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Sony PlayStation E3 2017 conference live report

Shadow of the Colossus (again)! Monster Hunter World! Spiderman! Sony's event as it happened.

That, I think it's safe to say, was not a banger, but Sony's E3 conference did at least offer a few surprises. Skyrim in VR, Monster Hunter World and a (new) remaster of Shadow of the Colossus were the big stories - see it all as it unfolded here.

Our live coverage of this event has finished.

Hello!

Martin Robinson

Oh hi this seems to have started early then.

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Supermassive - them of Until Dawn fame - have just announced Hidden Agenda.

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It's a new social game that follows the same style as Until Dawn with many players helping make the decisions.

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And it's using something called PlayLink.

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That'll teach me to go downstairs to get a bottle of whiskey.

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hermanallen: So has it started or are these two going to show all the games?

It starts officially at 2am, but before then we're getting a steady trickle of announcements it seems.

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hermanallen: So has it started or are these two going to show all the games?

It starts officially at 2am, but before then we're getting a steady trickle of announcements it seems.

Martin Robinson

It's not making much sense to me really - I do know that Polyphony are up next with GT Sport, and we should get a release date.

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hermanallen: Thanks for the update Martin

Bowmore single malt. Cheap but effective!

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Matterfall is out 15th August.

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And now it's Everybody's Golf.

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SAVE SOME GAMES FOR THE CONFERENCE ITSELF GUYS.

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Now I know how Tom felt during the reveal for Beyond Good & Evil 2. This new Gran Turismo Sport trailer is beautiful.

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Having been to the N24 a few weeks ago, it absolutely nails the mood, lighting and atmosphere of the place.

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Nothing more than a 'Fall 2017' release window for Gran Turismo Sport, which is a little disappointing.

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kingpin3000: @Martin GT release date feels like a TGS announcement.

I thought it might be out a bit sooner than TGS... Maybe wishful thinking on my part.

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Superhot on PlayStation VR.

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If this is what they're showing before the conference, what will the conference itself hold?

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Half-Life 3 inbound people!

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Pack up and go home boys, we're done here.

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Tropico! There's surely nothing left to show now.

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X201: We need Eurogamer's Tropic correspondent, now!

Fine, you go and wake him up. I'm not doing it.

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Undertale also coming to PS4.

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CALM YOUR TITS SONY.

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No Vita version, before you ask.

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God, maybe we could get around to reviewing it this time. Sorry about that...

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OH THERE IT IS! A Vita version of Undertale is coming.

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That's the megaton. Step aside Half-Life 3, the big one's just landed.

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Crackerjacker: Anyone else get the feeling that Martin had a dream about "Car DLC for every game", and everything since has been a disappointment?

A man is allowed to dream.

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And Ni No Kuni 2 - just a trailer, and the release date which we already knew.

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man.the.king: Ni No Kuni 2 looks like real-time action instead of turn-based.

It is I believe, quite a departure from the original.

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And one final piece of news - the PlayStation Experience is coming back to Anaheim this December.

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All this and we've got two minutes to go 'til the actual show.

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hermanallen: Why the fark is everything in California?! No love for the southeast?!!

I was kind of hoping it would come to Europe.

Martin Robinson

Oh you probably weren't talking about south east London were you.

Martin Robinson

It's the guy from Catastrophe talking about TV.

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Oh, so that's why you kept all the games in the pre-show?

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Ah, it's just all part of a pre-roll before the actual show starts.

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Let's hope they sort the stream quality out first.

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Here.

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We.

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Go.

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We start with a live music accompaniment, as we did last year.

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But what for? My money's on the standalone Uncharted DLC.

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Happy to be wrong. I often am.

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kingpin3000: Does Eurogamer have anyone there this year?

Tom, Wes, Aoife and Bratt are all over there. Probably all pissed up somewhere on Sunset now though idk.

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Ashkorsair: martin are u related to chris robinson, singer from the black crowes? (a propos of nothing)

Yeah that's my son. We don't talk anymore.

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Tom is in the press conference itself - but as is often the case with these events, wi-fi in the venue is very poor.

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Yup, it's Uncharted. And the sound is screwed for us here.

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That's what you get for placing an emphasis on a live band rather than the game itself.

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Audio is screwed for everyone.

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Unless Naughty Dog's going super experimental with this new DLC and doing a silent game.

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This is embarrassing.

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Also, hilarious.

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Muted, polite and slightly confused applause in the auditorium.

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It's snowing there though.

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Audio is back on the Twitch stream now. Apologies for the technical issues.

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You missed the Uncharted DLC, Horizon Zero Dawn DLC called The Frozen Wild and now we're into Days Gone.

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This looks... weak.

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A generic zombie action game with QTEs, gut stabs and strangling.

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I'll pass thanks.

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Oh and there's bat vision too because it's a video game and this is 2017.

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LividCarrion: Discount the last of us?

That's one way of putting it.

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There are real people dangling in the audience writhing like corpses.

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Apparently that man's jacket looks nice in 4K.

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If that's your sort of thing.

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COME ON VIDEO GAMES YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS.

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X201: Martin, that's the sound guys being dealt with

Haha!

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This is Horizon without the colours (sorry I didn't love Horizon I know a lot of you did!)

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Oh, a zombie bear!

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Man bowing in the audience - take a long hard look at yourself.

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And sit down.

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Anyway, here's a sexy exec to brighten the tone - Shawn Layden!

