Published by Mikro under E3,news on Jun. 07. 2011.
E3PO is the official twitter tag for SWTOR coverage of E3
Today marks the official beginning of the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo. If you think that it will be hard to top the epic SWTOR trailer “Return” you might be wrong. What we have in line from E3 is a full day of end game, vehicle, Tatooine and hands on experience news. Here’s a chronological list of things to expect:
If you are at #E3 be at the @EA booth at 12:30 sharp on Tues for a special @SWTOR experience you won’t want to miss. @biofeed #E3PO
None else talked about this early, 12:30, announcement so we are curious if this was a wrong time conversion or a real event.
There will be a live stream from the show floor and EA booth at 2PM PDT. Being show is SWTOR gameplay and there will be a Q&A session with one of the developers. They are labeling this event as “Exclusive Tatooine reveal” so I am guessing we will see Tatooine gameplay (DUH).
We are promised images and video from the show floor throughout today from official sources so keep an eye out on our own coverage as well as official swtor.com site.
Interviews and hands on sessions for fan sites will start at around 5PM PDT and we can expect to hear first impressions at about 7PM PDT.
A lot of people think that the “Return” trailer should not be the only awe inspiring news coming from Bioware about SWTOR. A lot of fan hopes are riding on what will be revealed today. We will be with you every step of the day with our man at the convention and us Live Blogging all the latest news as it happens, so make sure you check back in really soon, because our coverage of 2011 E3 is officially about to start.
This concludes our live coverage of the EA Press Conference. We hope you enjoyed it. Keep a look out for more because we will have our very own SWTORCrafter reporting from the show floor starting tomorrow early morning.
Here is the trailer that was shown at the EA press conference and that you can currently view at Origin.com.
Breaking News
Stephen Reid just made a post on the official forums about the “Return” Trailer, about Origin service and its “Choose” trailer and the release date. Click here to read.
On the “Return” trailer that you can download from swtor.com there are words Intro Cinematic written on it. I guess this is what we will see when we first start the game
The name of the new SWTOR cinematic trailer is “Return” and you can view it HERE
There is an exclusive video featuring excerpts of footage from the new SWTOR cinematic trailer on www.origin.com! (12:06 PDT)
Here are some screenshots from the “Return” trailer while it uploads to Youtube so I can embed it properly onto the page.
For the rest please watch the trailer on the official site ;).
Latest News
While talking about SWTOR Greg zeschuk gave us a honest, heartfelt and personal view on the game. Ended his speech saying how they live The Old Republic. Coincidently, our site’s motto is living the Old Republic
What is being show now at the conference is NOT the new trialer, but a mashup of all three trailers. The new trailer “Return can be found on the official site.
Mass Effect 3 trailer starting the conference (12:30 PDT)
TorWars.com reports: 15 mins to EA showtime. CEO John Rittichello chatting with execs in front of stage. (12:27 PM PDT)
The name of the new SWTOR cinematic trailer is Choose(12:06 PDT) This turns out not to be true. Stephen Reid corrected us promptly.
Concerning that E3PO tag. It was first recommended to Stephen Reid by Adaram, avid SWTOR fan. Here’s a shout out to him!
TorWars.com is inside the Theatre where the Press conference will take place. Here’s a link to the image they posted on Twitter http://yfrog.com/h0tbpsusj
Stephen Reid and his friend E3PO (this is the official tag for all The Old Republic news on Twitter). http://twitpic.com/57xe2s (11:49AM PDT)
TorWars.com just tweeted an image of people waiting in line for the EA conference. I think I see the guys from AskAJedi.com and that one guy in the front is Zirak from Darth Hater (11:41AM PDT)
If you are at #E3 be at the @EA booth at 12:30 sharp on Tues for a special @SWTOR experience you won’t want to miss. @biofeed #E3PO (9:30PM PDT) Source
This is the page you will want to follow in the next couple of hours. We will be posting all the news we found before, during and after the EA press conference. News will be sorted latest on top of the post to older at the bottom of the page. We will be automatically refreshing the page every 5 minutes, but if you want to do it manually you can do that by using CTRL+F5 or CTRL+SHIFT+R in your internet browser.
The fall of Earth gamplay trailer being shown(12:37 PDT)
Epic gameplay being shown
Mass Effect 3 trailer starting the conference (12:30 PDT)
Mass Effect 3 for XBoX was just shown at the Microsoft Press Conference. Presentation was held by Dr. Ray Muzyka. We could see dialogue being controlled through Kinect voice and gestures and battle being contrrolled through Kinect technology as well. It looked a bit surreal and the opening few minutes of the game looked amazing. There were gasps in the audience. I have some low quality screenshots captured from the live feed which you can see bellow.
