you think? We should at least give it a chance… or should we?

The level now cuts to you playing as one of the soldiers below waiting prone with a scoped cross-bow.  You silently begin to take out enemies with your crossbow as you move closer to the Russian Sub Base.  A squad members lets you know that you have the option of using switching to explosives if you catch ‘heat’, which is a timed explosive on your arrow that is set to go off shortly after impact.  This would obviously blow your cover and was deliberately shown to us to our delight.  The much publicized highlight was when you eventually make it to the sub station and rappel down and into the windows of the base to take it over using the element of surprise.

To open a door at one point, you must shoot the hinges off of it to get through.  After taking control of a communications station you eventually need to escape.  Running down a snowy hill only to find that an avalanche is occurring, you have no choose other than to jump off the cliff.  As you fall down to what seems like and endless snowy abyss, the level ends.  Pretty epic as expected with the brand of Call of Duty.  Some of the weapons seen in this demo are the already mentioned cross-bow with alternative explosive arrows, the AK-47, the SPAS w/ incendiary shells and the silenced ACOG sighted AUG.

Payback was the name of the next level we were shown where you begin underground in a tunnel in 1968 Vietnam.  You emerge to find your team mate deciding the next move is to take control of an enemy helicopter.  As you move toward it you are armed with a Colt Commando assault rifle which is very reminiscent of today’s M4 in the world of Call of Duty, even equipped with a grenade launcher A.K.A. the noob tube.  Once in control of the HIND, you are fully in control with no rail system.  You control the weapons and the flight controls.  When I asked what the controls were for the chopper, I was told that it was very easy to maneuver as well as use the weaponry on it.  I can talk all day about this second level shown to us but instead you can watch a similar demo below which was seen at the Microsoft Press Conference that I missed because of my delayed flight.

If you would like to catch some of the first demo we saw, you can check out a version of it here.  It is not the entire thing but we were asked not to film inside the screening room.

Josh Olin was nice enough to answer a couple of questions for me after the preview of the demo in the dark depths of the screening room.  I am very tired here if you can’t tell and really was just dying to get some info on the inevitable co-op mode that they will have in Black Ops.  Treyarch’s last game had Nazi Zombies and now they have to top that with a new 4 player co-op mode which he did confirm, I just couldn’t get him to talk about it.  He does mention that multiplayer might have been re-vamped to make it easier to have social/clan matches though.  When the phrase ‘Create a Class 2.0’ was spoken it, sounded like more attachments to me but if it was to top Modern Warfare 2’s attachment list, it would have to be quite a large one which leads me to believe that maybe you can actually customize your character in this one.  Either way Josh definitely makes it seem like they are taking the Black Ops theme straight to multiplayer.

While not the best E3 ever by far, E3 2010 still had a lot of excitement, anticipation, surprises and much more jam-packed in it. Here’s what we thought of the conferences:

Microsoft

The opening video of Call of Duty: Black Ops was awesome. The graphics looked mind blowing, and the scenic beauty of the game was one of the best I have ever seen in a game. The first part of the demo shown was set in a cave- the player was passing through a dark and dingy tunnel, with mice and other cave beasts shrieking and running all around. There were a lot of gunfights, as well as melee fights. The second part of the demo showed the player launching a stealthy attack on a helipad. After an intense gunfight with those who were guarding the pad, the player ran into the helicopter- cool now we can FLY choppers as well!

The chopper flew through a deep gorge- the graphics looked stunning. The water running below was gorgeous, and the mountains looked authentic, with all the shadows and greenery. The overall animations and fluidity of visuals was superior to most of what I have seen in other shooters. The second part of the demo ended with an intense air fight in choppers, with one crashing loudly into the hillside. I was left stunned. I seriously can’t wait for this game to come out- day one purchase for me!

Next was Metal Gear Solid: Rising. The video shown was unremarkable, but impressive. The game is gonna be based purely on hack and slash sword based action, and Matrix style presentation. The game showed a lot of gory sword fights, and left me wanting for more by the end… wow man, Kojima never disappoints.