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Donlan's got a bit of a thing for him.

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Silk handkerchief in the top pocket is a nice touch.

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'He's so Buggsy Malone' swoons Donlan.

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Sony's had a great year so far, as Shawn's highlighting - Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5, Nioh, Nier.

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pelican_: Is that Martin bad mouthing Horizon again? ;p

It's a decent game, alright! I'm sorry I don't love it. Don't hate me.

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A game with a cult following next.

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This could be Monster Hunter World.

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A proper console Monster Hunter.

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Yes please.

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win543: I thought monster hunter was nintendo?

Speculation is that it still will be - this could be a slightly different strand.

Martin Robinson

This looks amazing - I think we've been waiting for years to see what Monster Hunter would look like with a bit more power behind it.

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I still want it for Switch, mind.

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Seamless transitions between areas?

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The phenomenal animations that are a series' trademark are certainly intact.

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Monster Hunter World.

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I believe this will be different to 5 - a play for the west, and a big social experience that's looking to muscle into Destiny's space.

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Early 2018. And that's the game of the show for me so far.

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pelican_: Still think MH will appear on the Switch

I really hope so! It's still a portable game at heart, I think.

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And no, Shadow of the Colossus remake from Bluepoint.

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Okay this has got off to a decent start.

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2018 release.

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Marvel vs Capcom Infinite now.

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September 19th release date for that.

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And there's a demo available today.

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Call of Duty WW2, I presume - and hopefully our first extended look at gameplay.

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Sledgehammer can do little wrong in my eyes, so looking forward to this.

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And now Skryim VR.

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Our stream isn't very happy over here, so apologies for the slowness on our part.

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There's a healthy emphasis on VR here - from Skyrim to an all-new VR game.

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A third-person VR game - which, from experience of Edge of Nowhere and Chronos on Oculus, actually works really well.

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Starchild, from Playful.

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They're the team who previously did Lucky VR - so they've got some experience.

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Another new game from Supermassive - them behind Until Dawn - and it's called The Inpatient, a psychological thriller set in an asylum.

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Meanwhile, you can fish in VR in FF15 now.

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I think the appropriate response is 'lol'.

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Supermassive again - they're very busy, it seems - with an AIM controller game.

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I guess they need to make the most of that weird peripheral. That doesn't look like it's going to shift any units though.

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Continuing the theme of slight and underwhelming VR games, here's something with a mouse by Seattle dev Polyarc.

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And that's Moss. It does look kind of cute and charming in its own way, and it is good to see Sony go big on VR.

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Biggish, anyway.

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It's dad in a boat.

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Dad of War. Angry Dad. Whatever you want to call it.

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We're getting a properly look at the combat, which does seem to have its roots in God of War's overstated action.

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It's still really violent, then.

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Pacman8MyGhostkart: I'd enjoy this more if it wasn't buffering every 10 seconds...

We're having some of the same problems here.

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nurrishd: Sea monster with a beard!!! i'm sold!!

A neckbeard no less, as Johnny just pointed out.

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Early 2018 release date for Dad of War.

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Detroit, I'd wager.

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I don't fully trust David Cage to handle the themes of slavery he's toying with here, and the blundering dialogue suggests he might come a cropper.

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Clumsy and overearnest are two words that immediately spring to mind.

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Still, pretty is another one and maybe that'll be enough for some people.

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And it has choices, and we all love them.

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Destiny 2 though!

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The Cabal Guy.

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We're not seeing too much here beyond the reveal the other week.

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But Destiny 2 is definitely something you'll be able to play on yourPS4, and it'll have an exclusive strike - The Land of Shadows - as well as exclusive weapons and an exclusive PvP map called Retribution.

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It looks like this one will only be an hour, as Shawn Layden is back on stage.

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We're ending with what I imagine will be Spiderman.

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Mazzle: Holy shit has this years e3 been underwhelming compared to others.

Ubisoft though!

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Not a classic Sony conference by any standard, really.

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Brief, but with little substance.

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As some of you have already noted, this does look very much like the Arkham games.

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But with more colours. I guess that's what you'd expect of a modern day superhero game.

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Not the big showstopper I'd have hoped for though.

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oxman2k: crap e3 we need big leap in tech to take gaming to the next level it has become stale

Mid to late-gen E3s do often get this way.

Martin Robinson

The most exciting reveal was a remaster of a game that's already been remastered.

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Pulsar_t: I hear reading is a decent hobby.

Then we'll all just be arguing about the dpi of our respective books though. I've seen it all before.

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If you like QTEs, this has been a pretty vintage E3 so far.

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And that was Sony's 2017 E3 conference.

Martin Robinson

In a word? It's probably too late for words. A noise? 'Fe'.

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Oh, I did briefly forget Monster Hunter World - I'll blame the early hour, not the small whiskey I just had - which upgrades this from a 'fe' to a solid 'fwoooo'. It does look ace.

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You can sense the deflation in the room.

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MONSTER HUNTER WORLD THOUGH!

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If you've never played a Monster Hunter game hooooo boy are you in for a treat. It's the very best of them.

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Thanks for joining us, it's been a pleasure as always. Tomorrow, Nintendo. Then some sleep maybe.

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Mazzle: Game of E3 anyone?

Monster Hunter World, Mario x Rabbids (I know, I can't believe I just typed that either). And hopefully Nintendo will bring some more tomorrow.

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We'll leave it there, though. Thanks again, and see you tomorrow!

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