Konami Pre-E3 Press Conference

Konami urges activity in schools with Dance Dance Revolution: Classroom Edition. Impressive. Bringing their technology to outside of the gaming world. They're expanding.


Metal Gear Phantom Pain:

1984 is the period. Hideo hopes to focus on more "subtle" aspects of his game.
Kiefer Sutherland has been announced as the voice of Snake, to match the age of Snake (late 40s). He is the actor of Jack Bauer in 24.
The world will be more open-world, which is very new to Metal Gear. This brings to mind, with me, the few scenes of Metal Gear such as, the Metal Gear fights in the various games, maybe Snake taking pictures of Metal Gear Ray in the prologue of MGS2. These various scenes made me feel a little more afraid to be spotted. Definitely going to bring some new element of tension (enemies can be behind you instead of always in your sight). This will absolutely make the game more difficult, if you like full stealth walkthroughs.

A new Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2 trailer has been revealed, which I will put up as soon as it is available. I will leave it to the Castlevania experts to decipher, if they will. This game looks very intense, and I may have to give it a try.

Overall, this was an excellent pre-show. To the point.

-Tsurugi Noba

EDIT: A friend of mine has given a full review of Castlvania: Lord of Shadows 2. Read more for the full review!

Castlevania: Lord of Shadows 2:

"Gabriel is ready to get his revenge on the Brotherhood. The game will be taking place some time after the 3DS game as well as somewhere in modern times. We get a close up of Gabriel's new weapon as well as a tease on a new weapon/magic. There are 2 new characters introduced, a young boy and a woman who seems to be the new top warrior for the Brotherhood after Trevor Belmont. Alucard makes his appearance in the game with much detail and Maria is gonna be coming up a few times as well, Gabriel's dead wife. We know little about the game's actual gameplay but we were shown some things that you might be able to do as our new badass Anti-hero(?). Finisher attacks may be possible as we saw Gabriel using some sort of finisher that reminded me slightly of Bayonetta's boss climax attacks. If you enjoy hack n Slash and a good story, keep a look out."

Trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2
 
-K. Rivera