Next up was Gears 3- no, no trailer, only a gameplay video of four player co-op. The footage was great. The game features the run and gun gunplay action that we’ve all come to love. The gameplay is as action-packed, violent, gory, bloody and relentless as ever before, if not more. Some huge Locust hordes got blown out of the water (literally) in the demo, and Marcus and co kicked a lot of alien ass with their arsenal of weapons. Gears 3 looked really, really promising.

Peter Molyneux came on-stage next, with an announcement of Fable III, which will be hitting the 360 exclusively on October 26^th, THIS YEAR. A short trailer, epic yet unremarkable, was shown.

Marcus Lehto of Bungie graced the stage next, with all new gameplay footage of Halo: Reach, which will be shipping this September. The video began- the visuals looked pretty impressive, and the video featured the traditional Halo gunplay. While it was not really exciting, seeing as it was just gameplay footage and not a trailer, the game still promises to be the best Halo game ever released. Video ended, and Halo: Reach has a secure future for sure.

Halo: Reach looked impossibly mind-boggling.

Then, some crap followed- XBL has changed gaming, talk about Kinect, blah, blah, blah. A video about how Kinect uses voice and hand gestures- say “Xbox, pause,” and the movie playing pauses. The stuff was pretty cool, and actually interesting.

After that, six launch titles were announced for the Kinect. The first four launch titles were actually pretty interesting, and all looked really fun and gimmicky, much like what we would expect from a Wii series game. But the last two totally ruined the Kinect showing with one, a fitness game from Ubi, looking like a cheap knock off of Wii Fit- the worse part was that they spent nearly ten minutes on this crap- and the second being Harmonix’s Dance Central, which brought back terrible, terrible memories of Wii Music. This was followed by an announcement for a Kinect exclusive Star Wars game, which was unveiled with canned footage and looked pretty good. Then, Turn 10 came on stage to unveil a Kinect exclusive Forza game- or so it seemed,- they weren’t really clear about that point.

Overall, I don’t really know what I’m supposed to think about the Kinect showing- on the one hand, some seriously impressive and fun looking games were revealed (notably, Joyride and Kinectimals come to mind). On the other hand, they spent way too much time concentrating on stuff like Your Shape: Fitness Evolved and Dance Central, which no one really gives a damn about.

No, no, no, no, no, just NO.

The same, in fact, can be said of the entire Microsoft E3 conference. While the reveal of the Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ and the gameplay footage of Call of Duty, Halo, Gears of War and Metal Gear Solid: Rising, coupled with the announcement of a new Xbox exclusive Crytek developed action game, Codename Kingdoms, was all pretty awesome, Microsoft simply ruined it by spending nearly 70% of their time on Kinect, which, good as it may be, is not something any core gamer is interested in. All in all, I guess I’d rate the Microsoft conference a C-.

Microsoft Conference Grade: C-

Sony

I’m totally going to defy chronology here and cover the Sony conference next.

Sony’s conference has drawn mixed reactions at large- there are some who have called it awesome and superb, while there are others, who have gone as far as to call it the worst E3 showing in history. The conference was, in fact, nowhere near as good or bad as those extremes- it was just… average. In fact, it was a complete derail until the very end, when Sony salvaged it with some surprising reveals that they should have concentrated on all along.

They started off with welcoming the audience and telling them how a time of great change is upon us, and how Sony endorsed 3D gaming would totally changed the way games are played. Coming fresh off Nintendo’s E3 showing- but more on that later-, this all sounded like hilariously hollow small talk.

Seriously, Sony? No, I mean, SERIOUSLY?

Sony proceeded to show us a gameplay montage of Killzone 3 in full 3D. I must say, from what we were shown, Killzone 3 must be the most impressive game to have hit a console- ever. Featuring some exciting, fast-paced and relentless action, KZ3 was coming across as one heck of a game. The gameplay footage shown had two parts- one on-ground and the other aerial.

