June 6th
Microsoft E3 Press Conference – 12:30 – 2pm
EA E3 Press Conference – 3:30 – 4:30pm
Ubisoft E3 Press Conference – 5:30 – 6:45pm
SONY E3 Press Conference - 8:00 – 10pm (And up to 1am w/Special Event)

June 7th
Nintendo E3 Press Conference – 12:00 – 2pm

All of these conferences will be airing live on G4TV, Gamespot, IGN, GameTrailers.com and many other websites.
Each individual conference will be aired at their respective company websites.
Sony will also be airing E3 in PlayStation Home.

Linkdump:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/
http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/microsoft-e3/ (all conferences here)
http://www.xbox.com/en-gb/e3
http://www.e3expo.com/
http://www.youtube.com/e3 (all conferences here)
http://www.youtube.com/ubisoft
http://e3.nintendo.com/
http://live-event.ea.com/e3/press
http://www.g4tv.com/e3-2011/ (all conferences here)

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The PlayStation® Store has been updated once again, this time offering the Welcome Back programme. Here is some information on the offerings that you can now take advantage of (via PS.Blog):

All PSN members who had signed up before the outage (April 20, 2011) will be able to select two games for the PS3 and two games for the PSP systems.For PS3 owners, go to the ‘Welcome Back’ section in the PlayStation Store, and select 2 titles from the following list:

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

For PSP owners, go to the ‘Welcome Back’ section of PlayStation Store on your PSP system and select 2 titles from the following list:

• LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
• ModNation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

Select your first game from “Game 1”, then return to the Welcome Back page and go to “Game 2” to select your second game out of the remaining choices available. This goes for both PS3 and PSP.

In addition, we’re giving access to our premium subscription service, PlayStation Plus, which includes games, huge discounts, exciting exclusives and added features like online storage and automatic downloads, to all PSN members for 30 days at no charge, requiring no long term commitment. As with the games above, go to the PlayStation Store and under the ‘Welcome Back’ section, select ‘PlayStation Plus: 30 Days Free’, and you’ll be given access to all of the benefits of PlayStation Plus. Note that this will not auto-renew and simply expires 30 days after activation.

Current Plus subscribers receive an extra 60 days added to their existing subscription at no charge. For current Plus subscribers, no action is needed as the 60 days are automatically added to your subscription.

PlayStation Network users will also get 100 virtual items in PlayStation Home as a show of appreciation for your patience while Home was inaccessible. Additional content is coming soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

A selection of “On Us” movie rentals are currently available to PlayStation Network customers this weekend only, where Video Service is available.

Finally, current Music Unlimited Premium subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of premium subscription plus days lost due to the outage.

Read more on the Q&A concerning the above deals: PS.Blog

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Quote from PlayStation.Blog

The PlayStation Store is back online and thank you everyone for your patience. You will notice a huge lineup of new downloadable games, demos, add-on content, themes, avatars and videos. Also, PlayStation Plus has been updated with new full game trials, free games and DLC, free avatars and even more discounts.

You may have noticed that the content promised as part of the Welcome Back offer is not yet live. It is currently in the final stages of testing and will be available to download soon; we’ll be sure to let you know when.

The next PlayStation Store and PlayStation Plus update will be this Friday, June 3, and then we will roll right into some special publishes starting next week for E3 (so be sure to check back daily!)

Hit the link below to see all the new goodies the store has to offer:

[PlayStation.Blog]

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All PlayStation Network customers can select two PS3 games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

For PSP owners, you will be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list. The games will be available for 30 days shortly after PlayStation Store is restored and can be kept forever.

• LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
• ModNation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

• A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
• 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
• Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
• Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
• Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
• To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

As a reminder, you will be able to access the above content shortly after services are fully restored. We are doing everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible. Please visit the following sites for more information about the Welcome Back program in Europe and Latin America.

Those are some excellent offers, so start thinking about what you’re gonna get when the PSStore comes online. (Hm, I hope they place the 100 items as a package, unless…it’s 100 items of my choice).

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Earlier this month we outlined what we predicted might be unveiled today during the Sony E3 Press Conference.

PSP 2 (is the world ready for the sequel to the PlayStation Portable?) {X}
Premium PlayStation Network Service (Monthly or Annual Fee) {/}
Video Store expanding to more regions. : Canada eh? {/}
Killzone 3 – Gameplay {/}
Resistance 3 – (Nothing Shown ) {X}
Metal Gear Solid: Rising (Partially correct, this was demoed at the Microsoft Conference) {/}
The Last Guardian (Sadly nothing shown on this anticipated title) {X}
Final Fantasy XIV Online (New Trailer was shown) {/}
inFAMOUS 2 (New Trailer) {/}
A bunch of Casual “MOVE” games (expected) Sony wowed us with new titles like Sorcery and showed MOVE is not limited to casual games {X}
New FirmWare update {X}
PlayStation Home improvements {X}
Kevin Butler VP of E3 Conferencing? (IT HAPPENED!!) {/}

7/13
Hey we passed!

What were you expecting Sony to announce and are you dissapointed by what was?

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There’s been a rocky relationship with Valve and Sony since the release of PlayStation 3. Valve was early to complain that the PS3 was too hard to develop games for and continuously neglected the PS3 platform for their games, offering shuddy ports of games from The Orange Box.
Today at the Sony E3 Press Conference, Valve’s Gabe Newell announced that Portal 2 will be coming to PS3 and will be steamworks enabled offering features not available on other consoles.
Newell said the new features will make Portal 2 “the best version on any console.”

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Medal of Honor will include a remastered version of the PS2 hit Medal of Honor: Frontline.
Dead Space 2 will come with the HD remastered Dead Space: Extraction (originally a Wii Exclusive) and will feature PlayStation Move support.

Medal of Honor is set to hit store shelves on October 12.

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