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Our Gaming online producer, Philip Kollar, chats with Sam Houston from GamerDNA about day one of E3: Beatles' Rock Band (including an appearance by Paul & Ringo), Modern Warfare 2, Project Natal (the motion-sensing device for XBox 360), and Milo, the computer-generated boy. Stay tuned for more daily updates from E3.
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    I'm starting to think that I'm in the minority here but I really felt that the Microsoft press conference was a bit underwhelming. Modern Warfare 2, The Beatles Rock Band, and Metal Gear Rising are all going to be multiplatform. So that just leaves the Halo games, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell, Crackdown 2, and L4D2 as console exclusives and to be honest I'm not sure how well Crackdown 2 is going to do since it has a new development team behind it.
    Project Natal definitely showed some promise but I really wanted to see it being used in conjunction with a controller instead of replacing one.
    As for the Facebook and Twitter integration I can't imagine myself using my 360 instead of my PC for those applications.
    There was some stuff that intrigued me but I felt that MS focused too much on adding functionality to the 360 and dropped the ball when it came to the games that were shown.

    MrDingy
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    Milo is a cool name. Looks like a fun thing, but yeah, I agree. What happens if you push Milo into the water? Is it all a positive experience or does he criticize the pictures you hand him? So much potential for things to go so well, or so wrong. See also RoboCop, Lawnmower Man, Terminator, etc.

    The Natal thing looks cool, too. Like Wii, but without the controllers in your hands. I can't imagine it has as many minute options as the Wii controllers. The Wii controller has 11 or more functions on just the main unit, but then add in the nunchuk and it's almost doubled. How can that be emulated by a motion sensor? There will have to be some sort of glove controllers or something as well.

    cwhite
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