The first part opened up on a vista of snow-covered wasteland, showing some really gory and violent gunplay. The action seemed really past paced, as the player never really had time to stop for a breather- although that might have been for demonstration purposes. I’m pretty sure the final product is going to be like this as well.

The game, surprisingly, featured no health meter. Akin to the Gears of War franchise, whenever a bullet hit the player, blood splashed across the screen, and when the HP was too low, the screen turned almost entirely red.

The first part of the demo also showed off a part where the player was controlling a jet pack, which was also attached to a gun, to jump from one ice block in a freezing water body to the other, and to reach high platformers and such. The relentless action, the gorgeous visuals and the impressive gunplay continued. The level ended with the player blowing up a warehouse sort of thing.

The second part featured the player in open-air helicopter type things, shooting enemies on high platforms, buildings, their own choppers, or sometimes even one of our own. This part of the demo had the player destroying entire sections of the ruined city with his machine gun, and was relatively shorter.

Overall, Killzone 3 looked like one heck of a game. Can’t wait for it to be released… looks like Guerrilla might finally deliver a Halo killer.

After the aggressive showing of Killzone 3, Sony went on to describe how 3D will have a change in our perception of entertainment at large- yeah right- before proceeding to demonstrate the Move- oh no.

Starting with a demonstration of Tiger Woods PGA 11, the Move seemed to be some seriously impressive tech, showing more fidelity than the Wiimote, or even the Wii Motion +. It would have been nice if Sony had stopped there, but no. They proceeded to bombard us with a whole range of Move enabled games, including SOCOM 4 and Sorcery (which looked like the Harry Potter game we should always have got). They also revealed a new Super Smash Bros. type game, titled Heroes on the Move. The game has characters from Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter battling it out between each other. It looked good, and got me excited a whole lot.

Welcome to Hogwarts, Harry.

After spending in excess of a quarter of an hour, Sony proceeded to follow up with one of the most WTF-ish moments in E3 history, by announcing some totally incomprehensible and unfathomable partnership with Coca-Cola. Yes, Coca-Cola. They also showed us, for some reason, a montage of the FIFA 2010 World Cup, before moving on to showing us ANOTHER video showing off the PlayStation family. I meant, what the hell were they thinking?

Okay.

Then Kevin Butler came on stage. He was there for about ten minutes, but he absolutely livened up the show with his hilarious jokes and cracks at the competition, as well as his subtle pokes at console fanboyism. He didn’t really show us anything new, though.

Sony proceeded to spend a good half hour on their new advertising campaign for the PSP, showing us every single ad in the new campaign that will be airing on the TV from now on. If this is how Sony hopes to revive the PSP’s flagging sales, then good luck to theml). And then they went on to say that the PSP is the preferred handheld console of its generation. Okay now, really Sony? I wish I could put in a confused and a “lol” smiley here.

After PSP, Sony made some surprising announcements. But first, there was a gameplay demonstration of LittleBigPlanet 2- this was a bit disappointing. All they showed us were some mini games they had created with the new creation tools-, followed by one for Dead Space 2 and Medal of Honor. All of these looked really cool, and got my super hyped for the said games.

To counter Microsoft’s exclusive Activision DLC announcement, Sony announced exclusive content for EA Games appearing on the PS3. This was then followed by one of the most surprising announcements in E3 history. Gabe Newell, known famously for hating the PS3, came on stage to announce that Portal 2 would be coming to the PS3 as well and that it would be the “best console version.” A truly WTF moment. But in a good kind of way.

Sony quickly followed this up with some footage for inFamous 2, Gran Turismo 5, which they promise launches this October (I’ll believe it when I see it), before finally unveiling one last surprise for us. David Jaffe came on stage to unveil Twisted Metal Nuke, an all new instalment in his car combat series, that will appear exclusively on the PS3. Though the build shown was pre-alpha, it appeared seriously impressive and had me pumped up for the first time in a while now for a Twisted Metal Game.

So, like I said, Sony’s conference was a mixed bag. There were some really cool announcements, but the conference being nearly two hours long seemed to drag on and was boring enough to put the most hyper-active fifth grader off to sleep, not to mention that Sony did not reveal titles like Resistance 3 and The Last Guardian. However, considering the sheer megatonnage of some of the announcements- Portal 2 for instance- I’m tempted to say, that it was, at the very least better than the Microsoft showing.

Sony Conference Grade: B

Nintendo

And then there’s Nintendo.

Nintendo had a lot riding on their conference this year. The lineup for the Wii has been largely lacklustre, the DS, at more than five years old, is beginning to show its age and slow down, and Nintendo’s recent E3 conferences have been disappointing.

Apparently though, Nintendo have taken all these complaints to heart, and they came in determined to defeat presupposition and prejudice. Their conference started big, with them revealing the newest Zelda, titled Skyward Sword, which looked pretty good, although to be honest, as far as I could see, there was nothing about it that suggested it being a ‘reboot,’ a rumour that Miyamoto himself has long encouraged. The gameplay was vintage Zelda, and though that isn’t a bad thing, to one expecting something new, it was kind of a downer. The fact that the tech showing of the game was ruined by wireless interference that messed up the Wiimote’s receptivity didn’t help, and I began to suspect Nintendo’s conference would, for the third year in a row, be underwhelming.

The next two games they presented didn’t help- the sequel to Just Dance followed by Mario Sports, the latter of which is Wii Sports with Mario characters shoehorned for good measure and better sales. When Reggie began to talk of how Nintendo creates gaming experiences for everybody, I couldn’t help but groan- this was gonna be another casual fest.

Or maybe not. Nintendo went on to show Golden Sun DS, now titled Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, going on to confirm it’d be hitting the DS this fall, and I began to take notice. The game just looks great, with gorgeous environments, beautiful character models, and the typical RPG fare that the series is now known for. Surely Camelot have another winner on their hands.

Golden Sun kind of made up for the underwhelming conference so far- until Reggie unveiled the trailer for Goldeneye 007, which totally shot up my hype meter into the stratosphere. To say that I was excited would be understating it grossly. Goldeneye 007 automatically made the entire Nintendo conference so far better than Microsoft’s for me, and as far as I was concerned, nothing they showed next could possibly have the same kind of effect on me.

But as we’ve learned so many times, Nintendo has a penchant for surprising everybody when they least expect it.

Apologising for a certain icon’s absence from home consoles for almost a decade now, Reggie took the wraps of Kirby’s newest game- Kirby’s Epic Yarn, an adorable game with a distinct art style. The game has a palette modelled on textile and cloth, and the entire thing looks adorable. Apparently, the game features several puzzles and sections that make use of this latest gimmick, as we were shown several sections where Kirby literally folded the backdrop- which was all cloth- in order to progress. I can’t explain it properly, and you have to see the video to believe it.

To be honest, I’ve never been a fan of Kirby, and the puffball has never excited me in the slightest, but man, is Kirby’s Epic Yarn enough to appeal to even the most hardened and jaded gamer. The adorable visuals, and the even more whimsical style of gameplay represent what Nintendo actually stands for- pure, unadulterated, distilled fun.

What could possibly top Kirby? Well, Warren Specter took the stage right then, and went on to demonstrate Epic Mickey. The game looks awesome, and seems to be a kind of cross between the 3D and 2D Mario games as far as the gameplay is concerned. We weren’t shown much, but it was enough for me to be cautiously optimistic. And hey, it’s Warren, so we can be sure the game is in safe hands and will turn out great.

Nintendo’s conference was already the best- they needed to do absolutely nothing, they’d already won E3 by far. And then, they revealed Donkey Kong Country Returns.

I swear, I was almost in tears by the end of it all. The old SNES theme music, the same graphics we’d all come to love, and Retro Studios’ deft dexterity in dealing with beloved but now inert game franchises had me absolutely sure that this game was going to be totally the best game on the Wii so far. Along with Kirby and Epic Mickey, it was also hitting stores later this year- my, what a year the Wii was going to have!

Donkey Kong Country Returns wasn’t where they decided to end it, however. They went on to mention Dragon Quest IX shortly (any other time, I’d have sat up and take notice. Now however, my inner fanboy was celebrating too loudly for me to really pay attention), before proceeding to unveil the star of the show.

Yippee! DONKEY KONG!

Yes, everything that had happened so far was only a taste of the things to come.

Nintendo unveiled the 3DS, the successor to the Nintendo DS. The system features processing capabilities which definitely eclipse the Wii, display stereoscopic 3D without the need for 3D glasses, has a comfortable analog slider, a touch screen, a 22:9 aspect ratio 3D widescreen, a 3D camera, a gyroscope, a motion sensor, the ability to play 3D movies, stay online continuously, full backwards compatibility with the DS… and it would be launching with Kid Icarus: Uprising.

This here was the biggest announcement of them all. Kid Icarus! After twenty five years, we’d be getting a Kid Icarus game! The trailer looked simply awesome, and this more than ever convinced me that Nintendo was out to win back their fans who’d sworn off the company because of its casual appeal. But the surprises didn’t stop there. Nintendo revealed the full lineup for the 3DS, which includes an original Assassin’s Creed game, Resident Evil: Revelations, Saint’s Row Drive By, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3D, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Star Fox 64 3D, Mario Kart 3DS, Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition…

I have to stop now. I could go on for pages just gushing over just how good the Nintendo conference really was, but that would serve no purpose. You have to have seen it to believe it. It was brutal, it was a slap in the face of all their detractors, and a love letter to their fans. Simply put, Nintendo stole the show with one of the best E3 conferences ever, and there is no way I can ever forget their reveals this time.

Nintendo Conference Grade: A+

Molyneux said that he expects launch Kinect titles to be good, but not to showcase what Kinect can really do, so he promises that future titles are the ones that will truly show its potential.

“…the experiences that you see at launch, they’re good, they’re robust and they work. But I would encourage you and the whole world not to think of those experiences to define what Kinect is. It just gives you a glimpse of [what] the future can bring.” he said.

“So, I think that those launch titles are great, but the second wave of titles is where the real greatness comes.” he added.

Expect to see full information about Milo here at GamingBolt

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Even though a lot of people who tested Kinect say it has lag, Rare says that, “As with any prototype stuff, of course it was in the past. That’s to be expected.”

“Where we’re at now, not at all. Yes, we’ve done a lot work to make sure it wasn’t a problem, but when you’ve got something that’s copying what you’re doing you can’t have a lot of lag.” said Nick Burton, exec producer at Rare.

Burton also said that their focus is now only in casual games, saying that, “It’s been the focus for the past couple of years, but we’re going to do all kinds of stuff, obviously the rebrand for us was more about we wanted to freshen up the image – it was just time for a chance. We’ve done it before, we’ll probably do it again.”

“We are continually looking at what the next thing’s going to be. It might be casual, it might be core, we’ve had such an eclectic mix over the years and we’ll continue to do that.” he added.

But he later on went and said that, “It’s not always going to be as casual as [Kinect Sports]; this is just something we got really excited about.”

And finally he was asked about the similarities between Wii Sports and Kinect Sports, yet Burton said “There’s so much more data, so much more fidelity, so many more things you can do, Kinect’s not just about tracking – there’s voice recognition, identity, so many things. It’s more than the sum of its parts. I’ve been involved for a couple of years and even now we’re like, “Wow, there’s all these things we could do!”

Kinect Sports is set to be released this Holiday season, and will probably be bundled with Kinect.

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The trailer looks smashing, with gigantic monsters and beasts, stunning visuals, movie-like presentation, staggeringly huge Bahamuts and dragons, and most importantly, my favourite Final Fantasy IV/XII theme playing in the background, making the game all the more epic and awesome.

Final Fantasy XIV Online, the massively multiplayer role playing title, is due for release on the PC and the PS3 later this year.